Nicholas Van Hear
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 174354 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nicholas Van Hear |
| NOMBRES | Nicholas |
| APELLIDO | Van Hear |
| FIRMA | VAN HEAR N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oxford |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 535 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1984 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Refugia
This is an unusual book. Combining social science fiction, utopianism, pragmatism, sober analysis and innovative social theory, the authors address one of the biggest dilemmas of our age – how to solve the problems arising from mass displacement. As early versions of the solution proposed by Robin Cohen and Nicholas Van Hear filtered out, their vision of a new, networked, transnational archipelago, called Refugia, was immediately denounced or met…
Who Counts in Crises? The New Geopolitics of International Migration and Refugee Governance
Recent migration ‘crises’ raise important geopolitical questions. Who is ‘the migrant’ that contemporary politics are fixated on? How are answers to ‘who counts as a migrant’ changing? Who gets to do that counting, and under what circumstances? This forum responds to, as well as questions, the current saliency of migration by examining how categories of migration hold geopolitical significance—not only in how they are constructed and by whom, but…
Push-pull plus
Drivers can be understood as forces leading to the inception of migration and the perpetuation of movement. This article considers key drivers of migration and explores different ways that they may be configured. We modify existing explanations of migration to generate a framework which we call push-pull plus. To understand migration flows better, analysts could usefully distinguish between predisposing, proximate, precipitating and mediating dri…
Refugia Roundtable
Imagining Refugia: Thinking Outside the Current Refugee Regime, Nicholas Van HearRefugia: A Place Where Refugees Survive, But Do Not Thrive, Veronique Barbelet and Christina BennettBeware of Social Engineering: A Response to "Refugia" by Nicholas Van Hear, Helma LutzRefugia: Pragmatic Utopianism, Nicholas Van Hear
Refugees, Diasporas, and Transnationalism
This chapter examines the transnational and diasporic links that connect refugees, asylum seekers, and other migrants from conflict across countries and continents. It first looks at the emergence of diasporas and transnationalism as key concepts in studies of forced migration and refugees. It then considers the role of forced migration in the formation of diasporas, along with refugee engagement in transnational activities in conflict settings. …
Reconsidering Migration and Class
While once a mainstay of social science, class has lately been eclipsed in much of migration studies by consideration of other forms of social difference, affinity, and allegiance such as ethnicity, gender, generation, and lately religion. This article puts the case for renewing attention on the part class plays in shaping migration – particularly who is able to move and to where. It argues that the form of migration and ultimately its outcomes a…
Between the local and the diasporic
In May 2009, Sri Lankan government armed forces defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) after more than a quarter of a century of civil war. With the elimination of most of the LTTE leadership and the waning of its hold over Tamils in Sri Lanka and abroad, the scene was set for a transformation of relations between the diaspora and those at home. It is the dynamics of this transformation that we explore in this article, which traces …
Marriage-Related Migration to the UK
Spouses form the largest single category of migrant settlement in the UK, but research and policy making on marriage-related migration to Britain provides incomplete coverage of the phenomenon, having been dominated by a focus on the South Asian populations that are among the largest groups of such migrants. By bringing together immigration statistics with information from academic and third-sector sources, this article attempts to provide a more…
Forcing the Issue
Journal Article Forcing the Issue: Migration Crises and the Uneasy Dialogue between Refugee Research and Policy Get access Nicholas Van Hear Nicholas Van Hear Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 25, Issue 1, March 2012, Pages 2–24, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fer052 Published: 0…
Theories of Migration and Social Change
The starting-point in this themed issue of JEMS on theories of migration and social change is to view migration as a process which is an integral part of broader social transformations, but which also has its own internal dynamics and which shapes social transformation in its own right. Migration is linked in complex ways to class, gender, generation, ethnicity and other social cleavages, which are embodied in hierarchies of power and social stat…
The Rise of Refugee Diasporas
If, as we may expect, conflict becomes more common as a result of the current economic crisis ... diasporas may find themselves increasingly called on to aid their conationals in distress
