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Malik AJANI, Aga Khan University, London , UK

Exploring identity in the British education landscape: a glimpse into the aspirations and participation of Muslims within the field of British education

Sarah AMADOR, Paris Descartes University, France

Social and spatial resources in temporary migration

Leticia ANDERSON, University of Sydney, Australia
Australian anti-terrorism legislation: implications for Australian community relations

Eleni ANDREOULI, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Citizenship and identity: an exploration of the British naturalisation context

Floya ANTHIAS, Roehampton University, UK

Rethinking transnational identities: diversity, social cohesion and intersectionality 

Leila ARROUM, University of Bochum, Germany

Linguistic fluency and educational opportunities of children with a migration background in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany

Nazreen BACCHUS, The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA

(Re)designing ethnicity: Indian diasporic women negotiating identity through South Asian fashion

John BAILY, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Film making as research: scenes of Afghan music. London, Kabul, Hamburg, Dublin

Janet BAUER, Trinity College, USA

“This is America”: negotiating race and cultural identity in the Muslim diaspora

Alicja BOBEK, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Polish migrants in Ireland: community formation and internal divisions
Martina BOESE, University of Melbourne, Australia
Visible migrants and refugees in non-metropolitan sites: the promises and challenges of economically driven ‘managed movements’

Anne BOSTANCI, University of Surrey, UK

Reconceptualising integration – the conceptual utility of “cultural hybridity”

Marjo BUITELAAR, University of Groningen,

The Netherlands

Creating a religious self through dialogues. Life story telling by Dutch women of Moroccan descent

Bridget BYRNE, University of Manchester, UK

British citizenship - a local welcome?

Connie CARØE CHRISTIANSEN, Roskilde University, Denmark

Islamic fashion, media debates and styles of interaction

Rionach CASEY and John FLINT, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Community, difference and identity: the case of the Irish in Sheffield

Charlotte CHADDERTON, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Citizenship education in the UK: an increasingly dangerous space for minority ethnic young people

Maria CHISARI, University of Technology, Australia

Australian values, immigration and identities - integrating or belonging?

Radu CINPOES, Kingston University, UK
Labour migration and civic and political values: a study of Romanian migrants in the United Kingdom

Georgina COLLINS, Warwick University, UK

Translating hybrid identities: the cultural and linguistic layering of Francophone Senegalese women’s literature

Gorkem DAGDELEN and Ilhan Zeynep KARAKILIC, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

Economic (ir)rationality and immigrant investment patterns: Turks in New York

Janine DAHINDEN, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland

Cities, ethnicity and the organization of difference: a social network perspective on the symbolic and social boundary work of the inhabitants of a small Swiss city

Ondrej DANIEL, Multicultural Centre Prague, Czech Republic
Manifestations of the ethnic in urban second generation subcultures in Vienna

Ann DAVID, CRONEM, Roehampton University, UK

Boundaries of the body: faith, identity and embodied ritual practice in diasporic Hindu communities in Britain

Christine DIFATO, University of Exeter, UK
The Turkish minority in Germany: the relationship between politics and education in the integration of parallel communities
John Eade, CRONEM, Roehampton University, UK

Should I stay or should I go? Polish transnational migration and the limitations of the rational actor model

John EADE, CRONEM, Roehampton University, UK

Writing the British Asian City or who represents whom? British Bangladeshis, secular multiculturalism and religious purification in the global city

Rachel FENSHAM, University of Surrey, UK

Chandrabhanu and the multicultural masquerade

Kathleen FINCHAM, University of Sussex, UK
Shifting identities in the Palestinian diaspora: the case of South Lebanon
Michal GARAPICH, CRONEM, Roehampton University, UK

'Kombinacje', the crisis and the post-socialist strategies of urban survival - Polish migrants in London

David GARBIN, CRONEM, Roehampton University, UK

Identities and diasporic religion across the Black Atlantic:  Congolese in London and Atlanta  

David GARBIN, Gareth MILLINGTON, Aurélien MOKOKO GAMBIOT,  Roehampton University, UK
Multiculturalism and (counter)narratives of space and resistance in a Parisian banlieue: La Courneuve and beyond

Breda GRAY, University of Limerick, Ireland

Local and global logics of diaspora engagement in the Republic of Ireland

Suzanne GUÈVREMONT, Leiden University, Netherlands

Integration measures in the family reunification and long term residents European Union directives

