Alice Bloch

Information:
 Alice Bloch, Professor of Sociology
Specialism:
 Refugee studies and forced migration, the social and economic experiences of refugees and migrants in the UK, methodological issues in carrying out research with refugees and migrants, cross-national and multi-sited research, undocumented migrants-social and economic experiences and human rights, transnational activities, UK asylum and immigration policies and the impact of policies on refugees and asylum seekers
Teaching:
 Undergraduate: Sociological Research Methods, Migration, Refugees and Globalisation
 
Postgraduate: Introduction to Refugee Studies, Survey Research Methods, Approaches to Social Research
Location:
 Social Sciences Building, Room D604
Tel:
 020-7040-8517
Fax:
 020-7040-8580
Email:
 a.bloch@city.ac.uk
Office Hours:
 Tuesday 3-4; Wednesday 10.30-11.30; Thursday 10.30-11.30
Administration:
 Programme Director MSc Social Research Methods (all pathways); Chair of Departmental Research Committee

Alice joined the Department of Sociology at City University in 2003. Her research interests are in the areas of refugee studies, migration and research with hidden and/or vulnerable groups. She has undertaken a number of research projects including research for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) exploring access and barriers to the labour market for refugees in the UK; and with the International Organisation for Migration examining the economic lives and transnational activities of Zimbabweans in the UK and South Africa. Her current research, a partnership with Professor Roger Zetter at the Refugee Studies Centre Oxford, is a study exploring the lives and experiences of young undocumented migrants and is funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. The research will underpin one strand of their Social Justice Programme, launched in October 2006.


Alice Bloch is currently writing a book with Sarah Neal (Open University) and John Solomos Race, Multiculture and Social Policy, to be published by Palgrave Macmillan and co-editing a special issue, with Milena Chimienti, of Ethnic and Racial Studies, ‘Undocumented migrants: Policy, politics motives and everyday lives.

Recent Publications

Books

  • 2010: Race and Ethnicity in the 21st Century Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (co-edited with John Solomos)
  • 2002: Refugee Migration and Settlement in Britain, Basingstoke, Palgrave.
  • 1999: Refugees, Citizenship and Social Policy in Europe, Basingstoke, Macmillan (co-edited with C. Levy).

Research Monograph and Reports

  • 2009 ‘No Right to Dream’: The social and economic lives of young undocumented migrants in Britain’, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, London (with Sigona, N. and Zetter, R.) http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/yum/
  • 2007: Research into Undocumented Migrants: Scoping Study Report, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, London (with Zetter, R., Sigona, N. and Ashami, M.) http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/yum/
  • 2005: The Development of Potential Zimbabweans in the Diaspora: A Survey of Zimbabweans living in the UK and South Africa, Migration Research Series, No. 17, Geneva: International Organisation for Migration.
  • 2002: Refugees’ Opportunities and Barriers to Training and Employment, Research Report, 179, Leeds: Department for Work and Pensions.
  • 2002: The Professional Capacity of Somali Nationals in Britain, London: Refugee Action and the International Organisation for Migration, pp. 60, (with G. Atfield).

Guest Editor of Special Issues of Journals

  • 2002: Critical Social Policy, ‘Asylum and Welfare’, Vol. 22, No. 3, (with L. Schuster)
  • 2000: Journal of Refugee Studies ‘Changing Asylum Policies in Europe’, Vol. 13, No.1, (with L. Schuster and T. Galvin).

Other

  • 2008: ‘Gaps in Protection: Undocumented Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa’, Migration Studies Working Paper Series, Number 38, Forced Migration Studies Programme, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, pp. 19. 
  • Bloch, A (2004) Making it Work: Refugee emplyment in the UK, Asylum and Migration Working Paper 2, London: Institute for Public Policy Research.

