Tanja Bueltmann

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  • United Kingdom

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I welcome enquiries from prospective Masters and PhD students interested in working on topics to do with migration and diaspora history or the history of ethnic associational culture, immigrant community life and collective action among immigrants.

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Personal Statement

I am a historian of migration and diaspora. My main research interest is in immigrant community life, especially ethnic associational culture. I primarily work on the Scottish, English and German diasporas, but the scope of my research has widened to include broader aspects of immigrant collective action over time. This has included work on the European diaspora in the UK and the British diaspora in the EU/EEA/Switzerland post-Brexit.

My current project is entitled 'Transeuropean Scots: Scotland’s European Diaspora Post-Brexit in Longitudinal Perspective' and was funded with a Personal Research Fellowship by the Royal Society of Edinburgh. While Scottish diaspora scholarship has expanded significantly, continental Europe has received relatively little attention and we lack understanding of how Scotland’s European diaspora is an interconnected part of ‘global Scotland’. Brexit brings this into sharp focus. Situated within that context, my project explores change and/or persistence of the Scots’ diasporic organisation over time to assess what it can tell us about Scottish present-day migrant life in continental Europe. In so doing, the project  offers a new reading of Scotland’s European diaspora as one of ‘transeuropean Scots’: connected diasporically with each other and to Scotland, but also with a continental Europe post-Brexit in which they now live as Europeans who no longer are EU citizens.

Beyond my immediate research, I also engage with policymakers, governments and the wider public and I work with NGOs, think tanks, community groups and museums to do so. In particular, I was recently appointed as an advisor to the Scottish Government for the Scottish Connections Framework.

I was Principal Investigator of the ESRC Future Research Leaders project ‘European, Ethnic and Expatriate: A Longitudinal Comparison of British and German Social Networking and Associational Formations in Modern-day Asia’, and Co-Investigator of the AHRC funded project ‘Locating the Hidden Diaspora: The English in North America in Transatlantic Perspective, 1760-1950’.

I joined Strathclyde in August 2020 and welcome enquiries from prospective Masters and PhD students interested in working on topics to do with migration and diaspora history or the history of ethnic associational culture, immigrant community life and collective action.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities

Education/Academic qualification

Doctor of Philosophy, Victoria University of Wellington

Award Date: 23 Mar 2009

Master of Arts, University of Bielefeld

Award Date: 1 Aug 2005

External positions

Scottish Connections Advisory Panel, Scottish Government

Oct 2024 → …

Steering Group Member, Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance

Jul 2021 → …

External Exminer in History, University of Aberdeen

Oct 2018Sept 2022

Keywords

  • Migration
  • Diaspora
  • History
  • Brexit
  • collective action

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