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Kathy Burrell

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ID99173
NAMEKathy Burrell
GIVEN NAMESKathy
FAMILY NAMEBurrell
SIGNATUREBURRELL K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Liverpool
ORCID0000-0001-5961-235X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS37
TOTAL CITATIONS331
AUTHOR COUNT34
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX11
  • Homes for Ukraine: Understanding the Geography of Ukrainian Refugees and Hosts in Great Britain

    Open Access•Hannah Slocombe, Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Population Space and Place•2026

    The escalation of conflict in Ukraine in March 2022 triggered the mass displacement of Ukrainian people. In response, the UK government launched the Homes for Ukraine scheme, a private hosting initiative that urged members of the public to temporarily host refugees in their homes. As of December 2024, around 194,800 Ukrainian refugees had been issued visas through the scheme. Despite the significance of the scheme, little is known about the geogr…

  • Pandemic Geographies of Home: Domestic Thresholding in Response to Covid ‐19

    Open Access•Alison Blunt, Kathy Burrell et al.•ARTICLE•Transactions of the Institute of…•2026•References: 49

    With the home at the forefront of political and public health responses to COVID‐19, the thresholds between domestic space and the world beyond acquired a new significance in people's everyday lives. Whilst pre‐pandemic research stressed the porosity of domestic thresholds and the capacity of home to stretch beyond domestic space, ‘stay home’ directives and lockdown restrictions demarcated home as a place of containment, separation and immobility…

  • Professor Kevin Mark Hannam (1971–2025)

    Sven Kesselring, Pete Adey et al.•ARTICLE•Applied Mobilities•2025•Cited by: 1

  • Obituary: Professor Kevin Mark Hannam (1971–2025)

    Sven Kesselring, Pete Adey et al.•ARTICLE•Mobilities•2025

  • Digital by default: The literacies, legibilities and legacies of the UK's post-Brexit EU settled status regime

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell, Anna Key et al.•ARTICLE•New Community•2025•References: 36

  • Domesticating Responsibility: Refugee Hosting and the Homes for Ukraine Scheme

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Antipode•2024•Cited by: 8•References: 46

    In March 2022, in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the UK government launched its “Homes for Ukraine” private hosting scheme. The British public were urged to support Ukraine by signing up to host people fleeing the war in their own homes. There are many critiques of the scheme, especially the racialised connotations of welcoming Ukrainians while shunning others seeking sanctuary. However, the particular themes of responsibility and r…

  • Emplacing Some, Displacing Others: Ethnic Minority Enterprises as Critical Urban Infrastructure in Lodge Lane, Liverpool

    Open Access•Z Vathi, Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Journal of Immigrant & Refugee…•2024•Cited by: 2•References: 43

    Drawing on ethnographic research on Lodge Lane, the main commercial street within Toxteth (Liverpool), this paper reveals how fundamental ethnic minority enterprises (EMEs) have been to the regeneration of this marginalized area due to public disinvestment. Acting as critical infrastructure, they have transformed the materiality of the locale, and by extension, they have afforded new kinds of encounter and convivialities. Ultimately, EMEs appear …

  • What about Europe? European identity and spatial imaginaries of Europe among Polish migrants during post-Brexit negotiations in Scotland

    Open Access•Mariusz Bogacki, Kate Botterill et al.•ARTICLE•European Urban and Regional Studies•2023•References: 25

    This article takes the concept of spatial imaginaries to explore how the post-Brexit negotiations shifted meanings of ‘Europe’ for Polish migrants residing in Scotland. A flourishing subfield of ‘Brexit geographies’ has explored the meaning and consequences of Brexit (as an event, process and affect) for wide-ranging communities on the move and in place. Yet, the question of how ‘Europe’, and in particular ‘EUrope’, is being re-imagined and re-co…

  • Materialising Care across Borders: Sent Things and Family Ties between Sweden and Ukraine

    Open Access•Lyudmyla Khrenova, Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Nordic Journal of Migration…•2021

