Amanda Lubit

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Postdoctoral Fellow at Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity

The lives of migrant Muslim women in divided, post-conflict Northern Ireland, both before and during the pandemic, are full of diverse stories and experiences of belonging. This book explores how women strive to belong and create a home despite pervasive hatred, sexism and racism. Under these circumstances, women employ various strategies to connec...

This article contributes to efforts to decolonise refugee integration by foregrounding the experiences of women refugees, a population often overlooked and excluded. These stories make visible local power asymmetries and argue for the need to alter how policy and institutions interact with and envision displaced populations. Specifically, it argues...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore peace protest as a form of institutional work aimed at supporting one institution and disrupting another. Design/methodology/approach The authors utilized walking ethnography (28 miles in 18 h while conducting 25 walking interviews) and digital media analysis (news reports, social media and electronic...

Northern Ireland represents a unique environment within which to study the lives of minorities and migrants. Persistent sectarianism has created and maintained complex social and spatial divisions that impact upon daily movements, everyday practices, and placemaking. My research with migrant Muslim women demonstrates the restrictions imposed upon w...

Hani’s fifteen-year journey to refugee status in Northern Ireland allows for an examination of the extended temporalities of displacement which shape the lives and relationships of women asylum seekers. The asylum process causes prolonged suffering, exposing women to family separation, repeated displacement, poverty, substandard living conditions,...

Both converts and born-Muslim women make complex nuanced decisions regarding clothing choices. They face intense daily pressure to abandon their values of modesty and humility, and to embrace local clothing norms. In Northern Ireland, where a history of ethno-national conflict heightens awareness and contestation of national identity, Islamic cloth...

This report presents a mapping of research engagement about matters related to migrant and minority ethnic (‘MME’) people, groups or subjects in Northern Ireland, recorded on the public repositories of Northern Irish universities. The project was undertaken by Migrant and Minority Ethnic Council of Northern Ireland led by Dr Dina Zoe Belluigi, supp...

Purpose - This paper explores the consequences of researching temporary protest organizations through embodied ethnography, paying attention to how, when and why a researcher takes sides. - Design/methodology/approach - The authors employed embodied walking ethnography to study Lyra's Walk, a three-day, 68-mile protest walk held in May 2019 to adv...

Although thirty years of violent sectarian conflict ended with the 1998 peace agreement, public spaces and politics in Northern Ireland remain contested. Paramilitaries and violence persist, affecting daily lived experiences. Following the death of journalist Lyra McKee in April 2019 at the hands of a dissident paramilitary group, a grassroots soci...

This paper begins with an account of a Somali woman, Hani, and her fourteen-year journey to refugee status in Northern Ireland. Her story allows for an examination of the extended temporalities of displacement which shape the lives and relationships of women asylum seekers. The prolonged suffering women experience through the asylum process does no...

In Northern Ireland, the concept of Good Relations emphasizes values of cultural diversity by promoting contact and relationships “between persons of different religious belief, political or racial group.” Having grown out of the 1998 peace agreement, Good Relations is a concept prioritized and promoted in public policy, funding and programming. It...

In April 2019 dissident paramilitaries inadvertently killed journalist Lyra McKee. Her death served as a catalyst for a social movement led by family and friends demanding to “re-boot” the 1998 peace agreement. Lyra’s Walk for Peace engaged individuals from across communities in a 3-day 68 mile protest walk across Northern Ireland. Its purpose was...

Through walking ethnography I examine the ways Muslim women in Belfast employ walking as a political act. By engaging in and avoiding certain forms of walking, as individuals or groups, women make themselves visible and invisible. Visibility is of particular relevance to Muslim women who are disproportionately targets of Islamophobia due to clothin...

With Brexit scheduled for March 2019, attention has focused on the unsolved issue of the border between Northern Ireland (NI) and the Republic of Ireland. While the UK and EU both want the border to remain open, no solution has been identified to guarantee this, leading to increasing media focus and political conflict. This conflict feeds existing...

This action research was collected over three years spent in three separate, federally-funded, non-profit organizations working with some of the most vulnerable populations in the United States: disaster communities, low-income women infected with HIV, and the homeless. My central question evaluates the impact these organizations have upon the comm...

Disasters can occur anywhere and at any time, often without warning. Whether it is a flood, chemical spill or terrorist attack, any type of emergency causes disruption in affected communities that lasts for days, weeks, months, or even years. Although the federal government and organizations at the local and state level do provide assistance in cas...

This paper will explore the application of integration, collaboration and innovation to an all-hazards approach to disaster preparedness. The main examples will focus on work being done by the National Association of County and City Health Officials in the United States, working on a local and regional scale to increase capacity for preparedness an...

My research into post-conflict trauma falls within the realm of medical anthropology and also deals with the interrelated anthropological subjects of post-conflict society, global health, human rights and public policy. Although anthropology can and should engage with these subjects, currently little published research exists that addresses this pa...

In this report I have sought to develop a set of recommendations that simultaneously address both mental health and reconciliation needs that exist in Libya today. Addressing either of these issues individually would be a waste of resources because the two are intricately connected to one another. When people and communities continue to suffer the...

After more than four decades under Gaddafi’s rule and a violent revolution to remove him from power in 2011, Libyan society remains severely divided. Since the end of the armed conflict in October 2011, external peacekeeping forces have proposed many methods for preventing further violence; yet, in order to achieve sustainable solutions to these co...

Suggested Citation: Lubit, A.J. (2012). Forensic archaeology and the challenges associated with the excavation of mass grave sites. Working Paper. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319018766_Forensic_Archaeology_and_the_Challenges_Associated_with_the_Excavation_of_Mass_Grave_Sites. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.16611.58404