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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Number of items: 33.

2024

Shrestha, S., Arora, S., Hunter, A. and Debesay, J. (2024) The morality of care: female family caregivers’ motivations for providing care to older migrants. Qualitative Health Research, (Accepted for Publication)

Hunter, A. and Torres, S. (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, S., Hunter, A. , Debesay, J. and Arora, S. (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, S. and Hunter, A. (Eds.) (2023) Handbook on Migration and Ageing. Series: Elgar handbooks in migration. Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781839106767

Hunter, A. (2023) Return and circular migration in later life. In: Torres, S. and Hunter, A. (eds.) Handbook on Migration and Ageing. Series: Elgar handbooks in migration. Edward Elgar, pp. 183-195. ISBN 9781839106767 (doi: 10.4337/9781839106774.00025)

Hunter, A. and Böcker, A. (2023) Older refugees and internally displaced people. In: Torres, S. and Hunter, A. (eds.) Handbook on Migration and Ageing. Series: Elgar handbooks in migration. Edward Elgar, pp. 151-161. ISBN 9781839106767 (doi: 10.4337/9781839106774.00022)

Torres, S. and Hunter, A. (2023) Migration and ageing: the nexus and its backdrop. In: Torres, S. and Hunter, A. (eds.) Handbook on Migration and Ageing. Series: Elgar handbooks in migration. Edward Elgar, pp. 1-12. ISBN 9781839106767 (doi: 10.4337/9781839106774.00006)

Hunter, A. (2023) Minorities in, minorities out: cemeteries, religious adversity and the French body politic in contemporary and historical perspective. In: Maddrell, A., Kmec, S., Uteng, T. P. and Westendorp, M. (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, S., Arora, S., Hunter, A. and Debesay, J. (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, A. and McCallum Guiney, F. (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, A. and Hunter, A. (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, A. and McCallum Guiney, F. (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, A. and Meer, N. (2018) Is Scotland different on race and migration? Scottish Affairs, 27(3), pp. 382-387. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2018.0249)

Hunter, A. (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, A. (2018) Older migrants: inequalities of ageing from a transnational perspective. In: Westwood, S. (ed.) Ageing, Diversity and Inequality: Social Justice Perspectives. Series: Routledge advances in sociology. Routledge: London, pp. 194-209. ISBN 9780415786690

Hunter, A. (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, A. and Hunter, A. (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, A. (2017) Cemeteries, secularism, and religious difference in France. [Website]

Ciobanu, R. O. and Hunter, A. (2017) Older migrants and (im)mobilities of ageing: an introduction. Population, Space and Place, 23(5), e2075. (doi: 10.1002/psp.2075)

Hunter, A. and Ammann, E. S. (Eds.) (2017) Final Journeys: Migrant End-of-life Care and Rituals in Europe. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138749702

Hunter, A. (2017) Staking a claim to land, faith and family: burial location preferences of Middle Eastern Christian migrants. In: Hunter, A. and Ammann, E. S. (eds.) Final Journeys: Migrant End-of-life Care and Rituals in Europe. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138749702

Hunter, A. and Ammann, E. S. (2017) Migrant end-of-life care and rituals in Europe: an introduction. In: Hunter, A. and Ammann, E. S. (eds.) Final Journeys: Migrant End-of-life Care and Rituals in Europe. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138749702

2016

Galal, L. P., Hunter, A. , Sparre, S. L., McCallum, F. and Wozniak-Bobinska, M. (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, A. (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, A. (2016) Emotional or instrumental? Narratives of home among North and West African seniors in France. In: Walsh, K. and Näre, L. (eds.) Transnational Migration and Home in Older Age. Series: Routledge research in transnationalism (33). Routledge: New York, pp. 75-86. ISBN 9781138887862

Hunter, A. (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, A. and Ammann, E. S. (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, A. (2015) "Family values": Remittance dependency and the dilemma of late-in-life return. Hommes et Migrations, 1309, pp. 117-125.

Caponio, T., Hunter, A. and Verbeek, S. (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, A. (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, A. and Boswell, C. (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, A. and Boswell, C. (2015) Research-policy dialogues in the United Kingdom. In: Scholten, P., Entzinger, H., Penninx, R. and Verbeek, S. (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, A. (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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Number of items: 33.

