BA (Beloit), MA (UCLA), PhD (UCLA)
Office: 3G7, 12 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1UQ, UK
Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8215
Email: Jon.Fox@bristol.ac.uk
Jon Fox's research focuses on two domains: ethnicity and nationalism, and international migration. Both interests share an affinity for the different ways in which ethnicity and nationhood are constituted and reproduced through the routine practices of everyday life.
Jon is working on two new projects. First, he is examining the ethnicisation and racialisation of migration to the UK from eastern Europe. Despite the nominal ‘whiteness’ of these cohorts of migrants, Jon is interested in the ways in which the economic and social inequalities engendered through migration can lead to the racialisation of difference. Jon’s second project is focussed on a comparison of citizenship education classes in the UK, US and Spain. These classes, Jon argues, are one of the few interfaces for states to articulate and deliver their conception of nationality to would-be citizens. Jon and his colleagues are currently putting together a bid to examine their topic in both comparative historical and ethnographic perspective.
Jon has a number of recent publications. His 2008 'Everyday nationhood' article, co-authored with Cynthia Miller-Idriss (Ethnicities) is published together with a critical reply from Anthony Smith. Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town, co-authored with Rogers Brubaker, Margit Feischmidt, and Liana Grancea (Princeton University Press), came out in 2006 to strong reviews. Shortly thereafter Jon’s article in Nations and Nationalism, ‘From national inclusion to economic exclusion: ethnic Hungarian labour migration to Hungary’ (29:3, 2007) won the best article award from the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism. More recently, ‘Defining nations in Europe and Asia: a comparative analysis of ethnic migration policy’, co-authored with John Skrentny, Stephanie Chan, and Denis Kim, appeared in International Migration Review (41:4, 2007).
Ethnicity and Racism; Nations and Nationalism; International Migration