Selin Sivis
selinsivis.bsky.social
Selin Sivis
@selinsivis.bsky.social
Research Fellow, University of Sussex | Interdisciplinary Researcher on Migration, Inequality and Work
📢 Young Professionals with Migrant Parents - We want to hear from you!

Please help us circulate our call within your networks!

@lauramorosanu.bsky.social

#LeverhulmeTrust #UniversityofSussex #secondgeneration #migrantparents #workplacerecognition #youngprofessionals #workplaceinteractions #UK
November 13, 2025 at 8:06 AM
📢📢📢 Young Professionals with Migrant Parents - Want to Hear from You!

We're looking for participants!

Interested?

See details below.👇

@lauramorosanu.bsky.social #ResearchStudy #ShareYourStory #WorkplaceInclusion #YouthVoices #SecondGeneration #MigrantOriginYouthUK #UniversityofSussex
September 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
📢 New publiction alert! I'm excited to share our latest research article, coauthored with colleagues from @bristoluni.bsky.social @arc-west.bsky.social:"Exploring experiences of reasonble adjustments in cancer care among patients with disabilites and their carers."
@sussexfss.bsky.social #openaccess
Exploring experiences of reasonable adjustments in cancer care among patients with disabilities and their carers: A focus group study in South West England
The UK Equality Act 2010 mandates equal access to healthcare for people with disabilities. For those with disabilities who have also been diagnosed wi…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Excited to share that I’ll be co-presenting at the 9th Regulating for Decent Work Conference next week at the ILO in Geneva!

Together with Gizem Karslı, we’ll talk about our paper: "Precarious Work, Precarious Futures: Trade Unions, Refugee Labour, and the Politics of Return." #RDW2025
9th Regulating for Decent Work Conference
www.ilo.org
June 30, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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In last month's white paper, the government said it will introduce changes to make it harder to obtain permanent residence in the UK.

Our new commentary looks at how many people could be covered by the changes and their potential impact on migrants.

migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/co...
Changes to settlement: what do they mean? - Migration Observatory
This commentary examines the potential impacts of the recent Immigration White Paper.
migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk
June 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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🚨 We're hiring!

Oxford Sociology is looking for a Departmental Lecturer to teach on our MSc - leading on the qualitative methods and political & civil conflict papers, as well as supervising dissertations.

Apply by 30 May ✍️ my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
May 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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5th panel: Unmasking 'mainstream' politics--Tues @ 15:30 with @franamery.bsky.social, @aurelmondon.bsky.social, @mikebankole.bsky.social and
@selinsivis.bsky.social. Themes:
April 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Just over a month until our webinar on collaborative, responsive #qualitative research: The Clip-Q approach.

Join the nearly 300 people who've already booked!

🗓️6 March 10-11am

Hear from @jhorwood.bsky.social Joanna Kesten, Ava Lorenc and Mairead Murphy
#Quali
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Collaborative, responsive qualitative research: The CLIP-Q approach
Join ARC West’s Behavioural and Qualitative Science Team to find out more about their CLIP-Q approach to rapid qualitative research.
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February 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Thrilled to see the impact of our research project! Exciting results and meaningful insights—more to come! 📢📊 #Research #Impact
🎶We have evaluated Dovetail Orchestra, a community music group for refugees in Bristol.

❓Did being involved in the orchestra improve mental health and wellbeing for the refugees involved?

👇Download our research summary to find out.
bit.ly/3EgiUQ9
January 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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🎶We have evaluated Dovetail Orchestra, a community music group for refugees in Bristol.

❓Did being involved in the orchestra improve mental health and wellbeing for the refugees involved?

👇Download our research summary to find out.
bit.ly/3EgiUQ9
January 29, 2025 at 8:31 AM
📢Publication Alert📢Excited to announce our new paper published in Migration Studies @OxfordJournal, co-authored with @h2020mirror team: @VerenaKBrandle @jamoeberl.bsky.social, H. Boomgaarden, S. Wyatt, K. Braun, I. Metwally. #openaccess #migration #aspirations
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‘Europe was a dream for me. This dream came true but remains unfulfilled at the same time’: Navigating life aspirations among forced migrants in Austria and Italy
Abstract. In this article, we analyse the interplay between forced migrants’ retrospective expectations and their current experiences in the host country,
academic.oup.com
July 17, 2024 at 12:22 PM
📢New Publication! Thrilled to witness the progress of our
@h2020mirror project with colleagues in Birmingham & Vienna @jamoeberl.bsky.social

Check out: Oscillating Between Hope and Despair: Understanding Migrants’ Reflections on Ambivalence in ‘Transit’
Oscillating Between Hope and Despair: Understanding Migrants’ Reflections on Ambivalence in ‘Transit’
This paper investigates the under-explored question of how migrants in so-called ‘transit countries’ make sense of migration aspirations. Drawing from recent scholarship on migration-related ambiva...
www.tandfonline.com
April 29, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Can a community music group improve #MentalHealth for asylum seekers and refugees in #Bristol?

Music has a remarkable power to uplift spirits and foster a sense of belonging. Excited to be part of this project!

Project tinyurl.com/4cfdpc6h

Dovetail Orchestra dovetailorchestra.org.uk
Dovetail Orchestra: Can a community music group improve mental health for asylum seekers and refugees in Bristol? - ARC West
The Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reports 108 million people were forcibly displaced by the end of 2022. As of November 2022, the UK was home to: 231,597 refugees 127,421 people...
arc-w.nihr.ac.uk
April 24, 2024 at 8:57 AM
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An interesting short-term Fellowship in Urban Studies at the University of Antwerp with facilities and expenses covered. Open to scholars of all levels: jobs.apeng.uantwerpen.be/psc/apeng/?c...
April 23, 2024 at 7:58 AM
Just received my copy of the Integration of Refugees in the Education and Labour Markets, edited by Marta Pachocka, Karolina Sobczak-Szelc and Justyna Szalańska. Happy to see my contribution with a chapter on the gaps between the formulation and implementation of labour market integration policies
December 6, 2023 at 3:01 PM
A very important piece of work on the UK Government's new plan to cut net migration
'Just the rich can do it': our research shows how immigration income requirements devastate families
The new proposals will be devastating to any British citizen who falls in love with a foreign partner.
theconversation.com
December 6, 2023 at 9:58 AM
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New paper with Abel Escribà Folch, studying the logic of autocrats' recruiting foreign legionnaires, out in Democratization. Legionnaire recruitment is associated with increased personalization and decreases the risk of coup attempts and mass protests. Available open access!
The dictator’s legionnaires: foreign recruitment, coups, and uprisings
Several countries recruit foreign nationals into their armed forces. This is despite the norm of citizen armies and the strong idea that individuals join the military to defend their home country w...
doi.org
November 15, 2023 at 11:35 AM
Unfortunately, securing a permanent position at a well-known university is not sufficient reason for Home Office to bring one's child to the UK...

‘Unthinkable cruelty’: Kenyan expert working at Bristol University denied visa for six-year-old daughter
‘Unthinkable cruelty’: Kenyan expert working at Bristol University denied visa for six-year-old ...
Furious colleagues denounce decision that there are ‘no compassionate grounds’ to allow the child to join her mother
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2023 at 2:58 PM
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Two weeks left to submit your proposal for the Migration Politics Residential Fellowship!

If you have a great idea for a research paper, submit your proposal - and come spend a week with us in Amsterdam or Glasgow to turn that great idea into a great paper.

migrationpolitics.org/call-for-pap...
Call for papers: 2024 author fellowship in residence
The editorial team of the journal Migration Politics warmly welcome paper proposals for our authors’ fellowship in residence programme. We are seeking submissions from scholars conducting innovative...
migrationpolitics.org
October 31, 2023 at 10:29 AM
Fresh off the press! Thrilled to see that this joint manuscript is finally out! Through an interdisciplinary lens, we have investigated the link between protracted displacement and housing systems in intermediary cities with a specific focus on the case of Syrians in Torbalı, Izmir, Türkiye.
Protracted displacement and housing systems in intermediary cities: the case of Syrians in Torbalı,...
This article investigates the dynamics of complex housing systems within the context of large-scale protracted displacement in Turkey/Türkiye. It presents new empirical findings from a qualitative .....
www.tandfonline.com
October 23, 2023 at 9:16 AM