Dr Joanna Herbert

Dr Joanna Herbert
Visiting Research Fellow

School of Geography
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
Phone: 020 7882 2750
Fax: 020 7882 7479
Email: j.herbert@qmul.ac.uk

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Research interests:

Migration, ethnicity, gender, South Asian diaspora, whiteness and racisms, oral histories and narratives.

Joanna  was appointed at Queen Mary in May 2005 as a Research Fellow for an ESRC funded project entitled: Global Cities at Work: Migrant labour in low paid employment in London. She held an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester and her thesis was recognised by the award of the prestigious Michaelis-Jena Ratcliff Prize 2005, ‘for an important contribution by an individual to the study of Folk Lore and Folk Life in Great Britain and Ireland.’

She gained a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in 2007 for a project entitled ‘Oral Histories of Ugandan Asians in Britain’. This aimed to explore the role of memories, gender, class, place and generation in shaping the identities and experiences of Ugandan Asians in Britain. In 2009 she was awarded the Oral History Association Book Award for Negotiating Boundaries in the City for an ‘outstanding contribution to oral history’.

Publications:

Testimonies of the City Identity, Community and Change in a Contemporary Urban World
Testimonies of the City

Books

Articles in journals

  • Datta, K., McIlwaine, C., Evans, Y., Herbert J. May, J. and Wills, J. (forthcoming 2010) ‘A migrant ethic of care? Negotiating care and caring among migrant workers in London's low pay economy’, Feminist Review
  • Datta, K., McIlwaine, C., Herbert, J., Evans, Y., May, J. and Wills, J. (September 2009) ‘Men on the move: Embodied narratives of migration and work among low paid migrant men in London’, Social and Cultural Geography, 8: 4
  • Wills, J., May, J., Datta, K., Evans, Y., Herbert, J. and McIlwaine C. (2009) ‘Religion at work: The role of faith-based organizations in living wage campaigns for immigrant workers in London’, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 1–19
  • Wills, J., May, J., Datta, K., Evans, Y., Herbert, J. and McIlwaine C. (2009) ‘London’s migrant division of labour’, European Journal of Urban and Regional Studies, 16: 3 257–271
  • Herbert, J. (March 2009) ‘Oral histories of the Ugandan Asians in Britain: gendered identities in the diaspora’, Contemporary South Asia, 17: 1, 21–32
  • Herbert, J. and Rodger, R. (2008) ‘Narratives of South Asian Muslim women in Leicester 1964-2004’, Oral History, 36: 1, 54–63
  • Herbert, J., May, J., Wills, J., Datta, K., Evans, Y. and McIlwaine, C. (2008) ‘Multicultural living? Experiences of everyday racism amongst Ghanaian migrants in London’, European Urban and Regional Studies, 15: 2, 103–117
  • Datta, K., McIlwaine, C., Wills, J., Evans, Y., Herbert J. and May, J. (2007) ‘The new development finance or exploiting migrant labour? Remittance sending among low-paid migrant workers in London’, International Development Planning Review, 29:1, 43–67
  • May, J., Wills, J., Datta, K., Evans, Y., Herbert, J. and McIlwaine C. (2007) ‘Keeping London working: global cities, the British state and London’s migrant division of labour’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 32: 2, 151–167
  • Datta, K., McIlwaine, C., Wills, J., Evans, Y., Herbert J. and May J. (2007) ‘From coping strategies to tactics: London’s low paid economy and migrant labour’, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 45: 2, 404–32
  • Evans, Y. Wills, J. Datta, K. Herbert, J. May, J. and McIlwaine, C. (2007) ‘Subcontracting by stealth in London’s hotels: impacts and implications for labour organising’ Just Labor: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 10, 85–97.
  • Smith, J., Herbert, J. and Verdier, N. (2002), ‘Current bibliography of urban history’, Urban History, 29: 3, 448–512
  • Smith, J., Herbert, J. and Verdier, N. (2001), ‘Current bibliography of urban history’, Urban History, 28: 3, 462–507


