Publications

In the overview below, you find all the publications that have been coming out of our 'Engaged Scholarship and Narratives of Change'-project. If you are interested in the core works that have inspired our work, please check the page Engaged Literatures. If you are interested in other publications in the field of engaged scholarship, please see our elaborate literature list.

2026

  • Ghorashi, H., Fiorito, T., Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., & Ponzoni, E. (Eds.). (2026). Transformative engaged scholarship in migration: Toward a co-creative, caring, and reflexive migration studies. IMISCOE Research Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-24486-4 
  • Ghorashi, H., Fiorito, T., Mbasalaki, P.K., Ponzoni, E. (2026). Introduction: Transformative, Critically Engaged Migration Studies. In: Ghorashi, H., Fiorito, T., Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., Ponzoni, E. (eds) Transformative Engaged Scholarship in Migration. IMISCOE Research Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-24486-4_1 
  • Fiorito, T., Ghorashi, H., Ponzoni, E. (2026). Supporting or Transforming the Status Quo? Engaged Scholarship in South Africa, the United States, and the Netherlands. In: Ghorashi, H., Fiorito, T., Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., Ponzoni, E. (eds) Transformative Engaged Scholarship in Migration. IMISCOE Research Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-24486-4_2 
  • Greene, A. (2026). Academic Kinships: Relationship-Building as a Political Form of Care. In: Ghorashi, H., Fiorito, T., Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., Ponzoni, E. (eds) Transformative Engaged Scholarship in Migration. IMISCOE Research Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-24486-4_3
  • Rast, M.C., Ponzoni, E., Ghorashi, H. (2026). Exploring the Complexities of Transformative Scholarship Through Engagement with Refugee Knowledge Co-creators. In: Ghorashi, H., Fiorito, T., Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., Ponzoni, E. (eds) Transformative Engaged Scholarship in Migration. IMISCOE Research Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-24486-4_4 
  • Holle, F., Greene, A. (2026). Boundaries of Care: Reflections on Inter/Dependencies in Engaged Research. In: Ghorashi, H., Fiorito, T., Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., Ponzoni, E. (eds) Transformative Engaged Scholarship in Migration. IMISCOE Research Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-24486-4_5
  • Kazadi, M., Koskimaki, L. (2026). Engaged Research and Reflexive Methodologies: (Auto)Ethnographic Narratives of Forced Migrants in Cape Town, South Africa. In: Ghorashi, H., Fiorito, T., Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., Ponzoni, E. (eds) Transformative Engaged Scholarship in Migration. IMISCOE Research Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-24486-4_6
  • Abrego, L.J., Fiorito, T. (2026). Undocumented Youth-Led Healing and Transformation in Turbulent Times. In: Ghorashi, H., Fiorito, T., Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., Ponzoni, E. (eds) Transformative Engaged Scholarship in Migration. IMISCOE Research Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-24486-4_7
  • Holle, F., Jelenjev, L., Loenen-Ruiz, R., Salmanpour, S. (2026). Through Art We Co-create Care: Insights from a Rhizomatic Queer Community. In: Ghorashi, H., Fiorito, T., Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., Ponzoni, E. (eds) Transformative Engaged Scholarship in Migration. IMISCOE Research Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-24486-4_8
  • Korstenbroek, T. (2026). “I Want to Share This Story in What Feels as My Home”: Disrupting the Single Story on Refugee Home-Making in the Netherlands Through a Community Storytelling Project. In: Ghorashi, H., Fiorito, T., Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., Ponzoni, E. (eds) Transformative Engaged Scholarship in Migration. IMISCOE Research Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-24486-4_9
  • Arriaga, M.A.O., Shamuyarira, T., Mbasalaki, P.K. (2026). A Taste of Humbleness: Food Practices and Co-creation with LGBTQI+ Forced Migrants in Johannesburg. In: Ghorashi, H., Fiorito, T., Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., Ponzoni, E. (eds) Transformative Engaged Scholarship in Migration. IMISCOE Research Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-24486-4_10
  • Ponzoni, E., Ghorashi, H., Ghidei, D., Badran, M. (2026). Refugee-Led Advocacy: Embedded Knowledges as a Source for Epistemic Multiplicity. In: Ghorashi, H., Fiorito, T., Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., Ponzoni, E. (eds) Transformative Engaged Scholarship in Migration. IMISCOE Research Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-24486-4_11
  • Koskimaki, L., Tyhali, A.S. (2026). Institutional Solidarity with Forced Migrants at a South African University. In: Ghorashi, H., Fiorito, T., Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., Ponzoni, E. (eds) Transformative Engaged Scholarship in Migration. IMISCOE Research Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-24486-4_12
  • Powlick, K.M., Vlasman, E. (2026). Co-creating Intergenerational Collaborative Spaces: The Youth Leadership and Resilience Project. In: Ghorashi, H., Fiorito, T., Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., Ponzoni, E. (eds) Transformative Engaged Scholarship in Migration. IMISCOE Research Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-24486-4_13
  • Dadoo, R., Vally, S. (2026). Creating a Necropolity: Governing Migration in the City of Johannesburg and Possibilities for Transformative Migration Scholarship. In: Ghorashi, H., Fiorito, T., Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., Ponzoni, E. (eds) Transformative Engaged Scholarship in Migration. IMISCOE Research Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-24486-4_14
  • Vang, M., Espiritu, Y.L. (2026). Transforming Education Through Refugee Teaching. In: Ghorashi, H., Fiorito, T., Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., Ponzoni, E. (eds) Transformative Engaged Scholarship in Migration. IMISCOE Research Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-24486-4_15
  • Ghorashi, H. (2026). Conclusion: Evolving Journey of a Polyvocal Engaged Scholarship. In: Ghorashi, H., Fiorito, T., Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., Ponzoni, E. (eds) Transformative Engaged Scholarship in Migration. IMISCOE Research Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-24486-4_16
  • Ghorashi, H., Fiorito, T., Mbasalaki, P.K., Ponzoni, E. (2026). Epilogue: On Being Engaged: Personal Journeys and Complexities in Our Engaged Scholarship. In: Ghorashi, H., Fiorito, T., Kisubi Mbasalaki, P., Ponzoni, E. (eds) Transformative Engaged Scholarship in Migration. IMISCOE Research Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-24486-4_17 

