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Eastern European Youth Identities in Uncertain Times (2018)
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Moskal, M., Sime, D., Tyrrell, N., McMellon, C., & Kelly, C. (2018). Eastern European Youth Identities in Uncertain Times. Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

Young people talked about several factors that were important to their sense of identity. Some key dimensions of their identities were related to being young migrants, their nationality and transnational relationships with family and friends and also... Read More about Eastern European Youth Identities in Uncertain Times.

Why do Christian churches, and not universities, facilitate intercultural engagement for Chinese international students? (2018)
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Yu, Y., & Moskal, M. (2019). Why do Christian churches, and not universities, facilitate intercultural engagement for Chinese international students?. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 68, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2018.10.006

The paper offers new, significant insights into the Church engagement experiences of Chinese international students in the UK. Based on a mixed-method research and focusing on a group of international Chinese students participating in local Christian... Read More about Why do Christian churches, and not universities, facilitate intercultural engagement for Chinese international students?.

Gendered differences in international graduates’ mobility, identity and career development (2018)
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Moskal, M. (2020). Gendered differences in international graduates’ mobility, identity and career development. Social and Cultural Geography, 21(3), 421-440. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2018.1499039

Although there is an abundance of research on international students’ experiences of adapting to a new learning and living environment in their receiving countries and at universities abroad, their post-study transitions have rarely been studied. Thi... Read More about Gendered differences in international graduates’ mobility, identity and career development.

Missing Intercultural Engagements in the University Experiences of Chinese International Students in the UK (2018)
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Yu, Y., & Moskal, M. (2018). Missing Intercultural Engagements in the University Experiences of Chinese International Students in the UK. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 49(4), 654-671. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2018.1448259

This paper looks at structural conditions or institutional arrangements that facilitate or hinder interactions for international students. Drawing on the contact and diversity theory, analyses compare Chinese students’ intercultural experience in bus... Read More about Missing Intercultural Engagements in the University Experiences of Chinese International Students in the UK.

Eastern European Young People in Brexit Britain: Racism, Anxiety and a Precarious Future (2017)
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Sime, D., Käkelä, E., Corson, S., Tyrrell, N., McMellon, C., Kelly, C., & Moskal, M. (2017). Eastern European Young People in Brexit Britain: Racism, Anxiety and a Precarious Future. Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

Young Eastern Europeans living in the UK are likely to be considerably impacted by the UK’s decision to exit from the European Union, with some effects already manifest. Young people who took our survey came from all over Europe and identified as Eas... Read More about Eastern European Young People in Brexit Britain: Racism, Anxiety and a Precarious Future.

Learning, using and exchanging global competence in the context of international postgraduate mobility (2017)
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Moskal, M., & Schweisfurth, M. (2018). Learning, using and exchanging global competence in the context of international postgraduate mobility. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 16(1), 93-105. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2017.1387768

The paper offers a theoretically grounded analysis of international postgraduate students’ perspectives on the importance and development of global citizenship knowledge and competences while they are studying, and how these are valued and enacted af... Read More about Learning, using and exchanging global competence in the context of international postgraduate mobility.

Equity in education for/ with refugees and migrants – towards a solidarity promoting interculturalism (2017)
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Moskal, M., & North, A. (2017). Equity in education for/ with refugees and migrants – towards a solidarity promoting interculturalism. European Education, 49(2-3), 105-113. https://doi.org/10.1080/10564934.2017.1343088

This special issue brings to the forefront the complex educational challenges faced by migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. It focuses on different ways of understanding equity in relation to education for/with refugees and migrants. The core arti... Read More about Equity in education for/ with refugees and migrants – towards a solidarity promoting interculturalism.

International students pathways between open and closed borders: towards a multi-scalar approach to educational mobility and labour market outcomes (2016)
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Moskal, M. (2017). International students pathways between open and closed borders: towards a multi-scalar approach to educational mobility and labour market outcomes. International Migration, 55(3), 126-138. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12301

This paper explores the complex and changing relationship between academic capitalism that encourages global mobility of highly-skilled international students on the one hand and recent changes to immigration policy in the UK that prevent such mobili... Read More about International students pathways between open and closed borders: towards a multi-scalar approach to educational mobility and labour market outcomes.

Family migration decision-making, step-migration and separation: children's experiences in European migrant worker family (2015)
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Moskal, M., & Tyrell, N. (2015). Family migration decision-making, step-migration and separation: children's experiences in European migrant worker family. Children's Geographies, 14(4), 453-467. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2015.1116683

Intra-European family migration has extended the realm in which families live and work in Europe. This paper joins a limited number of recent attempts to analyse family migration using a children-in-families approach [Bushin, N. 2009. Researching Fam... Read More about Family migration decision-making, step-migration and separation: children's experiences in European migrant worker family.

Spaces of not belonging: inclusive nationalism and education in Scotland (2015)
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Moskal, M. (2016). Spaces of not belonging: inclusive nationalism and education in Scotland. Scottish Geographical Journal, 132(1), 85-102. https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2015.1084028

This study addresses the issue of the role of national identity-making through education and how this positions migrants in the national discourse in Scotland. The issue has been highlighted by the arrival of European Union migrants post-enlargement,... Read More about Spaces of not belonging: inclusive nationalism and education in Scotland.

Polish migrant children's transcultural lives and transnational language use (2015)
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Moskal, M., & Sime, D. (2016). Polish migrant children's transcultural lives and transnational language use. Central and Eastern European Migration Review, 5(1), 35-48. https://doi.org/10.17467/ceemr.2016.09

This paper addresses the issue of language and belonging in the transnational context of migration. It draws on two research projects with first-generation children of Polish labour migrants in Scotland. The paper examines the role that language play... Read More about Polish migrant children's transcultural lives and transnational language use.

‘When I think home I think family here and there’: Translocal and social ideas of home in narratives of migrant children and young people (2014)
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Moskal, M. (2015). ‘When I think home I think family here and there’: Translocal and social ideas of home in narratives of migrant children and young people. Geoforum, 58, 143-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.11.011

This paper offers theoretically informed empirical insights into migrant children’s experiences of mobility and home. Drawing on research into the first-generation children of Polish labour migrants in Scotland, the paper explores the meanings that c... Read More about ‘When I think home I think family here and there’: Translocal and social ideas of home in narratives of migrant children and young people.

Language and cultural capital in school experience of Polish children in Scotland (2014)
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Moskal, M. (2016). Language and cultural capital in school experience of Polish children in Scotland. Race Ethnicity and Education, 19(1), 141-160. https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2014.911167

This article addresses the complex relationship between migration and education in the context of recent intra-European labour mobility. It considers how this mobility impacts the education and life chances of migrant students attending schools in Sc... Read More about Language and cultural capital in school experience of Polish children in Scotland.

Polish migrant youth in Scottish schools: conflicted identity and family capital (2013)
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Moskal, M. (2013). Polish migrant youth in Scottish schools: conflicted identity and family capital. Journal of Youth Studies, 17(2), 279-291. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2013.815705

The perspectives of migrant children and young people have been largely omitted in youth studies. Existing literature focuses predominantly on young people born to migrant parents in the host country, while the problems of first generation of migrant... Read More about Polish migrant youth in Scottish schools: conflicted identity and family capital.