N Glick Schiller
Biographic Data
| ID | 9033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Glick Schiller |
| GIVEN NAMES | N Glick |
| FAMILY NAME | Schiller |
| SIGNATURE | SCHILLER N G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7834-1927 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 83 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4458 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 82 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 20 |
The five logics of the humanitarian migrant services industry
Humanitarian migration services can institute forms of governance that commodify clients and extract values from the labor power of low-wage non-migrant and migrant workers and volunteers. These processes were identified through an ethnography of migrant service provision in a disempowered city in eastern Germany in 2022, the moment Ukrainian migrants arrived. Five logics of the political economy of humanitarian service provision underlay service…
Situating the migration industry
The End of Migration
This Manifesto calls on migration scholars to confront our transforming world in which the patterns and possibilities of migration on which our theories and assumptions have been based are rapidly ending. It addresses the process of dehumanization that accompanies the elimination of people’s ability to move and settle with the eventual possibility of citizenship. People needing or seeking to leave home are increasingly kept from attaining secure …
Migrant services and the reconfiguration of social reproduction as capital accumulation
Much of past feminist theorization of social reproduction has concentrated on the domestic sphere. However, in multiple domains such as education, childcare, elder care, health care, the delivery of goods, and migrant settlement, first the state and non-profit organizations and increasingly corporate profit-making service industries emerged as significant providers. In this transformed world of social reproduction, the initial query of feminist t…
Migrants are the city
By querying the social connections that underlie Heath’s and Li’s overview of the peopling of London over the millennia, it becomes clear that London was made as people from elsewhere settled, maintained multiple networks of connection and created local forms of sociability. Generations of migrants built London, as those in power extracted wealth from colonies around the world through the African slave trade, theft of land from native peoples, in…
Connecting place and placing power
This paper historically situates and explores the strengths of multiscalar analysis, at a moment when the term ‘multiscalar’ has been adopted by researchers within the intersecting scholarships of migration, mobilities, and urban studies. Developed by critical geographers to speak about the intersection of processes of capital accumulation, governance, and urban regeneration, the meaning of multiscalar has become diffuse and conflated with terms …
What's the difference? Theorizing belongings, relationalities and capitalism
Whose Cosmopolitanism?
The term cosmopolitan is increasingly used within different social, cultural and political settings, including academia, popular media and national politics. However those who invoke the cosmopolitan project rarely ask whose experience, understanding, or vision of cosmopolitanism is being described and for whose purposes? In response, this volume assembles contributors from different disciplines and theoretical backgrounds to examine cosmopolitan…
Dynamics of Identification and Conflict
Dealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and Central Asia are grouped in three sections devoted to pastoralism, identity and migration. What connects all of these anthropological explorations is a close focus on processes of identification a…
Desenmascarando la migración y el desarrollo. Un enfoque basado en los estudios sobre desposesión y desplazamiento
Building on but extending the critiques of concepts of development and migration and development, this article offers a political economic analysis of dispossessive «growth and development». It speaks to contemporary crises including displacement actuated by the interlinked processes of physical mobility and downward social mobility. The article challenges the assumption that migration dynamics can be understood as separate from a global history …
Chapter 16 Multiscalar Social Relations of Dispossession and Emplacement
Migration, Displacement, and Dispossession
Debates about migration, whether led by politicians or scholars, often approach migration as a relatively new challenge and categorize it as a “destabilizing force,” ignoring the fact that the world’s past and present has been built by human movement. Humans have always migrated. Individual and population mobility as well as settlement are part of humans’ shared history. To integrate migration into an understanding of humans’ shared past, present…
Methodological nationalism and beyond
“And Ye Shall Possess It, and Dwell Therein”
10. “And Ye Shall Possess It, and Dwell Therein”: Social Citizenship, Global Christianity and Nonethnic Immigrant Incorporation was published in Citizenship, Political Engagement, and Belonging on page 203.
