Dr Hannah Lewis

School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations

Senior Research Fellow

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h.j.lewis@sheffield.ac.uk
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Dr Hannah Lewis
School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
Profile

Hannah Lewis joined the department in 2015 as a Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow. Since completing her PhD ‘Interrogating community: dispersed refugees in Leeds’ at the University of Hull she has worked in academic and non-academic research as a consultant for statutory, voluntary and non-profit organisations. Prior to joining Sheffield she was a Research Assistant and Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University, and was a Research Fellow at the School of Geography, University of Leeds 2011-2015.

Research interests

Hannah is interested in understanding how policies shape the daily lives of people who migrate. She has explored how asylum seeker dispersal, the destitution of refused asylum seekers, ‘race’ and multicultural strategies, and immigration status shape community, family, transnational relationships, work and leisure among migrants and people seeking asylum. Her recent work has centred on concepts of precarity and contingency and how the social and legal status of migrants can create insecurities that may increase susceptibility to poverty, exclusion and forced labour.

She recently completed an ESRC-funded study ‘Precarious Lives’ which was the first academic study to focus on experiences of forced labour among people who are refugees or seeking asylum in the UK. Her research interests include community and social relationships, migration and refugee studies; immigration and asylum policy particularly in relation to destitution among refused asylum seekers in the UK; housing, volunteering, multiculturalism; and the ethics and methodologies of research with migrant populations.

Publications

Books

  • Craig G, Balch A, Lewis H & Waite L (2019) THE MODERN SLAVERY AGENDA: Policy, politics and practice in the UK.
  • Lewis H, Dwyer P, Hodkinson S & Waite L (2014) . Policy Press.
  • Lewis H, Dwyer P, Hodkinson S & Waite L (2014) . Policy Press.
  • Lewis H, Dwyer P, Hodkinson S & Waite L (2014) . Policy Press.
  • Lewis H, Dwyer P, Hodkinson S & Waite L (2014) Precarious Lives: Forced Labour, Exploitation and Asylum. Bristol: Policy Press.

Edited books

  • Waite L, Craig G, Lewis H & Skrivankova K (Eds.) (2015) . Springer.

Journal articles

  • Waite L, Lewis H, Murray R & Tomalin E (2025) . Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 43(3), 416-432.
  • Lonergan G, Lewis H, Tomalin E & Waite L (2021) . Sociology, 55(3), 505-521.
  • Hodkinson SN, Lewis H, Waite L & Dwyer P (2021) . Critical Social Policy, 41(1), 68-90.
  • Boochani B, Flores D, Sibanda A, Mujakachi V, Temboman , Fafa , Huzzard R, Cape-Davenhill L, Sirriyeh A, Lewis H , Longeran G et al (2020) Transnational communities for dismantling detention : from Manus Island to the UK. Community Psychology in Global Perspective, 6(1), 108-128.
  • Waite L & Lewis H (2017) . Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 107(4), 964-978.
  • Dwyer P, Hodkinson S, Lewis H & Waite L (2016) . Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 32(3), 182-198.
  • Lewis H, Dwyer P, Hodkinson S & Waite L (2015) . Progress in Human Geography, 39(5), 580-600.
  • Lewis H & Waite L (2015) . Anti-Trafficking Review(5), 49-67.
  • Lewis H (2015) . Leisure Studies, 34(1), 42-58.
  • Waite L, Lewis H, Dwyer P & Hodkinson S (2015) Precarious lives: Refugees and asylum seekers' resistance within unfree labouring. ACME, 14(2), 479-491.
  • Waite L, Valentine G & Lewis H (2014) . Social & Cultural Geography, 15(3), 313-331.
  • Lewis H & Craig G (2014) . Policy & Politics, 42(1), 21-38.
  • Lewis H, Waite L, Dwyer P, Scullion L & Crofton-Martin G (2012) . Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 20(1), 87-95.
  • Lewis H (2010) . Journal of Refugee Studies, 23(4), 571-588.

Book chapters

  • Lewis H & Waite L (2019) The welcome city?, Refugee Imaginaries Research Across the Humanities (pp. 571-590).
  • Craig G, Balch A, Lewis H & Waite L (2019) Editorial introduction: The modern slavery agenda: Policy, politics and practice (pp. 1-28).
  • Lewis H & Waite L (2019) Migrant illegality, slavery and exploitative work, Modern Slavery Agenda Policy Politics and Practice in the Uk (pp. 219-242).
  • Lewis H, Waite L & Hodkinson S (2017) , Entrapping Asylum Seekers (pp. 187-215). Palgrave Macmillan UK
  • Lewis H (2016) , Studies of Organized Crime (pp. 99-116). Springer International Publishing
  • Waite L, Lewis H, Hodkinson S & Dwyer P (2015) , Vulnerability, Exploitation and Migrants (pp. 143-157). Palgrave Macmillan UK
  • Waite L, Craig G, Lewis H & Skrivankova K (2015) , Vulnerability, Exploitation and Migrants (pp. 1-12). Palgrave Macmillan UK
  • (2014) , Precarious Lives (pp. 1-16). Policy Press
  • (2014) , Precarious Lives (pp. 111-142). Policy Press
  • (2014) , Precarious Lives (pp. 143-168). Policy Press
  • (2014) , Precarious Lives (pp. 81-110). Policy Press
  • (2014) , Precarious Lives (pp. 169-190). Policy Press
  • (2014) , Precarious Lives (pp. 43-80). Policy Press
  • (2014) , Precarious Lives (pp. iv-iv). Policy Press
  • (2014) , Precarious Lives (pp. 17-42). Policy Press
  • (2014) , Precarious Lives (pp. vi-vi). Policy Press
  • () In Mansouri F & de B’béri BE (Ed.) Routledge

Digital content

  • Lewis H, Kilkey M, Walsh J & Ryan L 'Not one of you any longer': EU Nationals' Brexit uncertainty and mistrust..
Research group

Hannah welcomes enquiries from students considering pursuing doctoral studies in areas related to her specific research interests.