Author name: Evelyn Miller

Why some migrants are deemed more deserving than others in Global Britain- Open Decomcracy

Who do we think we are? alumni, Nando Sigona, and host, Michaela Benson​, recently co-authored a blog post explaining how Foreign policy determines why migrants from Hong Kong got a better deal than Syrians or Ukrainians. Read the blogpost Why some migrants are deemed more deserving than others in Global Britain. You can also listen …

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Podcasting the Sociological

Why does the world need a sociological podcast? Why now? And what does podcasting offer for a public and engaged sociology? These questions and more were explored in Podcasting the Sociological, the launch event for Uncommon Sense, the new podcast from The Sociological Review. The event, held on 10 May 2022, allowed viewers to find …

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Connected Sociologies: ‘Global Britain’ and the coloniality of British citizenship

Citizenship is commonly understood as offering equal rights. But looking into the history of this shows the struggles that accompanied this, the populations written out of the claim to these equal rights, and the global inequalities this produced in its wake. In this lecture, I consider ‘the coloniality of citizenship’ in the case of Britain’s …

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