Members’ News

Recent publications

Bolognani Marta , Mellor, Jody. 2012 ‘British Pakistani women’s use of the “Religion vs. Culture” contrast:  A critical analysis.’ Culture and Religion.  Vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 211-26.

Charsley, Katharine (ed). 2012. Transnational Marriage: New perspectives from Europe and beyond. London:  Routledge.

Charsley, Katharine and Benson, Michaela. 2012. ‘Marriages of convenience and inconvenient marriages:  Regulating spousal migration to Britain.’ Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law.  Vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 10-26.

Fox, Jon.  2012.  ‘Of colours and scales’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 35, no. 7, pp. 1151-56 [critical reply to Michael Banton’s ‘The colour line and the colour scale in the twentieth century’, same issue].

Fox, Jon, Moroşanu, Laura, and Szilassy, Eszter.  2012.  ‘The racialization of the new European migration to the UK’.  Sociology, vol. 46, no. 5, pp. 680-95

Talks and conference presentations

Aiden, Hardeep, July 2012, ‘Global multiculturalism in local contexts: managing ethnocultural diversity in Japan and Singapore’, presented at the Asian Studies Association of Australia, 19th Biennial Conference, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Aiden, Hardeep and Komine, Ayako, May 2012, ‘Highly skilled migrants and Japan’s new immigration regime’, presented at ‘Highly Skilled Migration in the 21st Century’, Middlesex University.

Aiden, Hardeep and Teo, Terri-Anne, June 2012, ‘Post-immigration integration in Japan and Singapore: Lessons for transatlantic scholarship’, presented at ‘The Future of Multiculturalism: Structures, Integration Policies and Practices’, CRONEM, University of Surrey.

Bolognani, Marta, April 2012, ‘Relations between foreign states and their subjects in Western Europe’, invited presentation at ‘Trends in the Muslim World:  Perspectives from Research & Policy’, The Hague, The Netherlands.

Bolognani, Marta, May 2012, ‘Representing Pakistan’, invited talk at the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford.

Charsley, Katharine, August 2012, 'Marriage migration and integration', Roundtable on Integration, Department for Communities and Local Government, London.

Charsley, Katharine, September 2012, ‘British Pakistanis, marriage migration and diversification', invited presentation at the ‘Workshop on transnational families’, Institute for Social Research, University of Oslo.

Charsley, Katharine, September 2012, ‘British Pakistanis negotiating dual marital aspirations and transnataional spaces’, presented at the European Society on Family Relations Conference, Lillehammer, Norway.

Charsley, Katharine and Liversage, Anika, September 2012, ‘Silenced husbands: Muslim marriage migration and masculinity’ presented at the European Society on Family Relations Conference, Lillehammer, Norway.

Jones, Demelza, May 2012, ‘Cosmopolitans and cliques: Ethnic and counter-ethnic identifications amongst Tamil student and young professional migrants to the UK’, presented at 'Highly Skilled Migration in the 21st Century', University of Middlesex.

Jones, Demelza, July 2012, 'Diversity and trans-state ethnic identification among Tamils in the UK', presented at the Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographic Society, University of Edinburgh.

Jones, Demelza, September 2012, ‘“The Gods are here with us”: Reproduction and transformation in Saivite Hindu worship amongst Tamil migrants in the UK', presented at the Bi-Annual conference of the European Sociological Association's Sociology of Religion Research Network - 'Transformations of the Sacred in Europe and Beyond', University of Postdam.

Lee, Min Young, June 2012, ‘Challenges in “Intercultural Dialogue” among NGOs for integrating North Korean migrants in South Korean society’, presented at ‘The Future of Multiculturalism: Structures, Integration Policies and Practices’, CRONEM, University of Surrey.

Other news

Demelza Jones has recently set up (September 2012) the Tamils in Europe Research Network (http://tamilresearchnetworkeurope.wordpress.com/) as a platform for dialogue and collaboration between researchers working on aspects of Tamil migration to Europe.