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.

Roles

  • 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
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1 Journal Article

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
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2 Journal Article

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
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3 Journal Article

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
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4 Journal Article

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
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5 Journal Article

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
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7 Journal Article

Homeland (Dis)Integrations: Educational Experience, Children and Return Migration to Albania

Authors Zana Vathi, Veronika Duci, Elona Dhembo
Year 2016
Journal Name International Migration
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9 Journal Article

‘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
11 Journal Article

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
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12 Journal Article

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
13 Journal Article

Local identities, identification and incorporation of Albanian immigrants in Florence

Authors Zana Vathi
Year 2012
Journal Name Modern Italy
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14 Journal Article

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
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15 Journal Article

Transnational Ties and Attitudes Towards Return

Authors Zana Vathi
Book Title Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World
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16 Book Chapter

Intergenerational Transmission of Ethnic Identity, Integration and Transnational Ties

Authors Zana Vathi
Book Title Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World
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17 Book Chapter

A Cross-generational Assessment of Identification, Integration and Transnational Ties

Authors Zana Vathi
Book Title Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World
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18 Book Chapter

Introduction

Authors Zana Vathi
Book Title Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World
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20 Book Chapter

Integration: National, City and Local Perspectives

Authors Zana Vathi
Book Title Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World
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21 Book Chapter

Identities of the First and Second Generation: The Role of Ethnicity

Authors Zana Vathi
Book Title Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World
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22 Book Chapter

Suggested Research

Barriers to (Re)integration: The Roma Return to the Western

Authors Zana Vathi
Year 2019
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3 Working Paper

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
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5 Journal Article

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
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6 Journal Article

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
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7 Journal Article

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
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9 Journal Article
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