Sarah HACKETT, University of Sunderland, UK

On the buses: acceptance, ambition & assimilation. The employment history of Newcastle-upon-Tyne's Muslim immigrants, 1960s-1990s

Demetris HADJIGEORGIOU, City University, UK

Language schools, social networks and the preservation of Greek-Cypriotness in North London

Ferhana HASHEM, University of Kent, UK

Whose language is it anyway? English language and access: the case of Bangladeshis in London

Anika HAVERIG, University of Kent, UK

Managing the “enemy within”: British and German policy responses to second generation Muslims in the last decade

Joanna HERBERT, Queen Mary University of London, UK

The British Ugandan Asian diaspora: multiple belongings

Faiza HIRJI, Carleton University, Canada

The next generation: diaspora, youth and identity construction

Laura HIRVI, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

The Sikh temple: negotiating identity in a diasporic context

Arpad HORNYAK, Univerity of Pecs, Hungary

Migrations of Hungarians in Yugoslavia in the interwar period

Monica IBANEZ-ANGULO, Universidad de Burgos, Spain

Strategies of representation among Bulgarian transnational migrants living in Spain

Ibanga IKPE, University of Botswana, Botswana

Who is an African? Issues in the construction of African identities

Signe Kjær JØRGENSEN, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Symbolised Muslim identity - stuck by 12 caricatures and how to go beyond

Lina KASSEM, Qatar University, Qatar
Identity construction as a state tool: a case study of Druze identity construction in the Middle East

Gavin KENDALL, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Simmel and the problem of cosmopolitanism: social identity theory, style and sociation

Gregory KENT, Roehampton University, UK

The Bosnian diaspora in the UK: Individual contributions to peacebuilding and postwar reconstruction

Russell KING, Anastasia CHRISTOU and Janine GIVATI-TEERLING, University of Sussex, UK

Idyllic times and spaces: memories of childhood visits to the parental homeland by second-generation Greeks and Cypriots

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Nauja KLEIST, Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark

Follow the container: negotiating belonging and loyalties through transnational philanthropy

Nonna KUSHNIROVICH, Ruppin Academic Center, Israel

Immigrants’ integration: do ethnic niches matter?

Ming-yan LAI, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Identity  politics and migrant domestics in Hong Kong

Maggi LEUNG, University of Hong Kong, China

Power of borders and spatiality of transnationalism: a study of Chinese-operated tourism businesses in Europe

Claudia LIEBELT, Keele University, UK

Religious engagement, pilgrimage and spiritual trajectories in the Filipino diaspora:

notes from research in the ‘Holy Land’

Gloria MACRI, Dublin City University, Ireland
"Who do they think they are?" - Online narratives among Romanian minority in Ireland
Laura MADOKORO, University of British Columbia, Canada
Diaspora within the city: Chinese communities in Vancouver
Diana MADROANE, University of the West, Romania
A change in the perception of borders and identity: EU membership and Romania’s western border with Hungary

Nicola MAGNUSSON, University of Stockholm, Sweden

Conceptions of the "status", identification and positioning processes amongst refugees

Kesi MAHENDRAN, Open University, UK

Using the concept of a ‘migration-mobility continuum’ to understand integration and identity in Sweden and Scotland

Churnjeet MAHN, University of Surrey, UK

‘Impossible desires’: queer South Asian lives on film

Shiera MALIK, DePaul University, USA

Identity and discourse: ingredients for a minority problematic

José MAPRIL, CRIA, Center for Anthropological Studies, Portugal
Chawtpohtee in Lisbon: food and place making in a transnational context

Clare MAR-MOLINERO, Dick VIGERS, Darren PAFFEY, Vanessa MAR-MOLINERO, University of Southampton, UK

Challenges for official language policies:  linguistic patterns of recent temporary, circular and transnational migration

Eleni MARIOU, Higher School of Pedagogical and Technological Education (ASPETE), Greece
The contextual nature of ethnic, cultural and linguistic identity development in the host country

Tuomas MARTIKAINEN, Abo Akademi University, Finland

Religion, migration and neoliberalism

Glenn MARTINEZ, University of Texas Al Paso, USA
Narrative sociolinguistic identities in the Borderlands: the case Latina/o dual-role medical interpreters in south Texas

April MASTEN, State University of New York Stony Brook, USA

Challenge dancing and American identity
Natalia MAURITZ, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Russia

