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Queering Fears: Pro-LGBTI Refugee Cases (2016)
Book Chapter
(2016). Queering Fears: Pro-LGBTI Refugee Cases. In Consent and Control: Legal Perspectives on State Power (124 -151)

Over the last three decades, an increasing number of Anglophone courts have recognised asylum claims on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Such jurisprudence has been heralded for “progressing” LGBTI rights. Yet, the progressive pro... Read More about Queering Fears: Pro-LGBTI Refugee Cases.

The role of community leadership in disaster recovery projects: Tsunami lessons from Japan (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). The role of community leadership in disaster recovery projects: Tsunami lessons from Japan. International Journal of Project Management, 913-924. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2016.09.005

While project management has been effectively applied to many fields and sectors, disaster management has yet to see its full benefits. This inductive study generates insights about the nature and role of ‘active leadership’ (LaBrosse, 2007) in the c... Read More about The role of community leadership in disaster recovery projects: Tsunami lessons from Japan.

Women Resisting Terror: Imaginaries of Violence in Algeria (1966–2002) (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Women Resisting Terror: Imaginaries of Violence in Algeria (1966–2002). The Journal of North African Studies, 109-131. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2016.1229184

This article charts the roles and representations of Algerian Women as both agents and victims of violence in the War of Independence (1956–1962) and the Algerian Civil War of the 1990s in which the role of women emerged as a significant site of ideo... Read More about Women Resisting Terror: Imaginaries of Violence in Algeria (1966–2002).

Understanding the Persistence of Caste: A Commentary on Cotterill, Sidanius, Bhardwaj and Kumar (2014) (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Understanding the Persistence of Caste: A Commentary on Cotterill, Sidanius, Bhardwaj and Kumar (2014). Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 554-570. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v4i2.603

We contextualise Cotterill, Sidanius, Bhardwaj, and Kumar’s (2014) paper within a broader literature on caste and collective mobilisation. Cotterill and colleagues’ paper represents a fresh and timely attempt to make sense of the persistence of caste... Read More about Understanding the Persistence of Caste: A Commentary on Cotterill, Sidanius, Bhardwaj and Kumar (2014).

Peer pressure and family smoking habits influence smoking uptake in male adolescents attending public and private schools in Pakistan: multilevel modelling of survey data (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Peer pressure and family smoking habits influence smoking uptake in male adolescents attending public and private schools in Pakistan: multilevel modelling of survey data. Open Journal of Epidemiology, 167 - 172. https://doi.org/10.4236/ojepi.2016.63018

Introduction: Among young teens, about one in five smokes worldwide. Adolescents spend a considerable amount of their time in school, and the school environment is therefore important for child health practices and outcomes.

Objectives: We aimed... Read More about Peer pressure and family smoking habits influence smoking uptake in male adolescents attending public and private schools in Pakistan: multilevel modelling of survey data.

The Cultural Value of Older People’s Experiences of Theatre-making: A Review (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). The Cultural Value of Older People’s Experiences of Theatre-making: A Review. The Gerontologist, e1-e26. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnw093

Purpose of the Study:
Although a number of existing reviews document the health and social benefits of arts participation by older people, there are none which focus specifically on theater and drama. This article presents the findings of a study co... Read More about The Cultural Value of Older People’s Experiences of Theatre-making: A Review.

Age and Life Course Location as Interpretive Resources for Decisions Regarding Disclosure of HIV to Parents and Children: Findings from the HIV and Later Life Study (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Age and Life Course Location as Interpretive Resources for Decisions Regarding Disclosure of HIV to Parents and Children: Findings from the HIV and Later Life Study. Journal of Aging Studies, 81-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2016.06.001

Studies of disclosure among older people living with HIV (PLWH) are uninformed by critical social-gerontological approaches that can help us to appreciate how older PLWH see and treat age as relevant to disclosure of their HIV status. These approache... Read More about Age and Life Course Location as Interpretive Resources for Decisions Regarding Disclosure of HIV to Parents and Children: Findings from the HIV and Later Life Study.

Intergroup Relations in Latin America: Intergroup Contact, Common Ingroup Identity, and Activism among Indigenous Groups in Mexico and Chile (2016)
Journal Article
Cakal, H. (2016). Intergroup Relations in Latin America: Intergroup Contact, Common Ingroup Identity, and Activism among Indigenous Groups in Mexico and Chile. Journal of Social Issues, 355-375. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12170

In two correlational studies in Mexico (Study 1: N = 152, Mexican Indigenous people) and Chile (Study 2: N = 185, Chilean Indigenous people, Mapuche), we investigated how different dimensions of common ingroup identity (CII) and intergroup contact be... Read More about Intergroup Relations in Latin America: Intergroup Contact, Common Ingroup Identity, and Activism among Indigenous Groups in Mexico and Chile.

From privileged to thwarted stakeholders - Polish migrants' perceptions of the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 and the UK General Election in 2015 (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). From privileged to thwarted stakeholders - Polish migrants' perceptions of the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 and the UK General Election in 2015. Citizenship Studies, 899 - 913. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2016.1191430

Scotland in 2014 and 2015 provides an ideal context for examining EU citizenship political rights as established in the Maastricht Treaty of 1993 from the perspective of Polish migrants resident in Scotland. We argue that the contrast between Polish... Read More about From privileged to thwarted stakeholders - Polish migrants' perceptions of the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 and the UK General Election in 2015.

Evolving Bodies: Mapping (Trans)Gender Identities in Refugee Law (2016)
Book Chapter
(2016). Evolving Bodies: Mapping (Trans)Gender Identities in Refugee Law. In The Routledge Research Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities (221 - 228)

What is a (trans)gender identity? How do we measure gender identity related persecution? Does refugee law offer adequate protection to culturally diverse gender minorities? Constructions gender identity as a ‘particular social group’ in international... Read More about Evolving Bodies: Mapping (Trans)Gender Identities in Refugee Law.

'For some people it isn’t a choice, it’s just how it happens': accounts of ‘delayed’ motherhood among middle-class women in the UK (2016)
Journal Article
Budds, K., Locke, A., & Burr, V. (2016). 'For some people it isn’t a choice, it’s just how it happens': accounts of ‘delayed’ motherhood among middle-class women in the UK. Feminism and Psychology, 26(2), 170-187. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353516639615

Over the past few decades the number of women having their first babies over the age of 35 in the United Kingdom has increased. Women’s timing of motherhood is invariably bound up with a discourse of “choice”, and in this paper we consider the role c... Read More about 'For some people it isn’t a choice, it’s just how it happens': accounts of ‘delayed’ motherhood among middle-class women in the UK.

‘How do you Say “Stop that!” in Slovakian?’: A8 Immigra-tion and Scotland’s Race and Ethnic Diversity Narrative (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). ‘How do you Say “Stop that!” in Slovakian?’: A8 Immigra-tion and Scotland’s Race and Ethnic Diversity Narrative

‘How do you Say “Stop that!” in Slovakian’: A8 Immigra¬tion and Scotland’s Race and Ethnic Diversity Narrative. In 2004 8 Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries (Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Sloveni... Read More about ‘How do you Say “Stop that!” in Slovakian?’: A8 Immigra-tion and Scotland’s Race and Ethnic Diversity Narrative.