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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Christina Boswell is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with a specific focus on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Public Administration, Information Systems, and Communication as subfields.

The main topics addressed in Christina Boswell's work include Migration, Refugees, and Integration, Social Policy and Reform Studies, Political Systems and Governance, Global Security and Public Health, COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing, Policy Transfer and Learning, and Media Studies and Communication.

Recent papers authored by Christina Boswell encompass the following:

  • "What isn't in the files, isn't in the world": Understanding state ignorance of irregular migration in Germany and the United Kingdom, 2020, Governance
  • The Emergence, Uses and Impacts of Narratives on Migration: State of the Art, 2021, BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca)
  • The strange resilience of the UK e-Borders programme: Technology hype, failure and lock-in in border control, 2023, Security Dialogue
  • Understanding the role of ideas in public administration: the cases of Canadian and UK immigration policy-making, 2022, Ethnic and Racial Studies

Co-authorship collaborations include Elisabeth Badenhoop, Sara Casella Colombeau, Saskia Smellie, Émile Chabal, and Mike Slaven.

Christina Boswell has published books with Cambridge University Press, including the title States of Ignorance (2023).

Key frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • Governance
  • Security Dialogue
  • BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca)
  • Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  • Ethnic and Racial Studies

Awards received by Christina Boswell include Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2017) and Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • The ‘external dimension’ of EU immigration and asylum policy

    Christina Boswell

  • The Political Uses of Expert Knowledge: Immigration Policy and Social Research

    Christina Boswell

  • Migration and Mobility in the European Union

    Christina Boswell;Andrew Geddes

  • The Political Functions of Expert Knowledge: Knowledge and Legitimation in European Union Immigration Policy

    Christina Boswell

  • Theorizing Migration Policy: Is There a Third Way?†

    Christina Boswell

  • Migration Control in Europe After 9/11: Explaining the Absence of Securitization*

    Christina Boswell

  • European Migration Policies in Flux: Changing Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion

    Christina Boswell

  • The Role of Narratives in Migration Policy‐Making: A Research Framework

    Christina Boswell;Andrew Geddes;Peter Scholten

  • The Political Uses of Expert Knowledge: List of figures and tables

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  • Rethinking policy 'impact' : four models of research policy relations

    Christina Boswell;Katherine E. Smith

  • European Values and the Asylum Crisis

    Christina Boswell

  • Burden‐Sharing in the European Union: Lessons from the German and UK Experience

    Christina Boswell

  • Knowledge, Legitimation and the Politics of Risk: The Functions of Research in Public Debates on Migration:

    Christina Boswell

  • Forecasting Labour and Skills Shortages: How Can Projections Better Inform Labour Migration Policies?

    Christina Boswell;Silvia Stiller;Thomas Straubhaar

  • CHRISTINA BOSWELL, ANDREW GEDDES, MIGRATION AND MOBILNY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION, PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, BASINGSTOKE, 2011

    Jan Brzozowski;Christina Boswell;Andrew Geddes

  • Migration Control and Narratives of Steering

    Christina Boswell

  • Combining Economics and Sociology in Migration Theory

    Christina Boswell

  • Evasion, Reinterpretation and Decoupling: European Commission Responses to the ‘External Dimension’ of Immigration and Asylum

    Christina Boswell

  • Ideas and agency in immigration policy: a discursive institutionalist approach

    Christina Boswell;James Hampshire

  • European Migration Policies in Flux

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  • The ethics of refugee policy

    Christina Boswell

  • Politicising migration: opportunity or liability for the centre-right in Germany?

    Christina Boswell;Dan Hough

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Geddes
Andrew Geddes European University Institute
Katherine E. Smith
Katherine E. Smith University of Strathclyde
Philip L. Martin
Philip L. Martin University of California, Davis
Peter Scholten
Peter Scholten Erasmus University Rotterdam

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