Study name: Migrant, food, languages and identities in the dawn of the post-Brexit and COVID-19 era
Project lead: Dr Petros Karatsareas
Project overview
This project will pilot a participatory sensory ethnographic methodology to study how migrants who work in Greek and Italian food and hospitality businesses use the languages they speak, the knowledge they have about Greek and Italian food, and their social networks of other migrants to respond to the challenges created by Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes restrictions on workers’ migration, emigration of hospitality staff, pandemic-related restrictions on business operation, the impact of the pandemic on workers’ health and well-being as they seek to secure an income and better their financial and social situations of themselves and their families.
The methodological framework of sensory ethnography places the whole experiencing body at its core and innovatively rethinks participatory and collaborative ethnographic research techniques in terms of sensory perception, categories, meaning and values, ways of knowing, and everyday practices. In this project, sensory ethnography will be both researcher- and participant-led in that research materials will be co-produced by both researchers and participants.
Research team
- PI: Dr Petros Karatsareas
- Co-Is: Dr Anna Charalambidou (Middlesex), Dr Siria Guzzo (Salerno), Dr Vally Lytra (Goldsmiths)
- PDRAs: Christina Flora, Giulia Pepe
- Consultant: Kleri Bakoura
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Study name: Makers, advocates, and users of language policy as co-creators of sociolinguistic research: onward migrants in London
Project length: 1 March–31 July 2022
Project overview
This project will establish the linguistic challenges that onward migrants (OMs) face in their everyday lives, the linguistic needs they have, and the extent to which these are known to and met by existing policymakers and policy advocates.
The project team will work closely with the external partners identified above and with focus groups of OMs to produce a policy brief and a research agenda. The policy brief will summarise research findings and provide recommendations for closing the gaps in linguistic support that may currently exist; ways to reach OMs as particular subsets of citizens whose languages are often ignored or rejected by society, and anticipated benefits of doing so.
The research agenda will identify specific avenues for further investigation into the link between language and onward migration, including funding opportunities and details on how the working relationship between the project team and the external partners will be developed in the future.
Research team
- PI: Dr Petros Karatsareas
- Co-Is: Dr Vally Lytra (Goldsmiths), Dr Adriana Patiño-Santos (Southampton), Dr Emmanouil Pratsinakis (Oxford)
- Research fellow: Yara Evans
- PDRAs: Peter Browning, Rexhina Ndoci, Giulia Pepe
- Consultant: Domiziana Turcatti
Partners
- Casa do Brasil Londres
- Latin American House
- Shpresa Programme
- The Embassies/Consulates of Brazil, Colombia and Italy