Dr Kate Botterill
- Senior Lecturer (School of Geographical & Earth Sciences)
Publications
2025
Botterill, Kate ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591
(2025)
Ontological security as 'being-with': indigenous sovereignty and securing against the colonial nation-state.
Political Geography, 116,
103250.
(doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103250)
2024
Finney, Nissa, Botterill, Kate ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Cranston, Sophie, Darlington‐Pollock, Fran, McCollum, David and Shubin, Sergei
(2024)
Possibilities of population thinking: histories and futures of Population Geography through reflections on 50 years of the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) Population Geography Research Group.
Population, Space and Place, 30(7),
e2767.
(doi: 10.1002/psp.2767)
2023
Botterill, Kate ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 and Philo, Chris
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2514-4604
(2023)
Talking population geographies and a ‘love letter’ to the journal.
Population, Space and Place, 29(8),
e2702.
(doi: 10.1002/psp.2702)
Bogacki, Mariusz, Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Burrell, Kathy and Hörschelmann, Kathrin
(2023)
What about Europe? European identity and spatial imaginaries of Europe among Polish migrants during post-Brexit negotiations in Scotland.
European Urban and Regional Studies,
(doi: 10.1177/09697764231176546)
(Early Online Publication)
2021
Buyuklieva, B. et al. (2021) Reflections on a Golden Jubilee: celebrating 50 years of Population Geography within the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)’s journals. Area, 53(4), pp. 727-736. (doi: 10.1111/area.12753)
2020
Botterill, Kate ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Bogacki, Mariusz, Burrell, Kathy and Hörschelmann, Kathrin
(2020)
Applying for settled status: ambivalent and reluctant compliance of EU citizens in post-Brexit Scotland.
Scottish Affairs, 29(3),
pp. 370-385.
(doi: 10.3366/scot.2020.0329)
Jones, Estelle, Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Chikwama, Cornilius, Caveen, Alex and Gray, Tim
(2020)
Pay gaps between domestic and international fishers: an economic or ethical issue?
Maritime Studies, 19(1),
pp. 15-27.
(doi: 10.1007/s40152-019-00133-6)
Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Hopkins, Peter and Sanghera, Gurchathan
(2020)
Familial geopolitics and ontological security: intergenerational relations, migration and minority youth (in)securities in Scotland.
Geopolitics, 25(5),
pp. 1138-1163.
(doi: 10.1080/14650045.2018.1512098)
2019
Botterill, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 and Burrell, K.
(2019)
(In)visibility, privilege and the performance of whiteness in Brexit Britain: Polish migrants
in Britain’s shifting migration regime.
Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 37(1),
pp. 23-28.
(doi: 10.1177/0263774X18811923e)
Botterill, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, McCollum, D. and Tyrrell, N.
(2019)
Negotiating Brexit: migrant spatialities and identities in a changing Europe [Introduction to special issue].
Population, Space and Place, 25(1),
e2216.
(doi: 10.1002/psp.2216)
Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 and Hancock, Jonathan
(2019)
Rescaling belonging in ‘Brexit Britain’: spatial identities and practices of Polish nationals in Scotland after the UK Referendum on EU membership.
Population, Space and Place, 25(1),
e2217.
(doi: 10.1002/psp.2217)
Stones, Rob, Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Lee, Maggy and O'Reilly, Karen
(2019)
One world is not enough: the structured phenomenology of lifestyle migrants in East Asia.
British Journal of Sociology, 70(1),
pp. 44-69.
(doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.12357)
(PMID:29479667)
Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Hopkins, Peter and Sanghera, Gurchathen
(2019)
Young people’s everyday securities: Pre-emptive and pro-active strategies towards ontological security in Scotland.
Social and Cultural Geography, 20(4),
pp. 465-484.
(doi: 10.1080/14649365.2017.1346197)
2018
Botterill, Kate ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591
(2018)
Rethinking “community” relationally: Polish communities in Scotland before and after Brexit.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 43(4),
pp. 540-554.
(doi: 10.1111/tran.12249)
Sanghera, Gurchathen, Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Hopkins, Peter and Arshad, Rowena
(2018)
‘Living Rights’, rights claims, performative citizenship and young people – the right to vote in the Scottish independence referendum.
Citizenship Studies, 22(5),
pp. 540-555.
(doi: 10.1080/13621025.2018.1484076)
Hopkins, P., Botterill, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 and Sanghera, G.
(2018)
Towards inclusive geographies? Young people, religion, race and migration.
Geography, 103(2),
pp. 86-92.
2017
Botterill, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Sanghera, G. and Hopkins, P.
(2017)
Muslim youth in Scotland: Politics, identity and multicultural citizenship.
In: Hopkins, Peter (ed.)
Scotland's Muslims: Society, Politics and Identity.
Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK.
