Umut Erel
Biographic Data
| ID | 99716 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Umut Erel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Umut |
| FAMILY NAME | Erel |
| SIGNATURE | EREL U |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7853-991X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 718 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Migrant Women Opposing Governmental Performative Politics and the Hostile Environment
The increasingly restrictive and punitive hostile environment policies reinforce the Conservative Government stance of being 'tough on immigration'. In public debates the government continues to champion lesser rights for racialised migrants through three key aspects of 'performative politics': the creation of social realities, social identities, and social relationships. We illustrate how the policy of No Recourse to Public Funding (NRPF) is an …
Afterword
This conclusion chapter reflects on common threads of racism and sexism in migratised academics’ experiences and opportunities for solidarities drawing on elements of life story narratives by the volume’s contributors
Methodological Innovation in Research: Participatory Theater with Migrant Families on Conflicts and Transformations over the Politics of Belonging
This paper introduces notions of conviviality as both a research practice and a research outcome through an exploration of the racialised and gendered experiences of migrant mothers and young girls in the current hostile environment for migrants in the UK. We argue that innovative, participatory theater and walking methods constitute a convivial practice, particularly helpful for addressing the everyday lives of migrant families within the curren…
Reconceptualizing Motherhood: Experiences of Migrant Women from Turkey Living in Germany
This chapter addresses the ways in which migrant women from Turkey challenge their ethnocized and gendered subject positions in relation to their society of residence and its ethnic community. It focuses on the experiences of mothering and family relations, particularly from the daughters' perspective, based on research findings from a project about subjectivity and agency in life stories of women of Turkish background living in Germany. The chap…
Borders, risk and belonging: Challenges for arts-based research in understanding the lives of women asylum seekers and migrants ‘at the borders of humanity’
This article critically discusses the experiences of women who are seeking asylum in the North East of England and women who are mothers with no recourse to public funds living in London to address the questions posed by the special issue. It argues both epistemologically and methodologically for the benefits of undertaking participatory arts-based, ethno-mimetic, performative methods with women and communities to better understand women’s lives,…
Enacting intersectional multilayered citizenship: Kurdish women’s politics
Focusing on the institutional aspects of the Kurdish women’s movement in Turkey since the 1990s the article shows how it established a consciousness within the Kurdish national movement that gender equality is a cornerstone of democracy and ethnic rights. We frame this through theories of enacting intersectional multilayered citizenship and identify three key interventions: autonomous women’s assemblies, women’s quotas in pro-Kurdish rights parti…
Migrant Capitals: Proposing a Multi-Level Spatio-Temporal Analytical Framework
This article explores how migrants utilize and access different forms of capital. Using a Bourdieusian approach to capital, we focus on how migrants' temporal and spatial journeys are shaped by and in turn shape their opportunities to mobilize resources and convert them into capitals. These processes depend on migrants' social positioning, including their gender, class, ethnic and national positioning, as well as citizenship status, and how this …
Migrant Mothers’ Creative Challenges to Racialized Citizenship
Migrant mothers: Kin work and cultural work in making future citizens
This themed issue explores the caring, cultural and emotional labour of migrant mothers in raising their children, highlighting the ways in which their mothering and family practices contribute to creating future citizens in contemporary societies, increasingly characterised by ethnic, racial, religious, cultural and social diversity. A key objective of the themed issue is to probe into the practices, processes and structures shaping migrant moth…
Migrant mothers: Performing Kin Work and Belonging Across Private and Public Boundaries
This article explores how migrant mothering kin work challenges private and public boundaries, giving rise to new conceptions and practices of citizenship. We highlight the potential of participatory theatre methods – specifically, forum theatre and Playback – for understanding the relationship between mothering, ethnic belonging and citizenship. We also assess the significance of migrant women’s kin work within their families and communities for…
Introduction: Migrant Mothers Challenging Racialized Citizenship
This article introduces the Special Issue on Migrant Mothers' Creative Interventions into Racialized Citizenship. It reflects on the theoretical and policy areas to which research on migrant mothers' citizenship can contribute. The introduction argues that studies on citizenship, racialization, migration are important to theoretical as well as policy debates on contemporary nationhood, multiculturalism, generational and social cohesion as well as…