Refereed Journal Articles

  • 2010 (forthcoming) ‘The Right to Rights? Undocumented migrants from Zimbabwe living in South Africa’, Sociology Vol. 44, No. 2.
  • 2008:‘Zimbabweans in Britain: Transnational activities and capabilities’ Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp 287-305.
  • 2008: Refugees in the UK labour market: The contention between economic integration and policy-led labour market restriction’, Journal of Social Policy, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 21-36.
  • 2007: ‘Methodological Challenges for National and Multi-sited Comparative Survey Research’, Journal of Refugee Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2. pp.230-247.
  • 2006: ‘Emigration from Zimbabwe: Migrant perspectives’, Social Policy and Administration, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 67-87.
  • 2005: ‘Asylum policy under New Labour’ Benefits, pp. 116-118 (with L. Schuster).
  • 2005: ‘At the Extremes of Exclusion: Deportation, Detention and Dispersal’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, pp. 491-512, (with L. Schuster).
  • 2004: ‘Survey Research with Refugees: A Methodological Perspective’, Policy Studies, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 139-151.
  • 2004: ‘Labour market participation and conditions of employment: A comparison of minority ethnic groups and refugees in Britain’, Sociological Research Online, http://www.socresonline.org.uk/9/2/bloch.html
  • 2002: ‘Asylum and Welfare: Contemporary debates’ Critical Social Policy, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 393-414, (with L. Schuster).
  • 2001: ‘The Importance of Convention Status: A Case Study of the UK’, Sociological Research Online, http://www.socresonline.org.uk/6/1/bloch.html
  • 2000: ‘Refugee women in Europe: Some aspects of the legal and policy dimensions’, International Migration, Vol. 38, No. 2. pp. 169-190, (with T. Galvin and B. Harrell-Bond).
  • 2000 ‘Changing Asylum Policies in Europe’, Journal of Refugee Studies, Vol. 13, No.1, pp. 1-11, (with T. Galvin and L. Schuster).
  • 2000: ‘Refugee settlement in Britain: The impact of policy on participation’, (2000) Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 75-88.
  • 2000: ‘A new era or more of the same: Asylum policy in the UK’, Journal of Refugee Studies, Vol.13, No.1, 29-42.

Chapters in Edited Books

  • ‘Key questions in the sociology of race and ethnicity’, Bloch, A. and Solomos, J. in Race and Ethnicity in the 21st Century Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (co-edited with John Solomos)
     ‘Race and Ethnicity in Britain: Into the 21st’, Century, Bloch, A. and Solomos, J. in Race and Ethnicity in the 21st Century Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (co-edited with John Solomos)
  • 2008: 'Migrants and Asylum Seekers' in Alcock, P. et al (eds) Social Policy Companion. Oxford: Blackwell
  • 2008: 'Barriers to the labour market: refugees in Britian in McKay', S. (ed.) Refugees, recent migrants and employment: challenging barrier and exploring pathways. London: Routledge
  • 2006: ‘The Development Potential of Zimbabweans in the Diaspora: A Survey of Zimbabweans living in the UK and South Africa’ pp. 121-206 in Migration for Development: Within and beyond Frontiers Geneva: International Organisation for Migration (reproduced monograph).
  • 2005: ‘Refugee Women in the Labour market: The UK case’, in Waxman, P. and Colic-Peisker, V. (eds) Homeland Wanted: Interdisciplinary perspectives on the refugee resettlement in the West, Nova Publishers: USA, ISBN 1-59454-266-X.
  • 2004: ‘Doing social surveys’, in Seale. C. (ed.) Researching Society and Culture (2nd edition), London: Sage, ISBN 0-7619-4196-7.
  • 2004: ‘Statistical reasoning: from one to two variables’, in Seale. C. (ed.) Researching Society and Culture (2nd edition), London: Sage, ISBN 0-7619-4196-7.
  • 2001: ‘Refugee women, children and families in Europe’, in Schmid, A. P. (ed.) Immigration Policy: A search for balance in Europe, Driebergen: Netherlands, (with T. Galvin and B. Harrell-Bond).
  • 2000: ‘It’s not working: Refugee employment and urban regeneration’, in Kershen, A.(ed.) Language, Labour and Migration, Aldershot: Ashgate, ISBN 0-7546-1171-X