Dr Lucy Mayblin
PhD
Department of Sociological Studies
Senior Lecturer in Sociology
(She/her)
+44 114 222 6445
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Department of Sociological Studies
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- Profile
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Dr. Lucy Mayblin is a Political Sociologist whose research focuses on asylum, human rights, policy-making, and the legacies of colonialism. She is the author of (2017) which won the British Sociological Association鈥檚 Philip Abrams Memorial Prize in 2018, (2019), and (with Joe Turner, 2020).
Her work has also been published in a wide range of journals including Sociology, Migration Studies, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Economy and Society, and Citizenship Studies. In 2017 Lucy鈥檚 article with Aneta Piekut and Gill Valentine 鈥樷漁ther鈥 Posts from 鈥淥ther鈥 Places: Poland Through a Postcolonial Lens?鈥 won the SAGE Prize for Innovation and Excellence in the Journal Sociology; and in 2020 she was the recipient of the Philip Leverhulme Prize in recognition of the 鈥渟ignificant international impact鈥 of her research and her 鈥渆xceptionally promising future trajectory鈥.
Lucy currently leads the MA Sociology programme and teaches the postgraduate level modules 鈥楥urrent Sociology鈥 and 鈥楥ontemporary Challenges: Refugees and Asylum鈥. She is the director Postgraduate Taught Admissions within the Department of Sociological Studies and sits on the Equality and Diversity Committee.
She is on the advisory board of the .
- Research interests
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Lucy鈥檚 research centres on the politics of asylum, particularly in Britain. This has included explorations of the connections between Britain鈥檚 colonial past and asylum policy today, most notably in 鈥楢sylum After Empire: Postcolonial Legacies in the Politics of Asylum Seeking鈥 (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2017).
From 2015 to 2019, Lucy led a project funded through an Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) Future Research Leaders scheme which investigated the politics of asylum, welfare and work in Britain. The project explored how policy is made in relation to asylum seekers鈥 access to welfare and work, the implications of restricting asylum seeker鈥檚 economic rights (keeping them in poverty) for the third sector, and then the impact upon asylum seekers in their everyday lives. This resulted in a range of publications, including the monograph Impoverishment and Asylum: Social Policy as Slow Violence. This project was also awarded an additional 拢10,000 of funding through the ESRC鈥檚 Impact Acceleration scheme for work with third sector organisations on the issue of the third sector鈥檚 sole in asylum support.
Lucy is currently working with Thom Davies (Nottingham), Arshad Isakjee (Liverpool) and Joe Turner (York) on a collaborative programme of research and writing, which seeks to situate irregular Channel crossings and policy responses to them within the context of international economic, political and historical logics and confluences, particularly of racial capitalism and postcolonial bordering. She is also working on a SAGE Handbook on Global Social Theory with Gurminder K Bhambra, Kathryn Median and Mara Viveros Vigolla, and a co-edited collection for Bristol University Press on Postcolonial Perspectives to Forced Migration (with Martin Lemberg-Pedersen, Sharla Fett, Nina Sahraoui and Eva Magdalena Stamb酶l).
In 2020 Lucy won on of the Philip Leverhulme Prizes for Sociology and from September 2021 will be working on an archival project on the 1967 Protocol on the Status of Refugees, and a contemporary exploration of the international spread of 鈥榗rimes of solidarity鈥 (where citizens are punished for helping irregular migrants).
Lucy has worked with, and presented to, a range of organisations in her research including the Home Office, the Department for Work and Pensions, the British Refugee Council, Refugee Action, The Red Cross, ASSIST (91直播), Asylum Welcome (Oxford), and City of Sanctuary.
- Publications
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Books
- The Sage Handbook of Global Sociology. Sage Publications Limited.
- Postcoloniality and Forced Migration Mobility, Control, Agency. Policy Press.
- Migration Studies and Colonialism. John Wiley & Sons.
- . Abingdon: Routledge.
- Asylum after Empire: Colonial Legacies in the Politics of Asylum Seeking. London: Rowman and Littlefield.
Journal articles
- . The Political Quarterly, 95(2), 253-262.
- . Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
- . International Migration, 59(4), 265-267.
- . Ethnic and Racial Studies, 44(13), 2307-2327.
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- . Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 22(1).
- . Sociology, 54(1), 107-123.
- . Area, 51(4), 816-819.
- . Migration Studies, 7(1), 1-20.
- . Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 45(3), 375-394.
- . Economy and Society, 47(2), 191-213.
- , 222-238.
- . British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 18(4), 812-828.
- . Environment and Planning A, 48(5), 960-978.
- Troubling the exclusive privileges of citizenship: mobile solidarities, asylum seekers, and the right to work. CITIZENSHIP STUDIES, 20(2), 192-207.
- . Sociology, 50(1), 60-76.
- . The Geographical Journal, 182(2), 213-222.
- . Qualitative Research, 15(5), 583-599.
- . Geoforum, 63, 67-80.
