Dr Helena Wray
LLM programme leader
Department: Law
Contact
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 8411 6007
- E-mail: H.Wray@mdx.ac.uk
Qualifications
- BA Hons (Sussex University)
- Ph.D (University of London)
- Solicitor (Admitted 1988)
Research Interests
- Migration law and policy particularly family migration and citizenship
- Community legal services
Teaching Interests
- Migration Law
- Research Skills
Biography
Current Responsibilities:
- Programme Leader, LLM
- Module Leader, International Migration and the Law (Postgraduate Core/Optional Module)
- Module Leader, LLM Dissertation
- Tutor,Immigration Law and Human Rights (Undergraduate Optional Module)
Selected Publications:
Books
- Regulation of Marriage Migration into the UK: A Stranger in the Home Farnham: Ashgate 2011
- Textbook on Immigration and Asylum Law Oxford: OUP 2010 (contributory author of 3 chapters)
Articles
- 'Teixeira and Ibrahim: Looking back, looking forward or inward?' FMW: Online journal on free movemnt of workers in the European Union 2 (August) 2011 26-37http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=475&langId=en&pubId=6022&type=2&furtherPubs=yes
- 'Moulding the Migrant Family' Legal Studies 29(4) 2009 592-618
- 'The Points Based System: A Blunt Instrument' Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law 23(3) 2009 231-251
- 'Hidden purpose: ethnic minority international marriages and 'intention to live together' in P. Shah and W. Menski eds: Migration, Diasporas and Legal Systems in Europe, London and New York: Routledge-Cavendish 2006,163-184.
- 'The Aliens Act 1905 and the Immigration Dilemma', Journal of Law and Society, Vol.33, No.2, June 2006,302-323.
- 'Guiding the gatekeepers: entry clearance for settlement on the Indian sub-continent', Tottell's Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law, Vol. 20, No. 2, 2006,112-129.
- 'An Ideal Husband? Marriages of Convenience, Moral gatekeeping and Immigration to the UK', European Journal of Migration and Law, Vol. 8, Autumn 2006, 303-320.
- 'Legal Needs Research in a Local Community' Civil Justice Quarterly Vol. 19, October 2000,386-404.
Book chapters
- 'An Ideal Husband? Marriages of Convenience, Moral Gatekeeping and Immigration to the UK' in Guild, E. and Minderhoud, P. eds. The First Decade of EU Migration and Asylum Law. Leiden, Boston: Martinus Nijhoff 351-373.
- 'Hidden Purpose: Ethnic Minority International Marriages and 'Intention to Live Together' in P. Shah and W. Menski eds: Migration, Diasporas and Legal Systems in Europe, London and New York: Routledge-Cavendish 2006,163-184.
Forthcoming Publications:
- 'Anytime, Any Place Anywhere: Entry Clearance, Marriage Migration and the Border' in Charsley, K. ed. 'Transnational Marriage: New Perspectives from Europe and Beyond' (Routledge)
- 'Family Migration and New Labour' in Juss, S. ed. 'Research Companion to Migration Theory and Practice' (Ashgate)
Other:
- Co-Editor (with Gina Clayton) Journal of immigration Asylum and Nationality Law
- Has undertaken several research and consultancy projects; currently principal researcher in Nuffield-funded comparative study of control of marriage migration in Europe and US
- Acted as expert witness for claimants in judicial review of pre-entry language test for spousal migrants (R (on the application of Chapti and others v SSHD [2011] EWHC 3370m (Admin); under appeal to Court of Appeal)
- UK country expert, European Union Observatory on Citizenship and Access to Citizenship and and its Impact on Immigration Integration
- Founder member, former Chair and Trustee Barnet Law Service, a law centre offering legal advice and representation to those living and working in London Borough of Barnet
Languages spoken
French
