Book
Making Sanctuary Cities: Migration, Citizenship and Urban Governance. Stanford University Press (2025)
Home-land: Romanian Roma, domestic space and the state Bristol University Press (2019)
Reviews
Clarke, John (2020) ‘Rachel Humphris (2019), Home-Land: Romanian Roma, Domestic Spaces and the State‘ Journal of Social Policy, 49(1), 223-224.
Başak Akkan (2020) ‘Home-land: Romanian Roma, domestic spaces and the
state’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2020.1715460
Rachel Benchekroun (2020) ‘HOME-LAND: Romanian Roma, Domestic Spaces and the State Rachel Humphris. 2019’ Migration and Society 3(1), 324 – 326
Awards
Runner up for the BSA’s Philip Abrams Memorial Prize for best solo authored book in Sociology 2020
Book Chapters
Humphris R. (2019) On the threshold: becoming Romanian Roma, everyday racism and residency rights in transition in Can Yıldız and Nicholas De Genova (eds.) Roma Migrants in the European Union: Un/Free Mobility Routledge: London
Humphris R. & Bradby H. (2017) (invited chapter contribution) Health Status of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Europe. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Global Public Health.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Godin M., Ozkul D. and Humphris R. (2025) ‘Digital technologies and migration: behind, beyond and around the black box’ Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2025.2513153
Humphris R., Hudson G. and Bazurli R., (2025) ‘Digital internal bordering: surveillance, data-sharing, and the fate of sanctuary cities’ Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2025.2513166
Benchekroun R., Sigona N., and Humphris R. (2024) ‘Mothering in hostile environments: migrant families negotiating the welfare and immigration regime nexus’, Critical Social Policy 44(2), 285-306
Humphris R., (2023) ‘Sanctuary as mobilizing metaphor: how sanctuary articulates urban governance’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 49:14, 3585-3601
Humphris R., (2023) ‘Legacies of British Imperialism in the Contemporary UK Asylum–Welfare Nexus’. Social Sciences. 11(10):432
Humphris R., Schweitzer R., and Monforte P., (2022) ‘The Role of ‘Voluntariness’ in the Governance of Migration, Editorial Introduction’ Migration and Society 5, 1-12.
Humphris R., and Yarris K.E., (2022) ‘Welcoming Acts. Temporality and Affect among Volunteer Humanitarians in the UK and USA’, Migration and Society 5, 75-89.
Humphris R., (2021) Homemade State: Motherhood, citizenship and the home in child welfare encounters, Sociology 56:5, 876–891
Bradby H., Humphris R., Padilla B (2021) ‘Universalism, diversity and norms: gratitude, healthcare and welfare chauvinism’ Critical Public Health, 30:2, 166-178
Humphris R. Bradby H, Padilla B, Phillimore J, Pemberton S, and Samerski S. (2020) ‘After Encounters: Migrant’s unseen pathways to care in four European welfare states’ International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care doi:10.1108/IJMHSC-07-2019-0066
Humphris R. and Sigona N. (2019) The Bureaucratic Capture of Child Migrants: Effects of In/visibility on Children On the Move. Antipode doi:10.1111/anti.12548
Meloni F. and Humphris R. (2019) Citizens of Nowhere? Paradoxes of State Parental Responsibility for Unaccompanied Migrant Children in the United Kingdom, Journal of Refugee Studies doi:10.1093/jrs/fez037
Humphris R. (2019) ‘Mutating faces of the state? Austerity, migration and faith-based volunteers in the UK’ The Sociological Review 67:1, 95-110
Humphris R. and Sigona N. (2019) Outsourcing the ‘best interests’ of unaccompanied asylum seeking minors in the era of austerity Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 45:2, 312-330.
Pemberton S. Phillimore J. Bradby H. Humphris R. et al. (2019) Access to healthcare in superdiverse neighbourhoods. Health & Place 55: 128-135.
Humphris R. (2018) On the threshold: becoming Romanian Roma, everyday racism and residency rights in transition, Social Identities, 24:4, 505-519
Bradby H. Humphris R. and Padilla B. (2018) Universalism, diversity and norms: Gratitude, healthcare and welfare chauvinism. Critical Public Health. DOI: 10.1080/09581596.2018.1522420
Phillimore J. Humphris R. and Khan K. (2017) ‘Reciprocity for new migrant integration: resource conservation, investment and exchange’ Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 44(2), 215-232
Allen W. Anderson B. Van Hear N. Sumption M. Düvell F. Hough J. Rose L. Humphris R. and Walker S. (2017) ‘Who Counts in Crises? The New Geopolitics of International Migration and Refugee Governance‘ Geopolitics 23(1), 217-243
Humphris R. (2016) ‘Borders of home: Roma migrant mothers negotiating boundaries in home encounters‘ Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 43(7), pp. 1190-1204
Humphris R. (2016) ‘Migrant, Roma and Post-Colonial Youth in Education Across Europe. Being “Visibly Different.”’ European Education, 48(1), pp. 82–83
Humphris R. and Abuhaloob L. (2015) ‘A Double or Triple Burden for Palestinian Children Residing in Gaza Refugee Camps?’ Journal of Palestinian Refugee Studies Volume 4/5 Issue 2: 89 – 93.
Humphris R. (2013) ‘European Union Enlargement and Roma Migrants’ Welfare: The Role of Changing Migration Status in UK Education Policy and Practice.’ Human Welfare 2, 26-35.
Humphris R. (2013) ‘Refugees and Rashaida: Human smuggling and trafficking from Eritrea to Sudan and Egypt’ New Issues in Refugee Research No. 254. March 2013.
International / national research reports
Humphris R. & Sigona N. (2016) ‘Children and Un/Safe Migration in Europe’ Berlin: IOM.
Humphris R. & Sigona N. (2016) ‘Mapping unaccompanied asylum seeking children in England’, Becoming Adult Research Brief, no. 1, London: UCL.
Bradby H. Humphris R. Newall D. Mahmud A. & Phillimore J. (2015) ‘Accessibility and quality of health care delivery for refugees, asylum seekers and newly arrived migrants: which policies and interventions work?’WHO Europe Health Evidence Network Report. Venice: WHO.
Phillimore J. Humphris R. & Khan K. in Gilardoni G. & Carrillo D. eds. (2015) ‘KING: Knowledge for Integration Governance: evidence on migrants’ integration in Europe’. Milan: Foundazione ISMU.
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