Prof Lisa Scullion's Outputs (28)

The impact of conditionality on the welfare rights of EU migrants in the UK (2018)
Journal Article

This paper highlights and explores how conditionality operating at three levels (the EU supra-national level, the UK national level and in migrants’ mundane ‘street level’ encounters with social security administrators), come together to restrict and... Read More about The impact of conditionality on the welfare rights of EU migrants in the UK.

Ensuring the right to education for Roma children : an Anglo-Swedish perspective (2017)
Journal Article
Harris, N., Ryffe, D., Scullion, L., & Stendahl, S. (2017). Ensuring the right to education for Roma children : an Anglo-Swedish perspective. International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 31(2), 230-267. https://doi.org/10.1093/lawfam/ebx001

Access to public education systems has tended to be below normative levels where Roma children are concerned. Various long-standing social, cultural, and institutional factors lie behind the lower levels of engagement and achievement of Roma children... Read More about Ensuring the right to education for Roma children : an Anglo-Swedish perspective.

Welfare conditionality and disabled people in the UK: claimants' perspectives (2017)
Journal Article

In order to fully understand the impact of the extension of conditionality in the UK to include people with impairments, it is vital to give voice to those with direct experience of the welfare system. The case studies that follow are taken from inte... Read More about Welfare conditionality and disabled people in the UK: claimants' perspectives.

Changing homelessness services : revanchism, ‘professionalisation’ and resistance (2014)
Journal Article
Scullion, L., Somerville, P., Brown, P., & Morris, G. (2015). Changing homelessness services : revanchism, ‘professionalisation’ and resistance. Health and Social Care in the Community, 23(4), 419-427. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12159

This paper argues that the increasing international salience of homelessness can be partially explained by reference to the revanchist thesis (involving processes of coerced exclusion and abjection), but the situation on the ground is more complex. I... Read More about Changing homelessness services : revanchism, ‘professionalisation’ and resistance.

Migrant Roma in the United Kingdom and the need to estimate population size (2014)
Journal Article
Brown, P., Martin, P., & Scullion, L. (2014). Migrant Roma in the United Kingdom and the need to estimate population size. People, Place and Policy, 8(1), 19-33. https://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.0008.0001.0003

Within the political framework of the European Union (EU), there has been long standing recognition that the on-going exclusion of Roma represents a key challenge for human rights, justice and social inclusion agendas. By introducing a requirement fo... Read More about Migrant Roma in the United Kingdom and the need to estimate population size.

The UK migrant cap, migrant mobility and employer implications (2013)
Journal Article
Scullion, L., & Pemberton, S. (2013). The UK migrant cap, migrant mobility and employer implications. International Migration, 53(2), 291-302. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12068

Advocates of the “borderless world” thesis suggest that migrant workers can benefit from employment opportunities available everywhere, with workers simply migrating towards these opportunities. However, as global inequalities widen and potential glo... Read More about The UK migrant cap, migrant mobility and employer implications.

Young people living in the YMCA (2011)
Journal Article
Somerville, P., Brown, P., Morris, G., & Scullion, L. (2011). Young people living in the YMCA. Social Policy and Society, 10(4), 559-570. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746411000303

This article presents interim findings and reflections from a case study of multiple excluded homeless people in Stoke-on-Trent. The article focuses on the experiences reported by a group of twelve such people living in the YMCA hostel. From the inte... Read More about Young people living in the YMCA.

Women asylum seekers and refugees: Opportunities, constraints and the role of agency (2008)
Journal Article
constraints and the role of agency. Social Policy and Society, 7, 281-292. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746408004260

This article is based on the findings of research undertaken towards a doctoral thesis funded by the University of Leeds. The research focuses upon the actions and experiences of women asylum seekers and refugees living inWest Yorkshire. While acknow... Read More about Women asylum seekers and refugees: Opportunities, constraints and the role of agency.