AHRC / CRONEM Conference 2009
Papers, Programme, Posters & Abstracts
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AUTHOR(S) | PAPER TITLE |
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 | |
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 |
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 | |
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 | |
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 |
Posters
AUTHOR(S) | POSTER TITLE |
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 |