Dr Alistair Hunter

  • Senior Lecturer in Health and Social Policy (School of Social & Environmental Sustainability)
  • Associate (School of Health & Wellbeing)

Biography

I joined the University as Senior Lecturer in Health and Social Policy in 2018. Prior to that I held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh (see Grants below). My PhD (Edinburgh, 2012) was awarded the Maria Baganha Prize for best PhD in the field of migration studies, presented by IMISCOE, Europe's largest network of migration scholars. My book Retirement Home? Ageing Migrant Workers in France and the Question of Return was published open access by Springer in 2018. The book received an honourable mention for the Khayrallah Prize in Migration Studies 2018, and was shortlisted for the British Sociological Association's Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2019. I am co-editor (with Sandra Torres) of the Handbook of Migration and Ageing (Edward Elgar, forthcoming).

Research interests

  • Ageing
  • International Migration
  • End-of-Life Issues
  • Ethnic and Religious Minorities in the UK / rest of Europe
  • Policymaking
  • Social Systems Theory

Publications

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2025

Hunter, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478, McLeod, D., Sohel, MD ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6101-659X and Vincent, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3076-5659 (2025) Sustainability in the School of Social and Environmental Sustainability. Solway Seminar Series, Glasgow, UK, 25 June 2025.

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2025) The intersection of migration and ageing: overview and implications for the broader gerontological field. Issue Focus, 5(3), pp. 49-60.

2024

Shrestha, Sunita, Arora, Sanjana, Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 and Debesay, Jonas (2024) Aging in place or aging out of place? Family caregivers’ perspectives on care for older Pakistani migrants in Norway. European Journal of Ageing, 21, 34. (doi: 10.1007/s10433-024-00832-y)

Shrestha, Sunita, Arora, Sanjana, Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 and Debesay, Jonas (2024) The morality of care: female family caregivers’ motivations for providing care to older migrants. Qualitative Health Research, (doi: 10.1177/10497323241280239) (Early Online Publication)

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 and Torres, Sandra (2024) Deploying an ageing-astute lens in migration studies: current research and future directions. International Migration, 62(4), pp. 296-300. (doi: 10.1111/imig.13301)

Shrestha, Sunita, Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478, Debesay, Jonas and Arora, Sanjana (2024) Intergenerational ambivalence among families with a migrant background caring for older relatives. Journal of Migration and Health, 10, 100244. (doi: 10.1016/j.jmh.2024.100244)

2023

Torres, Sandra and Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (Eds.) (2023) Handbook on Migration and Ageing. Series: Elgar handbooks in migration. Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781839106767

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2023) Return and circular migration in later life. In: Torres, Sandra and Hunter, Alistair (eds.) Handbook on Migration and Ageing. Series: Elgar handbooks in migration. Edward Elgar, pp. 183-195. ISBN 9781839106767 (doi: 10.4337/9781839106774.00025)

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 and Böcker, Anita (2023) Older refugees and internally displaced people. In: Torres, Sandra and Hunter, Alistair (eds.) Handbook on Migration and Ageing. Series: Elgar handbooks in migration. Edward Elgar, pp. 151-161. ISBN 9781839106767 (doi: 10.4337/9781839106774.00022)

Torres, Sandra and Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2023) Migration and ageing: the nexus and its backdrop. In: Torres, Sandra and Hunter, Alistair (eds.) Handbook on Migration and Ageing. Series: Elgar handbooks in migration. Edward Elgar, pp. 1-12. ISBN 9781839106767 (doi: 10.4337/9781839106774.00006)

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2023) Minorities in, minorities out: cemeteries, religious adversity and the French body politic in contemporary and historical perspective. In: Maddrell, Avril, Kmec, Sonja, Uteng, Tanu Priya and Westendorp, Mariske (eds.) Mobilities in Life and Death: Negotiating Room for Migrants and Minorities in European Cemeteries. Series: IMISCOE research series (IMIS). Springer: Cham, pp. 105-121. ISBN 9783031282836 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-28284-3_6)