Carnival as a means of integrating immigrants in Germany

Stephen MCKINNEY, University of Glasgow, UK

Diaspora, poverty and education

Sean MCLOUGHLIN and John ZAVOS, University of Leeds, UK

Writing religion in the British-Asian diaspora

Maria MENDES, Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal

Immigrants from Eastern Europe in the Lisbon metropolitan area: relationships and cultural practices in a migratory context

Heather MERRILL, Dickinson College, Carlisle USA, and Donald CARTER, Hamilton College, Carlisle, USA

Beyond race: the politics of social distinctions in Italy

Lucy MICHAEL, University of Hull, UK

A proposal for the conceptual redefinition of post-migrant generations

Vesna MILANOVIC, University of Surrey, UK
Re-embodying the alienation of exile
Oksana MORGUNOVA, University of Glasgow, UK

“Europeans Live in Europe”: European identity in migrants’ discourse

Laura MOROSANU and Jon FOX , University of Bristol, UK

Roma asylum seekers and the problem of controlling ethnic immigration

Nicola MONTAGNA and Panos HATZIPROKOPIOU , Middlesex University, UK

Chinatowns contested: comparing London and Milan

Benjamin MOUNTFORD, Exeter College, University of Oxford and Keir REEVES, Monash University, Australia

Down at street level: Chinese landscapes from colonial Australia
Nora MURPHY, Independent Researcher, USA
Irish conquest of American Indian tribes in the American midwest
Savita NAIR, Furman University, USA
Mumbai to Nairobi, Porbandar to Kampala: delocalizing "home" for Indian East Africans

Henri NICKELS, London Metropolitan University, UK

Suspect communities and the enemy within – press representations of the Irish and Muslim communities in Britain, 1974 – 2007

Heike NIEDRIG, University of Hamburg, Germany
Educational careers and identity construction of young African transmigrants in Germany

Ajailiu NIUMAI, University of Hyderabad, India

Philanthropy and Indian diaspora in the 21st century

Catarina NYBERG, Stockholm University, Sweden

Transcending social categories: Ugandan Asian diaspora in Sweden
Rosa ORLANDO, University of Bath, UK
A new challenge for the Italian education policy:the integration of the second generation of migrant students
Raksha PANDE, Newcastle University, UK
Arranged marriage and British Asians
Regine PAUL, University of Bath, UK

The vision of control: mechanisms and paradoxes of Italian labour migration policy

Gail PHILLIPS, Murdoch University, Australia

The journalism of difference in Australia’s television news and current affairs programs

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Anjali PRABHU, Wellesley College, USA
Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi, Edouard Glissant: a formative discourse of encounter
Marika  PREZIUSO, Birbeck, University of London, UK
Mapping the lived through the imagined Caribbean: textualities of space in the romances by Caribbean women writers from the diaspora

Richard RACE, Roehampton University, UK

The politics of integration, multicultural and citizenship education policy

Viola Donata RAUCH, Center for Metropolitan Studies Berlin, Germany
Whatever happened to the city?: on the urban dimension of second generation theory

Elatiana RAZAFIMANDIMBIMANANA, Queen Mary, University of London

Trajectories and strategies: multilingual migrant children tell us their stories

Ben ROGALY, University of Sussex and Becky TAYLOR, University of London, UK

‘Indigenous’ transnationalism: class, ‘race’ and place in provincial England

Patricia ROMAN-VELAZQUEZ, City University, UK

The making of Latin London

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Amy ROWE, University of Cambridge, UK
Reworking nation & diaspora on the pages of a Maronite Catholic Church anniversary publication

Santi ROZARIO and Geoffrey SAMUEL, Cardiff University, UK

Secularism or Islamic Modernism? Young Bangladeshis in the UK and in Bangladesh

Louise RYAN, L. BANFI and E. KOFMAN, Middlesex University, UK Young, Muslim and British

Rosemary SALES, Alessio D’ANGELO, Xia LIN, Middlesex University, UK

London's Chinatown: integration, identity and diaspora

Victoria SAMS, Dickinson College, USA

Foreign and domestic: staging migrant family lives

Maria SCHILLER, University of Vienna, Austria
Post-multiculturalist experiments: the impact of diversity politics on migrant women self-organisations in Amsterdam
Lynn SCHLER, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Nigerian seamen in the shift from cosmopolitanism to nationalism
Marc SCULLY, Open University, UK
Discourses of 'authenticity' among the Irish diaspora in England
Lubna SELAIBEEKH, University of Surrey, UK
Diversity in Bahrain and its implications on citizenship education policy and practice