    This article is an exploration of transnational family links and how they are materialised. Based on interviews with Ukrainian migrants living in Sweden, we discuss different dimensions of the everyday practices of sending things back and forth between family members. We find that what these packages embody and represent are more complex than tropes of economic need, obligation and responsibility allow for. Of course, in many senses they do revea…

  • The making and unmaking of an urban diaspora: The role of the physical environment and materialities in belongingness, displacement and mobilisation in Toxteth, Liverpool

    Open Access•Z Vathi, Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Urban Studies•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 37

    Focusing on Toxteth – a distinct and ethnically diverse locality in Liverpool, UK – this article explores the (un)making and re-making of diasporic space in different guises by urban diverse communities and the material aspects or fallouts of this for place and identity. Based on extensive ethnographic research, it shows how a series of localised developments – a history of external marginalisation, an urban trauma of rioting, a protracted experi…

  • Borders and bureaucracies of EU mobile citizenship: Polish migrants and the personal identification number in Sweden

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell, Mateus Schweyher•ARTICLE•Political Geography•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 47

  • Applying for Settled Status: Ambivalent and reluctant compliance of EU citizens in post-Brexit Scotland

    Open Access•Kate Botterill, Mariusz Bogacki et al.•ARTICLE•Scottish Affairs•2020•Cited by: 7•References: 11

    This article contributes to scholarship concerning the effects of the UK Referendum on EU membership and Brexit on EU citizen rights in the UK (Botterill, McCollum and Tyrrell, 2018 ; Burrell and Schweyher, 2019 ; Gawlewicz and Sotkasiira, 2019 ; Huber, 2019 ). The paper focuses on applications for, and meanings of, ‘settled status’ among Polish nationals living in urban and rural Scotland. In particular we argue that the ‘simple’ act of applicat…

  • (In)visibility, privilege and the performance of whiteness in Brexit Britain: Polish migrants in Britain’s shifting migration regime

    Open Access•Kate Botterill, Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning C…•2019•Cited by: 14•References: 8

    shifting migration regime

  • Introduction: Brexit, race and migration

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell, Peter Hopkins•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning C…•2019•Cited by: 10•References: 4

  • Conditional citizens and hostile environments: Polish migrants in pre-Brexit Britain

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell, Mateus Schweyher•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2019•Cited by: 34•References: 23

  • Brexit, race and migration

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell, Peter Hopkins et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning C…•2018•Cited by: 6•References: 35

    This timely series of interventions scrutinises the centrality of race and migration to the 2016 Brexit campaign, vote and its aftermath. It brings together five individual pieces, with an accompanying introduction, which interrogate different facets of how race, migration and Brexit interconnect: an examination of the so-called left behinds and the fundamental intersections between geography, race and class at the heart of Brexit motivations and…

  • Perilous Journeys: "Visualising the Racialised "Refugee Crisis

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell, Kathrin Hörschelmann•ARTICLE•Antipode•2018•Cited by: 26•References: 18

    This article explores the benign and malignant power of the visual in the racialised framing of the ongoing "European refugee crisis". Bringing together literatures on racial discourses, visuality, storytelling and decoloniality for the first time, this paper breaks new ground in our understandings of the political possibilities that visual storytelling offers in shifting "lines of sight" in an increasingly vitriolic anti-refugee climate. It does…

  • The recalcitrance of distance: Exploring the Infrastructures of Sending in Migrants' Lives

    Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Mobilities•2017•Cited by: 15•References: 60

    This paper puts the spatiality of migration, and more specifically post-migration connections, centre stage. It explores the distances confronted by migrants as they stay connected with their pre-migration lives, recognising that these distances are recalcitrant, asymmetrically governed spaces. Indeed, migrants can be understood as experts in the navigation of international space and ‘the tyranny of distance’. Inspired by recent work on urban and…

