Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Yemane, T.H. Mayblin, L. Alaydi, H. Shiker, Z.R., Malik, A. Matar, Y.H. Manochehry, B. Turner, J. Davies, T. Isakjee, A. (2026) Knowing the Border: Epistemic Friction and Irregular Crossings of the English Channel, The Sociological Review, 21
Yemane, T.H. Mayblin, L. Davies, T. Turner, J. Isakjee, A. (2026) Necropolitical Compassion: Rhetorical care and repressive borders in the English Channel, International Political Sociology
Turner, J. Isakjee, A. Mayblin, L. Davies, T. Yemane, T.H. (2026) The border security economy in the English Channel: Small boats, racism and late imperialism, Political Geography, 130
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