Bindi SHAH, CRONEM,Roehampton University, UK

Spirituality, moral codes and dietary rules: ways of being and belonging for second-generation Jains in USA

Shailja SHARMA, DePaul University, USA

The backlash against multiculturalism in Britain and France

Sami SIDDIQ, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
The (not so) safe haven of ‘Talibanistan’: ethnoreligious identity politics in a transborder zone of terrorist refuge and noncombatant displacement
Indira SINHA, Magadh University, India
Ethnic identity, acculturation and conflict
Michael SKEY, University of Leicester, UK

‘A sense of where you belong in the world’: exploring the links between national belonging and ontological security in an era of mass mobility

Yasemin SOYTEMEL, University of Konstanz, Germany The sacralization of family by Turkish-German teenagers in Berlin

Vera SKVIRSKAYA, Cambridge University, UK

Dilemmas of the national language in a cosmopolitan locale: the case of post-Soviet Odessa, Ukraine

Eva SOLLGRUBER, University of Technology, Austria

Moving bodies. geography and mobility – migration in and from Africa

Georgia SPILIOPOLOUS and Sondra CUBAN, Lancaster University, UK
Immigrant care networks in rural England
Alex STEPICK, Florida International University, USA
Critiquing segmented assimilation
Femke STOCK, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Feels like home: narratives of belonging by descendants of Turkish and Moroccan migrants

Bogusia TEMPLE, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Close encounters: findings from research on language, integration and values

Kevin THOMAS, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Generational status and English language proficiency among the children of African immigrants in the US

Alan THOMPSON, Institute of Education, UK

Made in man’s image: the construction of the Black person in British media text and the ideological implications

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Dimeji TOGUNDE, Albion College, USA

Icons of progress: returnees’ effects on decisions by Nigerians to migrate to the United States

Ruxandra TRANDAFOIU, Edge Hill University, UK

Languishing in purgatory: narratives of belonging and citizenship among the online Romanian diaspora

Katharine TYLER, University of Surrey, UK

New ethnicities and old classities: respectability and diaspora

Dusan UGRINA, Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies, Switzerland
Negotiating identity in a differentiated world

Hans VAN AMERSFOORT and Eugenia BOUTYLKOVA, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Disapora politics in the age of globalisation: the case of Kurds in Europe

Wendy VAN RIJSWIJK, Nicholas HOPKINS and Stephen REICHER, University of St Andrews and University of Dundee, UK
The role of commitment in perceptions of national belonging

Linta VARGHESE, Vassar College, USA

States of diaspora: neoliberal India and narratives of belonging

Selvaraj VELAYUTHAM, Macquarie University, Australia

Migration, work and co-ethnic exploitation

Louise WAITE, University of Leeds, UK

Settlement, belonging and place: intergenerationality amongst African migrants in the UK

Cangbai WANG, University of Westminster, UK

Transformed border, repositioned place and contested identity: mainlander professionals in Hong Kong

Morton WEINFELD, McGill University, Canada and Evelyne MASSA, University of Oxford, UK
“We Needed to Prove we were Good Canadians" : a reconsideration of the response of  Italians and German Canadians to their wartime internment
Georgie WEMYSS, Goldsmiths, University of London

Exposing the Invisible Empire: towards commonality and metropolitan belonging

Suzanne WESSENDORF, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, UK

Researching super-diversity in London: the (ir)relevance of social categories

Anne WHITE, University of Bath,  UK
Polish migrant identities: the case of families
Amanda WISE, Macquarie University, Australia

On Muslim non-Muslim relations and everyday multiculturalism

Katie WRIGHT, University of Bath, UK

Constructing migrant wellbeing: an exploration of life satisfaction amongst Peruvian migrants in London

Handel Kashope WRIGHT, University of British Columbia, Canada

Multiculturalism, education and the Muslim/Canadian: addressing the slash between liquid community and the Umma diaspora

Karl-Heinz WUESTNER, Kultur und Foerderverein Roeβler-Museum Untermuenkheim, Germany

New light on the German pork butchers in Britain (1850-1950)

Maria XENITIDOU, University of Surrey, UK

The way in which indigenous people use psychological theories when they talk about immigration

