Dr Gwyneth Lonergan

Lecturer

Department: Social Sciences

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Key Publications

Borders, Citizenship and Pregnancy: Migrant Women’s Experiences of Pregnancy and Maternity Care in the UK, Lonergan, G. 17 Jun 2025
Pregnant racialised migrants and the ubiquitous border: the hostile environment as a technology of stratified reproduction, Lonergan, G. 1 May 2024, In: Critical Social Policy
Reproduction and the Expanding Border: Pregnant Migrants as a ‘Problem’ in the 2014 Immigration Act, Lonergan, G. 1 Feb 2024, In: Sociology
Distinctive or Professionalised? Understanding the Postsecular in Faith-Based Responses to Trafficking, Forced Labour and Slavery in the UK, Lonergan, G., Lewis, H., Tomalin, E., Waite, L. 2020, In: Sociology
Transnational Communities for Dismantling Detention: From Manus Island to the UK, Boochani, B., Flores, D., Sibanda, A., Mujakachi, V., Huzzard, R., Cape-Davenhill, L., Sirriyeh, A., Lewis, H., Lonergan, G., Conlon, D., Bennett, B., Tofighian, O. 25 Mar 2020, In: Community Psychology in Global Perspective
Who is a 'temporary migrant'?: Deservingness, nationalism, and migrant access to the NHS, Lonergan, G. 10 Jan 2020
Reproducing the ‘national home’: gendering domopolitics, Lonergan, G. 2018, In: Citizenship Studies
migrant women and social reproduction under austerity, Lonergan, G. Feb 2015, In: Feminist Review
Spatial Politics: Essays for Doreen Massey (RGS – IBG Book Series), Lonergan, G. 11 Oct 2013, In: Social Movement Studies
Reproductive Justice and Migrant Women in Great Britain, Lonergan, G. Mar 2012, In: Women: A Cultural Review

Professional Activity

Invited talk: Bordering processes as instruments of reproductive stratification 2022
Invited talk: Migrant women, reproductive justice, and the hostile environment during the Covid pandemic 2020
Invited talk: Migrant women, social reproduction, and 10 years of austerity 2020

Qualifications

Sociology PhD January 01 2016
Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2022

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