  • The Material Worlds of Recent Polish Migrants

    Marta Rabikowska, Kathy Burrell•CHAPTER•Polish Migration to the UK in the…•2016

    This chapter discusses the roles of consumption and material culture in rooting the lives of recent Polish migrants in London and the Midlands. The importance of food for migrant experiences and identities exemplifies a much wider connection between consumption and material culture and social, cultural, economic and even political processes. The chapter seeks to add to migration researchers debates by bringing together two separate projects on th…

  • Polish Migration to the UK in the ‘New’ European Union: After 2004

    Kathy Burrell•BOOK•Polish Migration to the UK in the…•2016

    Contents: Introduction: migration to the UK from Poland: continuity and change in East-West European mobility, Kathy Burrell Part I Contexts, Strategies and Discourses of Emigration: Migration: a threat or a chance? Recent migration of Poles and its impact on the Polish labour market, Agnieszka Fihel and Pawel Kaczmarczyk Changing patterns of Polish labour migration after the UK's opening of the labour market? Insights from rural case-studies in …

  • Moving Lives: Narratives of Nation and Migration Among Europeans in Post-War Britain

    Kathy Burrell•BOOK•Moving Lives•2016•Cited by: 12

    Contents: Introduction Narrating migration Remembering the Nation The myth of no return The binding ties of community Conclusion Bibliography Index

  • Lost in the 'churn'? Locating neighbourliness in a transient neighbourhood

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning A…•2016•Cited by: 11•References: 40

    This article considers the importance of everyday encounters in underpinning sociality, focusing especially on the located and material aspects of social relations. Bringing together debates about social relations, place attachment and population turnover (or 'churn'), and using research carried out in the UK city of Leicester, in an inner city neighbourhood with high population turnover, the article investigates incidences of neighbourliness, pr…

  • Mobilities in Socialist and Post-Socialist States

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell, Kathrin Hörschelmann•BOOK•Mobilities in Socialist and…•2014

    This interdisciplinary collection explores what mobility meant, and still means, in the specific contexts of Soviet and East European socialist and post-socialist societies. Together the chapters cons

  • Introduction: Understanding Mobility in Soviet and East European Socialist and Post-Socialist States

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell, Kathrin Hörschelmann•CHAPTER•Mobilities in Socialist and…•2014

    When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 it was interpreted by many as the dawn of a new era of unrestricted travel and free movement for socialist citizens who had been prevented until then from exercising those freedoms by an authoritarian political regime. Cold War understandings of socialism and capitalist market economies as two diametrically opposed systems led many to assume that mobility and freedom of travel were the preserve of citizens of wes…

  • Spilling Over from the Street: Contextualizing Domestic Space in an Inner-City Neighborhood

    Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Home Cultures•2014•Cited by: 17•References: 16

    This article considers a series of challenges to homemaking in a post-industrial urban neighborhood in the UK, analyzing the local contextualization of domestic space. Based on a series of in-depth interviews with a diverse range of residents, the article investigates what happens when the forces of “outside” move into the “private” space of the home. Starting with a discussion of the neighborhood in question and the associated contexts of high p…

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  • Staying, returning, working and living: Key themes in current academic research undertaken in the UK on migration movements from Eastern Europe

    Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Social Identities•2010•Cited by: 42•References: 8

    Migration from Eastern Europe to the UK has recently attracted a considerable amount of academic attention, particularly, although not exclusively, focused upon movements from the European Union accession countries after 2004. The aim of this article is to review some of the key academic works which have appeared over the past five years relating primarily to EU accession migration, identifying the main themes – migration motivations and strategi…

  • Conditional citizens and hostile environments: Polish migrants in pre-Brexit Britain

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell, Mateus Schweyher•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2019•Cited by: 34•References: 23

  • Materialising the Border: Spaces of Mobility and Material Culture in Migration from Post-Socialist Poland

    Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Mobilities•2008•Cited by: 33•References: 22

    Using post‐socialist Polish migration to Britain as a case study, this article analyses the 'furnishing' of journey and border times and spaces by recent Polish migrants – a theme which has been neglected in most migration studies research. Four key intersections between movement and materiality, and their significance for migration, are considered: passports, car and coach journeys, suitcases, and laptops in airport lounges. Set against a backdr…

