Dr Monish Bhatia
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Research
Research
Research overview
I research, teach and write in the following areas: refugees, asylum and different forms of international migration on national, EU and international level; race, migration, crime and criminal justice; criminalisation of asylum seekers and undocumented migrants; border/state crimes; lived experiences of criminalisation; racist hate crimes directed against asylum seekers, irregular migrants and refugees; mental health and social care of refuge seekers; governance and accountability amongst immigration authorities and private security companies; media, crime and racism; lived experiences of detention and prisons amongst non-nationals; politics of multiculturalism, race and racism; and post-colonial criminology.
I invite PhD supervision in any of the above areas.
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
Current doctoral researchers
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DOROTA KROGULEWSKA
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GALINA DIMITROVA
Teaching
Teaching modules
- Crime, Race and Media (level 5) (LACN011H5)
- Race, Crime and Justice (LACN014S7)
- Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice (LADD059S7)
- The Criminal Justice Process (LALA145S4)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Bhatia, Monish and Mehta, R. (2022) Representations of Bangladeshis and internal ‘Others’ in the Indian press: the cases of Felani Khatun, Zohra Bibi and the ‘woman in red sari’. From the European South: A Transdisciplinary Journal of Postcolonial Humanities 9, pp. 31-46. ISSN 2531-4130.
- Bhatia, Monish (2021) Racial surveillance and the mental health impacts of electronic monitoring on migrants. Race & Class 63 (1), ISSN 0306-3968. (In Press)
- Bhatia, Monish and Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2021) Time, torture and Manus island: an interview with Behrouz Boochani and Omid Tofigian. Race & Class 62 (3), pp. 77-87. ISSN 0306-3968.
- Bhatia, Monish (2019) Crimmigration, imprisonment and racist violence: narratives of people seeking asylum in Great Britain. Journal of Sociology ISSN 1440-7833. (In Press)
- Bhatia, Monish (2019) The permission to be cruel: street level bureaucrats and harms against people seeking asylum. Critical Criminology ISSN 1205-8629. (In Press)
- Bhatia, Monish (2015) Turning asylum seekers into ‘dangerous criminals’: experiences of the criminal justice system of those seeking sanctuary. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 4 (3), pp. 97-111. ISSN 2202-8005.
Book
- Bhatia, Monish and Poynting, S. and Tufail, W., eds. (2018) Media, crime and racism. Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783319717753.
Book Review
Book Section
- Bhatia, Monish (2021) Migration, contested temporalities and violence in India: from border killings to National Register of Citizens and the Citizenship Amendment Act. In: Bhatia, Monish and Canning, V. (eds.) Stealing Time: Migration, Contested Temporalities and State Violence. Palgrave. ISBN 9783030698966. (In Press)
- Bhatia, Monish and Canning, V. (2021) Stealing time: contested temporalities, time and state violence. In: Bhatia, Monish and Canning, V. (eds.) Stealing Time: Migration, Contested Temporalities and State Violence. Palgrave. ISBN 9783030698966. (In Press)
- Bhatia, Monish and Canning, V. (2020) Misery as business: how immigration detention became a cash-cow in Britain’s borders. In: Albertson, K. and Corcoran, M. and Phillips, J. (eds.) Marketisation and Privatisation in Criminal Justice. Bristol, UK: Policy Press. pp. 262-277. ISBN 9781447345817.
- Bhatia, Monish and Burnett, J. (2019) Torture and the UK’s “war on asylum”: medical power and the culture of disbelief. In: Perocco, F. (ed.) Tortura e migrazioni (Torture and migration). Sapere l’Europa, sapere d’Europa. Venice, Italy: Edizioni Ca' Foscari. pp. 161-180. ISBN 9788869693595.
- Bhatia, Monish (2018) Social death: the (white) racial framing of the Calais 'Jungle' and 'illegal' migrants in the British tabloids and right-wing press. In: Bhatia, Monish and Poynting, S. and Tufail, W. (eds.) Media, Crime and Racism. Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783319717753.
- Bhatia, Monish (2014) Creating and managing 'mad', 'bad' and 'dangerous': the role of the immigration system. In: Canning, V. (ed.) Sites of Confinement. Weston-super-Mare, UK: European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control. pp. 29-42. ISBN 9780951170861.
- Bhatia, Monish (2014) Researching ‘Bogus’ asylum seekers, ‘Illegal’ migrants and ‘Crimmigrants’. In: Lumsden, K. and Winter, A. (eds.) Reflexivity in Criminological Research. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 162-177. ISBN 9781349478743.
Editorial
- Bhatia, Monish and Bruce-Jones, Eddie (2021) Introduction. Race & Class 62 (3), pp. 3-6. Sage. ISSN 0306 3968.
- Bhatia, Monish (2018) Minorities, crime and (in)justice: Special Issue. Justice, Power and Resistance 2 (2), The European Group Press. ISSN 2398-2764.