ISBN 9781474427234
Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591
(2017)
Discordant lifestyle mobilities in East Asia: Privilege and precarity of British retirement in Thailand.
Population, Space and Place, 23(5),
e2011.
(doi: 10.1002/psp.2011)
Arshad, Rowena, Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Hopkins, Peter and Sanghera, Gurchathen
(2017)
Minority ethnic young people: Confident negotiators.
Race Equality Teaching, 34(2),
pp. 5-9.
(doi: 10.18546/RET.34.2.02)
Hopkins, Peter, Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 and Sanghera, Gurchathen
(2017)
Encountering misrecognition: Being mistaken for being muslim.
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 107(4),
pp. 934-948.
(doi: 10.1080/24694452.2016.1270192)
2016
Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Hopkins, Peter, Sanghera, Gurchathen and Arshad, Rowena
(2016)
Securing disunion: Young people’s nationalism, identities and (in)securities in the campaign for an independent Scotland.
Political Geography, 55,
pp. 124-134.
(doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.09.002)
Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591
(2016)
Diminished Transnationalism: Growing older and practicing home in Thailand.
In: Walsh, Katie and Nare, Lena (eds.)
Transnational Migration and Home in Older Age.
Routledge.
ISBN 9781138887862
2015
Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591
(2015)
"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are": Questioning the "outsider" in Polish migration research.
Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 16(2),
4.
(doi: 10.17169/fqs-16.2.2331)
2014
Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591
(2014)
Family and mobility in second modernity: Polish migrant narratives of individualization and family life.
Sociology, 48(2),
pp. 233-250.
(doi: 10.1177/0038038512474728)
O'Reilly, Karen, Stones, Rob and Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591
(2014)
Lifestyle migration in East Asia: Integrating ethnographic methodology and practice theory.
In:
SAGE Research Methods Cases.
SAGE.
ISBN 9781473946644
(doi: 10.4135/978144627305013509192)
2011
Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591
(2011)
Polish Migration to the UK in the ‘New’ European Union: After 2004. Burrell, Kathy. Farnham, Ashgate, 2009, 241 pp., £60 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-7546-7387-3.
Gender, Place and Culture, 18(6),
pp. 791-793.
(doi: 10.1080/0966369X.2011.617919)[Book Review]
Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591
(2011)
Mobility and Immobility in the European Union: Experiences of Young Polish People Living in the UK.
Studia Migracyjne Przeglad Polonijny = Polonia and Migration Studies, 6(1),
pp. 47-70.
Articles
Botterill, Kate ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591
(2025)
Ontological security as 'being-with': indigenous sovereignty and securing against the colonial nation-state.
Political Geography, 116,
103250.
(doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103250)
Finney, Nissa, Botterill, Kate ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Cranston, Sophie, Darlington‐Pollock, Fran, McCollum, David and Shubin, Sergei
(2024)
Possibilities of population thinking: histories and futures of Population Geography through reflections on 50 years of the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) Population Geography Research Group.
Population, Space and Place, 30(7),
e2767.
(doi: 10.1002/psp.2767)
Botterill, Kate ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 and Philo, Chris
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2514-4604
(2023)
Talking population geographies and a ‘love letter’ to the journal.
Population, Space and Place, 29(8),
e2702.
(doi: 10.1002/psp.2702)
Bogacki, Mariusz, Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Burrell, Kathy and Hörschelmann, Kathrin
(2023)
What about Europe? European identity and spatial imaginaries of Europe among Polish migrants during post-Brexit negotiations in Scotland.
European Urban and Regional Studies,
(doi: 10.1177/09697764231176546)
(Early Online Publication)
Buyuklieva, B. et al. (2021) Reflections on a Golden Jubilee: celebrating 50 years of Population Geography within the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)’s journals. Area, 53(4), pp. 727-736. (doi: 10.1111/area.12753)
Botterill, Kate ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Bogacki, Mariusz, Burrell, Kathy and Hörschelmann, Kathrin
(2020)
Applying for settled status: ambivalent and reluctant compliance of EU citizens in post-Brexit Scotland.
Scottish Affairs, 29(3),
pp. 370-385.
(doi: 10.3366/scot.2020.0329)
Jones, Estelle, Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Chikwama, Cornilius, Caveen, Alex and Gray, Tim
(2020)
Pay gaps between domestic and international fishers: an economic or ethical issue?
Maritime Studies, 19(1),
pp. 15-27.
(doi: 10.1007/s40152-019-00133-6)
Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Hopkins, Peter and Sanghera, Gurchathan
(2020)
Familial geopolitics and ontological security: intergenerational relations, migration and minority youth (in)securities in Scotland.
Geopolitics, 25(5),
pp. 1138-1163.
(doi: 10.1080/14650045.2018.1512098)
Botterill, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 and Burrell, K.
(2019)
(In)visibility, privilege and the performance of whiteness in Brexit Britain: Polish migrants
in Britain’s shifting migration regime.
Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 37(1),
pp. 23-28.
(doi: 10.1177/0263774X18811923e)
Botterill, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, McCollum, D. and Tyrrell, N.
(2019)
Negotiating Brexit: migrant spatialities and identities in a changing Europe [Introduction to special issue].
Population, Space and Place, 25(1),
e2216.
(doi: 10.1002/psp.2216)
Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 and Hancock, Jonathan
(2019)
Rescaling belonging in ‘Brexit Britain’: spatial identities and practices of Polish nationals in Scotland after the UK Referendum on EU membership.
Population, Space and Place, 25(1),
e2217.
(doi: 10.1002/psp.2217)
Stones, Rob, Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Lee, Maggy and O'Reilly, Karen
(2019)
One world is not enough: the structured phenomenology of lifestyle migrants in East Asia.
British Journal of Sociology, 70(1),
pp. 44-69.
(doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.12357)
(PMID:29479667)
Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Hopkins, Peter and Sanghera, Gurchathen
(2019)
Young people’s everyday securities: Pre-emptive and pro-active strategies towards ontological security in Scotland.
Social and Cultural Geography, 20(4),
pp. 465-484.
(doi: 10.1080/14649365.2017.1346197)
Botterill, Kate ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591
(2018)
Rethinking “community” relationally: Polish communities in Scotland before and after Brexit.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 43(4),
pp. 540-554.
(doi: 10.1111/tran.12249)
Sanghera, Gurchathen, Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Hopkins, Peter and Arshad, Rowena
(2018)
‘Living Rights’, rights claims, performative citizenship and young people – the right to vote in the Scottish independence referendum.
Citizenship Studies, 22(5),
pp. 540-555.
(doi: 10.1080/13621025.2018.1484076)
Hopkins, P., Botterill, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 and Sanghera, G.
(2018)
Towards inclusive geographies? Young people, religion, race and migration.
Geography, 103(2),
pp. 86-92.
Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591
(2017)
Discordant lifestyle mobilities in East Asia: Privilege and precarity of British retirement in Thailand.
Population, Space and Place, 23(5),
e2011.
(doi: 10.1002/psp.2011)
Arshad, Rowena, Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Hopkins, Peter and Sanghera, Gurchathen
(2017)
Minority ethnic young people: Confident negotiators.
Race Equality Teaching, 34(2),
pp. 5-9.
(doi: 10.18546/RET.34.2.02)
Hopkins, Peter, Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591 and Sanghera, Gurchathen
(2017)
Encountering misrecognition: Being mistaken for being muslim.
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 107(4),
pp. 934-948.
(doi: 10.1080/24694452.2016.1270192)
Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Hopkins, Peter, Sanghera, Gurchathen and Arshad, Rowena
(2016)
Securing disunion: Young people’s nationalism, identities and (in)securities in the campaign for an independent Scotland.
Political Geography, 55,
pp. 124-134.
(doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.09.002)
Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591
(2015)
"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are": Questioning the "outsider" in Polish migration research.
Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 16(2),
4.
(doi: 10.17169/fqs-16.2.2331)
Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591
(2014)
Family and mobility in second modernity: Polish migrant narratives of individualization and family life.
Sociology, 48(2),
pp. 233-250.
(doi: 10.1177/0038038512474728)
Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591
(2011)
Mobility and Immobility in the European Union: Experiences of Young Polish People Living in the UK.
Studia Migracyjne Przeglad Polonijny = Polonia and Migration Studies, 6(1),
pp. 47-70.
Book Sections
Botterill, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591, Sanghera, G. and Hopkins, P.
(2017)
Muslim youth in Scotland: Politics, identity and multicultural citizenship.
In: Hopkins, Peter (ed.)
Scotland's Muslims: Society, Politics and Identity.
Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK.
ISBN 9781474427234
Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591
(2016)
Diminished Transnationalism: Growing older and practicing home in Thailand.
In: Walsh, Katie and Nare, Lena (eds.)
Transnational Migration and Home in Older Age.
Routledge.
ISBN 9781138887862
O'Reilly, Karen, Stones, Rob and Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591
(2014)
Lifestyle migration in East Asia: Integrating ethnographic methodology and practice theory.
In:
SAGE Research Methods Cases.
SAGE.
ISBN 9781473946644
(doi: 10.4135/978144627305013509192)
Book Reviews
Botterill, Katherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2492-6591
(2011)
Polish Migration to the UK in the ‘New’ European Union: After 2004. Burrell, Kathy. Farnham, Ashgate, 2009, 241 pp., £60 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-7546-7387-3.
Gender, Place and Culture, 18(6),
pp. 791-793.
(doi: 10.1080/0966369X.2011.617919)[Book Review]
Supervision
- Hržić, Katja
International Labour Migration and Fair Employment in the Scottish Fishing Industry