  • Going steerage on Ryanair: Cultures of migrant air travel between Poland and the UK

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Journal of Transport Geography•2010•Cited by: 28•References: 12

  • Perilous Journeys: "Visualising the Racialised "Refugee Crisis

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell, Kathrin Hörschelmann•ARTICLE•Antipode•2018•Cited by: 26•References: 18

    This article explores the benign and malignant power of the visual in the racialised framing of the ongoing "European refugee crisis". Bringing together literatures on racial discourses, visuality, storytelling and decoloniality for the first time, this paper breaks new ground in our understandings of the political possibilities that visual storytelling offers in shifting "lines of sight" in an increasingly vitriolic anti-refugee climate. It does…

  • The enchantment of western things: Children’s material encounters in late socialist Poland

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Transactions of the Institute of…•2010•Cited by: 19•References: 12

    The allure of ‘the west’ in socialist eastern Europe and the Soviet Union has been well documented. Poland, a country noted for the longstanding westward emigration of its population, maintained a particularly close relationship with all things western, especially during the latter stages of the socialist regime. Using material collected from life history interviews with Polish migrants in the UK, this article analyses a very specific manifestati…

  • Spilling Over from the Street: Contextualizing Domestic Space in an Inner-City Neighborhood

    Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Home Cultures•2014•Cited by: 17•References: 16

    This article considers a series of challenges to homemaking in a post-industrial urban neighborhood in the UK, analyzing the local contextualization of domestic space. Based on a series of in-depth interviews with a diverse range of residents, the article investigates what happens when the forces of “outside” move into the “private” space of the home. Starting with a discussion of the neighborhood in question and the associated contexts of high p…

  • The recalcitrance of distance: Exploring the Infrastructures of Sending in Migrants' Lives

    Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Mobilities•2017•Cited by: 15•References: 60

    This paper puts the spatiality of migration, and more specifically post-migration connections, centre stage. It explores the distances confronted by migrants as they stay connected with their pre-migration lives, recognising that these distances are recalcitrant, asymmetrically governed spaces. Indeed, migrants can be understood as experts in the navigation of international space and ‘the tyranny of distance’. Inspired by recent work on urban and…

  • (In)visibility, privilege and the performance of whiteness in Brexit Britain: Polish migrants in Britain’s shifting migration regime

    Open Access•Kate Botterill, Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning C…•2019•Cited by: 14•References: 8

    shifting migration regime

  • Small‐scale transnationalism: Homeland connections and the Polish ‘community’ in Leicester

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2003•Cited by: 13•References: 21

    The concept of an implicitly national territory has an important influence on both the construction and maintenance of diasporic national identity and migrant transnational consciousness. Based on evidence collected through 31 in‐depth interviews, this article considers the homeland relationship and the transnational activities of a small and settled migrant group, namely the Polish community in Leicester. Taking these interviews as its base, and…

  • Moving Lives: Narratives of Nation and Migration Among Europeans in Post-War Britain

    Kathy Burrell•BOOK•Moving Lives•2016•Cited by: 12

    Contents: Introduction Narrating migration Remembering the Nation The myth of no return The binding ties of community Conclusion Bibliography Index

  • Lost in the 'churn'? Locating neighbourliness in a transient neighbourhood

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning A…•2016•Cited by: 11•References: 40

    This article considers the importance of everyday encounters in underpinning sociality, focusing especially on the located and material aspects of social relations. Bringing together debates about social relations, place attachment and population turnover (or 'churn'), and using research carried out in the UK city of Leicester, in an inner city neighbourhood with high population turnover, the article investigates incidences of neighbourliness, pr…

  • Introduction: Brexit, race and migration

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell, Peter Hopkins•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning C…•2019•Cited by: 10•References: 4

  • Domesticating Responsibility: Refugee Hosting and the Homes for Ukraine Scheme

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Antipode•2024•Cited by: 8•References: 46

