Research

Firm-centred, multi-level approaches to overcoming semi-perioheral constraints

Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni at the EI and Sonja Avlijaš at the University of Belgrade are co-leading a project on “Firm-centred, multi-level approaches to overcoming semi-peripheral constraints”. The project will result in a Special Issue publication at Studies in Comparative International Development (SCID) in early 2024. The central goal of the project is to advance our understanding about the role of firms as developmental agents in semi-peripheral areas around the globe that frequently face both market and government failures. By focusing on the global semi-periphery, which includes less developed areas in Europe but is not limited to them, the project aims to break the traditional geographical silos that separate scholarship of the Global North and the Global South and foster a process of non-hegemonic knowledge exchange among different areas of the world. In that spirit, the project’s semi-peripheral case studies can also offer lessons for the core European countries, which are being increasingly troubled by environmental, social and economic challenges.

Special Issue Workshop

Migrants. Analysis of media discourse on migrants in Poland, the United Kingdom, Ukraine, Albania and Czech Republic (MAD)

This project ran from 2018-2021. The aim of the MAD project is to compare media discourses on migrants in five countries: Poland, UK, Ukraine, Czech Republic and Albania. The project involved media monitoring and analysis of media content (TV, press, Internet) related to migration and migrants in each of these countries. This allowed the project to describe (qualitatively and quantitatively) the specific discourse in each country. In addition, qualitative research (FGI) took place, which aims to check how selected social groups receive media coverage.This project culminated in the preparation of a scientific monograph in English, containing comparative analysis of media discourse about migrants in the countries participating in the project.

Collegium Civitas is the leader of the project in cooperation with the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK) (represented by Dr Eva Połońska-Kimunguyi), Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic), Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine), Universiteti Bujqësor i Tiranës (Albania) and Kosovo Center of Diplomacy (Kosovo).

Project website - Special issue

European Management of Migration and Refugees- Consequences for mobility and political stability in transit countries (MARE)

The project ran from 2019-2021 and is jointly conducted by the Fafo Research Foundation, NUPI (both Oslo), the University of Oxford, the Institut Français du Proche Orient (Amman) and LSE. At LSE it is led by Dr Natascha Zaun. It analyses the challenges resulting from the disparities in sharing the burden and responsibility for forced migrants worldwide and how states have responded to these challenges. A special focus will be given to the investigation of how international actors, especially European governments and the EU can help host communities secure access to rights for refugees and migrants and economic improvements for both the migrants and the local population. The project will also examine the risk of host communities being destabilised when international actors engage in migration and refugee management. It has a focus on several key regions hosting especially large refugee and migrant populations, including Jordan, Lebanon, Niger, and Uganda.  

ALUM

Alliance of Leading Universities on Migration (ALUM) is a unique collaboration among leading universities in Europe, USA and frontier refugee recipient countries in North Africa and the Middle East which aims to help bridge the gap between research and policy in the management of the ongoing migrant and refugee crisis.

ALUM’s network identifies the key units and researchers ready and willing to contribute their expertise to work across national and disciplinary boundaries towards evidence-based policy solutions. ALUM is willing to reason publicly, interact directly with private stakeholders and governmental institutions and, if necessary, engage in closed door negotiations for maximum impact. The alliance now comprises twenty one members. Through executing targeted events, ALUM engages with policymakers from both frontier and destination countries, including Germany, Italy, Spain, Lebanon and Sweden, as well as UN agencies and European institutions. ALUM has directly engaged with global policy makers in the context of the G7, G20 and the Global Forum for Migration and Development (GFMD).

Gao, Xinchuchu (2022) 'An Attractive Alternative? China’s Approach to Cyber Governance and its Implications on the Western Model', The International Spectator, 57(3), pp. 15-30.

Gao, Xinchuchu and Chen, Xuechen (2022) 'Role Enactment and the Contestation of Global Cybersecurity Governance', Defence Studies, 22(4), pp. 689-708

Gao, Xinchuchu and Chen, Xuechen (2021) 'Understanding the EU's Changing Trade Policy Strategy towards Asia-Pacific from a Role-theory Perspective', The Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies, 13(2)

Glendinning, Simon (2019) 'A Community that is Not One', in Bax, Chantal and van der Heiden, Gert-Jan (eds.), Continental Perspectives on Community: Human Coexistence from Unity to Plurality, Routledge.

Gürsoy, Yaprak (2022) ‘Emotions and Narratives of the Spirit of Gallipoli: Turkey’s Collective Identity and Status in International Relations’, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, pp. 1-20.

Gürsoy, Yaprak (2021) 'Moving Beyond European and Latin American Typologies: The Peculiarities of AKP’s Populism in Turkey', Journal of Contemporary Asia, 51:1, pp. 157-178.

Jackson-Preece, Jennifer and Bhambra, Manmit (2021) In-between identities and cultures: Ms Marvel and the representation of young muslim women, LSE Middle East Centre Paper Series (50), LSE Middle East Centre, London, UK.