Book chapters

  • Wills, J., Datta, K., McIlwaine C. Evans, Y., Herbert, J., and May, J. (forthcoming 2010) ‘(Im)migration, local, regional and uneven development’, in Pike, A. Rodriguez-Pose, A. and J. Tomaney (eds), Routledge Handbook of Local and Regional Development. London: Routledge
  • Wills, J., Datta, K., Evans, Y., Herbert, J., May, J. and McIlwaine C. (forthcoming 2010) ‘New migrant divisions of labour’, in Coe, N. and Jones, A. (eds) The Economic Geography of the UK. London: Sage
  • Herbert, J. (2008) ‘Masculinity and migration: Life stories of East African Asian men’, in Ryan, L. and Webster, W. (eds), Gendering Migration: Masculinity, Femininity and Ethnicity in Post-War Britain, Aldershot: Ashgate, 189–203.
  • May, J., Datta, K., Evans, Y., Herbert, J., McIlwaine, C. and Wills, J. (2008) ‘Travelling neoliberalism: Polish and Ghanaian migrant workers in London’, in Smith, A., Stenning, A. and Willis, K. (eds) Social Justice and Neoliberalism: Global perspectives, London, Zed.
  • Herbert, J. (2007) ‘Negotiating boundaries and the cross-cultural oral history interview’, in R. Rodger and J. Herbert (eds), Testimonies of the City: Identity, Community and Change in a Contemporary Urban World, Aldershot: Ashgate, 251–267
  • Herbert, J. and Rodger, R. (2007) ‘Frameworks: testimony, representation and interpretation’, in R. Rodger and J. Herbert (eds), Testimonies of the City: Identity, Community and Change in a Contemporary Urban World, Aldershot: Ashgate, 1–19
  • Herbert, J. (2006) ‘Migration, memory and metaphor: Life stories of South Asians in Leicester’, in Burrell, K. and Panayi, P. (eds), Histories and Memories: Migrants and their History in Britain, London: IB Tauris,133–148.


Reports

  • Herbert, J., Datta, K., Evans, Y., McIlwaine, C., May, J. and Wills, J. (2006) Multiculturalism at Work: The Experiences of Ghanaians in London, Queen Mary, University of London. ISBN: 0-902238-39-8
  • Datta, K., McIlwaine, C., Wills, J., Evans, Y., Herbert, J. and May, J. (2006) Work, Care and Life Amongst Low Paid Migrant Workers in London: Towards a Migrant Ethic of Care (Queen Mary, University of London, 2006, ISBN: 0-902238-38-8
  • Datta, K., McIlwaine, C., Wills, J., Evans, Y., Herbert J. and May, J. (2006) Challenging Remittances as the New Development Mantra: Perspectives from Low Paid Migrant Workers in London, Queen Mary, University of London, ISBN: 0-902238-34-5
  • McIlwaine, C., Datta, K., Evans, Y., Herbert, J., May J. and Wills, J. (2006) Gender and Ethnic Identities among Low Paid Migrant Workers in London, Queen Mary, University of London, 2006, ISBN:0-902238-33-7
  • May, J., Wills, J., Datta, K., Evans, Y., Herbert, J. and McIlwaine, C. (2006) The British State and London’s Migrant Division of Labour, Queen Mary, University of London, ISBN: 0-902238-23-X
  • Datta, K., McIlwaine, C., Wills, J., Evans, Y., Herbert J. and May J. (2006) Work and Survival Strategies among Low Paid Migrants in London, Queen Mary, University of London, ISBN: 0-902238-24-8
  • Evans, Y., Herbert, J., Datta, K., May, J., McIlwaine, C. and Wills, J. (2005) Making the City Work: Low Paid Employment in London, Queen Mary, University of London, ISBN: 0-902-23818-3