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Productive Ignorance: Assessing Public Understanding of Human Trafficking in Ukraine, Hungary and Great Britain (2016)
Book Chapter
Sharapov, K. (2016). Productive Ignorance: Assessing Public Understanding of Human Trafficking in Ukraine, Hungary and Great Britain. In M. Malloch, & P. Rigby (Eds.), Human Trafficking: The Complexities of Exploitation (17-40). Edinburgh University Press

Focusing on three national case studies this chapter explores the comparative empirical data on public knowledge and understanding of human trafficking, examining the link between public knowledge and public policies. It highlights how public underst... Read More about Productive Ignorance: Assessing Public Understanding of Human Trafficking in Ukraine, Hungary and Great Britain.

Human Trafficking and Online Networks: Policy, Analysis, and Ignorance (2016)
Journal Article
Mendel, J., & Sharapov, K. (2016). Human Trafficking and Online Networks: Policy, Analysis, and Ignorance. Antipode, 48(3), 665-684. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12213

Dominant anti-trafficking policy discourses represent trafficking as an issue of crime, “illegal” migration, victimhood and humanitarianism. Such a narrow focus is not an adequate response to the interplay between technology, trafficking and anti-tra... Read More about Human Trafficking and Online Networks: Policy, Analysis, and Ignorance.

‘Traffickers and Their Victims’: Anti-Trafficking Policy in the United Kingdom (2015)
Journal Article
Sharapov, K. (2017). ‘Traffickers and Their Victims’: Anti-Trafficking Policy in the United Kingdom. Critical Sociology, 43(1), 91-111. https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920515598562

This paper relies upon the ‘what’s the problem represented to be?’ approach to policy analysis to interrogate key representations of human trafficking implicit in the UK government’s anti-trafficking policy. It identifies six policy vectors, or repre... Read More about ‘Traffickers and Their Victims’: Anti-Trafficking Policy in the United Kingdom.

Trafficking in Human Beings and the Informal Economy (2018)
Book Chapter
Sharapov, K. (2018). Trafficking in Human Beings and the Informal Economy. In R. Piotrowicz, C. Rijken, & B. Heide Uhl (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Human Trafficking. London, UK: Routledge

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One world is not enough: the structured phenomenology of lifestyle migrants in East Asia: One world is not enough (2018)
Journal Article
Stones, R., Lee, M., O'Reilly, K., & Botterill, K. (2018). One world is not enough: the structured phenomenology of lifestyle migrants in East Asia: One world is not enough. British Journal of Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12357

The paper is based on original empirical research into the lifestyle migration of European migrants, primarily British, to Thailand and Malaysia, and of Hong Kong Chinese migrants to Mainland China. We combine strong structuration theory (SST) with H... Read More about One world is not enough: the structured phenomenology of lifestyle migrants in East Asia: One world is not enough.

Rethinking “community” relationally: Polish communities in Scotland before and after Brexit (2018)
Journal Article
Botterill, K. (2018). Rethinking “community” relationally: Polish communities in Scotland before and after Brexit. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12249

Community is a nebulous, contested concept in geography spanning research on social networks, encounters, mobilities, citizenship and belonging. However, its use as a discursive trope in public, policy and academic work points to continued relevance... Read More about Rethinking “community” relationally: Polish communities in Scotland before and after Brexit.

Trafficking in Human Beings: Made and Cut to Measure? Anti-trafficking Docufictions and the Production of Anti-trafficking Truths (2018)
Journal Article
Sharapov, K., & Mendel, J. (2018). Trafficking in Human Beings: Made and Cut to Measure? Anti-trafficking Docufictions and the Production of Anti-trafficking Truths. Cultural Sociology, 12(4), 540-560. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975518788657

This paper responds to Gozdziak's (2015: 30) call to explore how the knowledge that informs public debates about human trafficking is generated. Media imagery and narratives play a significant role in constructing both knowledge and ignorance. This p... Read More about Trafficking in Human Beings: Made and Cut to Measure? Anti-trafficking Docufictions and the Production of Anti-trafficking Truths.

The making of a ‘risk population’: categorisations of Roma and ethnic boundary-making among Czech- and Slovak-speaking migrants in Glasgow (2018)
Journal Article
Guma, T. (2018). The making of a ‘risk population’: categorisations of Roma and ethnic boundary-making among Czech- and Slovak-speaking migrants in Glasgow. Identities, 26(6), 668-687. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289x.2018.1441690

This paper critically examines the processes of categorisation of Roma migrants in Glasgow, contributing to debates on the (unsuccessful) attempts of the EU and individual European states to tackle the social exclusion of various Roma populations liv... Read More about The making of a ‘risk population’: categorisations of Roma and ethnic boundary-making among Czech- and Slovak-speaking migrants in Glasgow.

Turning citizens into immigrants: state practices of welfare ‘cancellations’ and document retention among EU nationals living in Glasgow (2018)
Journal Article
Guma, T. (2018). Turning citizens into immigrants: state practices of welfare ‘cancellations’ and document retention among EU nationals living in Glasgow. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46(13), 2647-2663. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.201

This article examines the everyday experiences of welfare provision among EU migrants living in Glasgow, demonstrating how the process of restricting the rights of EU citizens has occurred well before Brexit. It is based on 12 months of ethnographic... Read More about Turning citizens into immigrants: state practices of welfare ‘cancellations’ and document retention among EU nationals living in Glasgow.