Migrant mothers' creative interventions into racialized citizenship
Racialized migrant mothers are often cast as marginal to theoretical and political debates of citizenship, yet by taking seriously the contributions to cultural and caring citizenship they make, we challenge the racialized boundaries of citizenship. Drawing on theories of enacting citizenship, i.e. challenging hegemonic narratives of who can legitimately claim to contribute to citizenship, we explore migrant women's mothering through participator…
Saving and reproducing the nation: Struggles around right-wing politics of social reproduction, gender and race in austerity Europe
This article suggests the analytic lens of cultural, social and national reproduction to understand the centrality of gendered and ethnic relations, in particular a focus on family life in contemporary UK. Proposing a theoretical focus on reproduction, the article then provides some contextualisation with wider European experiences to show connections between the political articulations across the far-right and mainstream right-wing. It argues th…
Reflective commentaries
Participatory theatre for transformative social research
Reflecting on the transformative potential of participatory theatre methods for social research, the article draws on a project with ethnically diverse migrant mothers in London. The research reframes the experiences and practices of socially and ethnically marginalized migrant mothers as active interventions into citizenship. We also challenge recurring public discourses casting migrant mothers as threats to social and cultural cohesion who do n…
Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship: Life-stories From Britain and Germany
Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship develops essential insights concerning the notion of transnational citizenship by means of the life stories of skilled and educated migrant women from Turkey in Germany and Britain. It interweaves and develops theories of citizenship, identity and culture with the lived experiences of an immigrant group that has so far received insufficient attention. By focusing on the British and German contexts, it introd…
Understanding the contemporary race-migration nexus
The linkage between race and migration, especially in the UK since the 1990s, has shifted from a focus on postcolonial migrants to focus on newer groups, while migration within the European Union has also altered the discussion of racism and migration. This critical review provides a framework for understanding how race is conceptualized (or ignored) in contemporary scholarship on migration. We identify three, partly overlapping nexi between migr…
Migrant Capital
Migrant Capital covers a broad range of case studies and, by bringing together leading and emerging researchers, presents state-of-the-art empirical, theoretical and methodological perspectives on mig
Migrant capital: Networks, Identities and Strategies
Migrant Capital presents state-of-the-art empirical, theoretical and methodological perspectives on migration, networks, social and cultural capital, exploring the ways in which these bodies of literature can inform and strengthen each other. In so doing, it brings the theoretical and methodological dimensions into dialogue with each other. The migrants discussed in the book are ethnically and socio-economically diverse and have a range of migrat…
The ethnic project: Transforming Racial Fiction Into Ethnic Factions
Research Note: Black Feminist Theory for Participatory Theatre with Migrant Mothers
Black feminist scholarship has long identified the family as an ambiguous space: at once constituted through gendered, age-specific and other power relations and also a source of support against racist experiences in wider society (Carby 1982). Mothers, in particular, are charged with caring for children. This often includes transmitting cultural resources that enable children to develop positive cultural identities as an important resource helpi…
Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries Vol. 1: Vol. I
Kurdish migrant mothers in London enacting citizenship
The article explores the mothering work of a group of Kurdish women in London as enactments of citizenship. Rather than focusing on their integration, it foregrounds the migrant mothers' ability to disrupt hegemonic citizenship narratives and bring into being new political subjects. They co-construct diasporic citizenship, through their mothering work, producing their children's cultural identifications as both British and Kurdish. These identifi…
Engendering transnational space: Migrant mothers as cultural currency speculators
This article opens new perspectives for the study of gender, transnationalism and cultural capital by exploring the role of gender in the formation of cultural capital in transnational contexts, focusing on how migrant mothers’ strategically deploy cultural resources from one national setting in another. Drawing on a study of middle-class European mothers in London, it shows how they mobilize transnational cultural resources to compensate for sho…
Gender and transnationalism
By now, discussions about transnationalism have been on the social sciences’ research agenda for almost two decades. In their path-breaking work Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments and De-territorialized Nation States Linda Basch, Nina Glick Schiller and Cristina Szanton Blanc (1994) have challenged the long-time belief that migration is a linear project of emigration from a particular country to in-migration into a…