2025

  • Ponzoni, E., Ghorashi, H., Rast, M. (2026). Unsettling Normalisation Through Strong Reflexivity: Engaged Scholarship’s Co-creating Practices Toward Refugees’ Inclusion in the Netherlands. In: Dahinden, J., Pott, A. (eds) Reflexivities and Knowledge Production in Migration Studies. IMISCOE Research Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-03337-6_3 
  • Ocadiz Arriaga, M. A. (2025). On Borderless Resistance and Nomadic Appetites: Weaving Decolonial (Dis)ruptures with Forced Migrants in South Africa [PhD thesis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam]. https://doi.org/10.5463/thesis.1247
  • Holle, F., Jelenjev, L., Loenen-Ruiz, R., Ammar, A., & Salmanpour, S. (2025). LIMBO: Queer exilic narratives [Booklet#2]. Framer Framed. https://online.fliphtml5.com/wfkju/dvkf/#p=1
  • Greene, A. (2025). A feminist ethics of failure: Rethinking negative affects and actions in research. Feminist Theory, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14647001251353113
  • Ponzoni, E., Fiorito, T.R., & Ghorashi, H., (2025) Urban Solidarities in late modern societies: Interspaces for meaningful engagement in Los Angeles and Amsterdam. Urban Studies: https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980251329271.