Shrestha, Sunita, Arora, Sanjana, Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 and Debesay, Jonas (2023) Changing dynamics of caregiving: a meta-ethnography study of informal caregivers’ experiences with older immigrant family members in Europe. BMC Health Services Research, 23, 43. (doi: 10.1186/s12913-023-09023-4)

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 and McCallum Guiney, Fiona (2023) Misrecognised as Muslim: the racialisation of Christians of Middle Eastern heritage in the UK. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, (doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2022.2157803) (Early Online Publication)

2022

Böcker, Anita and Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2022) Older refugees and internally displaced people in African countries: findings from a scoping review of literature. Journal of Refugee Studies, (doi: 10.1093/jrs/feac023) (Early Online Publication)

2020

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 and McCallum Guiney, Fiona (2020) The quest for equal citizenship: Middle Eastern Christian narratives of migration and inclusion in the United Kingdom. Mashriq and Mahjar, 8(1), pp. 15-43. (doi: 10.24847/v8i12020.288)

2018

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 and Meer, Nasar (2018) Is Scotland different on race and migration? Scottish Affairs, 27(3), pp. 382-387. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2018.0249)

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2018) Conclusion: The returns from theory and a new approach to home. In: Retirement Home? Ageing Migrant Workers in France and the Question of Return. Series: IMISCOE research series. Springer, pp. 179-198. ISBN 9783319649757 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-64976-4_8)

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2018) Older migrants: inequalities of ageing from a transnational perspective. In: Westwood, Sue (ed.) Ageing, Diversity and Inequality: Social Justice Perspectives. Series: Routledge advances in sociology. Routledge: London, pp. 194-209. ISBN 9780415786690

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2018) Retirement Home? Ageing Migrant Workers in France and the Question of Return. Series: IMISCOE research series. Springer: Cham. ISBN 9783319649757 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-64976-4)

2017

Böcker, Anita and Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2017) Legislating for transnational ageing: a challenge to the logics of the welfare state. European Journal of Ageing, 14(4), pp. 353-363. (doi: 10.1007/s10433-017-0431-6) (PMID:29180941) (PMCID:PMC5684041)

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2017) Cemeteries, secularism, and religious difference in France. [Website]

Ciobanu, Ruxandra Oana and Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2017) Older migrants and (im)mobilities of ageing: an introduction. Population, Space and Place, 23(5), e2075. (doi: 10.1002/psp.2075)

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 and Ammann, Eva Soom (Eds.) (2017) Final Journeys: Migrant End-of-life Care and Rituals in Europe. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138749702

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2017) Staking a claim to land, faith and family: burial location preferences of Middle Eastern Christian migrants. In: Hunter, Alistair and Ammann, Eva Soom (eds.) Final Journeys: Migrant End-of-life Care and Rituals in Europe. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138749702

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 and Ammann, Eva Soom (2017) Migrant end-of-life care and rituals in Europe: an introduction. In: Hunter, Alistair and Ammann, Eva Soom (eds.) Final Journeys: Migrant End-of-life Care and Rituals in Europe. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138749702

2016

Galal, Lise Paulsen, Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478, Sparre, Sara Lei, McCallum, Fiona and Wozniak-Bobinska, Marta (2016) Middle Eastern Christian spaces in Europe: multi-sited and super-diverse. Journal of Religion in Europe, 9(1), pp. 1-25. (doi: 10.1163/18748929-00901002)

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2016) Deathscapes in diaspora: contesting space and negotiating home in contexts of post-migration diversity. Social and Cultural Geography, 17(2), pp. 247-261. (doi: 10.1080/14649365.2015.1059472)

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2016) Emotional or instrumental? Narratives of home among North and West African seniors in France. In: Walsh, Katie and Näre, Lena (eds.) Transnational Migration and Home in Older Age. Series: Routledge research in transnationalism (33). Routledge: New York, pp. 75-86. ISBN 9781138887862

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2016) Staking a claim to land, faith and family: burial location preferences of Middle Eastern Christian migrants. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 37(2), pp. 179-194. (doi: 10.1080/07256868.2016.1141759)

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 and Ammann, Eva Soom (2016) End-of-life care and rituals in contexts of post-migration diversity in Europe: an introduction. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 37(2), pp. 95-102. (doi: 10.1080/07256868.2016.1142052)

2015

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2015) "Family values": Remittance dependency and the dilemma of late-in-life return. Hommes et Migrations, 1309, pp. 117-125.