Chryssanthi ZACHOU, American College of Greece, Greece
Communal anabaptism of Greeks in diaspora transcending ethnic identity through transnationalism

Benjamin ZEITLYN, University of Sussex, UK

Evaluating generations in a transnational social field

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Satik ANDRIASSIAN, University of California, Los Angeles and John M. KENNEDY, California State University , USA
Armenian youth: silent voices of today or shaping forces for tomorrow. Culture, tradition and ethnic identity through music education in schools

Richard ANTONY, University of Surrey, UK

Tamil (Sri Lankan) diaspora: negotiating Tamil identities of British-born Tamils
Ibrahima Amadou DIA, University of Geneva, Switzerland

International highly skilled migration, scientific diasporas networks, the development of homelands and knowledge transfer
Janine GIVATI-TEERLING, University of Sussex, UK
The return of British-born Cypriots to Cyprus: narrations of "return", "home" and "belonging"
Zubeyit GUN, L'Université René Descartes-Paris V, France Rebuilding of identity in the migratory context: from a psychological point of view
Henriett HORVATH, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary
"Imaginary gypsies and non-gypsies": identity practices and cultural representations in Hungary
Hsin-Hui HSU, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Consuming "Chinatown": identity and practice among Taiwanese students in London

Jamil IQBAL, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

Re-thinking religious boundaries: translocal Islamic movements and the Bangladeshi Muslims in London

Rusi JASPAL, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Language and identity among second generation British South Asians: a qualitative approach

Evgenia KATARTZI, Edinburgh University, UK

Traditional nationalism and the struggle of becoming: the case of migrant youths in Greece
Radka KLVANOVA, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Negotiating belongings in transnational social fields: migrants from former Soviet Union in the Czech Republic
Malgorzata KULAKOWSKA, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Community cohesion strategy as implemented in Coventry
Claudia LIEBELT, Keele University, UK
The "Footsteps" camera project
Moddy MAUNDU, University of Surrey, UK
The effect of political ethnic identity on human and social capital development among different ethnic groups: a case of South Africa
Tony MURRAY, London Metropolitan University, UK
Narrative negotiations of identity in second generation London Irish memoirs
Lucia ORELLANA-DAMACELA, Independent researcher
What do you see when you see me? What Ecuadorians express through online pictures
Julia PEARCE, London Metropolitan University, UK
Representations of asylum seekers in the UK: the impact of an imposed identity on a stigmatised group
Teresa PIACENTINI, University of Glasgow, UK
Identity re-making in exile: an exploration through the lens of refugee community organisations in Glasgow
Katherine ROBINSON, SOAS, UK
"They talk about multicultural, but in reality in the UK, people are not multicultural. They are really everybody to himself". Dialogues about identity.
Patricia RUIZ-NAVARRO, The Graduate Center at CUNY, USA
Mother's human capital, children's education and permanent settlement decisions of Mexican migrant mothers
Justyna SAMOLYK, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Polish migratory networks and settlement in Northern Ireland
Lyubov SARTAKOVA, Ministry of Culture and Information, Kazakhstan
External illegal labour migration in the Republic of Kazakhstan
Mieke SCHROOTEN, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Identity politics in a Brazilian border city
Nina SENDECKA and Pietro Castelli GATTINARA , Utrecht University, The Netherlands
United in diversity?: a social psychological perspective on the superordinate European identity of immigrant minorities
Valentina SHATALINA, Russian State University, Russia

Children’s morality in the Russian diaspora in the UK

Mary STEVENS, University College London, UK
Community archives and identities: documenting and sustaining diasporic identities
Marie STORME, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Spatial forms of Kosovar settlements in Geneva
Linda SZABÓ, Central European University, Hungary
Can Chinese migrants' transnational identity hinder developing a Chinatown? One of the possible reasons of the lack of a Chinatown in Budapest"
Kelly THOMPSON, Trinity College, Ireland
Crumbling facades: Irish America, 1921-23
Klara UHLIROVA, University of Bologna, Italy Rediscovering home
Yvette TWUMASI-ANKRAH, City University, UK
To stay or go - return migration of second generation Ghanaians
Valér VERES, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj, Romania
The ethnonational identity and subjective national identification issues of Hungarian minorities from Romania, Slovakia, Serbia and Ukraine
Kinga WILLIAMS, MENSANA Intercultural Psychological Consultancy, UK
Migration and mortality
   
       

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