2024

2023

  • Ghorashi, H. (2023) Structurele ‘bite’ van diversiteit en inclusive. Beleid en Maatschappij (14)2: 117-133, doi: 10.5553/BenM/138900692023050002009.
  • Ghorashi (2023) Home and the Politics of Location and Displacement, In: Boccagni, P. (ed.) Handbook on Home and Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing, 170-183.
  • Ghorashi, H., K. Boersma & F. Azarhoosh (2023) Tussen-denken en inclusief besturen rond armoede, In: Overmans, T., M. Honingh en M. Noordegraaf (red.), Werken aan maatschappelijke vraagstukken: verbindende bestuurskunde? In het kader van 50 jaar jubileum van Vereniging voor Bestuurskunde (VB). Boom,  pp. 97-113.
  • Ocadiz Arriaga, M. (2023). Loboko Ya Mama’: Homemade recipes of belonging. Agenda. (pp. 27-37).
  • Ocadiz Arriaga, M. A., Shamuyarira, T., & Matebeni, Z. (2023). Episodio especial: Arte y comunidad LGBTIQ+ en África [Podcast episode]. PUEAA UNAM Podcast. https://open.spotify.com/episode/21eiUiWHVZfP9JKjVRH2O0
  • Greene, A., Espiritu, Y., & Nyamangah, D. (2023). Social and Curricular Inclusion in Refugee Education: Critical Approaches to Education Advocacy. Social Inclusion, 11(2), 104-114. doi::https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v11i2.6376.
  • Mbasalaki P. K. (2023) Building coalitions across structural borders as a form radical intimacy. In Bhambra G., Mayblin L., Viyoga V. & Medien K. (eds). The SAGE Handbook of Global Social Theory. Sage.
    Gunaratnum Y., Mbasalaki P.K. & Matchett S. (2023) Scene! Colman R., Jungnickel K. & Puar N. (eds) How to do Research with…, Goldsmiths University Press.
  • Mbasalaki P. K. (2023) ‘Prostitute’s body found with missing head[1]’: sex work femicide in South Africa and the making of #sayhername campaign by SWEAT in South Africa. In Myrna Dawson and Saide Mobayed (eds) The Routledge International Handbook of Femicide and Feminicide. Routledge.

2022

  • Ghorashi, H. (2022) “Tussenruimtes” als broedplaats van verdraagzaamheid. In: Marcel ter Hooven (red.) Ware Tolerantie: Hoe we onszelf kunnen zijn en elkaar toch kunnen verdragen. Amsterdam: Van Gennep, pp. 89-99.
  • Holle, F. (2022). Enabling and Obstructing Flow through Creative Co-creation. Errant Journal#4. (pp. 49–60).
  • Holle, F., & Ammar, A. (2022). Safe Enough To Be Brave.FOAM Magazine#62- The Transnational Issue. (pp. 161–168).
  • Holle, F., Bawits, N., Regeni, E., Ponzoni, E., & Ghorashi, H. (2022). LIMBO: Queer exilic narratives – Booklet #1 [Booklet]. Framer Framed. https://online.fliphtml5.com/wfkju/iycd/#p=1

2021

  • Ghorashi, H. (2021) Normalising power and engaged narrative methodology: refugee women, the forgotten category in the public discourse. Feminist Review 129: pp. 48-63. 
  • Holle, F., Rast, M. C. & Ghorashi, H. (2021) Exilic (Art) Narratives of Queer Refugees Challenging Dominant Hegemonies. Front. Sociol. 6:641630. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2021.641630
  • Rast M. C. (2021) Walls, Cracks and Change: The Challenges and Opportunities of Critically Engaged Research Within Current Academic and Refugee Research Structures. Critical Sociology. doi:10.1177/08969205211034227
  • Younes, Y., H. Ghorashi & E. Ponzoni (2021) Conflicting Experiences With Welcoming Encounters: Narratives of Newly Arrived Refugees in the Netherlands. Social Inclusion 9 (4): pp. 222-231

2020

2019

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Academia 10 Art for Change 11 Co-creation 4 Corona virus 10 COVID-19 10 engaged scholarship 24 engagement 5 Inclusion 7 Knowledge Production 4 LGBTQ+ Refugees 9 LIMBO - Queer exilic narratives 16 Narratives of Change 11 Reflection 8 Refugees 15 Research 5 Resilience 12 safe spaces 6 Scholarship for Change 12 South Africa 11 The Netherlands 5