Beyond control? The mechanics and dynamics of ‘informal’ remittances between Europe and Africa
Policy making usually assumes that the best way to harness migrant remittances for development is by shifting them into the regulated money transfer sector. However, much research evidence concludes that alternative methods are often cheaper and more reliable, accessible and convenient. In this article, we explore this tension between policy objectives and evidence. Based on a review of remittance mechanisms in seven sub‐Saharan African countries…
Refugees in Diaspora
When people flee conflict or persecution, a common pattern is for most to seek safety in other parts of their country, for a substantial number to look for refuge in a neighbouring country or countries, and for a smaller number to seek asylum in countries further afield, perhaps on other continents. If displacement persists and people consolidate themselves in their territories of refuge, complex relations will develop among these different domai…
New Diasporas
The Migration–Development Nexus Evidence and Policy Options State–of–the–Art Overview
In September 2001, the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs commissioned a study of the present and potential links between migration and development. In January 2002, the new Danish Government announced a decision to enhance the links between its aid and refugee policies as part of the overall focus on poverty reduction. The present paper provides a state–of–the–art overview of current thinking and available evidence on the migration–development n…
The Migration–Development Nexus
Migration and development are linked in many ways – through the livelihood and survival strategies of individuals, households, and communities; through large and often well–targeted remittances; through investments and advocacy by migrants, refugees, diasporas and their transnational communities; and through international mobility associated with global integration, inequality, and insecurity. Until now, migration and development have constituted…
The Volume and Dynamics of International Migration and Transnational Social Spaces
Creating Peace in Sri Lanka
Journal Article BOOK REVIEWS Get access Creating Peace in Sri Lanka: Civil War and Reconciliation. Edited by Robert I. Rotberg. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press and the World Peace Foundation 1999. x + 218pp. £20.95. ISBN 0 8157 7578 4 hb. Nicholas Van Hear Nicholas Van Hear Centre for Development ResearchCopenhagen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 13, Issue 3, S…
Locating internally displaced people in the field of forced migration
There appears to have been a shift in the nature of forced migration since the end of the Cold War: the total number of refugees worldwide has been declining since the latter part of the 1990s, while the number of internally displaced people has risen. This paper reflects on some aspects of this shift. First, it attempts to place internal displacement in the broader arena of forced migration: it locates internally displaced people within a simple…
New diasporas
Diasporas in the making -force, choice and agency Migration crises in Africa and the Middle East Migration crises in Asia, Europe, Central America and the Caribbean The character of migration crises
Obituary
Journal Article OBITUARY: Myron Weiner, 1931–1999: An Appreciation Get access Nicholas Van Hear Nicholas Van Hear Refugee Studies Programme, University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 12, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 235–236, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/12.3.235 Published: 01 January 1999
New Diasporas
Diasporas in the making -force, choice and agency Migration crises in Africa and the Middle East Migration crises in Asia, Europe, Central America and the Caribbean The character of migration crises
New Diasporas
Diasporas in the making -force, choice and agency Migration crises in Africa and the Middle East Migration crises in Asia, Europe, Central America and the Caribbean The character of migration crises
The Impact of the Involuntary Mass 'Return' to Jordan in the Wake of the Gulf Crisis
The Impact of the Involuntary Mass ‘Return’ to Jordan in the Wake of the Gulf Crisis
This article investigates the impact of the involuntary movement to Jordan of about 300,000 Palestinians in the wake of the Gulf crisis of 1990–91. It explores the character of the population that arrived en masse in Jordan and whether their arrival burdened or benefitted that country. Neither migrants as commonly conceived nor a fully settled minority community in Kuwait and other Gulf states, their case throws doubt on the utility of terms like…
Push-pull plus
Drivers can be understood as forces leading to the inception of migration and the perpetuation of movement. This article considers key drivers of migration and explores different ways that they may be configured. We modify existing explanations of migration to generate a framework which we call push-pull plus. To understand migration flows better, analysts could usefully distinguish between predisposing, proximate, precipitating and mediating dri…