Constance R. Sutton (1926–2018)
Connie Sutton, 2007. (Courtesy of Sutton-Lauria family) A pioneering scholar of Afro-Caribbean activism and migration and feminist anthropology, Constance Rita Sutton (“Connie,” as she was known to most) died on August 23, 2018. Her anthropology joined the production of knowledge to political action, a process she recognized as necessitating collaboration as much as, if not more than, individual effort and creativity. Her insights into the power …
Relational Multiscalar Analysis
2021). Relational Multiscalar Analysis: A Comparative Approach to Migrants within City-Making Processes. Geographical Review: Vol. 111, Transatlantic Perspectives on Urban Transformation and the Governance of Migration, pp. 206-232
Georges Woke Up Laughing
Management by Participation
"Management by participation" is a form of organizing the work process which, in theory, allows workers to participate in decision-making by according them an overview of the productive process, teaching them skills and allocating them responsibilities which, in other forms of the labor process, are the prerogative of management. The most famous management system was developed in the early 20th century by Fredrick Taylor whose "Taylor system" of …
Imigrante a Transmigrante
Os imigrantes contemporâneos não podem ser caracterizados como "desenraizados". Muitos são transmigrantes, se tornando firmemente enraizados em seu novo país, mas mantendo múltiplos vínculos com sua terra natal. Nos Estados Unidos, os antropólogos estão empenhados em construir uma antropologia transnacional e repensar seus dados sobre imigração. A migração mostra ser um importante processo transnacional que reflete e contribui para as atuais conf…
Migrants and City-Making Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration
In Migrants and City-Making Ayşe Çağlar and Nina Glick Schiller trace the participation of migrants in the unequal networks of power that connect their lives to regional, national, and global institutions. Grounding their work in comparative ethnographies of three cities struggling to regain their former standing—Mardin, Turkey; Manchester, New Hampshire; and Halle/Saale, Germany—Çağlar and Glick Schiller challenge common assumptions that migrant…
Migrants and City-Making
Ayşe Çağlar and Nina Glick Schiller trace the lived experiences of migrants in three cities struggling to regain their former standing, showing how they live and work in their new cities in ways that require them to negotiate the unequal networks of power that connect their lives to regional, national, and global institutions
Transnational Regimes and Migrant Responses in an Altered Historical Conjuncture
Those who live their lives across the borders of nation-states as well as scholars and policy makers who research transnational lives are facing rapid alterations in mobility regimes. The articles in this special issue represent trends among transnational migration scholars who have been documenting various aspects of these changes. In order to be able to respond adequately to the transformations in the world that effect migrants and non-migrants…
Migrants and City-MakingDispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration
Multiscalar City-Making and EmplacementProcesses, Concepts, and MethodsThe world is very different from the year 2000, when we began our long-term research into relationships between migrants and three seemingly disparate cities. 1 Mardin, Turkey, lies on the Turkish-Syrian Border; Manchester, New Hampshire, is in the northeastern United States; and Halle/Saale, Saxony-Anhalt, is part of formerly socialist eastern Germany.Today, the significance …
Constance R. Sutton
Theorising Transnational Migration in Our Times
As the world rapidly becomes a different place for migrants and non-migrants alike, this article asks whether transnational migration scholars have an adequate conceptual toolkit to address the temporal dimensions of mobility regimes. The article notes the way those who initiated the transnational framework for the study of migration conceptualised temporality, critiques the failure of subsequent researchers to adequately address the rapidly alte…
From Immigrant to Transmigrant
Contemporary immigrants can not be characterized as the uprooted. Many are transmigrants, becoming firmly rooted in their new country but maintaining multiple linkages to their homeland. In the United States anthropologists are engaged in building a transnational anthropology and rethinking their data on immigration. Migration proves to be an important transnational process that reflects and contributes to the current political configurations of …
Methodological nationalism and beyond
Methodological nationalism is understood as the assumption that the nation/state/society is the natural social and political form of the modern world. We distinguish three modes of methodological nationalism that have characterized mainstream social science, and then show how these have influenced research on migration. We discover parallels between nationalist thinking and the conceptualization of migration in postwar social sciences. In a histo…
Conceptualizing Simultaneity
This article explores the social theory and consequent methodology that underpins studies of transnational migration. First, we propose a social field approach to the study of migration and distinguish between ways of being and ways of belonging in that field. Second, we argue that assimilation and enduring transnational ties are neither incompatible nor binary opposites. Third, we highlight social processes and institutions that are routinely ob…
