Dr Pierre Monforte
Associate Professor of Sociology
School/Department: Media Communication and Sociology, School of
Telephone: +44 (0)116 252 2780
Email: pm260@leicester.ac.uk
Profile
Research
Funded research projects:
The transformative capacity of blood donation among ethnic minorities
Research team: Lesley Hustinx (University of Ghent PI) Pierre Monforte (Co-I)
Duration: 2020-2024
Funder: Flanders Research Foundation (FWO) £330K
Exploring the frames of altruistic action: A comparative analysis of volunteers’ engagement in British and French pro-asylum charities
Research team: Pierre Monforte (PI) Estelle D'Halluin (Université de Nantes Co-I) Gaja Maestri (University of Leicester PDRA) Elsa Rambaud (Université de Nantes PDRA)
Duration: 2017-2020
Funder: Economic and Social Research Council (ES/N015274/1) £410K
The UK citizenship process: Understanding immigrants' experiences
Research team: Leah Bassel (PI) Pierre Monforte (CoI) David Bartram (CoI) Barbara Misztal (CoI)
Duration: 2013-2017
Funder: Economic and Social Research Council (ES/K010174/1) £439K
Website: https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/sociology/research/uk-citizenship-process
The effects of the Life in the UK test
Research team: Leah Bassel Pierre Monforte
Duration: January 2012 - September 2012
Funder: College of Social Science Research Development Fund University of Leicester £1000.
Publications
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Books
Monforte, Pierre (2014), Europeanizing Contention. The Protest against 'Fortress Europe' in France and Germany, Oxford: Berghahn Books.
Bartram, David, Poros, Maritsa and Monforte, Pierre (2014), Key Concepts in Migration, London: Sage.
Articles
Wittock, Nathan, Pierre Monforte and Lesley Hustinx (2021, online first), 'Missing minorities in blood donation: Revisiting European blood procurement as a citizenship regime, Health.
Monforte, Pierre, Maestri, Gaja and D'Halluin, Estelle (2021), ''It's like having one more family member': Private hospitality, affective responsibility and intimate boundaries within refugee hosting networks', Journal of Sociology 57(3): 674-689.
Monforte, Pierre (2021), 'Protesters' emotional work in contexts of marginalisation: The emancipation of 'forced migrants' in Germany', Antipode, 53(2): 445-464.
Bassel, Leah, Monforte, Pierre and Khan, Kamran (2020), 'Becoming an Active Citizen: the UK Citizenship Test', Ethnicities, 21(2): 311-332.
Bassel, Leah, Monforte, Pierre, Bartram, David and Khan, Kamran (2020), 'Naturalisation policies, citizenship regimes, and the regulation of belonging in anxious societies', Ethnicities, 21(2): 259-270.
Maestri, Gaja and Monforte, Pierre (2020), 'Who deserves compassion? The moral and emotional dilemmas of volunteering in the 'refugee crisis', Sociology, 54(5): 920-935.
Monforte, Pierre (2020), 'From compassion to critical resilience: Volunteering in the context of austerity', The Sociological Review, 68(1): 110-126.
Monforte, Pierre, Bassel, Leah and Khan, Kamran (2019), 'Deserving citizenship? Exploring migrants' experiences of the 'citizenship test' process in the United Kingdom', British Journal of Sociology, 70(1): 24-44.
Bassel, Leah, Monforte, Pierre and Khan, Kamran (2018), 'Making political citizens? Migrants' narratives of naturalization in the United Kingdom', Citizenship Studies, 22(3): 225-242.
Chapters
Monforte, Pierre and Maestri, Gaja (2021), 'Keeping it private or making it political? 'Soft repression' and the depoliticization of everyday conversations among pro-refugee volunteers', in Donatella Della Porta and Elias Steinhilper (Eds.), Shrinking Spaces for Migrant Solidarity: Repertoires of Criminalisation and Resistance, London: Routledge.
D'Halluin, Estelle, Maestri, Gaja, Monforte, Pierre and Rambaud, Elsa (2021), 'Comment (ne pas) Juger des Réfugiés? Déstabilisation et Réévaluations des Cadres du Mérite chez leurs Soutiens, in Laura Ruiz de Elvira and Sahar Aurore Saeidnia (eds.), Les Mondes de la Bienfaisance: Une Approche Comparative des Pratiques du Bien, Paris: Editions de l'EHESS.
Monforte, Pierre (2019), "From 'Fortress Europe' to 'Refugees Welcome': Social movements and the political imaginary on European borders", in Cristina Flesher Fominaya and Ramón Feenstra (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary European Social Movements, London: Routledge.
Monforte Pierre (2019) “La Crise de l’accueil au Royaume Uni: Redéfinition des frontières et maintien à distance des exilés” in Annalisa Lendaro Claire Rodier and Youri Lou Vertongen (eds.) La Crise de l’Accueil: Frontières Droit Résistances Paris: La Découverte.
Monforte Pierre and Morales Laura (2018) “The Participation mobilisation and political representation of migrants in Europe” in Agniezka Weinar Saskia Bonjour and Lyubov Zhyznomirska (eds.) The Routledge Handbook on the Politics of Migration in Europe Abingdon: Routledge.
.Supervision
Teaching
Undergraduate
SY1025: Race Ethnicity and Racisms in Britain
SY3092: Social Movements and Collective action (Module convenor)
SY3042: Undergraduate Research Project Postgraduate
SY7035: Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis (Module convenor)
SY7005: Masters dissertations (Module convenor)
Supervision of Masters and PhD Theses