Dr Esa Aldegheri holds a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship investigating how unequal narratives and borderings of refugee journeys affect integration, with a focus on Scotland as an internationally relevant case study. This interdisciplinary and multilingual research project uses a combination of qualitative, narrative-based and multilingual research methods, linking academic research with Esa's work as a creative writer and facilitator of community education and integration projects.
Esa previously worked as a Research Associate with the UNESCO Chair for refugee integration through language and the arts (RILA) in the School of Education. In this role she collaborated with the Scottish Government, COSLA and the Scottish Refugee Council to evaluate and develop the latest iteration of the New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy. Her ESRC-funded PhD analysed the influence of narrative exchange on the intercultural encounter between forced migrants and receiving communities in Edinburgh (Scotland) and Torino (Italy).
Esa is the author of Free To Go (John Murray 2022), a travel book exploring the limits of freedom and non-freedom, motorbike journeys, motherhood and more. She is editing a forthcoming anthology of women's travel writing, There She Goes (Saraband 2025). She also co-ordinates and facilitates community arts-base integration projects. One such project (Making it Home, delivered in collaboration with the Refugee Survival Trust and Maryhill Integration Network) was commended by the Scottish Parliament and recently included in the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive.
Prior to being a scholar and writer, Esa worked in the third sector for organisations supporting forced migrants in Italy, Lebanon and Scotland. Her roles includes community education, support and advocacy for detainees, language teaching, fundraising, project management and interpreting between English, Italian, Arabic, French and Spanish.
She is currently Chair of Edinburgh City of Sanctuary.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 5323 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8238-0021 |
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Migration drivers
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Migration infrastructures
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Immigrant policy and law
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Migration policy and law
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Migration research and theory
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Either/Mixed
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Other
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Qualitative research
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University of Glasgow
University, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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University of Glasgow
University, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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University of Glasgow
University, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow
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