Lucy Elizabeth Potter
Biographic Data
| ID | 6880708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucy Elizabeth Potter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucy Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Potter |
| SIGNATURE | POTTER L E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4125-7908 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Drawing the borders of (non-)religious identity
Refugee Status Determination (RSD) processes in the United Kingdom (UK) function as a bordering mechanism within postcolonial governmentality. While scholarship has explored asylum bureaucracies and their organisational logics, credibility assessments, and decision-making, we know little about how these dynamics shape claims involving non-religion and how such complex identities become ‘bureaucratised’ through RSD. Drawing on analysis of internat…
Conceptualising Identity Transformations of the Apostate Refugee through Un/Learning
This article proposes an analytical framework of ‘un/learning’ to conceptualise the non-linear identity transformations of ex-Muslim refugees in the UK. While previous studies on leaving religion (apostasy) focus on populations in secularised contexts, identity shifts from Christian traditions and non-displaced individuals, this study addresses an empirical and theoretical gap: the lived experience of apostasy from Islam within the precarity of f…
Becoming Non-Religious
Leaving religion is a profoundly emotional process that is experienced and expressed in various ways. Those labelled as ‘apostates’ (individuals who leave a religion) in societies with restrictions on blasphemy and/or apostasy undergo a particularly unique experience, yet their accounts remain absent in research on non-religion and forced migration. This paper aims to address this gap by foregrounding the role of emotion across three stages of th…
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Drawing the borders of (non-)religious identity
Refugee Status Determination (RSD) processes in the United Kingdom (UK) function as a bordering mechanism within postcolonial governmentality. While scholarship has explored asylum bureaucracies and their organisational logics, credibility assessments, and decision-making, we know little about how these dynamics shape claims involving non-religion and how such complex identities become ‘bureaucratised’ through RSD. Drawing on analysis of internat…
Conceptualising Identity Transformations of the Apostate Refugee through Un/Learning
This article proposes an analytical framework of ‘un/learning’ to conceptualise the non-linear identity transformations of ex-Muslim refugees in the UK. While previous studies on leaving religion (apostasy) focus on populations in secularised contexts, identity shifts from Christian traditions and non-displaced individuals, this study addresses an empirical and theoretical gap: the lived experience of apostasy from Islam within the precarity of f…
Becoming Non-Religious
Leaving religion is a profoundly emotional process that is experienced and expressed in various ways. Those labelled as ‘apostates’ (individuals who leave a religion) in societies with restrictions on blasphemy and/or apostasy undergo a particularly unique experience, yet their accounts remain absent in research on non-religion and forced migration. This paper aims to address this gap by foregrounding the role of emotion across three stages of th…
Migration, Refugees, and Integration (3 works) · Religious identity (3 works) · Apostasy (2 works) · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees (2 works) · Qualitative research (2 works) · Refugee (2 works) · asylum adjudication (1 work) · asylum bureaucracy (1 work) · asylum seekers (1 work) · bordering (1 work)