    In March 2022, in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the UK government launched its “Homes for Ukraine” private hosting scheme. The British public were urged to support Ukraine by signing up to host people fleeing the war in their own homes. There are many critiques of the scheme, especially the racialised connotations of welcoming Ukrainians while shunning others seeking sanctuary. However, the particular themes of responsibility and r…

  • Managing, Learning and Sending: The Material Lives and Journeys of Polish Women in Britain

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Journal of Material Culture•2008•Cited by: 8•References: 19

    This article investigates the material lives and journeys of eight women who migrated to Britain from Poland during the time of the socialist regime. Although the state created obstructions to emigration, it was viable for women with family overseas to travel to the West as visitors, sometimes turning temporary stays into permanent settlements through marriage. For others, westward travel was made possible by professional employment opportunities…

  • Applying for Settled Status: Ambivalent and reluctant compliance of EU citizens in post-Brexit Scotland

    Open Access•Kate Botterill, Mariusz Bogacki et al.•ARTICLE•Scottish Affairs•2020•Cited by: 7•References: 11

    This article contributes to scholarship concerning the effects of the UK Referendum on EU membership and Brexit on EU citizen rights in the UK (Botterill, McCollum and Tyrrell, 2018 ; Burrell and Schweyher, 2019 ; Gawlewicz and Sotkasiira, 2019 ; Huber, 2019 ). The paper focuses on applications for, and meanings of, ‘settled status’ among Polish nationals living in urban and rural Scotland. In particular we argue that the ‘simple’ act of applicat…

  • Brexit, race and migration

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell, Peter Hopkins et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning C…•2018•Cited by: 6•References: 35

    This timely series of interventions scrutinises the centrality of race and migration to the 2016 Brexit campaign, vote and its aftermath. It brings together five individual pieces, with an accompanying introduction, which interrogate different facets of how race, migration and Brexit interconnect: an examination of the so-called left behinds and the fundamental intersections between geography, race and class at the heart of Brexit motivations and…

  • Lifting the lid on cultural geography: Behind the scenes in the field

    Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Journal of Cultural Geography•2014•Cited by: 6•References: 18

    This special issue on “doing” cultural geography comes at an important point in the development of the subdiscipline. Several years after original debates on representation, text and calls for an enlivening of the discipline, the papers collected here, as produced elsewhere, point to a new maturity, and paradoxically both consensus and diversity, in how cultural geography is being approached and created. In this article, I hope to contribute to c…

  • Opportunity and uncertainty: Young people's narratives of ‘double transition’ in post-socialist Poland

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Area•2011•Cited by: 6•References: 16

    This article focuses on youth transitions in the specific geo-historical context of post-socialist Poland. While post-socialist ‘transition’ across Eastern Europe and the former Soviet states has heralded extensive social and economic upheaval in general, different age groups experienced different facets of this change more keenly than others. For those who were teenagers in the 1990s, societal change coincided with their own life-course transiti…

  • Borders and bureaucracies of EU mobile citizenship: Polish migrants and the personal identification number in Sweden

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell, Mateus Schweyher•ARTICLE•Political Geography•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 47

  • The making and unmaking of an urban diaspora: The role of the physical environment and materialities in belongingness, displacement and mobilisation in Toxteth, Liverpool

    Open Access•Z Vathi, Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Urban Studies•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 37

    Focusing on Toxteth – a distinct and ethnically diverse locality in Liverpool, UK – this article explores the (un)making and re-making of diasporic space in different guises by urban diverse communities and the material aspects or fallouts of this for place and identity. Based on extensive ethnographic research, it shows how a series of localised developments – a history of external marginalisation, an urban trauma of rioting, a protracted experi…

  • Emplacing Some, Displacing Others: Ethnic Minority Enterprises as Critical Urban Infrastructure in Lodge Lane, Liverpool

    Open Access•Z Vathi, Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Journal of Immigrant & Refugee…•2024•Cited by: 2•References: 43