Caponio, Tiziana, Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 and Verbeek, Stijn (2015) (De)constructing expertise: comparing knowledge utilization in the migrant integration “crisis”. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 17(1), pp. 26-40. (doi: 10.1080/13876988.2014.889902)

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2015) Empowering or impeding return migration? ICT, mobile phones, and older migrants’ communications with home. Global Networks, 15(4), pp. 485-502. (doi: 10.1111/glob.12091)

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 and Boswell, Christina (2015) Comparing the political functions of independent commissions: the case of UK migrant integration policy. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 17(1), pp. 10-25. (doi: 10.1080/13876988.2014.896117)

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 and Boswell, Christina (2015) Research-policy dialogues in the United Kingdom. In: Scholten, Peter, Entzinger, Han, Penninx, Rinus and Verbeek, Stijn (eds.) Integrating Immigrants in Europe: Research-Policy Dialogues. Series: IMISCOE research series. Springer: Cham, pp. 233-251. ISBN 9783319162553 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-16256-0_13)

2011

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2011) Theory and practice of return migration at retirement: the case of migrant worker hostel residents in France. Population, Space and Place, 17(2), pp. 179-192. (doi: 10.1002/psp.610)

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Articles

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2025) The intersection of migration and ageing: overview and implications for the broader gerontological field. Issue Focus, 5(3), pp. 49-60.

Shrestha, Sunita, Arora, Sanjana, Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 and Debesay, Jonas (2024) Aging in place or aging out of place? Family caregivers’ perspectives on care for older Pakistani migrants in Norway. European Journal of Ageing, 21, 34. (doi: 10.1007/s10433-024-00832-y)

Shrestha, Sunita, Arora, Sanjana, Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 and Debesay, Jonas (2024) The morality of care: female family caregivers’ motivations for providing care to older migrants. Qualitative Health Research, (doi: 10.1177/10497323241280239) (Early Online Publication)

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 and Torres, Sandra (2024) Deploying an ageing-astute lens in migration studies: current research and future directions. International Migration, 62(4), pp. 296-300. (doi: 10.1111/imig.13301)

Shrestha, Sunita, Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478, Debesay, Jonas and Arora, Sanjana (2024) Intergenerational ambivalence among families with a migrant background caring for older relatives. Journal of Migration and Health, 10, 100244. (doi: 10.1016/j.jmh.2024.100244)

Shrestha, Sunita, Arora, Sanjana, Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 and Debesay, Jonas (2023) Changing dynamics of caregiving: a meta-ethnography study of informal caregivers’ experiences with older immigrant family members in Europe. BMC Health Services Research, 23, 43. (doi: 10.1186/s12913-023-09023-4)

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 and McCallum Guiney, Fiona (2023) Misrecognised as Muslim: the racialisation of Christians of Middle Eastern heritage in the UK. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, (doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2022.2157803) (Early Online Publication)

Böcker, Anita and Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2022) Older refugees and internally displaced people in African countries: findings from a scoping review of literature. Journal of Refugee Studies, (doi: 10.1093/jrs/feac023) (Early Online Publication)

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 and McCallum Guiney, Fiona (2020) The quest for equal citizenship: Middle Eastern Christian narratives of migration and inclusion in the United Kingdom. Mashriq and Mahjar, 8(1), pp. 15-43. (doi: 10.24847/v8i12020.288)

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 and Meer, Nasar (2018) Is Scotland different on race and migration? Scottish Affairs, 27(3), pp. 382-387. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2018.0249)