Migrating Cultural Capital: Bourdieu in Migration Studies
A Bourdieusian concept of cultural capital is used to investigate the transformations and contestations of migrants' cultural capital. Research often treated migrants' cultural capital as reified and ethnically bounded, assuming they bring a set of cultural resources from the country of origin to the country of migration that either fit or do not fit. Critiquing such 'rucksack approaches', I argue that migration results in new ways of producing a…
Understanding the contemporary race-migration nexus
The linkage between race and migration, especially in the UK since the 1990s, has shifted from a focus on postcolonial migrants to focus on newer groups, while migration within the European Union has also altered the discussion of racism and migration. This critical review provides a framework for understanding how race is conceptualized (or ignored) in contemporary scholarship on migration. We identify three, partly overlapping nexi between migr…
Migrant Capitals: Proposing a Multi-Level Spatio-Temporal Analytical Framework
This article explores how migrants utilize and access different forms of capital. Using a Bourdieusian approach to capital, we focus on how migrants' temporal and spatial journeys are shaped by and in turn shape their opportunities to mobilize resources and convert them into capitals. These processes depend on migrants' social positioning, including their gender, class, ethnic and national positioning, as well as citizenship status, and how this …
Reframing migrant mothers as citizens
This article suggests reframing the study of migrant women's mothering from a question of integration to an engagement with citizenship. Drawing on research with Polish migrants to the UK, it illustrates how migrant mothers and children construct complex belongings, referencing local, national (UK and Polish), transnational and supra-national levels of belonging. Migrant mothers' sense of ethnic distinctness goes hand in hand with universalistic …
Migrant mothers' creative interventions into racialized citizenship
Racialized migrant mothers are often cast as marginal to theoretical and political debates of citizenship, yet by taking seriously the contributions to cultural and caring citizenship they make, we challenge the racialized boundaries of citizenship. Drawing on theories of enacting citizenship, i.e. challenging hegemonic narratives of who can legitimately claim to contribute to citizenship, we explore migrant women's mothering through participator…
Saving and reproducing the nation: Struggles around right-wing politics of social reproduction, gender and race in austerity Europe
This article suggests the analytic lens of cultural, social and national reproduction to understand the centrality of gendered and ethnic relations, in particular a focus on family life in contemporary UK. Proposing a theoretical focus on reproduction, the article then provides some contextualisation with wider European experiences to show connections between the political articulations across the far-right and mainstream right-wing. It argues th…
Introduction: Migrant Mothers Challenging Racialized Citizenship
This article introduces the Special Issue on Migrant Mothers' Creative Interventions into Racialized Citizenship. It reflects on the theoretical and policy areas to which research on migrant mothers' citizenship can contribute. The introduction argues that studies on citizenship, racialization, migration are important to theoretical as well as policy debates on contemporary nationhood, multiculturalism, generational and social cohesion as well as…
Complex belongings: Racialization and migration in a small English city
n The article explores how long-term residents in a small city with rural links in the East of England related to new migrants at a time of changing patterns and increased volume of migration. Based on in-depth interviews and observations in 2005-6, the article shows dynamic, complex and nuanced constructions of belonging and governmentalities of belonging. Long-term Peterborians felt proud that their city attracted migrants and became more multi…
Borders, risk and belonging: Challenges for arts-based research in understanding the lives of women asylum seekers and migrants ‘at the borders of humanity’
This article critically discusses the experiences of women who are seeking asylum in the North East of England and women who are mothers with no recourse to public funds living in London to address the questions posed by the special issue. It argues both epistemologically and methodologically for the benefits of undertaking participatory arts-based, ethno-mimetic, performative methods with women and communities to better understand women’s lives,…
Engendering transnational space: Migrant mothers as cultural currency speculators
This article opens new perspectives for the study of gender, transnationalism and cultural capital by exploring the role of gender in the formation of cultural capital in transnational contexts, focusing on how migrant mothers’ strategically deploy cultural resources from one national setting in another. Drawing on a study of middle-class European mothers in London, it shows how they mobilize transnational cultural resources to compensate for sho…
Constructing Meaningful Lives: Biographical Methods in Research on Migrant Women
