Dr Lena Rose is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at Law Faculty at the University of Oxford. Her research areas are migration and refugee studies, legal anthropology, religion, and globalisation.
Her current three-year interdisciplinary research project entitled 'Christianity on Trial: Asylum, Conversion, and the Modern Nation-State' (2019-2022) examines the negotiation of ‘Christianity’ through the lens of asylum adjudications of claimants based on the fear of religious persecution following a conversion to Christianity. In these cases, secular judges have to assess the genuineness of the conversion, and risks of practising Christianity in the country of origin of the applicants. This study of case law and ethnographic fieldwork at courts in Germany, France, and the UK explores the tensions between culture, religion, and power in the negotiation of what 'Christianity' is.
Lena completed her DPhil in Social and Cultural Anthropology in May 2019, based at the Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford. Her doctoral work was concerned with the role of power in the circulation of ideas, resources, people, and theology within global evangelicalism. She conducted ethnographic fieldwork among Palestinian and 'Western' evangelical Christians in Israel-Palestine, Europe and North America, while paying attention to the theologies that shape evangelicals' approaches to Israel. Her doctoral work has already resulted in a number of publications in journals such as Current Anthropology, Global Networks, and Ethnos.
Lena holds an MSc Migration Studies (University of Oxford, 2013) and has worked as research assistant on various projects at the International Migration Institute, the Refugee Studies Centre, and the Socio-Legal Studies Centre (in particular Prof Livia Holden's EURO-EXPERT project).
Since 2017, Lena is the co-founder and convener of the interdisciplinary Oxford Migration and Mobility Network (@MigMobNetwork), which draws together researchers of migration and mobility from across the University. It is hosted by the Global Exchange on Migration and Diversity at COMPAS and combines the expertise of more than a hundred researchers from more than twenty different departments from across the University of Oxford.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 570 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4930-7893 |
| X/Twitter | https://twitter.com/@LenaRose2017 |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
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Migration infrastructures
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Transversal consequences
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Legal-political consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Immigrant policy and law
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Migration policy and law
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Migration research and theory
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Methods
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Qualitative research
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Types of study
Geographies
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Scope
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Non-UN Territories
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UN Countries
Roles
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University of Oxford
University, Oxford, United Kingdom
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow -
University of Oxford
University, Oxford, United Kingdom
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University of Konstanz
University, Konstanz, Germany
Researcher / Lecturer
Research
“What Is Truth?” Negotiating Christian Convert Asylum Seekers’ Credibility
| Authors | Lena Rose, Zoe Given-Wilson |
| Year | 2021 |
| Citations (WoS) | 3 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Palestinian Evangelicals – A Theologically Engaged Anthropological Approach
| Authors | Lena Rose |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Ethnos | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Nazareth Village and the Creation of the Holy Land in Israel-Palestine
| Authors | Lena Rose |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Current Anthropology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
High skilled migration through the lens of policy
| Authors | Christopher R Parsons, Sebastien Rojon, Lena Rose, ... |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Migration Studies |
What Kind of Christianity? A v Switzerland
| Authors | Deborah Thebault, Lena Rose |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Oxford Journal of Law and Religion | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Geometries of ‘global’ evangelicalism
| Authors | LENA ROSE |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Global Networks |
Who Counts in Crises? The New Geopolitics of International Migration and Refugee Governance
| Authors | William Allen, Bridget Anderson, Nicholas Van Hear, ... |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Geopolitics | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Asylum Adjudications on the Basis of Religious Conversion
| Authors | Lena Rose |
| Year | 2023 |
| Book Title | The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Contemporary Migration | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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