Centre for Research on Children and Families Seminar Series

We’re pleased to confirm our series of lunchtime, online seminars is back for Spring 2024, showcasing the latest and thought provoking research on children and families.

Details on upcoming events are listed below and you can register to join for free using the links provided.

 

Polish Children in Post-Brexit UK: Doing More-than-Human Transnational Families amidst a Hostile Environment

Speaker: Thi Bogossian, Teaching Fellow in Global Development, UEA

Wednesday 01 May | 12-1pm | MS Teams
 
Migrant and ethnic minority children grow up having to negotiate multiple spaces of belonging, which sometimes involves transnational ties with their parents homeland. This issue becomes more salient when anti-immigration rhetoric and exclusionary immigration policies shape the experiences of these children. In the case of the United Kingdom, the Brexit referendum is described as the culmination of a long process of development of a hostile environment against migrant and ethnic minorities. This presentation draws from my PhD research, which explores how 9–11-year-old Polish children negotiate their ethnic identity amidst this hostile environment. In this context, children develop their sense of belonging by referring to spaces and relationships in Poland, which extend beyond their human relatives and friends to encompass more-than-human actors, including pets and farm animals, the natural landscape, and material objects. Through references to these transnational links, children extend the concepts of home and family beyond human-centred and national boundaries, but also see Brexit as an external force that disrupts their possibilities of living transnational lives.
 
Thi Bogossian (pronouns: they/them) is a Teaching Fellow in Global Development at the University of East Anglia and a final-year PhD student in Sociology at the University of Surrey. They’re interested in issues of issues of education and difference (social reproduction, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, gender identity, migration), children, childhood, and youth, migration, racism, and qualitative and feminist methodology. Thi has submitted their thesis and is now waiting for the viva.

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