Professor Katharine Charsley
Professor Katharine Charsley
Professor of Migration Studies
1.07a, 3 Priory Road,
11 Priory Road,
Clifton,
Bristol
BS8 1TU
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katharine.charsley@bristol.ac.uk
Telephone Number (0117)3310609
Personal profile
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Edinburgh (2003-4); Lecturer in Sociology, University of Edinburgh (2004-5); Lecturer in the Anthropology of Migration (2005-9), University of Oxford; Lecturer in Sociology, University of Bristol, (2009-2013), Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Bristol 2013-2015, Reader in Sociology, University of Bristol (2015-2019), Professor of Migration Studies, University of Bristol 2019-present.
Research
My main research interests are in gender, the family, and migration, particularly in the field of cross-border marriages. I was PI on an ESRC-funded study on 'Marriage Migration and Integration', and am nearing completion of a book based on the results of this project (from which we have also published several journal articles). My ethnographic monograph 'Transnational Pakistani Connections: Marrying "Back Home"', and edited collection 'Transnational Marriage' are both published by Routledge. I co-edited a Special Issue of Men and Masculinities (with Helena Wray, Middlesex) on the neglect of migrant masculinities in migration law and scholarship, titled 'The Invisible (Migrant) Man'. I have published articles in journals including Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Global Networks.The report 'Marriage-related migration to the UK' (International Migration Review 2012) also appeared as a Home Office occassional research paper (No. 94). I founded and convene a research network on ‘Marriage and Migration’. My broader interests include South Asia and its diasporas, ethnicity, transnationalism and integration. I have also worked on Scottish graduate migration and retention (with Ross Bond & Sue Grundy, Edinburgh). Other projects on marriage-related migration are under development.
Before joining the University of Bristol in 2009, I was a lecturer at the University of Oxford (ISCA and COMPAS) where I convened the Migration Studies MPhil. Prior to that, I held a temporary lectureship and an ESRC postoctoral fellowship at the Unversity of Edinburgh, from where I also received my PhD in 2003.
I teach both undergraduate and postgraduate units:
Social Identities and Divisions (core first year)
Gender and Migration (final year specialist unit)
Gender, Families and Migration (Masters)
Narrating the Self (Masters)
I currently supervise a range of PhD students, and welcome new students in any of my research interests.
Teaching
Undergraduate Courses : Social Identities and Divisions, Gender and Migration
Postgraduate Courses: Gender Family and Migration, Narrating the Self
I supervise a range of PhD projects related to my research interests, and welcome new doctoral students.
Key publications
- Charsley, KAH, 2012, ‘Transnational Marriage: New Perspectives from Europe and Beyond’. Routledge
- Charsley, KAH, 2013, ‘Transnational Pakistani Connections: Marrying 'Back Home'’. Routledge
- Charsley, KAH & Bolognani, M, 2017, ‘Being a Freshie is (not) Cool: stigma, capital and disgust in British Pakistani stereotypes of new subcontinental migrants’. Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol 40., pp. 43-62
- Charsley, K, Bolognani, M & Spencer, S, 2016, ‘Marriage Migration and Integration: interrogating assumptions in academic and policy debates’. Ethnicities.
Latest publications
- Charsley, K & Bolognani, M, 2019, ‘Marrying ‘in’/marrying ‘out’?: Blurred boundaries in British Pakistani marriage choices’. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
- Charsley, K, 2019, ‘Understanding integration processes: informing policy and practice’.
- Charsley, K & Ersanilli, E, 2019, ‘The ‘Mangetar Trap’? Work, family and Pakistani migrant husbands’. Nordic Journal for Masculinity Studies, vol 14., pp. 128-145
- Charsley, KAH, 2018, ‘Closeness and distance in Pakistani transnational cousin marriage’. Families, Relationships and Societies.
- Charsley, K, 2018, ‘'A first generation in every generation'?: Spousal immigration in the Casey Review and Integrated Communities Integration Strategy Green Paper’.
- Ersanilli, E & Charsley, K, 2018, ‘A Good Match? Education, Labour Market Position, and British South Asian Transnational Marriage’. European Sociological Review.
Full publications list in the University of Bristol publications system