Dr Dominic Pasura
- Senior Lecturer in Sociology (Sociological & Cultural Studies)
telephone:
+440141 330 4090
email:
Dominic.Pasura@glasgow.ac.uk
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7155-1107Biography
Dominic Pasura is a Sociologist, Author and Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Glasgow. His areas of research interest include African studies, transnational relations and processes, diaspora studies and the sociology of religion, as well as migration and development.
His publications include the books African Transnational Diasporas: Fractured Communities and Plural Identities of Zimbabweans in Britain (Palgrave Macmillan 2014), which proposes a framework for understanding African transnational diasporas as well as charts the migration, settlement and transnational connections of Zimbabweans in Britain. He co-edited the academic volume Migration, Transnationalism, and Catholicism: Global Perspectives (with Marta Erdal, Palgrave Macmillan 2016), which explores how migration and transnationalism are producing diverse spaces and encounters that are moulding the Roman Catholic Church as institution and parish, pilgrimage and network, community and people. He recently co-edited the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary African Migration (with Daniel Makina, Routledge 2023), which offers an authoritative multi-disciplinary overview of contemporary African international migration.
He has authored or co-authored over thirty publications in journals and edited volumes, including Ethnic and Racial Studies, International Migration, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Ethnography, Men and Masculinities, Journal of Contemporary Religion, Journal of Religion in Africa, and Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.
Prior to joining the University of Glasgow, Dominic taught and researched at the Universities of University College London, Middlesex and Huddersfield.
Dominic is open to receiving proposals for PhD studies in any of the following broad areas:
· Global migration
· Contemporary African migration and mobilities
· Africans diasporas
· Migration and development
· Transnational relations and processes
· Transnational religion
· Transnational young people
· Gender and African masculinities
Research interests
- Global migration
- Contemporary African migration and mobilities
- Africans diasporas
- Migration and development
- Transnational relations and processes
- Transnational religion
- Transnational young people
- Gender and African masculinities
Grants
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As the Principal Investigator, Dominic is currently working on an Economic and Social Research Council-funded project, "The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Transnational Young People of African Migrant Background," from May 2023 to May 2026. (£882,100, fEC)
The project investigates the role of religion and spirituality in constructing youth identities and a sense of belonging among transnational young people (aged 15-35) of Nigerian and Zimbabwean migrant backgrounds in London and Birmingham (UK), Lagos (Nigeria), Harare (Zimbabwe) and Johannesburg (South Africa).
The project brings together international scholars and key stakeholders interested in the study of religion and migration between the UK and Africa. The fieldwork sites include four countries (the responsible institution in brackets): United Kingdom (University of Glasgow), Nigeria (University of Calabar), Zimbabwe (University of Zimbabwe) and South Africa (University of Pretoria) and five cities: London, Birmingham, Harare, Johannesburg and Lagos. The study focuses on young people living in urban neighbourhoods and practitioners of Christian, Muslim and African Indigenous Religions faiths.
- 2014–2015: African Diasporas’ Engagements: The Case of Zimbabwe, Gambia and Somalia
(Middlesex University) £5000.
- Towards the Prevention and Intervention of Child Sexual Abuse: Cross-cultural Explorations, Explanations and Impact Evaluations (April 2011-January 2012). ESRC Knowledge Exchange Small Grants Scheme (RES-192-22-0132) £9,150. Investigators: Professor Adele Jones (Principal Investigator) and Dr Dominic Pasura (Co-investigator). The research project, a collaboration of three institutions, that is, the Centre for Applied Childhood Studies, University of Huddersfield, the Social Work Unit, University of the West Indies (UWI) and Stop it Now!, a US-based organisation involved in research to prevent child sexual abuse, explored international, cross-cultural understandings of research into child sexual abuse and identified ways to address the problem.
- Religious Transnationalism: The case of Zimbabwean Catholics in Britain. ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Grant Number: PTA-026-27-2212 (July 2009- June 2010) £78,375.11. The project examined the ways in which mainstream churches engendered migrants’ maintenance of transnational ties and improved their integration into British society.
Supervision
Current PhD students
- Keying Li, ‘Transnational identity formation of second generation Chinese young people in the UK’, University of Glasgow.
- Sarah Kazira, ‘The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Transnational Young People of African Migrant Background’, University of Glasgow.
- Olayinka A. Akinrinola, ‘Migration and Transnational Families: Effect of Separation on Nigerian Undocumented Migrants and their Families’ University of Glasgow.
Successful PhD completions
- Maria Mercedes Saavedra Corrada, 'The Virgin of Altagracia in the transnational context of Dominican women living in Puerto Rico', successfully defended in September 2021, University of Glasgow.
- Stephen Trotter: ‘Leavening Society - The Role of Religious Institutions in integrating Migrants in Norway,’ successfully defended June 2019, University of Glasgow.
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William Suk, ‘Collaboration and Conflict in Transnationally-Dispersed Zimbabwean Families’, successfully defended October 2017, Syracuse University, the US.
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Helen Shipman, Conceptualizing Child Sexual Abuse: Voices from an Informal Settlement in Nairobi, successfully defended October 2016, University of Huddersfield.
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Gloria Seruwagi, Examining the Agency and Construction of 'Orphans and Vulnerable Children' in rural Uganda, successfully defended March 2013, University of Huddersfield.
- Kazira, Sarah
The Religious and Spiritual Lives of Transnational Young People of African Migrant Background - Li, Keying
The Formation and Development of Ethnic Identity
Teaching
Postgraduate
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Co-course Convenor, Global Migrations: Histories, Structures, Experiences
Undergraduate
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Sociology Level 2B: Inequalities and Identities
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At Honours level, Religion on the Move: Comparative Perspectives on Religion
Administrative Responsibilities
- Postgraduate Taught Programme Convenor: MSc Equality and Human Rights; MRes Equality and Human Rights
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Member of the University’s Academic Standards Committee
Previous experience at the University of Glasgow
- At Honours level,
- Sociology of Gender Relations
- Diaspora: The Experience of Displacement, Difference and Migration.
- General Paper
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At Masters level, Class and Stratification, 2015-2018
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Postgraduate Taught Programmes Convenor for Sociology, 2016-2018
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Convened the University of Glasgow Sociology Seminar Series, 2015-2017
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Member of the School of Social and Political Sciences Ethics Committee, 2015-2019
Additional information
Membership of Research Centres and Networks and Professional associations
- British Sociological Association
- African Studies Association, UK
- African Studies Association, US
- British Zimbabwe Society