Demireva, N and Zwysen, W. (2025). The economic integration of migrants and the importance of the policy context in different European countries. International Organization for Migration (IOM), Migration Policy Practice (Volume XIV), Number 3, September 2025, IOM, Geneva; https://publications.iom.int/books/migration-policy-practice-volume-xiv-number-3-september-2025
Zwysen, W. and Demireva, N. (2025). The importance of host country human capital for the labour market integration of different migrant groups in Europe, ISER Working Paper Series, 22025-01; https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/research/publications/publication-588474
Demireva, N., & Iacono, S. L. (2024). Gambling outlets as agents of local area disorganization: Crime and local institutions, the case of the UK. Acta Sociologica, 0(0). https://doi-org.uniessexlib.idm.oclc.org/10.1177/00016993241298696
Demireva, N. and Zwysen, W. (2022) Wellbeing in local areas: how trust, happiness, social distance and experience of discrimination differ in the perceived ethnic enclave, European Societies, DOI: 10.1080/14616696.2021.2006258
Demireva, N. and Zwysen, W. (2021). “Ethnic Enclaves, Economic and Political Threat: An Investigation With the European Social Survey.” Frontiers in Sociology 6(110).
Zwysen, W. and Demireva, N. (2020). “Who benefits from host country skills? Evidence of heterogeneous labour market returns to host country skills by migrant motivation”, ISER Working Paper Series: https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/research/publications/working-papers/iser/2020-06
Demireva, N. (2019) “Receiving Country Investments and Acquisitions: How Migrants Negotiate the Adaptation to Their Destination”, Social Inclusion, Volume 7, Issue 4.
Demireva, N. and Quassoli, F. (2019) “An Introduction to The Lived Experiences of Migration: Individual Strategies, Institutional Settings and Destination Effects in the European Mobility Process”, Social Inclusion, Volume 7, Issue 4.
Demireva, N. (2019) “JewAsian: race, religion and identity for America’s newest Jews.” Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 18(3): 385-385.
Demireva, N. (2019). “Immigration Policy and the Shaping of U.S. Culture: Becoming America. By Roger White.” Migration Studies, https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnz007
Demireva, N. and Fellini, I. (2018). An Introduction to “Returns to Human Capital and the Incorporation of Highly-Skilled Workers in the Public and Private Sector of Major Immigrant Societies”, Social Inclusion, 6(3), 1-5.
Zwysen, W. and Demireva, N. (2018). An Examination of Ethnic Hierarchies and Returns to Human Capital in the UK. Social Inclusion, 6(3), 6-33.
Lo Iacono, S. and Demireva, N. (2018). Returns to Foreign and Host Country Qualifications: Evidence from the US on the Labour Market Placement of Migrants and the Second Generation. Social Inclusion, 6(3), 142-152.
Zwysen, W. and Demireva, N. (2018) “Ethnic and migrant penalties in job quality in the UK: the role of residential concentration and occupational clustering.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2018): 1-22.
Russell-Jonsson, K. and Demireva, N. (2018) “Does the ethno-religious diversity of a neighbourhood affect the perceived health of its residents?” Social Science & Medicine 204 (2018): 108-116.
Demireva, N. and Heath, A. (2017) Minority Embeddedness and Economic Integration: Is Diversity or Homogeneity Associated with Better Employment Outcomes? Social Inclusion, Volume 5, Issue 1
Demireva, N. (2014). “Ethnic Diversity and Social Cohesion: Immigration, Ethnic Fractionalization and Potentials for Civic Action Merlin Schaeffer.” European Sociological Review 31(1): 133-136.
Demireva, N. and Heath, A. (2014) “Diversity and the Civic Spirit in British Neighbourhoods: An Investigation with MCDS and EMBES 2010 Data.” Sociology: 48 (4): 643-663.
Heath, A. and Demireva, N. (2014) “Has multiculturalism failed in Britain?” Ethnic and Racial Studies 37(1): 161-180.
Demireva, N. (2011) “New Migrants in the UK: Employment Patterns and Occupational Attainment”; Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 37 (4): 637-655
Demireva, N. and Kesler, C. (2011) “The Curse of Inopportune Transitions: the Labour Market Behaviour of Immigrants and Natives in the UK”, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 52 (4): 306-326
Demireva, N. with Kovacheva, S. and Lewis, S. (2005) “Changing Cultures in Changing Workplaces: UK and Bulgaria Compared”, Sociological Problems: p. 62-81
Books and Book Chapters
Demireva, N. and Fernandez Reino, M. (2024) Chapter 9 “Short-term migration: the case of the UK”, in Perspectives on intra-EU short term mobility”, editors Wouter Zwysen and Mehtap Akguc, in press
Thompson, P. Plummer, K. and Demireva, N. (2021) Pioneering Social Research: Life stories of a generation, Policy Press
Demireva, N. (2021) “On Voluntary associations and New Avenues for Research on Social Trust” pp.159-178 in Trust Matters: Cross-Disciplinary Essays, Raquel Barradas de Freitas and Sergio Lo Iacono (ed.), Hart Publishing, Oxford
Demireva, N. (2021) “Theoretical frameworks underlying research on the ‘lived’ experiences of migration” Chapter 1 pp. 21-42 in Migration Insights, Kovacheva, S and Popivanov, B. (ed.) ”On the road: Migration as part of the lived experience of Bulgarian immigrants in the EU”, St. Kliment Ohridki University Press, Sofia
Demireva, N. and Heath, A. (2015) “Informal, Associational Bonding and Associational Bridging: Which Ties Matter Most for Minority Involvement and Integration” Chapter 8, pp 126-145 in in Li, Y. (ed) The Handbook of Research Methods and Applications on Social Capital, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing
Demireva, N. (2008) “Examining the differential job search methods of ethnic groups in the UK – how immigrants and minority members use their social resources and institutional settings to overcome labour market disadvantage” pp.209-241 in ‘Ethnicity, Equality and Justice Beyond the Paradigms of Recognition and Redistribution’, Karin Hallden, Elias le Grand, Zenia Hellgren (ed.); Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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