Articles

Shrestha, S., Arora, S., Hunter, A. and Debesay, J. (2024) The morality of care: female family caregivers’ motivations for providing care to older migrants. Qualitative Health Research, (Accepted for Publication)

Hunter, A. and Torres, S. (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, S., Hunter, A. , Debesay, J. and Arora, S. (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, S., Arora, S., Hunter, A. and Debesay, J. (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, A. and McCallum Guiney, F. (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, A. and Hunter, A. (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, A. and McCallum Guiney, F. (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, A. and Meer, N. (2018) Is Scotland different on race and migration? Scottish Affairs, 27(3), pp. 382-387. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2018.0249)

Böcker, A. and Hunter, A. (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, R. O. and Hunter, A. (2017) Older migrants and (im)mobilities of ageing: an introduction. Population, Space and Place, 23(5), e2075. (doi: 10.1002/psp.2075)

Galal, L. P., Hunter, A. , Sparre, S. L., McCallum, F. and Wozniak-Bobinska, M. (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, A. (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, A. (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, A. and Ammann, E. S. (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, A. (2015) "Family values": Remittance dependency and the dilemma of late-in-life return. Hommes et Migrations, 1309, pp. 117-125.

Caponio, T., Hunter, A. and Verbeek, S. (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, A. (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, A. and Boswell, C. (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, A. (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, A. (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, A. (2023) Return and circular migration in later life. In: Torres, S. and Hunter, A. (eds.) Handbook on Migration and Ageing. Series: Elgar handbooks in migration. Edward Elgar, pp. 183-195. ISBN 9781839106767 (doi: 10.4337/9781839106774.00025)

Hunter, A. and Böcker, A. (2023) Older refugees and internally displaced people. In: Torres, S. and Hunter, A. (eds.) Handbook on Migration and Ageing. Series: Elgar handbooks in migration. Edward Elgar, pp. 151-161. ISBN 9781839106767 (doi: 10.4337/9781839106774.00022)

Torres, S. and Hunter, A. (2023) Migration and ageing: the nexus and its backdrop. In: Torres, S. and Hunter, A. (eds.) Handbook on Migration and Ageing. Series: Elgar handbooks in migration. Edward Elgar, pp. 1-12. ISBN 9781839106767 (doi: 10.4337/9781839106774.00006)

Hunter, A. (2023) Minorities in, minorities out: cemeteries, religious adversity and the French body politic in contemporary and historical perspective. In: Maddrell, A., Kmec, S., Uteng, T. P. and Westendorp, M. (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, A. (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, A. (2018) Older migrants: inequalities of ageing from a transnational perspective. In: Westwood, S. (ed.) Ageing, Diversity and Inequality: Social Justice Perspectives. Series: Routledge advances in sociology. Routledge: London, pp. 194-209. ISBN 9780415786690

Hunter, A. (2017) Staking a claim to land, faith and family: burial location preferences of Middle Eastern Christian migrants. In: Hunter, A. and Ammann, E. S. (eds.) Final Journeys: Migrant End-of-life Care and Rituals in Europe. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138749702

Hunter, A. and Ammann, E. S. (2017) Migrant end-of-life care and rituals in Europe: an introduction. In: Hunter, A. and Ammann, E. S. (eds.) Final Journeys: Migrant End-of-life Care and Rituals in Europe. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138749702

Hunter, A. (2016) Emotional or instrumental? Narratives of home among North and West African seniors in France. In: Walsh, K. and Näre, L. (eds.) Transnational Migration and Home in Older Age. Series: Routledge research in transnationalism (33). Routledge: New York, pp. 75-86. ISBN 9781138887862

Hunter, A. and Boswell, C. (2015) Research-policy dialogues in the United Kingdom. In: Scholten, P., Entzinger, H., Penninx, R. and Verbeek, S. (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, S. and Hunter, A. (Eds.) (2023) Handbook on Migration and Ageing. Series: Elgar handbooks in migration. Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781839106767

Hunter, A. and Ammann, E. S. (Eds.) (2017) Final Journeys: Migrant End-of-life Care and Rituals in Europe. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138749702

Website

Hunter, A. (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