Why and how do those from black and minority ethnic communities continue to be
marginalised? Despite claims that we now live in a post-racial society, race continues to …

Questions about who we are, who we can be, and who is like and unlike us underpin a vast
range of contemporary social issues. What makes our families so important to us? What do …

In recent years there has been growing concern over the pervasive disparities in academic
achievement that are highly influenced by ethnicity, class and gender. Specifically, within the …

In this article we seek to problematize the presence of the requirement within the teachers'
standards (DfE, 2012), that they 'should not undermine fundamental British values' in the …

Understanding Sectarianism successfully accomplishes its important purpose of replacing
the unhelpful term 'Sectarianism'with more restrictive and descriptive terms like 'sectarian …

In management studies, whiteness is learnt through the discipline's epistemic norms and
conventions, received intellectual history, conceptual canon, driving logics and institutional …

How can we rethink ideas of policy failure to consider its paradoxes and contradictions as a
starting point for more hopeful democratic encounters? Offering a provocative and …

For parents, the school playground is a site of daily intermingling—an important and yet
often overlooked site of sociality. Yet whilst it is a space where common needs and …

This article offers a sociological analysis of the migration motivations of highly skilled people
who left Spain after 2008. Based on in-depth qualitative interviews, I map the role that the …

COVID-19 regulations introduced in EU member states in 2020 meant serious restrictions for
the free movement of persons, particularly workers. An ensuing gap in the supply of workers …