Roundtable on Gender and Migration

Haleemah Alaydi

Haleemah is a doctoral researcher in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. Her doctoral thesis, fully funded by the Acton-Goodman Scholarship, investigates the representation of the Palestinian refugee experience between 1940s and present-day in contemporary short fiction. Her short story “A Very Private Confession” was published by Valley Press in 2021 in an edited short story anthology This New North. Haleemah is a Northern Short Story Festival Academician (2020) and a member of UoY Migration Network.

Sara de Jong

Sara is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of York. She is the author of the book Complicit Sisters: Gender and Women's Issues Across North-South Divides, published by OUP in 2017. Her current research is on the claims to rights and protection by Afghan interpreters who worked for Western Armies with some findings recently published in the International Feminist Journal of Politics (article title: “Segregated brotherhood: the military masculinities of Afghan interpreters and other locally employed civilians”).

Joy Ogbemudia

Joy is a Senior Lecturer at the Leeds Business School, with the Leadership, Governance and People Management Subject Group, Leeds Beckett University. She is the Author of The Migration of Professional Women from Nigeria to the UK: Narratives of Work, Family Life and Adaptation, published by Routledge in 2022. Joy is an alumna of CWS, having completed her PhD there.

Daria Lynch (she/they)

Daria is a PhD researcher in the Departments of Archaeology and History at the University of York. Studying the history and spatial politics of migration in York, Daria works in collaboration with the York Civic Trust and is funded by the White Rose College of Arts & Humanities (WRoCAH). Daria’s master’s dissertation focused on environmental and migrant history, with a particular emphasis on the spatial politics of urban gardens in Germany and the involvement in them of migrant communities. She applies this experience to the study of migrant heritage in her PhD, employing ecofeminist and anarchist theories to investigate the migrant experience of placemaking and belonging in the city of York.