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Dr Taulant Guma's Outputs (38)

EU Migrants in Wales: Still Welcome? (2024)
Book Chapter
Drinkwater, S., Guma, T., Goodwin-Hawkins, B., & Dafydd Jones, R. (in press). EU Migrants in Wales: Still Welcome?. In C. Wyn Edwards, R. Dafydd Jones, & L. Shobiye (Eds.), A welcoming nation? Intersectional approaches to migration and diversity in Wales. University of Wales Press

"I Am Still Here" – Participatory Production during the Pandemic (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Guma, T. (2024, September). "I Am Still Here" – Participatory Production during the Pandemic. Presented at MECCSA (Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association) 2024, Manchester, UK

During the covid pandemic colleagues from Sociology and Screen and Performance at Edinburgh Napier University collaborated with activist and community researchers to work with asylum seeking people in Glasgow to better understand and document their e... Read More about "I Am Still Here" – Participatory Production during the Pandemic.

“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/10.1080/01419870.2023.2238052

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.

‘They were chasing me down the streets’: Austerity, resourcefulness, and the tenacity of migrant women’s care-full labour (2023)
Journal Article
Guma, T., Drinkwater, S., & Jones, R. D. (2023). ‘They were chasing me down the streets’: Austerity, resourcefulness, and the tenacity of migrant women’s care-full labour. Geoforum, 144, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103822

In this paper, we examine the role of migrant women in civil society in Wales in a triply-hostile environment created by UK government policy since 2010. Drawing on interviews carried out with EU migrants between 2016 and 2017, we outline the active... Read More about ‘They were chasing me down the streets’: Austerity, resourcefulness, and the tenacity of migrant women’s care-full labour.

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 Conference 2023: Sociological Voices in Public Discourse, Manchester

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.

Methodological nationalism and ethnic lens in CEE migration research: A critical reflection (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Guma, T. (2022, November). Methodological nationalism and ethnic lens in CEE migration research: A critical reflection. Paper presented at Migration to/from/within Central and Eastern Europe: Decolonial perspectives on race, gender, sexuality and class, Online

This paper offers a critical reflection on methodological approaches within the field of CEE migration. Drawing on ideas from critical migration studies, I discuss the ways in which the predominance of methodological nationalism and the fallacy of et... Read More about Methodological nationalism and ethnic lens in CEE migration research: A critical reflection.

Online screening of 'I'm Still Here' (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macleod, K., & Guma, T. (2022, September). Online screening of 'I'm Still Here'. Presented at Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference 2022, Online

Communities of/for interest: Revisiting the role of migrants’ online groups (2022)
Journal Article
Guma, T., Drinkwater, S., & Daffyd Jones, R. (2023). Communities of/for interest: Revisiting the role of migrants’ online groups. Sociology, 57(3), 516-532. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385221104008

This article offers a critical examination of the role played by migrants’ online communities. With much of scholarly analysis focusing on the new ways in which online groups enable migrants to connect, interact or socialise together in digital space... Read More about Communities of/for interest: Revisiting the role of migrants’ online groups.

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.