New open access book:
Hope and Asylum: Everyday Life, Precarity and Social Change (Routledge, May 2025) [open access]
- "This book applies perspectives of hope to understand the precariousness, suffering, and agency of people seeking asylum. With attention to the restrictions and austerity politics that have characterised public policy following the significant rise in asylum applications in 2015, it draws on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork in the Swedish asylum context, together with data collected in other European countries, to explore how the circumstances of those navigating asylum processes evolve and connect to their notions of hope and the future. Departing from the ambiguities and fragility surrounding hope in the asylum context, Hope and Asylum analyses people’s lived experiences and their navigation of uncertainty and precariousness during the migration process. While hope can provide individuals with support and empowerment, it can also cause pain and be exploited by authorities to control and disempower. The book argues that critically scrutinising current asylum regimes and exposing the enduring emotional and embodied scars they inflict through the bureaucratic violence of welfare states is essential for mobilising efforts toward social justice and human rights."
Journal articles:
"Article 8 ECHR and the ‘temporary turn’ in European asylum policies," Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, OnlineFirst, 13 May 2025 [open access]
"Constrained Localism in an Authoritarian Environment: Developments in Solidarity with Displaced Ukrainians in Hungary," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 13 May 2025 [open access]
"Europe and the recent influx of asylum seekers: the EU Member States capability to grant international protection," Genus: Journal of Population Sciences, 81:9 (May 2025) [open access]
"'Faithful Guardians of the National and State Border': Refugees, Land Reform, and Colonization in the Post-1918 Central European Borderlands," Nationalities Papers, FirstView, 13 May 2025 [open access]
"The food security of residents and refugees of Ukraine after the Russian invasion," Scientific Reports, 15:16238 (May 2025) [open access]
- Focuses on Switzerland,
"Support for refugees declines when helpers have unequal positions and abilities to help," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 12 May 2025 [open access]
"Unequally welcome: Austrians’ differing attitudes towards Arab/Afghan and Ukrainian refugees - The impact of human values and perceived threat," Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, vol. 50, no. 1 (Dec. 2025) [open access]
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