Methodological Nationalism, the Social Sciences, and the Study of Migration
The article examines methodological nationalism, a conceptual tendency that was central to the development of the social sciences and undermined more than a century of migration studies. Methodological nationalism is the naturalization of the global regime of nation-states by the social sciences. Transnational studies, we argue, including the study of transnational migration, is linked to periods of intense globalization such as the turn of the t…
Cultural Citizenship as Subject-Making
Beyond the ethnic lens
Migration studies have focused attention on ethnic institutions in global and gateway cities. This ethnic lens distorts migration scholarship, reinforces methodological nationalism, and disregards the role of city scale in shaping migrant pathways of settlement and transnational connection. The scale of cities reflects their positioning within neoliberal processes of local, national, regional, and global rescaling. To encourage further exploratio…
Migrants and City-MakingDispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration
Multiscalar City-Making and EmplacementProcesses, Concepts, and MethodsThe world is very different from the year 2000, when we began our long-term research into relationships between migrants and three seemingly disparate cities. 1 Mardin, Turkey, lies on the Turkish-Syrian Border; Manchester, New Hampshire, is in the northeastern United States; and Halle/Saale, Saxony-Anhalt, is part of formerly socialist eastern Germany.Today, the significance …
Defining cosmopolitan sociability in a transnational age. An introduction
This special issue features ethnographies that examine the trajectories of mobile people within particular places, moments and networks of connection. Critiquing the ready equation of cosmopolitanism with experiences of mobility, we examine the encounters of pilgrims, migrants, missionaries or members of a diaspora. Defining cosmopolitanism as a simultaneous rootedness and openness to shared human emotions, experiences and aspirations rather than…
Terrains of blood and nation
As have a growing number of political leaders of emigrant-sending countries, Haitian government officials and immigrant leaders have envisioned Haiti as a transnational nation-state. This article explores the ways in which the vision of Haiti as a transnational nation builds upon the experiences, needs and aspirations of both persons living in Haiti and those who have settled in the United States. Using a concept of 'transnational social field', …
Transnational social fields and imperialism
Transnational Studies have allowed scholars to move beyond a methodological nationalism that conflates society and the nation-state. Yet rather than addressing globe-spanning systems of power, Transnational Studies that focus on transnational communities or diasporas obscure important relations of power. More recently there has been a spate of publishing on the 'new' imperialism that offers global theories of power. However, much of the emerging …
Locating migrant pathways of economic emplacement
This article reinforces the calls, including those articulated by the editors of this special issue, for scholarship that does not rely on an ethnic lens to study migrant practices, socialities and identities. We offer a concept of migrant emplacement that focuses analytical attention on the relationship between the economic, political and cultural positioning of cities within broader networks of power and the ability of migrants to forge a place…
Methodological nationalism and the study of migration
The study purports to show how a bias, known as methodological nationalism, has weighed down research and investigation on migration until recently. Relying on the contribution of work on transnational communities, the authors propose a programmatic conclusion
Risky business
Explanatory frameworks in transnational migration studies
In this article, I argue that while providing an excellent summary of the past two decades of research on migrants' transnational connections, the concepts of intersocietal and interpolity convergences and divergences that Roger Waldinger offers in his book The Cross-Border Connection do not contribute to an explanatory framework that can move beyond the descriptive nature of much of the transnational migration literature. The article briefly spe…
What's Wrong with this Picture? The Hegemonic Construction of Culture in Aids Research in the United States
Rather than serving to combat the epidemic, the use of seemingly politically neutral epidemiological categories to portray AIDS risk groups as culturally distinct may have impeded AIDS education and prevention efforts. This article critiques the construction of intravenous drug users (IVDUs) as an AIDS risk group by contrasting the portrayal of an IVDU subculture with studies that report on the diversity of behavior of people who use intravenous …
All in the Family
Over the years, feminist scholarship has illuminated the ways in which genders are differentiated and gender hierarchies are constituted as part of the way women and men learn to identify with a nation‐state. Much less has been said about the social reproduction of gender in transnational spaces. These spaces are created as people emigrate, settle far from their homelands, and yet develop networks of connection that maintain familial, economic, r…
The Situation of Transnational Studies