The Migration–Development Nexus Evidence and Policy Options State–of–the–Art Overview
In September 2001, the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs commissioned a study of the present and potential links between migration and development. In January 2002, the new Danish Government announced a decision to enhance the links between its aid and refugee policies as part of the overall focus on poverty reduction. The present paper provides a state–of–the–art overview of current thinking and available evidence on the migration–development n…
The Migration–Development Nexus
Migration and development are linked in many ways – through the livelihood and survival strategies of individuals, households, and communities; through large and often well–targeted remittances; through investments and advocacy by migrants, refugees, diasporas and their transnational communities; and through international mobility associated with global integration, inequality, and insecurity. Until now, migration and development have constituted…
Reconsidering Migration and Class
While once a mainstay of social science, class has lately been eclipsed in much of migration studies by consideration of other forms of social difference, affinity, and allegiance such as ethnicity, gender, generation, and lately religion. This article puts the case for renewing attention on the part class plays in shaping migration – particularly who is able to move and to where. It argues that the form of migration and ultimately its outcomes a…
Marriage-Related Migration to the UK
Spouses form the largest single category of migrant settlement in the UK, but research and policy making on marriage-related migration to Britain provides incomplete coverage of the phenomenon, having been dominated by a focus on the South Asian populations that are among the largest groups of such migrants. By bringing together immigration statistics with information from academic and third-sector sources, this article attempts to provide a more…
Forcing the Issue
Journal Article Forcing the Issue: Migration Crises and the Uneasy Dialogue between Refugee Research and Policy Get access Nicholas Van Hear Nicholas Van Hear Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 25, Issue 1, March 2012, Pages 2–24, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fer052 Published: 0…
Who Counts in Crises? The New Geopolitics of International Migration and Refugee Governance
Recent migration ‘crises’ raise important geopolitical questions. Who is ‘the migrant’ that contemporary politics are fixated on? How are answers to ‘who counts as a migrant’ changing? Who gets to do that counting, and under what circumstances? This forum responds to, as well as questions, the current saliency of migration by examining how categories of migration hold geopolitical significance—not only in how they are constructed and by whom, but…
Between the local and the diasporic
In May 2009, Sri Lankan government armed forces defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) after more than a quarter of a century of civil war. With the elimination of most of the LTTE leadership and the waning of its hold over Tamils in Sri Lanka and abroad, the scene was set for a transformation of relations between the diaspora and those at home. It is the dynamics of this transformation that we explore in this article, which traces …
Theories of Migration and Social Change
The starting-point in this themed issue of JEMS on theories of migration and social change is to view migration as a process which is an integral part of broader social transformations, but which also has its own internal dynamics and which shapes social transformation in its own right. Migration is linked in complex ways to class, gender, generation, ethnicity and other social cleavages, which are embodied in hierarchies of power and social stat…
New Diasporas
Diasporas in the making -force, choice and agency Migration crises in Africa and the Middle East Migration crises in Asia, Europe, Central America and the Caribbean The character of migration crises
Beyond control? The mechanics and dynamics of ‘informal’ remittances between Europe and Africa
Policy making usually assumes that the best way to harness migrant remittances for development is by shifting them into the regulated money transfer sector. However, much research evidence concludes that alternative methods are often cheaper and more reliable, accessible and convenient. In this article, we explore this tension between policy objectives and evidence. Based on a review of remittance mechanisms in seven sub‐Saharan African countries…
Refugees in Diaspora
When people flee conflict or persecution, a common pattern is for most to seek safety in other parts of their country, for a substantial number to look for refuge in a neighbouring country or countries, and for a smaller number to seek asylum in countries further afield, perhaps on other continents. If displacement persists and people consolidate themselves in their territories of refuge, complex relations will develop among these different domai…
The Socio-economic Impact of the Involuntary Mass Return to Yemen in 1990
