Ms Pinar Aksu

Research Associate (School of Education)

Biography

Pinar Aksu is a Research Associate with 'Sustainable Designs for Living and Learning: Embedding Multilingualism into Learning for Sustainability' research project. She is also a Research Affiliate with the UNESCO Chair RIELA at the University of Glasgow.

Pinar's research interest include migration, social justice, languages, law, politics, sustainability and creativity. She is interested in finding connections between solidarity, art, justice, and the law with migration. With a particular focus in creating welcoming communities through critical dialogue and understanding of one another.

Publications

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Number of items: 16.

2026

Aksu, Pinar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9203-7308 (2026) My village; spring water; marigolds and mountains. In: Diamond, Piki, sitholé, tawona ganyamatopé and Phipps, Alison (eds.) Exploring Restorative Intercultural Practices: Fire Stories. Multilingual Matters, pp. 94-101. ISBN 9781836680765 (doi: 10.21832/DIAMON0772)

Saunders, Natasha, Herd, David and Aksu, Pinar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9203-7308 (2026) State of Asylum: Right to Work. [Audio]

2025

Aksu, Pinar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9203-7308 (2025) Words Of Resistance: Solidarity on Kenmure Street [blog post]. [Website]

Aksu, Pinar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9203-7308 and Aldegheri, Esa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8238-0021 (2025) Community development, resistance and integration: reflections on practice and theory. In: Aldegheri, Esa, Fisher, Dan and Phipps, Alison (eds.) A Handbook of Integration with Refugees: Global Learnings from Scotland. Multilingual Matters, pp. 71-85. ISBN 9781800418967

Aksu, Pinar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9203-7308 and Fisher, Dan (2025) The politics of asylum dispersal: testimonies of dis-integration in hotel accommodation. In: Aldegheri, Esa, Fisher, Dan and Phipps, Alison (eds.) A Handbook of Integration with Refugees: Global Learnings from Scotland. Multilingual Matters, pp. 133-149. ISBN 9781800418967

Fisher, Dan and Aksu, Pinar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9203-7308 (2025) Integration in immigration law: discretion, exclusion and a double-edged sword. In: Aldegheri, Esa, Fisher, Dan and Phipps, Alison (eds.) A Handbook of Integration with Refugees: Global Learnings from Scotland. Multilingual Matters, pp. 163-176. ISBN 9781800418967

2024

Albtran, A. et al. (2024) Correction to: Building an ethical research culture: Scholars of refugee background researching refugee-related issues. Journal of Refugee Studies, 37(3), p. 835. (doi: 10.1093/jrs/feae053)

Aksu, Pinar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9203-7308 (2024) 'When you eat together, you stick together': Power of Community [blog post]. [Website]

Yohannes, Hyab ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4567-6605 and Aksu, Pinar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9203-7308 (2024) A Story Growing from Traces. [Website]

Albtran, A. et al. (2024) Building an ethical research culture: Scholars of refugee background researching refugee-related issues. Journal of Refugee Studies, (doi: 10.1093/jrs/feae005)

Aksu, Pinar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9203-7308 (2024) Life in detention: journey and border. In: Barclay, Fiona and Ivey, Beatrice (eds.) Contemporary Representations of Forced Migration in Europe: Beyond Regime and Refuge. Series: Palgrave studies in literature, culture and human rights. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 113-133. ISBN 9783031478314 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-47831-4_5)