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 of Latvia. As of September 2019 I am also Adjunct Professor, docent, migration and mobility studies, University of Eastern Finland, Geography department.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 593 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5386-9493 |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/aija-lulle-2a600021/ | |
| X/Twitter | https://twitter.com/@aijalu |
| ResearchGate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aija_Lulle |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
- Urban/Rural development and living standards
- Population dynamics
- Gender relations
- Labour markets and employment
- Poverty and inequality
- International relations and geopolitical transformations
- Migration policy and other public policies
- Personal resources and migration experience
- Migrant communities and networks
- Migrant aspirations and attitudes
- Cultural norms and ties
- Transnational ties
- Family size and structure
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Migration forms
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Socio-economic consequences
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Transversal consequences
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Legal-political consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Migration research and theory
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Transversal themes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Methods
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Qualitative research
Geographies
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Scope
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UN Countries
Roles
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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 |
Older migrants and self-realization projects
| Authors | Aija Lulle, Russell King |
| Year | 2023 |
| Book Title | Handbook on Migration and Ageing |
Life Course Justice and Learning
| Authors | Aija Lulle |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Social Inclusion |
| Citations (WoS) | 1 |
Repertoires of ‘migrant names’: an inquiry into mundane identity production
| Authors | Aija Lulle |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Social & Cultural Geography |
The production of “rhythms of responsibility” for childcare in a post-socialist society
| Authors | Aija Lulle, Jekaterina Kaleja |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Applied Mobilities |
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 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
New perspectives on the agriculture–migration nexus
| Authors | Russell King, Aija Lulle, Emilia Melossi |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Rural Studies |
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 |
Cosmopolitan Encounters: Highly Skilled Latvians in London Problematise Ethnicity and ‘Eastern Europeanness’
| Authors | Aija Lulle |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Intercultural Studies |
‘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 |
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 |
Overcoming “Crisis”: Mobility Capabilities and “stretching” a Migrant Identity among Young Irish in London and Return Migrants
| Authors | Aija Lulle, Liam Coakley, Piaras MacÉinrí |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |
| Citations (WoS) | 1 |
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 |
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 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Children and Borders
| Authors | Aija Lulle |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Borderlands Studies |
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 |
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 |
Grandmothers migrating, working and caring: Latvian women between survival and self-realisation
| Authors | Russell King, Aija Lulle |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Population Horizons | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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 |
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 |
Functional Well-Being and Economic Citizenship
| Authors | Aija Lulle, Russell King |
| Year | 2016 |
| Book Title | Ageing, Gender, and Labour Migration |
Ageing, Gender, and Migration: Theorising Entwined Becomings
| Authors | Aija Lulle, Russell King |
| Year | 2016 |
| Book Title | Ageing, Gender, and Labour Migration | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Ageing Migrants: A New Research Challenge
| Authors | Aija Lulle, Russell King |
| Year | 2016 |
| Book Title | Ageing, Gender, and Labour Migration | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Psychosocial Well-Being, Erotic Agency, and Intimate Citizenship
| Authors | Aija Lulle, Russell King |
| Year | 2016 |
| Book Title | Ageing, Gender, and Labour Migration |
Conclusions, Discussion, and Policy Implications
| Authors | Aija Lulle, Russell King |
| Year | 2016 |
| Book Title | Ageing, Gender, and Labour Migration |
Ageing, Gender and Labour Migration
| Authors | Aija Lulle, Russell King |
| Year | 2016 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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 |
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 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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 |
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 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Spaces of encounter–displacement: contemporary labour migrants' return visits to latvia
| Authors | Aija Lulle |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Research methods for children
| Authors | Aija Lulle |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | International Journal of Social Research Methodology |
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 |
Book review: Saltwater Sociality: A Melanesian Island Ethnography
| Authors | Aija Lulle |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | cultural geographies |
‘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 |
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 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
(Post-)Socialist Housing and Aging in Neoliberal Riga
| Authors | Aija Lulle |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Urban Planning | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Editorial Introduction: Special Section on older-age migrants and sexualities
| Authors | Aija Lulle, Cornelia Schweppe |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Sexualities | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
BALTIC TRIPLETS? OUT-MIGRATION MIGRATION AND RESPONSES TO CRISIS
| Authors | Aija Lulle |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Regional Formation and Development Studies |
Return Migration and Psychosocial Wellbeing
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Revitalising Borders: Memory, Mobility and Materiality in a Latvian-Russian Border Region
| Authors | Aija Lulle |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Culture Unbound | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Zana VATHI and Russell KING (eds), Return migration and psychosocial wellbeing : discourses, policy-making and outcomes for migrants and their families, Abingdon : New York : Routledge, 2017, Routledge research in race and ethnicity, pp. 129-148
| Authors | Russell King, Zana Vathi | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
How return migration becomes a viable option in older age
| Authors | Aija Lulle, Aija Lulle |
| Year | 2025 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |
How return migration becomes a viable option in older age
| Authors | Aija Lulle |
| Year | 2025 |
Ageing, Gender, and Labour Migration
| Authors | Aija Lulle, Russell King |
| Year | 2016 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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 |
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 |
Young EU Migrants in London in the Transition to Brexit
| Authors | Aija Lulle, Laura Moroşanu, Russell King |
| Year | 2022 |
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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 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Visiting migrants: An introduction
| Authors | Md Farid Miah, Russell King, Aija Lulle |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Global Networks |
International Youth Mobility and Life Transitions in Europe: Questions, Definitions, Typologies and Theoretical Approaches
| Authors | Russell King, Aija Lulle, Laura Moroşanu, ... |
| Year | 2016 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |