All Outputs (5)

Measuring Public Attitudes Towards Immigration: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Social Survey Questions (2023)
Journal Article
Biglin, J., & Purdam, K. (in press). Measuring Public Attitudes Towards Immigration: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Social Survey Questions. Sociology, 57(5), 1227-1248. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385221147146

Public attitudes towards immigration and immigrants, captured through social surveys, are widely reported in the media and used to inform political decision making. However, it is important to consider whether public attitudes are being accurately me... Read More about Measuring Public Attitudes Towards Immigration: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Social Survey Questions.

Photovoice as an unfamiliar act of citizenship : everyday belonging, place-making and political subjectivity (2022)
Journal Article
Biglin, J. (2022). Photovoice as an unfamiliar act of citizenship : everyday belonging, place-making and political subjectivity. Citizenship Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2036103

This article draws upon a photovoice project with people seeking asylum and with refugee status in Manchester, UK. It considers the ways in which resistance and political subjectivity can be mobilised by photovoice. The article documents where partic... Read More about Photovoice as an unfamiliar act of citizenship : everyday belonging, place-making and political subjectivity.

Photovoice accounts of borders and homeAsylum seeker and refugee perspectives (2021)
Journal Article
Biglin, J. (2021). Photovoice accounts of borders and homeAsylum seeker and refugee perspectives. #Journal not on list, 20(2), 91-123. https://doi.org/10.21307/borderlands-2021-014

The UK continues to see increasingly restrictive and repressive immigration policies aiming to secure the imagined nation and its citizens, who can claim a genuine right to belong. Underpinning these policies and modes of bordering is a statist frame... Read More about Photovoice accounts of borders and homeAsylum seeker and refugee perspectives.

Photovoice accounts of third places : refugee and asylum seeker populations' experiences of therapeutic space (2021)
Journal Article
Biglin, J. (2021). Photovoice accounts of third places : refugee and asylum seeker populations' experiences of therapeutic space. Health and Place, 71, 102663. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102663

This article draws on a photo-voice project carried out in the North West, UK, with 30 members of the asylum seeker and refugee population. The findings explore participants' experiences of ‘third places’ (for example, public green space and librarie... Read More about Photovoice accounts of third places : refugee and asylum seeker populations' experiences of therapeutic space.

Embodied and sensory experiences of therapeutic space : refugee place-making within an urban allotment (2020)
Journal Article
Biglin, J. (2020). Embodied and sensory experiences of therapeutic space : refugee place-making within an urban allotment. Health and Place, 62, 102309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2020.102309

This article extends theorising on how spaces act therapeutically by using the lens of sensory and embodied ethnography to explore refugee place-making within an urban allotment located in the North West, UK. Findings suggest being physically present... Read More about Embodied and sensory experiences of therapeutic space : refugee place-making within an urban allotment.