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Esa Aldegheri holds a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship investigating how unequal narratives surrounding borderings of refugee journeys affect integration, with a focus on Scotland as an internationally relevant case study. His interdisciplinary multilingual research project employs a combination of qualitative, narrative-based research methods linking academic research to his work as a creative writer and facilitator in community education integration projects. Esa previously worked as a Research Associate for the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Language Arts at the School of Education, where he collaborated with the Scottish Government, COSLA, and the Scottish Refugee Council to evaluate and develop the latest iteration of the New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy. His ESRC-funded PhD analyzed the influence of narrative exchanges in intercultural encounters between forced migrants and receiving communities in Edinburgh (Scotland) and Torino (Italy). A published author, he wrote 'Free Go' (John Murray, 2022), exploring the limits of freedom and non-freedom through motorbike journeys, and is editing an anthology of women's travel writing due to be published in 2025. He coordinates and facilitates community arts-based integration projects, with one notable project, 'Making Home', commended by the Scottish Parliament and included in the National Library of Scotland's Moving Image Archive. Esa is also the Chair of Edinburgh City Sanctuary, a part of a UK-wide network striving to create safe spaces for people seeking sanctuary.
School of Education, University of Glasgow • Glasgow, Scotland
Conducting research on refugee integration and community education projects.