Dr Mireille Hebing
PhD (City University London), BSc (Hons) (London South Bank
University)
Lecturer in International relations
Member of the Regent's Centre for Transnational Studies
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Email hebingm@regents.ac.uk
Teaching, Research and
Consultancy
Current teaching: General sociology, social theory, research
methods, migration and refugees, and sociology of race and
racism.
Current research and consultancy interests: refugee lives in the
context of asylum and integration policies; social, cultural and
structural barriers to social inclusion and integration; social
context of public hostility, migrant communities and inequality,
theories of race and ethnicity, narrative theory and methodology,
and migration and refugee studies.
Mireille is currently working on a book based on her PhD
research, and is also involved in a research project on Ecuadorians
in London (in collaboration with Dr. Karem Roitman (Regent’s
College) and Malcolm James (LSE). She is also working on his book
proposal: Refugee Stories in Britain: Narratives of Personal
Experiences in a Network of Power Relations.
Selected recent publications
Book review
(2011, forthcoming) Gerhard Sonnert and Gerald Holton (eds),
HELPING YOUNG REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS SUCCEED: PUBLIC POLICY, AID,
AND EDUCATION. Book reviewed for Ethnic and Racial
Studies.
Conference papers
(2011) ‘Learning to Tell Credible Stories: Refugee Narratives in
the Asylum Procedure’ at Life Writing and Human Rights: Genres of
Testimony organised by Kingston University London and University of
Minnesota.
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