Dr Anne White
Senior Lecturer in Russian and East European Studies
1 West North 2.39
Email: a.white@bath.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1225 38 4914
Profile
Anne White researches and teaches the sociology and politics of Central and Eastern Europe, including Russia. Her current research focuses on migration, the topic of her fourth monograph, Polish Families and Migration since EU Accession.
She contributes to European Studies modules across the department, as well as teaching courses on the politics of migration (MA); Gorbachev and Perestroika (final-year undergraduate); and ab initio Russian language. She is also the Russian Year Abroad Officer.
She has a BA in History and Russian from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the London School of Economics (Government and Sociology Departments).
Research
- Migration and integration
- Social change in Central and Eastern Europe
- Gender roles
- Civil society
- The writings of Ismail Kadare
Teaching
Undergraduate
- PL10713: International History
- PL20726: European Integration
- PL20780: Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia
- PL20407: Border Crossings: Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe
- PL30101: Gorbachev and Perestroika
- PL30107: Culture and National Identity
- PL30294: In Search of Europe 1 - the Cold War 1945 – 1989
- PL30295: In Search of Europe 2: Borders, Regions and Migration in Europe since 1989
- PL30468: Transitions to Democracy
- PL30441: Gender and Politics in Contemporary Europe
- PL30637: Russian Written and Spoken Language 4
- PL30670: Politics Dissertation
Postgraduate
- PL50605: The politics of migration Please note this unit will not run in 2012-13.
Publications
Book/s
White, A., 2011. Polish families and migration since EU accession. Bristol: Policy Press.
White, A., 2004. Small-town Russia. Postcommunist livelihoods and identities: a portrait of the intelligentsia in Achit, Bednodemyanovsk and Zubtsov, 1999-2000. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon.
White, A., 1999. Democratization in Russia under Gorbachev: The birth of a voluntary sector. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
White, A., 1990. De-Stalinization and the House of Culture: Declining state control over Leisure in the USSR, Poland and Hungary, 1953-1989. London, UK: Routledge.
Book Sections
White, A., 2011. Polish families in England: decisions about stay and return. In: Stenning, A. and Slowik, A., eds. Post-accession migration in Europe: a Polish case study. Kraków: Impuls, pp. 15-38.
White, A., 2010. Migracja z dziećmi do Anglii jako strategia życiowa polskich kobiet. In: Kindler, M. and Napierała, J., eds. Migracje kobiet przypadek Polski. Warsaw: Warsaw University Centre of Migration Research / Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar.
White, A., 2009. Family migration from small-town Poland: a livelihood strategy approach. In: Burrell, K., ed. Polish Migration to the UK in the New European Union: After 2004. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 67-86.
White, A., 2005. English features in a Russian mirror (Angliiskii obraz v russkom zerkale). In: Grishaeva, L. and Tsurikova, L., eds. Strategii uspekha i faktory riska v mezhkul'turnoi kommunikatsii. Voronezh, Russia: Voronezh State University, pp. 58-66.
White, A., 2005. Is civil society stronger in small towns? In: Evans, A., Henry, L. A. and Sandstrom, L. M., eds. Russian Civil Society. New York: M.E.Sharpe, pp. 284-302.
White, A., 2004. Kosovo, ethnic identity and border crossings in the The File on H and other novels by Ismail Kadare. In: Wagstaff, P., ed. Border Crossings: mapping identities in modern Europe. Bern: Peter Lang, pp. 23-53.
White, A., 2003. Mother Russia: Changing attitudes to ethnicity and national identity in Russia's regions. In: Andall, J., ed. Gender and Ethnicity in Contemporary Europe. Oxford: Berg, pp. 179-198.
White, A., 2001. 'Ponyat' tendentsii izmeneniya obshchestva delo slozhoe. In: Vestnik. Bednodemyanovsk, Russia: , p. 3.
Articles
White, A., 2013. Postkommunisticheskie tendentsii v trudovoi migratsii. : Rossiya i Pol'sha: opyt sravnitel'nogo analiza. Park Belinskogo, 1 (3), pp. 34-52.
White, A., 2013. Forthcoming. Polish Return and Double Return Migration. Europe-Asia Studies
White, A., 2011. The mobility of Polish families in the West of England : translocalism and attitudes to return. Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny, 1, pp. 11-32.
White, A., 2010. Young people and migration from contemporary Poland. Journal of Youth Studies, 13 (5), pp. 565-580.
White, A., 2009. Internal migration, identity and livelihood strategies in contemporary Russia. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 35 (4), pp. 555-573.
White, A., 2008. Editor's introduction - Temporary migration and community cohesion: The nature and impact of migration from East-Central to Western Europe. Europe-Asia Studies, 60 (9), 1463 - 1465.
White, A. and Ryan, L., 2008. Polish 'temporary' migration: the formation and significance of social networks. Europe-Asia Studies, 60 (9), pp. 1467-1502.
White, A., 2007. Internal migration trends in Soviet and post-Soviet European Russia. Europe-Asia Studies, 59 (6), pp. 887-911.
White, A., 2005. Gender roles in contemporary Russia: attitudes and expectations among women students. Europe-Asia Studies, 57 (3), pp. 429-455.
Pickup, F. and White, A., 2003. Livelihoods in postcommunist Russia: Urban/rural comparisons. Work, Employment and Society, 17 (3), pp. 419-434.
White, A., 2001. Teachers in contemporary provincial Russia. Education in Russia, the Independent States and Eastern Europe, 19, pp. 2-13.
White, A., 2000. Social change in provincial Russia: The intelligentsia in a Raion centre. Europe-Asia Studies, 52 (4), 677 - 694.
Conference or Workshop Items
White, A., 2011. ”Families don’t return”: Post-2004 Polish family migration and settlement in the UK. In: IMISCOE workshop ‘The Economic and Local Consequences of Labour Migration from Central and Eastern Europe in a Time of Economic Crisis’, 2011-06-01, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
White, A., 2011. Polish Migration in the UK - local experiences and effects. In: AHRC Connected Communities symposium: Understanding Local Experiences and Effects of New Migration, 2011-09-26, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield.
White, A., 2010. How and why people use transnational migration networks in small-town Poland. In: New Migrations, New Challenges, 2010-06-30 - 2010-07-03, Trinity College, Dublin.
White, A., 2010. The world viewed from Poland B: doing migration research on Poland's eastern border. In: CREES Annual Conference, 2010-01-01, University of Birmingham, Birmingham.
White, A., 2009. Post-2004 migration from Polish small towns to Western Europe. In: British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Conference, 2009 (BASEES 2009), 2009-03-30, Cambridge.
White, A., 2002. Albania in the File on H and other works by Ismail Kadare. In: Crawshaw, R., ed. European Writers at the Margin Symposium, 2002-01-01, Lancaster.