- . Journal of Historical Sociology.
- . Gender, Place and Culture, 21(4), 401-414.
- . International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 34(5), 375-391.
- . Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 26(1), 93-110.
- International Relations and non-western thought: imperialism, colonialism and investigations of global modernity. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, 87(5), 1227-1228.
- What is geography's contribution to making citizens?. Geography, 93(1), 34-39.
- Made in...? Appreciating the everyday geographies of connected lives. Teaching Geography, 32(2), 80-83.
- . Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.
Chapters
- , Postcoloniality and Forced Migration (pp. 109-124). Bristol University Press
- , Postcoloniality and Forced Migration (pp. 1-27). Bristol University Press
- , Postcoloniality and Forced Migration (pp. 223-236). Bristol University Press
- , Postcoloniality and Forced Migration (pp. 109-124). Policy Press
- , Postcoloniality and Forced Migration (pp. 223-236). Bristol University Press
- , Postcoloniality and Forced Migration (pp. 109-124). Bristol University Press
- , Postcoloniality and Forced Migration (pp. 1-27). Bristol University Press
- , Regulating Refugee Protection Through Social Welfare (pp. 93-103).
- , Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration (pp. 25-35).
- Impoverishment and Asylum Social Policy as Slow Violence Introduction, IMPOVERISHMENT AND ASYLUM: SOCIAL POLICY AS SLOW VIOLENCE (pp. 1-+).
- Impoverishment and asylum Conclusion, IMPOVERISHMENT AND ASYLUM: SOCIAL POLICY AS SLOW VIOLENCE (pp. 131-141).
- Slow violence Everyday life on asylum support, IMPOVERISHMENT AND ASYLUM: SOCIAL POLICY AS SLOW VIOLENCE (pp. 96-130).
- Producing slow violence Imagining asylum as economic migration, IMPOVERISHMENT AND ASYLUM: SOCIAL POLICY AS SLOW VIOLENCE (pp. 46-73).
- Ameliorating slow violence Civil society as gap filler, IMPOVERISHMENT AND ASYLUM: SOCIAL POLICY AS SLOW VIOLENCE (pp. 74-95).
- Historicising and theorising impoverishment and asylum, IMPOVERISHMENT AND ASYLUM: SOCIAL POLICY AS SLOW VIOLENCE (pp. 29-45).
- Economic rights and seeking asylum, IMPOVERISHMENT AND ASYLUM: SOCIAL POLICY AS SLOW VIOLENCE (pp. 12-28).
- In Outhwaite W & Turner S (Ed.), The SAGE Handbook of Political Sociology: Two Volume Set (pp. 157-170). SAGE Publications Ltd
- Is there a black and minority ethnic third sector in the UK?, Community groups in context: Local activities and actions (pp. 172-191).
- (pp. 177-198). Bristol University Press
- , Community Groups in Context (pp. 177-198). Policy Press
- , Community Groups in Context (pp. 177-198). Policy Press
- CREATING MEANINGFUL CONTACT: BOUNDARIES AND BRIDGES IN THE INTERCULTURAL CITY, The Intercultural City: Migration, Minorities and the Management of Diversity (pp. 153-162).
Book reviews
- . Ethnic and Racial Studies, 39(3), 524-526.
- . Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 17(3).
- . Sociology, 46(4), 772-773.
- . The Sociological Review, 59(1), 183-185.
- The Idea of Human Rights. POLITICAL STUDIES REVIEW, 8(3), 376-376.
- . Critical Policy Studies, 3(1), 141-148.
- . Journal of Refugee Studies, 21(1), 138-140.
- The Sage Handbook of Global Sociology. Sage Publications Limited.
- Research group
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Lucy welcomes PhD applications from students interested in asylum and refugee policy, colonialism and human rights.
Current Research Students:
- Zihuan Zhang, Theorising racism in China
- Dua鈥檃 Almegbil, Social Determinants of Oral Health in the Zataari Refugee Camp
- Khulud Sahhari, The UK Public Libraries' Strategies of Serving A Multicultural Society: The Arab Community as a Case Study
- Edanur Yazici, Civil Society Responses to Asylum Seeker Support in the UK
- Grants
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Philip Leverhulme Prize
- Duration: 2021-2024
- Awarding Body: The Leverhulme Trust
- Amount: 拢100,000
Asylum, Welfare and Work in the Age of Austerity (PI)
- Duration: 2015-2018
- Awarding Body: ESRC
- 础尘辞耻苍迟:&苍产蝉辫;拢240,000
Civil Society filling the Gaps: Supporting Asylum Seekers at the Local Level (PI)
- Duration: 2017
- Awarding Body: ESRC Impact Acceleration Account
- 础尘辞耻苍迟:&苍产蝉辫;拢10,340
- Teaching activities
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- MA Sociology: Programme Leader
- MA Sociology: Current Sociology
- MA Sociology: Contemporary Challenges: Refugees and Asylum
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