Rethinking “community” relationally: Polish communities in Scotland before and after Brexit
Journal Article
Botterill, K. (2018)
Rethinking “community” relationally: Polish communities in Scotland before and after Brexit. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12249
Community is a nebulous, contested concept in geography spanning research on social networks, encounters, mobilities, citizenship and belonging. However, its use as a discursi...
One world is not enough: the structured phenomenology of lifestyle migrants in East Asia: One world is not enough
Journal Article
Stones, R., Lee, M., O'Reilly, K., & Botterill, K. (2018)
One world is not enough: the structured phenomenology of lifestyle migrants in East Asia: One world is not enough. British Journal of Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12357
The paper is based on original empirical research into the lifestyle migration of European migrants, primarily British, to Thailand and Malaysia, and of Hong Kong Chinese migr...
Muslim Youth in Scotland: politics, identity and multicultural citizenship
Book Chapter
Botterill, K., Sanghera, G., & Hopkins, P. (2017)
Muslim Youth in Scotland: politics, identity and multicultural citizenship. In P. Hopkins (Ed.), Scotland’s Muslims: Society, Politics and IdentityEdinburgh University Press
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Young people’s everyday securities: pre-emptive and pro-active strategies toward ontological security in Scotland
Journal Article
Botterill, K., Hopkins, P., & Sanghera, G. S. (2017)
Young people’s everyday securities: pre-emptive and pro-active strategies toward ontological security in Scotland. Social and Cultural Geography, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2017.1346197
This paper uses a framework of ‘ontological security’ to discuss the psycho-social strategies of self-securitization employed by ethnic and religious minority young people in ...
Encountering Misrecognition: Being Mistaken for Being Muslim
Journal Article
Hopkins, P., Botterill, K., Sanghera, G., & Arshad, R. (2017)
Encountering Misrecognition: Being Mistaken for Being Muslim. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 107(4), 934-948. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2016.1270192
Exploring both debates about misrecognition and explorations of encounters, this paper focuses upon the experiences of ethnic and religious minority young people who are mista...
Diminished Transnationalism: Growing older and practicing home in Thailand
Book Chapter
Botterill, K. (2016)
Diminished Transnationalism: Growing older and practicing home in Thailand. In K. Walsh, & L. Näre (Eds.), Rethinking Home: Transnational Migration and Older Age, (99-111). Taylor & Francis
No abstract available.
Securing Disunion: young people’s nationalism, identities and (in)securities in the campaign for an independent Scotland
Journal Article
Botterill, K., Hopkins, P., Sanghera, G., & Arshad, R. (2016)
Securing Disunion: young people’s nationalism, identities and (in)securities in the campaign for an independent Scotland. Political Geography, 55, 124-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.09.002
This paper explores ethnic and religious minority youth perspectives of security and nationalism in Scotland during the independence campaign in 2014. We discuss how young pe...
Discordant lifestyle mobilities in East Asia: privilege and precarity of British retirement in Thailand
Journal Article
Botterill, K. (2016)
Discordant lifestyle mobilities in East Asia: privilege and precarity of British retirement in Thailand. Population, Space and Place, 23(5), e2011. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2011
This paper explores the lifestyle mobilities of British retirees in Thailand, drawing on empirical research conducted in 2012. Thailand is a host to a significant number of Br...
"We Don't See Things as They Are, We See Things as We Are": Questioning the "Outsider" in Polish Migration Research
Journal Article
Botterill, K. (2015)
"We Don't See Things as They Are, We See Things as We Are": Questioning the "Outsider" in Polish Migration Research. Forum: Qualitative Social Research / Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, 16(2),
This article offers a reflexive account of conducting research on Polish migration to Scotland from the perspective of the "outsider." The contribution argues for a revision t...
Family and Mobility in Second Modernity: Polish Migrant Narratives of Individualization and Family Life
Journal Article
Botterill, K. (2014)
Family and Mobility in Second Modernity: Polish Migrant Narratives of Individualization and Family Life. Sociology, 48(2), 233-250. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038512474728
This article revisits the individualization debate in the context of Polish migration to the UK. Drawing on empirical research with young Polish migrants in Scotland and Polan...