The article argues that biographical methods are particularly suited to shift the methodological and theoretical premises of migration research to foreground the agency and subjectivity of migrant women. It is argued that structural and cultural readings can usefully be applied to the self-representations of migrant women. The context of migrant women's self-representations is explored through looking at the story-telling communities they develop…
Participatory theatre for transformative social research
Reflecting on the transformative potential of participatory theatre methods for social research, the article draws on a project with ethnically diverse migrant mothers in London. The research reframes the experiences and practices of socially and ethnically marginalized migrant mothers as active interventions into citizenship. We also challenge recurring public discourses casting migrant mothers as threats to social and cultural cohesion who do n…
Migrant mothers: Performing Kin Work and Belonging Across Private and Public Boundaries
This article explores how migrant mothering kin work challenges private and public boundaries, giving rise to new conceptions and practices of citizenship. We highlight the potential of participatory theatre methods – specifically, forum theatre and Playback – for understanding the relationship between mothering, ethnic belonging and citizenship. We also assess the significance of migrant women’s kin work within their families and communities for…
Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship: Life-stories From Britain and Germany
Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship develops essential insights concerning the notion of transnational citizenship by means of the life stories of skilled and educated migrant women from Turkey in Germany and Britain. It interweaves and develops theories of citizenship, identity and culture with the lived experiences of an immigrant group that has so far received insufficient attention. By focusing on the British and German contexts, it introd…
Kurdish migrant mothers in London enacting citizenship
The article explores the mothering work of a group of Kurdish women in London as enactments of citizenship. Rather than focusing on their integration, it foregrounds the migrant mothers' ability to disrupt hegemonic citizenship narratives and bring into being new political subjects. They co-construct diasporic citizenship, through their mothering work, producing their children's cultural identifications as both British and Kurdish. These identifi…
Enacting intersectional multilayered citizenship: Kurdish women’s politics
Focusing on the institutional aspects of the Kurdish women’s movement in Turkey since the 1990s the article shows how it established a consciousness within the Kurdish national movement that gender equality is a cornerstone of democracy and ethnic rights. We frame this through theories of enacting intersectional multilayered citizenship and identify three key interventions: autonomous women’s assemblies, women’s quotas in pro-Kurdish rights parti…
Methodological Innovation in Research: Participatory Theater with Migrant Families on Conflicts and Transformations over the Politics of Belonging
This paper introduces notions of conviviality as both a research practice and a research outcome through an exploration of the racialised and gendered experiences of migrant mothers and young girls in the current hostile environment for migrants in the UK. We argue that innovative, participatory theater and walking methods constitute a convivial practice, particularly helpful for addressing the everyday lives of migrant families within the curren…
Gender and transnationalism
By now, discussions about transnationalism have been on the social sciences’ research agenda for almost two decades. In their path-breaking work Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments and De-territorialized Nation States Linda Basch, Nina Glick Schiller and Cristina Szanton Blanc (1994) have challenged the long-time belief that migration is a linear project of emigration from a particular country to in-migration into a…
Migrant capital: Networks, Identities and Strategies
Migrant Capital presents state-of-the-art empirical, theoretical and methodological perspectives on migration, networks, social and cultural capital, exploring the ways in which these bodies of literature can inform and strengthen each other. In so doing, it brings the theoretical and methodological dimensions into dialogue with each other. The migrants discussed in the book are ethnically and socio-economically diverse and have a range of migrat…
Transnational Families, Migration and Gender. Moroccan and Filipino Women in Bologna and Barcelona
Elisabetta Zontini, TRANSNATIONAL FAMILIES, MIGRATION AND GENDER. MOROCCAN AND FILIPINO WOMEN IN BOLOGNA AND BARCELONA, New York: Berghahn Books, 2010, 280 pp., $90.00/£53.00 (hard) This is a rich
Migrant mothers: Kin work and cultural work in making future citizens
This themed issue explores the caring, cultural and emotional labour of migrant mothers in raising their children, highlighting the ways in which their mothering and family practices contribute to creating future citizens in contemporary societies, increasingly characterised by ethnic, racial, religious, cultural and social diversity. A key objective of the themed issue is to probe into the practices, processes and structures shaping migrant moth…
Research Note: Black Feminist Theory for Participatory Theatre with Migrant Mothers
