Polina Manolova, PhD
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Büro
Forschungsinteressen
- Migrationsforschung
- Grenzen
- Klasse
- Soziale Imaginationen
- Qualitative Methoden
Kurzvita
09/2005 - 07/2009
BA Politikwissenschaft, Universität Plovdiv
09/2010 - 07/2011
MA Sozialpolitik, University of York
Abschlussarbeit: ‘Youth transitions: the experience of social sciences’ graduates from Bulgaria and United Kingdom’
09/2013 - 09/2018
Lehrbeauftragte, University of Birmingham
Social Worlds and the Sociological Imagination; Global Capitalism and Migration, European Societies: a Cross-Cultural Perspective (Introduction to Social Anthropology)
03/2013 - 09/2017
PhD in Anthropology of Eastern Europe, (CREES), University of Birmingham
Thesis: ‘On the Way to the “Imaginary West”: Bulgarian Migrations, Imaginations, and Disillusionments’
Publikationen
Monografien
Manolova, P. (forthcoming): The Imaginary West and the Realities of Migration: Dreams, Disillusionments, and Determination. Routledge: London (British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies book series)
Sonderausgaben
Manolova, P., Lottholz, P. and Kusic, K. (2019), eds. Decolonial Theory and Practice in Southeast Europe, Special Issue of dVersia (includes an editorial introduction)
Manolova, P. (2017) Looking Beyond the Public Discourses on Migration: Experiences of Bulgarians and Romanians in the UK, Euxeinos: Governance and Culture in the Black Sea Region, 22: 1-79.
Zeitschriftenartikel
Manolova, P. (2020) Aspiring, ambivalent, assertive: Bulgarian middle-class subjectivities and boundary work through migration. Special issue on The Middle Class in Post-socialist Europe: Ethnographies of its ‘Good Life’. East European Politics and Societies and Cultures. (34): 2, 505-528
Manolova, P. (2018) ‘Going to the West is my last chance for getting a normal life’: Bulgarian would-be migrants’ imaginations of life in the UK, Central and East European Migration Review, online first, 1-23
Manolova, P. (2017) From European ‘Free-movers’ to Circular Labourers: Bulgarian Migration Experiences in the UK and Back, Euxeinos: Governance and Culture in the Black Sea Region, 22: 44-59
Manolova, P. (2017) Editorial, Special Issue Looking Beyond the Public Discourses on Migration: Experiences of Bulgarians and Romanians in the UK, Euxeinos: Governance and Culture in the Black Sea Region, 22: 1-79
Manolova, P., Kovacheva, S. (2008) The problematic transition to parenthood of young people in Bulgaria, Journal of Sociology, Jabalpur University, India, 6: 229-243
Book Chapters:
Manolova, P. (2019) Uneasy solidarities: Bulgarian ‘greens’ from socialist revisionism to neoliberal anti-communism. Südosteuropa Mitteilungen, 05-06: 124-141
Manolova, P. (2015) Bulgarian Migration to England – the Influential Power of the ‘Imaginary West’, in Hristov, P., Kassabova, A., Troeva, E. and Demski, D. (eds.) Contextualizing Changes: Migrations, Shifting Borders and New Identities in Eastern Europe, Sofia: Paradigma.
Buchkapitel
Manolova, P. (2019) Uneasy solidarities: Bulgarian ‘greens’ from socialist revisionism to neoliberal anti-communism. Südosteuropa Mitteilungen, 05-06: 124-141
Manolova, P. (2015) Bulgarian Migration to England – the Influential Power of the ‘Imaginary West’, in Hristov, P., Kassabova, A., Troeva, E. and Demski, D. (eds.) Contextualizing Changes: Migrations, Shifting Borders and New Identities in Eastern Europe, Sofia: Paradigma.
Kommentare
Manolova, P. (2020) Intra-EU emergency bordering in Coronavirus: laying bare the burden of ‘free’ mobility, COMPAS, Coronavirus and Mobility Forum
Manolova, P. and Lottholz, P. (2018) Solidarity undone: the left-green protest that didn’t happened in Bulgaria, LeftEast
Manolova, P. (2016) Brexit and the Production of ‘Illegal’ EU Migrants, FoocalBlog