    Drawing on ethnographic research on Lodge Lane, the main commercial street within Toxteth (Liverpool), this paper reveals how fundamental ethnic minority enterprises (EMEs) have been to the regeneration of this marginalized area due to public disinvestment. Acting as critical infrastructure, they have transformed the materiality of the locale, and by extension, they have afforded new kinds of encounter and convivialities. Ultimately, EMEs appear …

  • Personal, Inherited, Collective: Communicating and Layering Memories of Forced Polish Migration

    Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Immigrants & Minorities•2006•Cited by: 2•References: 8

    This article concentrates on the specific wartime experiences of Polish émigrés in Britain who were deported from eastern Poland to Siberia in 1940 by Soviet forces. However, rather than considering these experiences in themselves, the focus is on the communication, layering and sharing of these wartime histories. The essay examines how the extraordinary events of war are conveyed in an interview setting; how the Polish émigrés have lived with th…

  • Urban narratives: Italian and Greek-Cypriot representations of community in post-war Leicester

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Urban History•2005•Cited by: 2

    The concept of community is frequently used to describe urban ethnic minority groups. What this term actually means to the community members themselves, however, is often left unexplored. Using interviews undertaken with Italian and Greek-Cypriot residents of Leicester, this article analyses how the notion of community is recognized, understood and projected from within. Key findings include the observation that the discussion of community is fra…

  • Professor Kevin Mark Hannam (1971–2025)

    Sven Kesselring, Pete Adey et al.•ARTICLE•Applied Mobilities•2025•Cited by: 1

  • Small‐scale transnationalism: Homeland connections and the Polish ‘community’ in Leicester

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2003•Cited by: 13•References: 21

    The concept of an implicitly national territory has an important influence on both the construction and maintenance of diasporic national identity and migrant transnational consciousness. Based on evidence collected through 31 in‐depth interviews, this article considers the homeland relationship and the transnational activities of a small and settled migrant group, namely the Polish community in Leicester. Taking these interviews as its base, and…

  • Urban narratives: Italian and Greek-Cypriot representations of community in post-war Leicester

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Urban History•2005•Cited by: 2

    The concept of community is frequently used to describe urban ethnic minority groups. What this term actually means to the community members themselves, however, is often left unexplored. Using interviews undertaken with Italian and Greek-Cypriot residents of Leicester, this article analyses how the notion of community is recognized, understood and projected from within. Key findings include the observation that the discussion of community is fra…

  • Histories and Memories: Migrants and their History in Britain

    Kathy Burrell, Panikos Panayi•BOOK•Histories and Memories•2006

    The first study of how migrants view their own history and how migrant history is viewed by British society, this book addresses themes of vital importance to contemporary history, and covers every aspect of the migrant experience. Who are the migrants that have flocked to Britain since the nineteenth century? How do they understand their experiences? “Histories and Memories” is the first work of its kind to examine this question from the perspec…

  • Personal, Inherited, Collective: Communicating and Layering Memories of Forced Polish Migration

    Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Immigrants & Minorities•2006•Cited by: 2•References: 8

    This article concentrates on the specific wartime experiences of Polish émigrés in Britain who were deported from eastern Poland to Siberia in 1940 by Soviet forces. However, rather than considering these experiences in themselves, the focus is on the communication, layering and sharing of these wartime histories. The essay examines how the extraordinary events of war are conveyed in an interview setting; how the Polish émigrés have lived with th…

  • Materialising the Border: Spaces of Mobility and Material Culture in Migration from Post-Socialist Poland

    Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Mobilities•2008•Cited by: 33•References: 22

    Using post‐socialist Polish migration to Britain as a case study, this article analyses the 'furnishing' of journey and border times and spaces by recent Polish migrants – a theme which has been neglected in most migration studies research. Four key intersections between movement and materiality, and their significance for migration, are considered: passports, car and coach journeys, suitcases, and laptops in airport lounges. Set against a backdr…

  • Managing, Learning and Sending: The Material Lives and Journeys of Polish Women in Britain