Jackson-Preece, Jennifer (2018) 'Taking Oslo online: minority language policy and the Internet', In: Ulasiuk, I., Hadirca, L. and Romans, W., (eds.) Language Policy and Conflict Prevention, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, Netherlands, pp. 231-250.

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Krasniqi, Vjollca, Sokolic, Ivor, and Kostovicova, Denisa (2020) 'Skirts as Flags: Transitional Justice, Gender and Everyday Nationalism in Kosovo', Nations and Nationalism, 26(2), pp. 461-476.

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Monastiriotis, Vassilis and Tunali, Cigdem Borke (2020) 'The sustainability of external imbalances in the European periphery', Open Economies Review, 31(2), pp. 273 - 294. 

Połońska-Kimunguyi, Eva (2022) 'Echoes of Empire: racism and historical amnesia in the British media coverage of migration', Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9(3).

Połońska-Kimunguyi, Eva and Kimunguyi, Patrick (2018) ‘‘Gunboats of soft power’: Boris on Africa and post-Brexit ‘Global Britain’’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 30, pp. 1-25. 

Rosina, Matilde (2022) The criminalisation of irregular migration in Europe: Deterrence, globalisation, and vicious cycles, Palgrave Macmillan. 

Rosina, Matilde (2019) ‘Globalisation and Irregular Migration: Does Deterrence Work?’, in Talani, Leila, S. and Roccu, Roberto (eds.), The Dark Side of Globalisation, Palgrave Macmillan London, pp. 85-120.

Thielemann, Eiko R. and Zaun, Natascha (2018) 'Escaping populism – safeguarding minority rights: non-majoritarian dynamics in European policy-making', Journal of Common Market Studies, 56(4), pp. 906-922. 

Vuolajärvi, Niina (2018) 'Precarious Intimacies: Europeanized Border Regime and Migrant Sex Work', Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 45(97), pp. 1090–1107.

Zaun, Natascha and Nantermoz, Olivia (2021) 'The use of pseudo-causal narratives in EU policies: The case of the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa', Journal of European Public Policy, 29(4), pp. 510-529.

• Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni, ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow
• Xinchuchu Gao, Fellow in European Political Economy
• Simon Glendinning, Professor in European Philosophy
• Yaprak Gürsoy, Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies

• Jennifer Jackson-Preece, Associate Professor in Nationalism

• Mareike Kleine, Associate Professor in EU and International Politics
• Denisa Kostovicova, Associate Professor in Global Politics
• Marta Lorimer, Fellow in European Politics
• Angelo Martelli, Assistant Professor in European and International Political Economy
• Vassilis Monastiriotis, Associate Professor in Political Economy
• Eva Polonska-Kimunguyi, Fellow in European Politics
• Vesna Popovski, Fellow in Conflict and Post-Conflict Studies
• Matilde Rosina, Fellow in International Migration
• Eiko Thielemann, Associate Professor in Political Science and Public Policy
• Niina Vuolajärvi, Assistant Professor in International Migration
• Natascha Zaun, Assistant Professor in Migration Studies

Policy briefs:

Hangartner, Dominik, Martelli, Angelo. and Malaeb, Bilal (2021) Human Mobility: Towards Enhanced Integration and Social Cohesion, G20, Task Force 10 Migration.

Blog posts:

Kostovicova, Denisa and Kerr, Rachel (2022) Lessons from the Balkans: how justice can be achieved for the victims of war crimes in Ukraine, LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog, 13 May.

Połońska-Kimunguyi, Eva (2022) War, Resistance and Refuge: Racism and double standards in western media coverage of Ukraine, Media@LSE blog, 10 May.

Jackson-Preece, Jennifer and Bhambra, Manmit (2018) Challenging Stereotypes: The Muslim Woman as Superhero, LSE Middle East Centre blog, 15 October.

Media:

Gürsoy, Yaprak (2020) 'Turkey is facing its own coronavirus crisis – so why is it sending medical supplies to the UK?', The Conversation, 22 April.

Gürsoy, Yaprak and Toygür, Ilke (2018) 'Turkey in and out of NATO? An instance of a turbulent alliance with Western institutions', Real Instituto Elcano, 11 June.

Public Events:

Dr Manmit Bhambra, Dr Jennifer Jackson-Preece, Dr Dima Issa and Dr Polly Withers (2021) 'In-between Identities and Cultures: Ms Marvel and the Representation of Young Muslim Women', hosted by the Middle East Centre, 19 October.

Dr Dominik Hangartner, Bilal Malaeb, Shaden Khallaf, Tauhid Pasha and Dr Angelo Martelli (2020) 'Human Mobility: towards enhanced integration and social cohesion', hosted by the Institute of Global Affairs, the School of Public Policy and the Centre for Economic Policy, 9 December.