Dr Alina Dolea is Associate Professor in Strategic Communication and Public Diplomacy and Head of School of Law and Society at Bournemouth University. Her expertise covers public diplomacy and diaspora diplomacy, nation branding, migration, and media studies. She published Twenty years of (re)branding post-communist Romania. Actors, discourses, perspectives - 1990-2010, Branding Romania (co-author) and several journals and chapters. Her current research explores how emotions and non-state actors shape public diplomacy, sometimes reinforcing other times contesting state's strategic communication and soft power. She focuses particularly on Romanian diasporas, examining how their transnational existence not only foster cultural and political influence across borders, but also reshape and disrupt diplomatic engagement and state narratives. As a Research Fellow at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, Dr Dolea published research advancing scholarship on diaspora diplomacy, emotions and disruption. She submitted written evidences to the UK Parliament on issues of displacement, trauma of migration, complex vulnerabilities of migrants that were published in committee's reports. Dr Dolea founded and chairs the Advisory Council on Romanian Diaspora in the UK, an independent, apolitical, evidence-based and equity led organization (www.acord.uk) gathering experts within a diaspora diplomacy framework to advance a proportionate and balanced representation of Romanians in the public discourse in the UK.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 6770 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4784-2443 |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/alinadolea/ | |
| Researcher ID | HIR-3164-2022 |
| ResearchGate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alina-Dolea |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
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Migration infrastructures
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
- Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
- Cultural identity and belonging
- Attitudes, migration and migrants
- Media representations of migration
- Migrants in sports, arts, leisure
- Ethnic, religious and national minorities
- Migrants and religion
- Diasporas and transnational communities
- Descendants of migrants
- Upbringing of children and migration
- Migrants' language skills
- Intergroup relations and contact
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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
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Immigrant policy and law
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Migration policy and law
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Governance processes
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
Methods
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Qualitative research
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Quantitative research
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Types of study
Geographies
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Scope
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UN Countries
Roles
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Bournemouth University
University, Poole, United Kingdom
Associate Professor in Strategic Communication and Public Diplomacy -
The Advisory Council on Romanian Diaspora in the UK
Non-governmental Organisation, United Kingdom
Chair
Research
The Romanian Diaspora's Contributions to the British Economy and Society
| Authors | Alina Dolea, Adina Maglan, Ruxandra Trandafoiu, ... |
| Description | |
| Year | 2026 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Hierarchies of othering: Public discourses about Ukrainian refugees and immigrants in Romania
| Authors | Alina Dolea, Anabella Beju, Arthur Suciu |
| Year | 2026 |
| Book Title | Ukrainian Refugees in Central and Eastern Europe: public debates, strategic narratives and practices | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Diaspora Diplomacy, Emotions, and Disruption: A Conceptual and Analytical Framework
| Authors | Alina Dolea |
| Year | 2024 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Ethnicity, Identity, and Branding in Postcommunist Romania
| Authors | Alina Dolea, Arthur Suciu |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Threats, truths and strategies: The overlooked relationship between protests, nation branding and public diplomacy
| Authors | César Jiménez‐Martínez, Alina Dolea, Alina Dolea |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Nations and Nationalism |
The invisible luggage of the displaced: emotions, trauma and public diplomacy
| Authors | Alina Dolea |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | PLACE BRANDING AND PUBLIC DIPLOMACY |
| Citations (WoS) | 2 |
Transnational diaspora diplomacy, emotions and COVID-19: the Romanian diaspora in the UK
| Authors | Alina Dolea |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | PLACE BRANDING AND PUBLIC DIPLOMACY |
| Citations (WoS) | 9 |
Country images and identities in times of populism: Swiss media discourses on the ‘stop mass immigration’ initiative
| Authors | Alina Dolea, Diana Ingenhoff, Anabella Beju |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | International Communication Gazette | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Impact of Migration on the Construction of Romania's Country Image: Two Intersecting Public Problem
| Authors | Alina Dolea |
| Year | 2018 |
| Book Title | Debating Migration as a Public Problem: National Publics and Transnational Field | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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