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Journal of Material Culture•2008•Cited by: 8•References: 19

    This article investigates the material lives and journeys of eight women who migrated to Britain from Poland during the time of the socialist regime. Although the state created obstructions to emigration, it was viable for women with family overseas to travel to the West as visitors, sometimes turning temporary stays into permanent settlements through marriage. For others, westward travel was made possible by professional employment opportunities…

  • Staying, returning, working and living: Key themes in current academic research undertaken in the UK on migration movements from Eastern Europe

    Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Social Identities•2010•Cited by: 42•References: 8

    Migration from Eastern Europe to the UK has recently attracted a considerable amount of academic attention, particularly, although not exclusively, focused upon movements from the European Union accession countries after 2004. The aim of this article is to review some of the key academic works which have appeared over the past five years relating primarily to EU accession migration, identifying the main themes – migration motivations and strategi…

  • Going steerage on Ryanair: Cultures of migrant air travel between Poland and the UK

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Journal of Transport Geography•2010•Cited by: 28•References: 12

  • The enchantment of western things: Children’s material encounters in late socialist Poland

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Transactions of the Institute of…•2010•Cited by: 19•References: 12

    The allure of ‘the west’ in socialist eastern Europe and the Soviet Union has been well documented. Poland, a country noted for the longstanding westward emigration of its population, maintained a particularly close relationship with all things western, especially during the latter stages of the socialist regime. Using material collected from life history interviews with Polish migrants in the UK, this article analyses a very specific manifestati…

  • Opportunity and uncertainty: Young people's narratives of ‘double transition’ in post-socialist Poland

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Area•2011•Cited by: 6•References: 16

    This article focuses on youth transitions in the specific geo-historical context of post-socialist Poland. While post-socialist ‘transition’ across Eastern Europe and the former Soviet states has heralded extensive social and economic upheaval in general, different age groups experienced different facets of this change more keenly than others. For those who were teenagers in the 1990s, societal change coincided with their own life-course transiti…

  • Mobilities in Socialist and Post-Socialist States

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell, Kathrin Hörschelmann•BOOK•Mobilities in Socialist and…•2014

    This interdisciplinary collection explores what mobility meant, and still means, in the specific contexts of Soviet and East European socialist and post-socialist societies. Together the chapters cons

  • Introduction: Understanding Mobility in Soviet and East European Socialist and Post-Socialist States

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell, Kathrin Hörschelmann•CHAPTER•Mobilities in Socialist and…•2014

    When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 it was interpreted by many as the dawn of a new era of unrestricted travel and free movement for socialist citizens who had been prevented until then from exercising those freedoms by an authoritarian political regime. Cold War understandings of socialism and capitalist market economies as two diametrically opposed systems led many to assume that mobility and freedom of travel were the preserve of citizens of wes…

  • Spilling Over from the Street: Contextualizing Domestic Space in an Inner-City Neighborhood

    Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Home Cultures•2014•Cited by: 17•References: 16

    This article considers a series of challenges to homemaking in a post-industrial urban neighborhood in the UK, analyzing the local contextualization of domestic space. Based on a series of in-depth interviews with a diverse range of residents, the article investigates what happens when the forces of “outside” move into the “private” space of the home. Starting with a discussion of the neighborhood in question and the associated contexts of high p…

  • Gender, migration and domestic work: Masculinities, male labour and fathering in the UK and USA

    Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Gender Place & Culture•2014•References: 1

    Gender, Migration and Domestic Work is a very timely and thoughtful appraisal of the changing configurations of masculinity, fathering and the ‘out sourcing’ of ‘male’ domestic work to migrant labo

  • Lifting the lid on cultural geography: Behind the scenes in the field

    Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Journal of Cultural Geography•2014•Cited by: 6•References: 18

    This special issue on “doing” cultural geography comes at an important point in the development of the subdiscipline. Several years after original debates on representation, text and calls for an enlivening of the discipline, the papers collected here, as produced elsewhere, point to a new maturity, and paradoxically both consensus and diversity, in how cultural geography is being approached and created. In this article, I hope to contribute to c…

