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DR Anna Lindley's Outputs (86)

Remitting through crisis: Looking beyond resilience in UK migrant and diaspora communities (2024)
Journal Article
Lindley, A., Datta, K., Chase, E., Fadal, K., Hammond, L., Loureiro, G., & Majeed-Hajaj, S. (2024). Remitting through crisis: Looking beyond resilience in UK migrant and diaspora communities. Migration Studies, 12(3), Article mnae026. https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnae026

Migrants’ remittances have often been understood to operate as a form of insurance for families, communities and countries of origin, increasing in times of downturn and disaster. But what happens when the same crisis hits both destination and origin... Read More about Remitting through crisis: Looking beyond resilience in UK migrant and diaspora communities.

Reflections on (im)mobilities and / in crisis (2024)
Book Chapter
Lindley, A. (2024). Reflections on (im)mobilities and / in crisis. In N. Piper, & K. Datta (Eds.), Elgar Companion to Migration and the Sustainable Development Goals (14-27). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802204513.00008

Despite the common framing of crisis and migration as anomalies outside the norm, they are in fact deeply embedded in histories of global development and change, including in the contemporary unfolding of global capitalism which has shaped Agenda 203... Read More about Reflections on (im)mobilities and / in crisis.

Navigating Precarity: the lives of London’s migrant cleaners (2024)
Thesis
Marcel, C. Navigating Precarity: the lives of London’s migrant cleaners. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This study examines London’s migrant cleaners’ experiences of precarity and how they navigate those experiences. In the context of a neoliberal, anti-migrant climate in the UK, migrant workers have experienced intensified vulnerability whilst at the... Read More about Navigating Precarity: the lives of London’s migrant cleaners.

The global ordering of remittance flows: formalisation, facilitation, funnelling and financialisation (2023)
Book Chapter
Lindley, A. (2023). The global ordering of remittance flows: formalisation, facilitation, funnelling and financialisation. In A. Pécoud, & H. Thiollet (Eds.), Research Handbook on the Institutions of Global Migration Governance (357-376). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789908077.00033

Migrants’ remittance flows have caught the attention of a wide range of governmental, private sector, and civil society actors, and have been at the centre of global policy interventions aiming to ‘make migration work for development’ over the last t... Read More about The global ordering of remittance flows: formalisation, facilitation, funnelling and financialisation.

Sorry For My Left: The Transnational Practices and Identity Formation of Second Generation Ghanaians (2023)
Thesis
Kwarteng, K. A. B. Sorry For My Left: The Transnational Practices and Identity Formation of Second Generation Ghanaians. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This study is a comparative analysis of the second generation Ghanaian transnational experience, focusing on the experiences of second generation Ghanaians in London, New York City, and Accra. This thesis examines the different transnational practice... Read More about Sorry For My Left: The Transnational Practices and Identity Formation of Second Generation Ghanaians.

'Hit and miss'? Access to legal assistance in immigration detention (2022)
Journal Article
Lindley, A. (2022). 'Hit and miss'? Access to legal assistance in immigration detention. Journal of Human Rights Practice, 13(3), 629-653. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huab045

In the context of significant cuts to legal aid in the last decade in the UK, immigration detention remains in scope: indeed the argument that detention is legitimate rests partly on the claim that people can challenge it. Drawing on interviews with... Read More about 'Hit and miss'? Access to legal assistance in immigration detention.

Diaspora finance for infrastructure development in Nigeria: exploring motivations, mechanisms and impact (2022)
Thesis
Bolaji, O. Diaspora finance for infrastructure development in Nigeria: exploring motivations, mechanisms and impact. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The money that migrants send back home is at the heart of the relationship between migration and development. In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest to exploit ‘diaspora finance’ for the provision of public goods, including infrastr... Read More about Diaspora finance for infrastructure development in Nigeria: exploring motivations, mechanisms and impact.

Makers, Brokers, and Migrants: Experiences of Digital Government in South Korea and the United Kingdom (2022)
Thesis
Lim, I. Makers, Brokers, and Migrants: Experiences of Digital Government in South Korea and the United Kingdom. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The use of websites and mobile applications to deliver public services has gained widespread popularity throughout local, national, and international institutions. However, the qualitative aspects of digital government services remain understudied, e... Read More about Makers, Brokers, and Migrants: Experiences of Digital Government in South Korea and the United Kingdom.