Lecturer in human geography, Loughborough University, Geography and Environment (as of 2018). Before joining Loughborough, I worked as the main researcher on the EU Horizon 2020 ‘YMOBILITY’ project at the University of Sussex, researching youth mobilities across Europe (2015-2018). I as was also a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Eastern Finland where she researched migrant children and families (2016-2018), founding director of the Centre for Diaspora and Migration Research, University...

Expertise

Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Migration governance
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
Disciplines
Methods
Geographies

Roles

  • University of Latvia

    University, Riga, Latvia
    elected researcher

  • University of Eastern Finland

    University, Joensuu, Finland
    Senior Researcher

Research

Reading Paasi and Living through Bounded Spaces

Authors Aija Lulle
Year 2024
Journal Name Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
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1 Journal Article

Older migrants and self-realization projects

Authors Aija Lulle, Russell King
Year 2023
Book Title Handbook on Migration and Ageing
2 Book Chapter

Life Course Justice and Learning

Authors Aija Lulle
Year 2022
Journal Name Social Inclusion
Citations (WoS) 1
3 Journal Article

Repertoires of ‘migrant names’: an inquiry into mundane identity production

Authors Aija Lulle
Year 2021
Journal Name Social & Cultural Geography
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4 Journal Article

The production of “rhythms of responsibility” for childcare in a post-socialist society

Authors Aija Lulle, Jekaterina Kaleja
Year 2021
Journal Name Applied Mobilities
5 Journal Article

Reversing retirement frontiers in the spaces of post-socialism: active ageing through migration for work

Authors Aija Lulle
Year 2021
Journal Name Ageing and Society
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6 Journal Article

New perspectives on the agriculture–migration nexus

Authors Russell King, Aija Lulle, Emilia Melossi
Year 2021
Journal Name Journal of Rural Studies
7 Journal Article

Temporal fix, hierarchies of work and post-socialist hopes for a better way of life

Authors Aija Lulle
Year 2021
Journal Name Journal of Rural Studies
8 Journal Article

Cosmopolitan Encounters: Highly Skilled Latvians in London Problematise Ethnicity and ‘Eastern Europeanness’

Authors Aija Lulle
Year 2020
Journal Name Journal of Intercultural Studies
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9 Journal Article

‘One improves here every day’: the occupational and learning journeys of ‘lower-skilled’ European migrants in the London region

Authors Laura Moroşanu, Russell King, Aija Lulle, ...
Year 2019
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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10 Journal Article

Introduction to the Special Issue: European youth migration: human capital outcomes, skills and competences

Authors Aija Lulle, Hania Janta, Henrik Emilsson
Year 2019
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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11 Journal Article

Overcoming “Crisis”: Mobility Capabilities and “stretching” a Migrant Identity among Young Irish in London and Return Migrants

Authors Aija Lulle, Liam Coakley, Piaras MacEinri
Year 2019
Journal Name International Migration
Citations (WoS) 1
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12 Journal Article

Between disruptions and connections: “New” European Union migrants in the United Kingdom before and after the Brexit

Authors Aija Lulle, Russell King, Veronika Dvorakova, ...
Year 2018
Journal Name Population, Space and Place
Citations (WoS) 2
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13 Journal Article

From peripheral region to escalator region in Europe: Young Baltic graduates in London

Authors Russell King, Aija Lulle, Maarja Saar
Year 2018
Journal Name European Urban and Regional Studies
Citations (WoS) 3
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14 Journal Article

Children and Borders

Authors Aija Lulle
Year 2018
Journal Name Journal of Borderlands Studies
15 Journal Article

And then came Brexit: Experiences and future plans of young EU migrants in the London region

Authors Aija Lulle, Russell King, Laura Moroşanu
Year 2017
Journal Name Population, Space and Place
Citations (WoS) 15
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16 Journal Article

Between a ‘student abroad’ and ‘being from Latvia’: inequalities of access, prestige, and foreign-earned cultural capital

Authors Aija Lulle, Laura Buzinska
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 4
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17 Journal Article

Grandmothers migrating, working and caring: Latvian women between survival and self-realisation

Authors Russell King, Aija Lulle
Year 2016
Journal Name Population Horizons
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18 Journal Article

Strangers within? Russian-speakers’ migration from Latvia to London: a study in power geometry and intersectionality

Authors Aija Lulle, Iveta Jurkane-Hobein
Year 2016
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 5
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19 Journal Article

Unpacking the ageing–migration nexus and challenging the vulnerability trope

Authors Russell King, Aija Lulle, Julie Vullnetari, ...
Year 2016
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 10
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20 Journal Article

Functional Well-Being and Economic Citizenship

Authors Aija Lulle, Russell King
Year 2016
Book Title Ageing, Gender, and Labour Migration
21 Book Chapter

Ageing, Gender, and Migration: Theorising Entwined Becomings

Authors Aija Lulle, Russell King
Year 2016
Book Title Ageing, Gender, and Labour Migration
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22 Book Chapter

Ageing Migrants: A New Research Challenge

Authors Aija Lulle, Russell King
Year 2016
Book Title Ageing, Gender, and Labour Migration
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23 Book Chapter

Psychosocial Well-Being, Erotic Agency, and Intimate Citizenship

Authors Aija Lulle, Russell King
Year 2016
Book Title Ageing, Gender, and Labour Migration
24 Book Chapter

Conclusions, Discussion, and Policy Implications

Authors Aija Lulle, Russell King
Year 2016
Book Title Ageing, Gender, and Labour Migration
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25 Book Chapter

Ageing, Gender and Labour Migration

Authors Aija Lulle, Russell King
Year 2016
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26 Book

Eurocity London: a qualitative comparison of graduate migration from Germany, Italy and Latvia

