Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Davies, T. Mayblin, L. Turner, J. Isakjee, A. Yemane, T. (2024) Eco-coloniality and the violent environmentalism of the UK France border, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Mayblin, L. Davies, T. Isakjee, A. Turner, J. Yemane, T. (2024) Small Boats, Big Contracts: Extracting Value from the UK’s Post‐Brexit Asylum ‘Crisis’, The Political Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.13412

Mayblin, L. Turner, J. Davies, T. Yemane, T. Isakjee, A. (2024) ‘Bringing Order to Border’: liberal and illiberal fantasies of border control in the English Channel, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 50(16): 3894-3912

Abuya, E.O. Krause, U. Mayblin, L. (2021) The neglected colonial legacy of the 1951 Refugee Convention, International Migration, https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12898

Davies, T. Isakjee, A. Mayblin, L. Turner, J. (2021) Channel Crossings: Offshoring Asylum and the Afterlife of Empire in the Dover Strait, Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies, 44(13): 2307-2327

Mayblin, L. Kazemi, M. Wake, M. (2020) Necropolitics and the slow violence of the everyday: Asylum seeker welfare in the postcolonial present, Sociology, 54(1): 107–123

Mayblin, L. (2019) Imagining asylum, governing asylum seekers: complexity reduction and policy making in the UK Home Office, Migration Studies, 7(1):1-20

Mayblin, L. James, P. (2019), Asylum and Refugee Support in the UK: Civil Society Filling the Gaps?, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 45(3):375-394

Bhambra, G.K. Last, A. Mayblin, L. Tilley, L. (2019) Global Social Theory: Building Resources, AREA, 51(4):816-819

Bales, K. Mayblin, L. (2018), Unfree labour in UK detention centres: Exploitation and coercion of a captive immigrant workforce, Economy and Society, 47(2): 191-213

Mayblin, L. (2016) Complexity reduction and policy consensus: asylum seekers, the right to work, and the ‘pull factor’ thesis in the UK context, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 18(4): 812–828

Mayblin, L. Valentine, G. Winisarka, A. (2016) Migration and Diversity in a Post-socialist Context: Creating -Integrative Encounters in Poland, Environment and Planning A, 48(5): 960–978 

Mayblin, L. (2016) Troubling the exclusive privileges of citizenship: Mobile solidarities, asylum seekers, and the right to work, Citizenship Studies, 20(2): 192-207

Mayblin, L. Piekut, A. Valentine, G. (2016) ’Other’ posts in ‘other’ places: Poland through a Postcolonial Lens?,Sociology, 50(1):60–76

Winner: 2017 SAGE Prize for Innovation and Excellence in the journal Sociology

Mayblin, L. (2014). Colonialism, Decolonisation, and the Right to be Human: Britain and the 1951 Geneva Convention on the Status of Refugees. Journal of Historical Sociology, 27(3): 423-441

Mayblin, L. (2014) Asylum, Welfare and Work: Reflections on Research in Asylum and Refugee Studies, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 34(9/10): 375-391

Mayblin, L. (2013) Never Look Back: Political Thought and the Abolition of Slavery, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 26(1): 93-110

Book Chapters

Porter, B. Mayblin, L. (2026) Asylum and Colonialism, Hamlin, R. Rocha-Silva, D. (Eds) De-Gruyter-Brill Handbook on the Politics of Asylum, Berlin: De-Gruyter-Brill

Mayblin, L. and Turner, J. (2026) Making Sense of Ruins and Legacies: Methods for Linking Past and Present in Migration Studies, In Yeoh, B. Collins, F. Koh, S-Y. (Eds.) Migration Studies and the Decolonial Challenge, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar

Yemane, H.T. Mayblin, L. (2026) Colonialism, in Espiritu, Y.L. The Sage Encyclopaedia of Refugee Studies, London: Sage

Abuya, E.O. Krause, U. Mayblin, L. (2025) The neglected colonial legacy of the 1951 Refugee Convention In Afeworki Abay, R. Ihring, I. Garba, F. The Coloniality of Human Hierarchy: Disrupting Racialized Capitalism and Fostering Transnational Solidarity, Lexington Books

Mayblin, L. (2022) Of the Mobile and the Immobilised: Covid 19 and the Uneven Geographies of Disease Transmission, in Lemberg-Pedersen, M. Fett, S. Mayblin, L. Sahraoui, N. (Eds.) (Contracted) Postcolonial Perspectives on Forced Migration, Bristol: Bristol University Press 

Mayblin, L. (2022) The death of asylum on opposite sides of the world: connected histories and contemporary exclusions between Australia and the UK, in Billings, P. Regulating Refugee Protection through Social Welfare, Law, Policy and Praxis, London: Routledge

Mayblin, L. (2021) Postcolonial Perspectives on Migration Governance, in Carmel, E. Lenner, K. Paul, R. (eds.), Handbook of the Governance and Politics of Migration, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Mayblin, L. (2017) Postcolonial Theory, in Outhwaite, W. and Turner, S. (Eds) The Sage Handbook of Political Sociology, London: Sage

Mayblin, L. (2017) Is there a Black and Minority Ethnic Third Sector in the UK? In Community Groups in Context, McCabe, A. Phillimore, J. (Eds), Bristol: Policy Press

Valentine, G. Mayblin, L. (2016) Creating Meaningful Contact: Boundaries and Bridges in the Intercultural City, Marconi, G. and Ostanel, E. The Intercultural City: Migration, Minorities, and the Management of Diversity, London: Bloomsbury