Outputs (9)

“Are we criminals?” – everyday racialisation in temporary asylum accommodation (2023)
Journal Article
Guma, T., Blake, Y., Maclean, G., MacLeod, K., Makutsa, R., & Sharapov, K. (2024). “Are we criminals?” – everyday racialisation in temporary asylum accommodation. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 47(4), 742-762. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2023.22380

This paper critically examines the placement of people seeking asylum in temporary accommodation during the Covid-19 pandemic. It is based on a 14-month collaborative ethnography conducted between 2020 and 2022 with asylum seeking individuals in Glas... Read More about “Are we criminals?” – everyday racialisation in temporary asylum accommodation.

What ‘Work’ Does Precarity Do? Understanding the Stigmatisation and Commodification of Asylum Seekers in Temporary Housing (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maclean, G., Guma, T., Macleod, K., Sharapov, K., Blake, Y., & Makutsa, R. (2023, April). What ‘Work’ Does Precarity Do? Understanding the Stigmatisation and Commodification of Asylum Seekers in Temporary Housing. Paper presented at BSA Annual Confere

News coverage and public policy over the past 20 years portrays asylum seekers as a burden that must be shared across the country. Through policy choices over this time originating in the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, asylum accommodation operates... Read More about What ‘Work’ Does Precarity Do? Understanding the Stigmatisation and Commodification of Asylum Seekers in Temporary Housing.

Safe environment? Understanding the housing of asylum seekers and refugees during the Covid-19 outbreak (2022)
Report
Guma, T., Maclean, G., MacLeod, K., & Sharapov, K. (2022). Safe environment? Understanding the housing of asylum seekers and refugees during the Covid-19 outbreak. ESRC

This report presents the key findings of the research project: Investigating the use of temporary accommodation to house people seeking asylum during the Covid-19 outbreak. The project explored the impact of the Covid-19 outbreak on people seeking a... Read More about Safe environment? Understanding the housing of asylum seekers and refugees during the Covid-19 outbreak.

I Am Still Here (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
MacLeod, K., Guma, T., MacLean, G., & Sharapov, K. I Am Still Here. [Digital Video]. Exhibited at Glasgow Media Access Centre. 23 February 2022 - 23 February 2022. (Unpublished)

Premiere screening of "I Am Still Here" documentary film at Glasgow Media Access Centre as part of hybrid launch of project "Investigating the use of temporary accommodation to house asylum seekers and refugees during the Covid 19 outbreak." Napier... Read More about I Am Still Here.

‘Are we criminals?’ Encounters with accommodation providers and everyday housing experiences amongst asylum seekers living in Glasgow during the pandemic (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Guma, T., Blake, Y., Maclean, G., MacLeod, K., Sharapov, K., & Makutsa, R. (2021, December). ‘Are we criminals?’ Encounters with accommodation providers and everyday housing experiences amongst asylum seekers living in Glasgow during the pandemic. Pap

This paper addresses these gaps in our knowledge. It draws from TEMPACCO research project (https://tempacco.wordpress.com/), which is an ongoing 12-month digital collaborative ethnography carried out with asylum seekers living in Glasgow. The project... Read More about ‘Are we criminals?’ Encounters with accommodation providers and everyday housing experiences amongst asylum seekers living in Glasgow during the pandemic.

Safe environment? Investigating the use of temporary accommodation to house asylum seekers during the Covid-19 outbreak (2021)
Report
Guma, T., Maclean, G., Macleod, K., & Sharapov, K. (2021). Safe environment? Investigating the use of temporary accommodation to house asylum seekers during the Covid-19 outbreak. ESRC

This report presents interim findings of the research project: Investigating the use of temporary accommodation to house asylum seekers during the Covid-19 outbreak. The project explores the impact of the Covid-19 outbreak on asylum seekers living in... Read More about Safe environment? Investigating the use of temporary accommodation to house asylum seekers during the Covid-19 outbreak.

Understanding the housing of asylum seekers and refugees during the Covid-19 outbreak (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Guma, T., Sharapov, K., Blake, Y., Makutsa, R., Maclean, G., & Macleod, K. (2021, July). Understanding the housing of asylum seekers and refugees during the Covid-19 outbreak. Paper presented at Disrupting Theory, Unsettling Practice: Towards Transformati

Paper presented at Disrupting Theory, Unsettling Practice: Towards Transformative Forced Migration Scholarship and Policy, University of Ghana, 26-30 July 2021.

Safe environment? Understanding the housing of asylum seekers and refugees during the Covid-19 outbreak (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Guma, T., Maclean, G., Sharapov, K., & MacLeod, K. (2021, April). Safe environment? Understanding the housing of asylum seekers and refugees during the Covid-19 outbreak. Paper presented at BSA Annual Conference 2021: Remaking the Future, Online

Temporary asylum accommodation: Key policies and practices
Report
Guma, T., Maclean, G., Macleod, K., & Sharapov, K. (2021). Temporary asylum accommodation: Key policies and practices. ESRC

This review provides the policy context for the research project: Investigating the use of temporary accommodation to house asylum seekers and refugees during the Covid-19 outbreak. The project explores the impact of the Covid-19 outbreak on asylum s... Read More about Temporary asylum accommodation: Key policies and practices.