Black feminist scholarship has long identified the family as an ambiguous space: at once constituted through gendered, age-specific and other power relations and also a source of support against racist experiences in wider society (Carby 1982). Mothers, in particular, are charged with caring for children. This often includes transmitting cultural resources that enable children to develop positive cultural identities as an important resource helpi…
Introduction: Transnational Care in Europe--Changing Formations of Citizenship, Family, and Generation
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 19, Number 1, Spring 2012
Migrant Women Opposing Governmental Performative Politics and the Hostile Environment
The increasingly restrictive and punitive hostile environment policies reinforce the Conservative Government stance of being 'tough on immigration'. In public debates the government continues to champion lesser rights for racialised migrants through three key aspects of 'performative politics': the creation of social realities, social identities, and social relationships. We illustrate how the policy of No Recourse to Public Funding (NRPF) is an …
Reflective commentaries
Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries
11 tions involving women and men and their relations to one another. Gender is an important organising principle of social relations as it structures every aspect of human interaction on a personal or
Constructing Meaningful Lives: Biographical Methods in Research on Migrant Women
The article argues that biographical methods are particularly suited to shift the methodological and theoretical premises of migration research to foreground the agency and subjectivity of migrant women. It is argued that structural and cultural readings can usefully be applied to the self-representations of migrant women. The context of migrant women's self-representations is explored through looking at the story-telling communities they develop…
Intersektionalität oder Simultaneität?! — Zur Verschränkung und Gleichzeitigkeit mehrfacher Machtverhältnisse — Eine Einführung
Analytische Perspektiven, die sich auf das Konzept der ‘Intersektionalität’ beziehen, versprechen eine reflektierte Betrachtungsweise des Ineinandergreifens und der gegenseitigen Bedingtheit verschiedener Machtverhältnisse. Der Begriff wird allerdings heute in der deutschsprachigen Debatte auf eine Art verwendet, die versucht, sehr unterschiedliche Diskussionen unter einer Bezeichnung zu fassen. Darin realisieren sich jedoch auch Strategien der H…
Feminist Citizenship: Activating Politics and Theory
Feminist Citizenship: Activating Politics and Theory Umut Erel (bio) I feel honored to comment on Ruth Lister’s Citizenship: Feminist Perspectives (second edition, 2003), as it is a highly important feminist intervention into citizenship studies. I first encountered the book as a PhD student when I was thinking through citizenship as a framework for exploring the struggles of migrant women to gain agency and articulate new forms of belonging and …
Migrating Cultural Capital: Bourdieu in Migration Studies
A Bourdieusian concept of cultural capital is used to investigate the transformations and contestations of migrants' cultural capital. Research often treated migrants' cultural capital as reified and ethnically bounded, assuming they bring a set of cultural resources from the country of origin to the country of migration that either fit or do not fit. Critiquing such 'rucksack approaches', I argue that migration results in new ways of producing a…
Rendre visible l'activisme des femmes migrantes
Les femmes migrantes sont généralement placées en marge de la représentation politique dans leur pays de résidence. Toutefois, le fait de rendre visible leur activisme politique peut aider à remettre en question certaines conceptions étroites de la citoyenneté. En s’appuyant sur les récits de vie de femmes migrantes originaires de Turquie, cet article montre les évolutions des champs et des sujets politiques élaborés par les femmes migrantes en A…
Transnational Families, Migration and Gender. Moroccan and Filipino Women in Bologna and Barcelona
Elisabetta Zontini, TRANSNATIONAL FAMILIES, MIGRATION AND GENDER. MOROCCAN AND FILIPINO WOMEN IN BOLOGNA AND BARCELONA, New York: Berghahn Books, 2010, 280 pp., $90.00/£53.00 (hard) This is a rich
Reframing migrant mothers as citizens
This article suggests reframing the study of migrant women's mothering from a question of integration to an engagement with citizenship. Drawing on research with Polish migrants to the UK, it illustrates how migrant mothers and children construct complex belongings, referencing local, national (UK and Polish), transnational and supra-national levels of belonging. Migrant mothers' sense of ethnic distinctness goes hand in hand with universalistic …
Complex belongings: Racialization and migration in a small English city
n The article explores how long-term residents in a small city with rural links in the East of England related to new migrants at a time of changing patterns and increased volume of migration. Based on in-depth interviews and observations in 2005-6, the article shows dynamic, complex and nuanced constructions of belonging and governmentalities of belonging. Long-term Peterborians felt proud that their city attracted migrants and became more multi…
Engendering transnational space: Migrant mothers as cultural currency speculators
This article opens new perspectives for the study of gender, transnationalism and cultural capital by exploring the role of gender in the formation of cultural capital in transnational contexts, focusing on how migrant mothers’ strategically deploy cultural resources from one national setting in another. Drawing on a study of middle-class European mothers in London, it shows how they mobilize transnational cultural resources to compensate for sho…