Everyday negotiations of in/securities and risks: an ethnographic study amongst Czech- and Slovak-speaking migrants in Glasgow (2015)
Thesis
Guma, T. Everyday negotiations of in/securities and risks: an ethnographic study amongst Czech- and Slovak-speaking migrants in Glasgow. (Thesis). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1608529

The post-accession migration to the UK from the eight Central and Eastern European countries that joined the European Union in 2004 has attracted a significant amount of attention in public discourse as well as from scholars and policy-makers. On the... Read More about Everyday negotiations of in/securities and risks: an ethnographic study amongst Czech- and Slovak-speaking migrants in Glasgow.

“It’s That Kind of Place Here”: Solidarity, Place-Making and Civil Society Response To the 2015 Refugee Crisis in Different Localities in Wales, UK (2019)
Journal Article
Guma, T., Woods, M., Yarker, S., & Anderson, J. (2019). “It’s That Kind of Place Here”: Solidarity, Place-Making and Civil Society Response To the 2015 Refugee Crisis in Different Localities in Wales, UK. Social Inclusion, 7(2), 96-105. https://doi.

This paper examines the different ways in which local civil society has responded to refugees and asylum seekers in different parts of Wales in the wake of the recent “refugee crisis”. While the events of summer 2015 have generated a considerable amo... Read More about “It’s That Kind of Place Here”: Solidarity, Place-Making and Civil Society Response To the 2015 Refugee Crisis in Different Localities in Wales, UK.

Sexual politics and the Eurovision Song Contest (2014)
Other
Kulpa, R. (2014). Sexual politics and the Eurovision Song Contest. https://eurovisionproject.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/sexual-politics-and-the-eurovision-song-contest/

In this post I would like to draw readers’ attention to the issue of how Eurovision is entangled with sexual politics in the new EUrope: how it sometimes is used as the marker of gay rights and freedoms vs. homophobia, as a rainbow-coloured symbol of... Read More about Sexual politics and the Eurovision Song Contest.

Decolonizing Queer Epistemologies: Section Introduction (2016)
Book Chapter
Kulpa, R., & Silva, J. M. (2016). Decolonizing Queer Epistemologies: Section Introduction. In G. Brown, & K. Browne (Eds.), The Routledge Research Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities (139-142). London: Routledge

Failure across borders: the spread of bad anti-trafficking (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mendel, J., & Sharapov, K. (2021, August). Failure across borders: the spread of bad anti-trafficking. Paper presented at RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2021, London

Ineffective and harmful anti-trafficking is being internationalised in some striking ways, partly in response to representations of trafficking networks as borderless and omnipresent. Everything from damaging anti-trafficking raids to poor-quality le... Read More about Failure across borders: the spread of bad anti-trafficking.

Expanding Circles of Failure: The Rise of Bad Anti-Trafficking, and What to Do About It (2021)
Digital Artefact
Mendel, J., & Sharapov, K. (2021). Expanding Circles of Failure: The Rise of Bad Anti-Trafficking, and What to Do About It. [Online]

The anti-trafficking movement has been able to expand and impact on ever-broader circles of life in spite of – and often because of – a failure to achieve its stated goals. These goals are broadly encapsulated within the much-lauded 4P ‘anti-traffick... Read More about Expanding Circles of Failure: The Rise of Bad Anti-Trafficking, and What to Do About It.

States of exception, human rights, and social harm: Towards a border zemiology (2019)
Journal Article
Soliman, F. (2021). States of exception, human rights, and social harm: Towards a border zemiology. Theoretical Criminology, 25(2), 228-248. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480619890069

Crimmigration, that is, the merging of criminal and migration law, is receiving increasing attention within criminology. However, while crimmigration widens our understanding of coercion and punishment, it is a reductive lens through which to make se... Read More about States of exception, human rights, and social harm: Towards a border zemiology.

«Аналіз впливу пандемії COVID-19 на людей з інвалідністю в Україні. Погляд організацій осіб з інвалідністю» [In Ukrainain] (2022)
Report
Sharapov, K., Anderson, D., Burova, O., Polishchuk, O., & Nazarenko, V. (2022). «Аналіз впливу пандемії COVID-19 на людей з інвалідністю в Україні. Погляд організацій осіб з інвал

Дослідження, представлене у цьому звіті, ґрунтується на опитуванні неурядових організацій людей з інвалідністю в Україні. Організаційне дослідження являє собою Фазу 1 більшого проекту з оцінки впливу COVID-19 на людей з інвалідністю в Україні з особл... Read More about «Аналіз впливу пандемії COVID-19 на людей з інвалідністю в Україні. Погляд організацій осіб з інвалідністю» [In Ukrainain].

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on People with Disabilities in Ukraine (perspectives of organisations of people with disabilities) (2022)
Report
Sharapov, K., Anderson, D., Burova, O., Polishchuk, O., & Nazarenko, V. (2022). The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on People with Disabilities in Ukraine (perspectives of organisations of people with disabilities). Edinburgh: Arts and Humanities Research

The research presented in this report is based on a survey of non-governmental organisations of people with disabilities in Ukraine (organisations of persons with disabilities, or OPDs). The organisational survey forms Phase 1 of a larger project to... Read More about The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on People with Disabilities in Ukraine (perspectives of organisations of people with disabilities).