Intersectional analysis of the issue of migration in Wales.
A Welcoming Nation? addresses current debates around migration in, from, and through Wales. It includes a range of migratory perspectives to better understand the diverse lived experiences of migrants, and the policies, measures, and approaches at work across various scales and sectors in Wales that shape their everyday lives. The volume adopts an intersectional approach to explore these experiences, which is central to understanding the multiple and complex ways in which exclusion and marginalization take place. To this end, the volume is not just a book about migration, but a way in which migratory experiences and statuses can intersect with other factors such as age, gender, race, and sexuality. This volume draws on new and emerging work to understand migration in Wales, including contributors from various career stages and different disciplines.
Series foreword
Acknowledgments
List of illustrations, figures and tables
List of abbreviations
List of contributors
Chapter One Rethinking Migration and Diversity in Wales: Towards an
Intersectional Approach
Catrin Wyn Edwards, Laura Shobiye and Rhys Dafydd Jones
Chapter Two International Migration and the Welsh Language: Exploring an
Interdisciplinary Framework for Linguistic Integration
Gwennan Higham
Chapter Three Speak to Me: A Creative and Participatory Approach to
Language Education for Inclusion
Barrie Llewelyn and Mike Chick
Chapter Four From City to Nation of Sanctuary? Moving Scalar Imaginaries of
Citizenship and National Identity in Wales
Franz Bernhardt, Catrin Wyn Edwards and Rhys Dafydd Jones
Chapter Five Creating a Welcoming Nation in a Hostile Environment: LGBTQ+
Precarious Experiences
Ourania Vamvaka-Tatsi
Chapter Six Mothers Narratives of Transitions and Resilience Through
Social Learning
Laura Shobiye
Chapter Seven EU Migrants in Wales: Still Welcome?
Stephen Drinkwater, Taulant Guma, Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins and Rhys
Dafydd Jones
Chapter Eight Ageing and Migration into Rural Wales: A Counter-Narrative to
the Rhetoric of Burden and Dependency
Jesse Heley and Rachel Rahman
Rhys Dafydd Jones works at the Department of Geography & Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University.
Catrin Wyn Edwards is a lecturer in the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University. She is an expert on migration, sanctuary and nationalism. Catrin convenes Migration Research Wales, a WISERD research network.
Laura Shobiye is a Lecturer in Social policy and Practice at Cardiff Metropolitan University. Her research specialisms are race and migration, particularly refugee education and the intersectionality of race and gender. She is an active member of both the Welsh Refugee Coalition and the Migration Research Wales Network, and a co-founder of the UK's National Centre for Research Method's collaborative and participatory special interest group; she is also a trustee for the Birth Partner Project and the Bevan Foundation in Wales.
