Dr Zana Vathi has been conducting research in the field of migration since 2005. She is Reader/Associate Professor in Social Sciences at Edge Hill University in the UK. She was trained at the University of Sussex where she completed her PhD in Migration Studies in 2011. Dr Vathi is an expert in qualitative migration studies with fieldwork experience in in over 6 countries and with various migrant groups.
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| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9091-8637 |
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Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
Migration governance
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Immigrant policy and law
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Migration policy and law
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Governance processes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Methods
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Qualitative research
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Types of study
Geographies
Roles
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Edge Hill University
University, Ormskirk, United Kingdom
Reader/Associate Professor in Social Sciences
Research
Getting on regardless? The tripartite model of migrants’ welcome in the context of urban inequalities and diversification
| Authors | Zana Vathi, Samantha Carney |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Cognitive Remittances and the Reintegration ‘Hump’: Changing Self-Perceptions and Positionality among Roma Returnees in Albania and Kosovo
| Authors | Zana Vathi, Russell King, Ilir Gedeshi |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Journal of International Migration and Integration |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Agency in waiting? Everyday tactics of asylum seekers and refugees in Glasgow
| Authors | Niroshan Ramachandran, Zana Vathi |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | European Journal of Social Work |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Editorial Introduction: The Shifting Geopolitics of Return Migration and Reintegration
| Authors | Zana Vathi, Russell King, Barak Kalir |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Journal of International Migration and Integration |
| Citations (WoS) | 8 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Emplacing Some, Displacing Others: Ethnic Minority Enterprises as Critical Urban Infrastructure in Lodge Lane, Liverpool
| Authors | Zana Vathi, Kathy Burrell |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 1 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The making and unmaking of an urban diaspora: The role of the physical environment and materialities in belongingness, displacement and mobilisation in Toxteth, Liverpool
| Authors | Zana Vathi, Kathy Burrell |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Urban Studies |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Social protection and return migration: trans-national and trans-temporal developmental gaps in the Albania-Greece migration corridor
| Authors | Zana Vathi, Veronika Duci, Elona Dhembo |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Migration and Development |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Making other dreams: The impact of migration on the psychosocial wellbeing of Albanian-origin children and young people upon their families' return to Albania
| Authors | Zana Vathi, Veronika Duci |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Childhood |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Homeland (Dis)Integrations: Educational Experience, Children and Return Migration to Albania
| Authors | Zana Vathi, Veronika Duci, Elona Dhembo |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
A (home)land with a sea: the leisure and tourism in the Western Balkans of Kosovan migrants and their children living in London
| Authors | Zana Vathi |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | LEISURE STUDIES |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
‘Have you got theBritísh?’: narratives of migration and settlement among Albanian-origin immigrants in London
| Authors | Zana Vathi, Russell King |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 4 |
Qualitative Methods in Migration Studies: A Critical Realist Perspective
| Authors | Zana Vathi |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 1 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Transnational Orientation, Cosmopolitanism and Integration among Albanian-Origin Teenagers in Tuscany
| Authors | Zana Vathi |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 9 |
Local identities, identification and incorporation of Albanian immigrants in Florence
| Authors | Zana Vathi |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | Modern Italy |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Return Visits of the Young Albanian Second Generation in Europe: Contrasting Themes and Comparative Host-Country Perspectives
| Authors | Zana Vathi, Russell King |
| Year | 2011 |
| Journal Name | Mobilities |
| Citations (WoS) | 15 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Transnational Ties and Attitudes Towards Return
| Authors | Zana Vathi |
| Book Title | Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Intergenerational Transmission of Ethnic Identity, Integration and Transnational Ties
| Authors | Zana Vathi |
| Book Title | Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
A Cross-generational Assessment of Identification, Integration and Transnational Ties
| Authors | Zana Vathi |
| Book Title | Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World
| Authors | Zana Vathi |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Introduction
| Authors | Zana Vathi |
| Book Title | Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Integration: National, City and Local Perspectives
| Authors | Zana Vathi |
| Book Title | Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Identities of the First and Second Generation: The Role of Ethnicity
| Authors | Zana Vathi |
| Book Title | Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
Local Identities, Identification and Incorporation of Albanian Immigrants in Florence
| Authors | Zana Vathi |
| Year | 2010 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Migration stigma: understanding prejudice, discrimination, and exclusion Migration stigma: understanding prejudice, discrimination, and exclusion , by Yan, L.H., Eger, M. A., and Link, B. G., Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, xii + 253 pp, $70, ISBN 978-0-262-54812-0
| Authors | Zana Vathi |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Barriers to (Re)integration: The Roma Return to the Western
| Authors | Zana Vathi |
| Year | 2019 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
New Brits? Migration and Settlement of Albanian-Origin Immigrants in London
| Authors | Zana Vathi |
| Year | 2010 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Social Connection, (Im)material Gains and Experiences of Inclusion of Asylum Seekers’ and Refugees’ Volunteering in Glasgow
| Authors | Niroshan Ramachandran, Zana Vathi |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Journal of International Migration and Integration |
| Citations (WoS) | 3 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
A post‐national EU diaspora? Political mobilization of EU citizens in the UK post‐Brexit
| Authors | Zana Vathi, Ruxandra Trandafoiu |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Global Networks |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Re-Discovering the Importance of Citizenship Through Immigrants' Experiences: Naturalization and Political Integration in Padua, Italy
| Authors | Zana Vathi, Eriselda Shkopi |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Review of European and Russian Affairs |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
A Case of Bottom-Up, Slow, and Ongoing Political Integration? Naturalised Albanians in Italy
| Authors | Eriselda Shkopi, Zana Vathi |
| Year | 2016 |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The politics of EU diaspora in the UK post-Brexit: civic organisations’ multi-scalar lobbying and mobilisation strategies
| Authors | Zana Vathi, Ruxandra Trandafoiu |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | European Political Science |
| Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Return Migration and Psychosocial Wellbeing: Discourses, Policy-Making and Outcomes for Migrants and their Families
| Authors | Zana Vathi, Russell King |
| Year | 2017 |
| 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 |