Gender and transnationalism
By now, discussions about transnationalism have been on the social sciences’ research agenda for almost two decades. In their path-breaking work Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments and De-territorialized Nation States Linda Basch, Nina Glick Schiller and Cristina Szanton Blanc (1994) have challenged the long-time belief that migration is a linear project of emigration from a particular country to in-migration into a…
Introduction: Transnational Care in Europe--Changing Formations of Citizenship, Family, and Generation
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 19, Number 1, Spring 2012
Migration, Domestic Work and Affect: A Decolonial Approach on Value and the Feminization of Labour
Encarnacion Gutierrez-Rodriguez, Migration, Domestic Work and Affect: A Decolonial Approach on Value and the Feminization of Labour New York: Routledge, 2010, 220 pp., £75.00 hb. (ISBN 978-0-415-99
Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries Vol. 1: Vol. I
Kurdish migrant mothers in London enacting citizenship
The article explores the mothering work of a group of Kurdish women in London as enactments of citizenship. Rather than focusing on their integration, it foregrounds the migrant mothers' ability to disrupt hegemonic citizenship narratives and bring into being new political subjects. They co-construct diasporic citizenship, through their mothering work, producing their children's cultural identifications as both British and Kurdish. These identifi…
Research Note: Black Feminist Theory for Participatory Theatre with Migrant Mothers
Black feminist scholarship has long identified the family as an ambiguous space: at once constituted through gendered, age-specific and other power relations and also a source of support against racist experiences in wider society (Carby 1982). Mothers, in particular, are charged with caring for children. This often includes transmitting cultural resources that enable children to develop positive cultural identities as an important resource helpi…
Migrant Capital
Migrant Capital covers a broad range of case studies and, by bringing together leading and emerging researchers, presents state-of-the-art empirical, theoretical and methodological perspectives on mig
Migrant capital: Networks, Identities and Strategies
Migrant Capital presents state-of-the-art empirical, theoretical and methodological perspectives on migration, networks, social and cultural capital, exploring the ways in which these bodies of literature can inform and strengthen each other. In so doing, it brings the theoretical and methodological dimensions into dialogue with each other. The migrants discussed in the book are ethnically and socio-economically diverse and have a range of migrat…
The ethnic project: Transforming Racial Fiction Into Ethnic Factions
Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship: Life-stories From Britain and Germany
Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship develops essential insights concerning the notion of transnational citizenship by means of the life stories of skilled and educated migrant women from Turkey in Germany and Britain. It interweaves and develops theories of citizenship, identity and culture with the lived experiences of an immigrant group that has so far received insufficient attention. By focusing on the British and German contexts, it introd…
Understanding the contemporary race-migration nexus
The linkage between race and migration, especially in the UK since the 1990s, has shifted from a focus on postcolonial migrants to focus on newer groups, while migration within the European Union has also altered the discussion of racism and migration. This critical review provides a framework for understanding how race is conceptualized (or ignored) in contemporary scholarship on migration. We identify three, partly overlapping nexi between migr…
Saving and reproducing the nation: Struggles around right-wing politics of social reproduction, gender and race in austerity Europe
This article suggests the analytic lens of cultural, social and national reproduction to understand the centrality of gendered and ethnic relations, in particular a focus on family life in contemporary UK. Proposing a theoretical focus on reproduction, the article then provides some contextualisation with wider European experiences to show connections between the political articulations across the far-right and mainstream right-wing. It argues th…
Reflective commentaries
Participatory theatre for transformative social research
Reflecting on the transformative potential of participatory theatre methods for social research, the article draws on a project with ethnically diverse migrant mothers in London. The research reframes the experiences and practices of socially and ethnically marginalized migrant mothers as active interventions into citizenship. We also challenge recurring public discourses casting migrant mothers as threats to social and cultural cohesion who do n…
Migrant Mothers’ Creative Challenges to Racialized Citizenship
Sociology (33 works) · Gender Studies (30 works) · Political science (29 works) · Law (18 works) · Politics (15 works) · Citizenship (14 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Anthropology (12 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (11 works) · Ethnic group (10 works)