📣Hot off the press 📣 Are Refugee Workers ‘Peers’, ‘Competitors’, or Both? Socioeconomic Justifications of Boundary Work Through the Lens of Native Employees - Siviş - 2026 - Sociology Compass - Wiley Online Library compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📣 Hot off the press! My article, “Are Refugees Workers ‘Peers’, ‘Competitors’, or Both? Socioeconomic Justifications of Boundary Work Through the Lens of Native Employees”, in #SociologyCompass is out! The full #openacces article is available at the following link.

📢 Young Professionals with Migrant Parents - We want to hear from you! Please help us circulate our call within your networks! @lauramorosanu.bsky.social #LeverhulmeTrust #UniversityofSussex #secondgeneration #migrantparents #workplacerecognition #youngprofessionals #workplaceinteractions #UK

📢 New research published! Improving cancer care for people with disabilities and long-term conditions👨‍🦽 arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/improving-ca... #CancerCare #DisabilityMatters #inclusion @selinsivis.bsky.social @capcbristol.bsky.social @researchnbt.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk

📢📢📢 Young Professionals with Migrant Parents - Want to Hear from You! We're looking for participants! Interested? See details below.👇 @lauramorosanu.bsky.social #ResearchStudy #ShareYourStory #WorkplaceInclusion #YouthVoices #SecondGeneration #MigrantOriginYouthUK #UniversityofSussex

📢 New publiction alert! I'm excited to share our latest research article, coauthored with colleagues from @bristoluni.bsky.social @arc-west.bsky.social:"Exploring experiences of reasonble adjustments in cancer care among patients with disabilites and their carers." @sussexfss.bsky.social #openaccess

Excited to share that I’ll be co-presenting at the 9th Regulating for Decent Work Conference next week at the ILO in Geneva! Together with Gizem Karslı, we’ll talk about our paper: "Precarious Work, Precarious Futures: Trade Unions, Refugee Labour, and the Politics of Return." #RDW2025

In last month's white paper, the government said it will introduce changes to make it harder to obtain permanent residence in the UK. Our new commentary looks at how many people could be covered by the changes and their potential impact on migrants. migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/co...

🚨 We're hiring! Oxford Sociology is looking for a Departmental Lecturer to teach on our MSc - leading on the qualitative methods and political & civil conflict papers, as well as supervising dissertations. Apply by 30 May ✍️ my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

5th panel: Unmasking 'mainstream' politics--Tues @ 15:30 with @franamery.bsky.social, @aurelmondon.bsky.social, @mikebankole.bsky.social and @selinsivis.bsky.social. Themes:

Just over a month until our webinar on collaborative, responsive #qualitative research: The Clip-Q approach. Join the nearly 300 people who've already booked! 🗓️6 March 10-11am Hear from @jhorwood.bsky.social Joanna Kesten, Ava Lorenc and Mairead Murphy #Quali bit.ly/428hKQn

Thrilled to see the impact of our research project! Exciting results and meaningful insights—more to come! 📢📊 #Research #Impact

🎶We have evaluated Dovetail Orchestra, a community music group for refugees in Bristol. ❓Did being involved in the orchestra improve mental health and wellbeing for the refugees involved? 👇Download our research summary to find out. bit.ly/3EgiUQ9

📢Publication Alert📢Excited to announce our new paper published in Migration Studies @OxfordJournal, co-authored with @h2020mirror team: @VerenaKBrandle @jamoeberl.bsky.social, H. Boomgaarden, S. Wyatt, K. Braun, I. Metwally. #openaccess #migration #aspirations academic.oup.com/migration/ar...

📢New Publication! Thrilled to witness the progress of our @h2020mirror project with colleagues in Birmingham & Vienna @jamoeberl.bsky.social Check out: Oscillating Between Hope and Despair: Understanding Migrants’ Reflections on Ambivalence in ‘Transit’

Can a community music group improve #MentalHealth for asylum seekers and refugees in #Bristol? Music has a remarkable power to uplift spirits and foster a sense of belonging. Excited to be part of this project! Project tinyurl.com/4cfdpc6h Dovetail Orchestra dovetailorchestra.org.uk

An interesting short-term Fellowship in Urban Studies at the University of Antwerp with facilities and expenses covered. Open to scholars of all levels: jobs.apeng.uantwerpen.be/psc/apeng/?c...

Just received my copy of the Integration of Refugees in the Education and Labour Markets, edited by Marta Pachocka, Karolina Sobczak-Szelc and Justyna Szalańska. Happy to see my contribution with a chapter on the gaps between the formulation and implementation of labour market integration policies

A very important piece of work on the UK Government's new plan to cut net migration

New paper with Abel Escribà Folch, studying the logic of autocrats' recruiting foreign legionnaires, out in Democratization. Legionnaire recruitment is associated with increased personalization and decreases the risk of coup attempts and mass protests. Available open access!

Unfortunately, securing a permanent position at a well-known university is not sufficient reason for Home Office to bring one's child to the UK... ‘Unthinkable cruelty’: Kenyan expert working at Bristol University denied visa for six-year-old daughter

Two weeks left to submit your proposal for the Migration Politics Residential Fellowship! If you have a great idea for a research paper, submit your proposal - and come spend a week with us in Amsterdam or Glasgow to turn that great idea into a great paper. migrationpolitics.org/call-for-pap...

Fresh off the press! Thrilled to see that this joint manuscript is finally out! Through an interdisciplinary lens, we have investigated the link between protracted displacement and housing systems in intermediary cities with a specific focus on the case of Syrians in Torbalı, Izmir, Türkiye.