Transnationalism, Nation-States, and Culture
Relational Multiscalar Analysis
2021). Relational Multiscalar Analysis: A Comparative Approach to Migrants within City-Making Processes. Geographical Review: Vol. 111, Transatlantic Perspectives on Urban Transformation and the Governance of Migration, pp. 206-232
Situating identities
This article queries the pervasiveness of binary thinking in contemporary identity studies. Reviewing the genealogy of binary alterity beginning with the synergies between the European Enlightenment and colonialism, I note the binary logics that remained embedded within the apparently disparate schools of structuralist and poststructuralist theory. Even the social constructionism of post-colonial scholarship became transmuted through a celebratio…
Theorising Transnational Migration in Our Times
As the world rapidly becomes a different place for migrants and non-migrants alike, this article asks whether transnational migration scholars have an adequate conceptual toolkit to address the temporal dimensions of mobility regimes. The article notes the way those who initiated the transnational framework for the study of migration conceptualised temporality, critiques the failure of subsequent researchers to adequately address the rapidly alte…
Migrants and City-Making
Ayşe Çağlar and Nina Glick Schiller trace the lived experiences of migrants in three cities struggling to regain their former standing, showing how they live and work in their new cities in ways that require them to negotiate the unequal networks of power that connect their lives to regional, national, and global institutions
Introducing identities
A Comparative Relative Perspective on the Relationships Between Migrants and Cities
This article addresses the thorny and re-emergent issue of comparative urban studies by offering some initial thoughts on the need for a relative scalar approach to the comparative study of cities. Cities are approached as entry points into the mutual constitution of local, regional, national, and global positional scales of differentiated but connected domains of cultural, political, and economic power. The comparative perspective offered here f…
The invisible women
What's Wrong with this Picture? The Hegemonic Construction of Culture in Aids Research in the United States
Rather than serving to combat the epidemic, the use of seemingly politically neutral epidemiological categories to portray AIDS risk groups as culturally distinct may have impeded AIDS education and prevention efforts. This article critiques the construction of intravenous drug users (IVDUs) as an AIDS risk group by contrasting the portrayal of an IVDU subculture with studies that report on the diversity of behavior of people who use intravenous …
Social/Cultural Anthropology
The invisible women
Risky business
The Making of a Transnational Community
Breaking on through
Introducing identities
Editor's foreword
From Immigrant to Transmigrant
Contemporary immigrants can not be characterized as the uprooted. Many are transmigrants, becoming firmly rooted in their new country but maintaining multiple linkages to their homeland. In the United States anthropologists are engaged in building a transnational anthropology and rethinking their data on immigration. Migration proves to be an important transnational process that reflects and contributes to the current political configurations of …
Transnationalism, Nation-States, and Culture
Cultural Citizenship as Subject-Making
Peru and the Potomac as a Single Social Space
Power/identity/resistance
U.S. Immigrants and the Global Narrative
Changing Identities: Vietnamese Americans, 1975‐1995. James M. Freeman. New Immigrant Series. Boston; Allyn and Bacon, 1995. 132 pp. From the Workers' State to the Golden State: Jews from the Former Soviet Union in California. Steven J. Gold. New Immigrant Series. Boston; Allyn and Bacon, 1995. 122 pp. From the Ganges to the Hudson: Indian Immigrants in New York City. Johanna Lessinger. New Immigrant Series. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1995. 159 pp.…
The Situation of Transnational Studies
Cultural politics and the politics of culture
(1997). Cultural politics and the politics of culture. Identities: Vol. 4, The Politics of Culture, pp. 1-7
The place of race
The more things change
Differentiating powers
The pursuit of knowledge and regimes of truth
(1998). The pursuit of knowledge and regimes of truth. Identities: Vol. 4, Regimes of Truth, pp. 333-341
Terrains of blood and nation
As have a growing number of political leaders of emigrant-sending countries, Haitian government officials and immigrant leaders have envisioned Haiti as a transnational nation-state. This article explores the ways in which the vision of Haiti as a transnational nation builds upon the experiences, needs and aspirations of both persons living in Haiti and those who have settled in the United States. Using a concept of 'transnational social field', …
An introduction
Introduction
All in the Family
Over the years, feminist scholarship has illuminated the ways in which genders are differentiated and gender hierarchies are constituted as part of the way women and men learn to identify with a nation‐state. Much less has been said about the social reproduction of gender in transnational spaces. These spaces are created as people emigrate, settle far from their homelands, and yet develop networks of connection that maintain familial, economic, r…
Georges Woke up Laughing
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