Recent Work
Demireva, N. (2022). Social Cohesion, Community Responses to Sustainability, Food Insecurity and Alternative Food Networks: the Case of CoFarm, https://www.essex.ac.uk/research-projects/the-case-of-cofarm
Demireva, N. & Zwysen, S. (2021) “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. (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. and Zwysen, W. (2021) “Ethnic Enclaves, Economic and Political Threat: An Investigation With the European Social Survey.” Frontiers in Sociology 6(110).
Thompson, P., Plummer, K. and Demireva, N. (2021) Pioneering Social Research: Life stories of a generation, Policy Press
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
Selected Journal Articles
Demireva, N. and Zwysen, W. (2021) “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).
Social Inclusion Special Issue: The Lived Experiences of Migration: Individual Strategies, Institutional Settings and Destination Effects in the European Mobility Process
Social Inclusion Special Issue: Returns to Human Capital and the Incorporation of Highly-Skilled Workers in the Public and Private Sector of Major Immigrant Societies
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 Chapters in Edited Volumes
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” in Trust Matters: Cross-Disciplinary Essays, Raquel Barradas de Freitas and Sergio Lo Iacono (ed.)
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
Working Papers
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
Papers in Progress
Demireva, N. with Wouter Zwysen “Why do we believe that majority members have been undercut by rising shares of migrants – an analysis of Understanding Society and BHPS”
Demireva, N. with Wouter Zwysen “Labour market incorporation of migrants according to their motivations in Australia” (GEMM Project)
Demireva, N. with Sergio Lo Iacono “Betting Shops as Agents of Local Neighbourhood Disorganization: Crime and Local Institutions, the Case of the UK”
Demireva, N., with Anthony Heath, and Ceri Peach “Segregation, Ethnic Flights and Stereotyping in the Context of the British Neighbourhood”
Policy Reports
Demireva, N. (2018) GEMM Research in Focus/GEMM Policy Brief in Focus, GEMM Project website
Demireva, N. (2014) ‘Social Cohesion in Britain: Key Facts, Challenges and Responses’, pp161-179 in “Social Cohesion – Addressing Social Divides in Europe and Asia”. Editors Wilhelm Hofmeister, Patrick Rueppel, Yeo Lay Hwee and Claire Dhéret, Select Books
Kesler, C. and Demireva, N. (2011) “Social Cohesion and Host Country Nationality among Immigrants in Western Europe”, Chapter 8, pp.209-236 in “Naturalisation: A Passport For The Better Integration Of Immigrants?”, OECD Publications
Demireva, N. (2009) “Ethnicity and Social Organisation: Changes and Challenges”, Report for Beyond Current Horizons; Futurelab Initiative of the Department for Children, Schools and Families
Demireva, N. (2009) “Equalsoc Reports: Ethnic Minority Representation in the Public Sectors of the UK, France, Germany, Sweden and the US”, Equalsoc Reports
Demireva, N. (2008) “The Labour Market Performance of Ethnic Minority Populations”, Equalsoc Reports