Böcker, Anita and Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2017) Legislating for transnational ageing: a challenge to the logics of the welfare state. European Journal of Ageing, 14(4), pp. 353-363. (doi: 10.1007/s10433-017-0431-6) (PMID:29180941) (PMCID:PMC5684041)

Ciobanu, Ruxandra Oana and Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2017) Older migrants and (im)mobilities of ageing: an introduction. Population, Space and Place, 23(5), e2075. (doi: 10.1002/psp.2075)

Galal, Lise Paulsen, Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478, Sparre, Sara Lei, McCallum, Fiona and Wozniak-Bobinska, Marta (2016) Middle Eastern Christian spaces in Europe: multi-sited and super-diverse. Journal of Religion in Europe, 9(1), pp. 1-25. (doi: 10.1163/18748929-00901002)

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2016) Deathscapes in diaspora: contesting space and negotiating home in contexts of post-migration diversity. Social and Cultural Geography, 17(2), pp. 247-261. (doi: 10.1080/14649365.2015.1059472)

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2016) Staking a claim to land, faith and family: burial location preferences of Middle Eastern Christian migrants. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 37(2), pp. 179-194. (doi: 10.1080/07256868.2016.1141759)

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 and Ammann, Eva Soom (2016) End-of-life care and rituals in contexts of post-migration diversity in Europe: an introduction. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 37(2), pp. 95-102. (doi: 10.1080/07256868.2016.1142052)

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2015) "Family values": Remittance dependency and the dilemma of late-in-life return. Hommes et Migrations, 1309, pp. 117-125.

Caponio, Tiziana, Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 and Verbeek, Stijn (2015) (De)constructing expertise: comparing knowledge utilization in the migrant integration “crisis”. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 17(1), pp. 26-40. (doi: 10.1080/13876988.2014.889902)

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2015) Empowering or impeding return migration? ICT, mobile phones, and older migrants’ communications with home. Global Networks, 15(4), pp. 485-502. (doi: 10.1111/glob.12091)

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 and Boswell, Christina (2015) Comparing the political functions of independent commissions: the case of UK migrant integration policy. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 17(1), pp. 10-25. (doi: 10.1080/13876988.2014.896117)

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2011) Theory and practice of return migration at retirement: the case of migrant worker hostel residents in France. Population, Space and Place, 17(2), pp. 179-192. (doi: 10.1002/psp.610)

Books

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2018) Retirement Home? Ageing Migrant Workers in France and the Question of Return. Series: IMISCOE research series. Springer: Cham. ISBN 9783319649757 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-64976-4)

Book Sections

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2023) Return and circular migration in later life. In: Torres, Sandra and Hunter, Alistair (eds.) Handbook on Migration and Ageing. Series: Elgar handbooks in migration. Edward Elgar, pp. 183-195. ISBN 9781839106767 (doi: 10.4337/9781839106774.00025)

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 and Böcker, Anita (2023) Older refugees and internally displaced people. In: Torres, Sandra and Hunter, Alistair (eds.) Handbook on Migration and Ageing. Series: Elgar handbooks in migration. Edward Elgar, pp. 151-161. ISBN 9781839106767 (doi: 10.4337/9781839106774.00022)

Torres, Sandra and Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2023) Migration and ageing: the nexus and its backdrop. In: Torres, Sandra and Hunter, Alistair (eds.) Handbook on Migration and Ageing. Series: Elgar handbooks in migration. Edward Elgar, pp. 1-12. ISBN 9781839106767 (doi: 10.4337/9781839106774.00006)

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2023) Minorities in, minorities out: cemeteries, religious adversity and the French body politic in contemporary and historical perspective. In: Maddrell, Avril, Kmec, Sonja, Uteng, Tanu Priya and Westendorp, Mariske (eds.) Mobilities in Life and Death: Negotiating Room for Migrants and Minorities in European Cemeteries. Series: IMISCOE research series (IMIS). Springer: Cham, pp. 105-121. ISBN 9783031282836 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-28284-3_6)