  • The Material Worlds of Recent Polish Migrants

    Marta Rabikowska, Kathy Burrell•CHAPTER•Polish Migration to the UK in the…•2016

    This chapter discusses the roles of consumption and material culture in rooting the lives of recent Polish migrants in London and the Midlands. The importance of food for migrant experiences and identities exemplifies a much wider connection between consumption and material culture and social, cultural, economic and even political processes. The chapter seeks to add to migration researchers debates by bringing together two separate projects on th…

  • Polish Migration to the UK in the ‘New’ European Union: After 2004

    Kathy Burrell•BOOK•Polish Migration to the UK in the…•2016

    Contents: Introduction: migration to the UK from Poland: continuity and change in East-West European mobility, Kathy Burrell Part I Contexts, Strategies and Discourses of Emigration: Migration: a threat or a chance? Recent migration of Poles and its impact on the Polish labour market, Agnieszka Fihel and Pawel Kaczmarczyk Changing patterns of Polish labour migration after the UK's opening of the labour market? Insights from rural case-studies in …

  • Moving Lives: Narratives of Nation and Migration Among Europeans in Post-War Britain

    Kathy Burrell•BOOK•Moving Lives•2016•Cited by: 12

    Contents: Introduction Narrating migration Remembering the Nation The myth of no return The binding ties of community Conclusion Bibliography Index

  • Lost in the 'churn'? Locating neighbourliness in a transient neighbourhood

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning A…•2016•Cited by: 11•References: 40

    This article considers the importance of everyday encounters in underpinning sociality, focusing especially on the located and material aspects of social relations. Bringing together debates about social relations, place attachment and population turnover (or 'churn'), and using research carried out in the UK city of Leicester, in an inner city neighbourhood with high population turnover, the article investigates incidences of neighbourliness, pr…

  • The recalcitrance of distance: Exploring the Infrastructures of Sending in Migrants' Lives

    Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Mobilities•2017•Cited by: 15•References: 60

    This paper puts the spatiality of migration, and more specifically post-migration connections, centre stage. It explores the distances confronted by migrants as they stay connected with their pre-migration lives, recognising that these distances are recalcitrant, asymmetrically governed spaces. Indeed, migrants can be understood as experts in the navigation of international space and ‘the tyranny of distance’. Inspired by recent work on urban and…

  • Brexit, race and migration

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell, Peter Hopkins et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning C…•2018•Cited by: 6•References: 35

    This timely series of interventions scrutinises the centrality of race and migration to the 2016 Brexit campaign, vote and its aftermath. It brings together five individual pieces, with an accompanying introduction, which interrogate different facets of how race, migration and Brexit interconnect: an examination of the so-called left behinds and the fundamental intersections between geography, race and class at the heart of Brexit motivations and…

  • Perilous Journeys: "Visualising the Racialised "Refugee Crisis

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell, Kathrin Hörschelmann•ARTICLE•Antipode•2018•Cited by: 26•References: 18

    This article explores the benign and malignant power of the visual in the racialised framing of the ongoing "European refugee crisis". Bringing together literatures on racial discourses, visuality, storytelling and decoloniality for the first time, this paper breaks new ground in our understandings of the political possibilities that visual storytelling offers in shifting "lines of sight" in an increasingly vitriolic anti-refugee climate. It does…

  • (In)visibility, privilege and the performance of whiteness in Brexit Britain: Polish migrants in Britain’s shifting migration regime

    Open Access•Kate Botterill, Kathy Burrell•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning C…•2019•Cited by: 14•References: 8

    shifting migration regime

  • Introduction: Brexit, race and migration

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell, Peter Hopkins•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning C…•2019•Cited by: 10•References: 4

  • Conditional citizens and hostile environments: Polish migrants in pre-Brexit Britain

    Open Access•Kathy Burrell, Mateus Schweyher•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2019•Cited by: 34•References: 23

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