Authors Russell King, Aija Lulle, Francesca Conti, ...
Year 2016
Journal Name Comparative Migration Studies
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27 Journal Article

Asylum Seekers Crisis in Europe 2015: Debating Spaces of Fear and Security in Latvia

Authors Aija Lulle, Elza Ungure
Year 2015
Journal Name Journal on Baltic Security
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28 Journal Article

Ageing well: the time–spaces of possibility for older female Latvian migrants in the UK

Authors Aija Lulle, Russell King
Year 2015
Journal Name Social & Cultural Geography
Citations (WoS) 4
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29 Journal Article

Rhythmic Island: Latvian Migrants in Guernsey and their Enfolded Patterns of Space‐Time Mobility

Authors Russell King, Aija Lulle
Year 2015
Journal Name Population, Space and Place
Citations (WoS) 11
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30 Journal Article

Spaces of encounter–displacement: contemporary labour migrants' return visits to latvia

Authors Aija Lulle
Year 2014
Journal Name Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography
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31 Journal Article

Research methods for children

Authors Aija Lulle
Year 2014
Journal Name International Journal of Social Research Methodology
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32 Journal Article

Shifting notions of gendered care and neoliberal motherhood: From the lives of Latvian migrant women in Guernsey

Authors Aija Lulle
Year 2014
Journal Name Women's Studies International Forum
33 Journal Article

Book review: Saltwater Sociality: A Melanesian Island Ethnography

Authors Aija Lulle
Year 2013
Journal Name cultural geographies
34 Journal Article

‘Mēs nebraucām uz Zviedriju, lai kļūtu par zviedriem’: Mutvārdu vēstures pētījums. Zviedrijas latviešu dzīvesstāsti

Authors Aija Lulle
Year 2012
Journal Name Journal of Baltic Studies
35 Journal Article

Biotechnology Appropriation in a Small Country: From Historical Legacies to Contemporary Challenges in Latvia

Authors Anda Adamsone-Fiskovica, Janis Kristapsons, Aija Lulle, ...
Year 2011
Book Title Biotechnology and Innovation Systems
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36 Book Chapter

(Post-)Socialist Housing and Aging in Neoliberal Riga

Authors Aija Lulle
Year 2024
Journal Name Urban Planning
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37 Journal Article

Editorial Introduction: Special Section on older-age migrants and sexualities

Authors Aija Lulle, Cornelia Schweppe
Year 2023
Journal Name Sexualities
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38 Journal Article

BALTIC TRIPLETS? OUT-MIGRATION MIGRATION AND RESPONSES TO CRISIS

Authors Aija Lulle
Year 2021
Journal Name Regional Formation and Development Studies
39 Journal Article

Return Migration and Psychosocial Wellbeing

Year 2017
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40 Journal Article

Revitalising Borders: Memory, Mobility and Materiality in a Latvian-Russian Border Region

Authors Aija Lulle
Year 2016
Journal Name Culture Unbound
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41 Journal Article

Contrasts in Ageing and Agency in Family Migratory Contexts: A Comparison of Albanian and Latvian Older Migrants

Authors Julie Vullnetari, Russell King, Aija Lulle, ...
Book Title Family Life in an Age of Migration and Mobility
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43 Book Chapter

Suggested Research

Middle‐aged migrants: Expanding an understanding of lifecourses and linked lives

Authors Aija Lulle
Year 2024
Journal Name Global Networks
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1 Journal Article

The affective fields of working class among ‘Eastern European’ migrants in the UK

Authors Aija Lulle
Year 2023
Journal Name The Sociological Review
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2 Journal Article

Youth Mobility and Well-Being: <i>Transitions and Intersections</i>

Authors Aija Lulle, Russell King
Year 2019
Journal Name Nordic Journal of Migration Research
3 Journal Article

Ageing, Gender, and Labour Migration

Authors Aija Lulle, Russell King
Year 2016
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4 Book

Fateful Well-Being: <i>Childhood and Youth Transitions Among Latvian Women in Finland</i>

Authors Aija Lulle, Agnese Bankovska
Year 2019
Journal Name Nordic Journal of Migration Research
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5 Journal Article

Summer Spaces: Infrastructures, People and Animals in the Baltic Summers

Authors Aija Lulle, Pihla Maria Siim
Year 2018
Book Title Translocal Childhoods and Family Mobility in East and North Europe
6 Book Chapter

Young EU Migrants in London in the Transition to Brexit

Authors Aija Lulle, Laura Moroşanu, Russell King
Year 2022
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7 Journal Article

Visiting migrants: An introduction

Authors Md Farid Miah, Russell King, Aija Lulle
Year 2022
Journal Name Global Networks
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8 Journal Article

Young Baltic Graduates Living and Working in London: From Peripheral Region to Escalator Region in Europe

Authors Russell King, Aija Lulle, Violetta Parutis, ...
Year 2015
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9 Working Paper

The Lure of London: A Comparative Study of Recent Graduate Migration from Germany, Italy and Latvia

Authors Russell King, Aija Lulle, Francesca Conti, ...
Year 2014
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11 Working Paper

Children in Translocal Families

Authors Laura Assmuth, Marina Hakkarainen, Aija Lulle, ...
Year 2018
Book Title Translocal Childhoods and Family Mobility in East and North Europe
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12 Book Chapter

Decision-making and the trajectories of young Europeans in the London region: the planners, the dreamers, and the accidental migrants

Authors Saara Koikkalainen, Aija Lulle, Russell King, ...
Year 2022
Journal Name Comparative Migration Studies
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13 Journal Article

The Journey Continues

Authors Laura Assmuth, Anca Enache, Marina Hakkarainen, ...
Year 2018
Book Title Translocal Childhoods and Family Mobility in East and North Europe
14 Book Chapter
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