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2018) Conclusion: The returns from theory and a new approach to home. In: Retirement Home? Ageing Migrant Workers in France and the Question of Return. Series: IMISCOE research series. Springer, pp. 179-198. ISBN 9783319649757 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-64976-4_8)

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2018) Older migrants: inequalities of ageing from a transnational perspective. In: Westwood, Sue (ed.) Ageing, Diversity and Inequality: Social Justice Perspectives. Series: Routledge advances in sociology. Routledge: London, pp. 194-209. ISBN 9780415786690

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2017) Staking a claim to land, faith and family: burial location preferences of Middle Eastern Christian migrants. In: Hunter, Alistair and Ammann, Eva Soom (eds.) Final Journeys: Migrant End-of-life Care and Rituals in Europe. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138749702

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 and Ammann, Eva Soom (2017) Migrant end-of-life care and rituals in Europe: an introduction. In: Hunter, Alistair and Ammann, Eva Soom (eds.) Final Journeys: Migrant End-of-life Care and Rituals in Europe. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138749702

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2016) Emotional or instrumental? Narratives of home among North and West African seniors in France. In: Walsh, Katie and Näre, Lena (eds.) Transnational Migration and Home in Older Age. Series: Routledge research in transnationalism (33). Routledge: New York, pp. 75-86. ISBN 9781138887862

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 and Boswell, Christina (2015) Research-policy dialogues in the United Kingdom. In: Scholten, Peter, Entzinger, Han, Penninx, Rinus and Verbeek, Stijn (eds.) Integrating Immigrants in Europe: Research-Policy Dialogues. Series: IMISCOE research series. Springer: Cham, pp. 233-251. ISBN 9783319162553 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-16256-0_13)

Edited Books

Torres, Sandra and Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (Eds.) (2023) Handbook on Migration and Ageing. Series: Elgar handbooks in migration. Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781839106767

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 and Ammann, Eva Soom (Eds.) (2017) Final Journeys: Migrant End-of-life Care and Rituals in Europe. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138749702

Conference or Workshop Item

Hunter, A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478, McLeod, D., Sohel, MD ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6101-659X and Vincent, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3076-5659 (2025) Sustainability in the School of Social and Environmental Sustainability. Solway Seminar Series, Glasgow, UK, 25 June 2025.

Website

Hunter, Alistair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-8478 (2017) Cemeteries, secularism, and religious difference in France. [Website]

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Grants

Burying our Differences: Negotiating faith and space in contexts of death and diversity.
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship
2015-2018 (£335,033)

‘Research in Paris’ Scholar Award
Mairie de Paris (Paris City Council)
2015-2016 (€30,000)

Supervision

  • Ageing, especially in connection with health and social care, housing, pensions, minorities and migration.
  • Return and circular migration; transnationalism; diaspora.
  • Migrant integration policies.
  • Ethnic and Religious Minorities in the UK/ rest of Europe.
  • End-of-life issues, especially from a human geography perspective.

Current/Future PhD projects

Innovative Models of Community Housing with Care

Sponsor: College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow

Duration: 2020 -

The Feasibility of Implementing Asset-Based Approaches to Health in Saudi Rural Communities

Sponsor: Saudi Arabia Cultural Bureau

Duration: 2020 -

PhD projects supervised to completion

Feeling at Home and Seeing the Other Side: Muslim responses to Right-Wing Populism

Sponsor: Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World, University of Edinburgh

Duration: 2016 - 2019

  • Batarfi, Sabreen Saleh A
    The Feasibility of Implementing Asset-Based Approaches to Health in Saudi Rural Communities.
  • Izzo, Maria
    Who cares for the carers? Health and ageing among Ukrainian care workers in Italy.

Teaching

Undergraduate

  • Year 1: Contemporary Health Challenges (Convenor)
  • Year 4: Honours Action Research Project 1 (Convenor)
  • Year 4: Honours Action Research Project 2 (Convenor)

Additional information

I have also held positions at the University of St Andrews and the David Hume Institute think-tank. In 2015-16 I was a visiting fellow at INED, the French National Institute for Demographic Studies in Paris.


Alistair Hunter