As the Gulf crisis unfolded in the second half of 1990, the Republic of Yemen was obliged to accommodate 800,000 of its nationals forced to leave Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other states of the region. This paper explores the social and economic impact of this large involuntary movement to Yemen. Since these people returned to their country of nationality, they were not refugees but forced repatriates or ‘returnees’, although such terms are problema…
By‐day’ boys and dariga Men
The development of agrarian capitalism in Africa has accelerated in recent years and is taking several forms. In some areas, peasant labour is managed by state and international agencies and exploited on irrigation and settlement schemes; multinational agribusiness is frequently involved. Elsewhere private entrepreneurship by Africans, often subsidised by the state, is prominent, and the hire of wage labour by such entrepreneurs is widespread and…
Refugia Roundtable
Imagining Refugia: Thinking Outside the Current Refugee Regime, Nicholas Van HearRefugia: A Place Where Refugees Survive, But Do Not Thrive, Veronique Barbelet and Christina BennettBeware of Social Engineering: A Response to "Refugia" by Nicholas Van Hear, Helma LutzRefugia: Pragmatic Utopianism, Nicholas Van Hear
The Impact of the Involuntary Mass 'Return' to Jordan in the Wake of the Gulf Crisis
Refugia
This is an unusual book. Combining social science fiction, utopianism, pragmatism, sober analysis and innovative social theory, the authors address one of the biggest dilemmas of our age – how to solve the problems arising from mass displacement. As early versions of the solution proposed by Robin Cohen and Nicholas Van Hear filtered out, their vision of a new, networked, transnational archipelago, called Refugia, was immediately denounced or met…
The Impact of the Involuntary Mass ‘Return’ to Jordan in the Wake of the Gulf Crisis
This article investigates the impact of the involuntary movement to Jordan of about 300,000 Palestinians in the wake of the Gulf crisis of 1990–91. It explores the character of the population that arrived en masse in Jordan and whether their arrival burdened or benefitted that country. Neither migrants as commonly conceived nor a fully settled minority community in Kuwait and other Gulf states, their case throws doubt on the utility of terms like…
Locating internally displaced people in the field of forced migration
There appears to have been a shift in the nature of forced migration since the end of the Cold War: the total number of refugees worldwide has been declining since the latter part of the 1990s, while the number of internally displaced people has risen. This paper reflects on some aspects of this shift. First, it attempts to place internal displacement in the broader arena of forced migration: it locates internally displaced people within a simple…
By‐day’ boys and dariga Men
The development of agrarian capitalism in Africa has accelerated in recent years and is taking several forms. In some areas, peasant labour is managed by state and international agencies and exploited on irrigation and settlement schemes; multinational agribusiness is frequently involved. Elsewhere private entrepreneurship by Africans, often subsidised by the state, is prominent, and the hire of wage labour by such entrepreneurs is widespread and…
The Socio-economic Impact of the Involuntary Mass Return to Yemen in 1990
As the Gulf crisis unfolded in the second half of 1990, the Republic of Yemen was obliged to accommodate 800,000 of its nationals forced to leave Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other states of the region. This paper explores the social and economic impact of this large involuntary movement to Yemen. Since these people returned to their country of nationality, they were not refugees but forced repatriates or ‘returnees’, although such terms are problema…
The Impact of the Involuntary Mass 'Return' to Jordan in the Wake of the Gulf Crisis
The Impact of the Involuntary Mass ‘Return’ to Jordan in the Wake of the Gulf Crisis
This article investigates the impact of the involuntary movement to Jordan of about 300,000 Palestinians in the wake of the Gulf crisis of 1990–91. It explores the character of the population that arrived en masse in Jordan and whether their arrival burdened or benefitted that country. Neither migrants as commonly conceived nor a fully settled minority community in Kuwait and other Gulf states, their case throws doubt on the utility of terms like…
New diasporas
Diasporas in the making -force, choice and agency Migration crises in Africa and the Middle East Migration crises in Asia, Europe, Central America and the Caribbean The character of migration crises
Obituary
Journal Article OBITUARY: Myron Weiner, 1931–1999: An Appreciation Get access Nicholas Van Hear Nicholas Van Hear Refugee Studies Programme, University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 12, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 235–236, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/12.3.235 Published: 01 January 1999
New Diasporas
Diasporas in the making -force, choice and agency Migration crises in Africa and the Middle East Migration crises in Asia, Europe, Central America and the Caribbean The character of migration crises
New Diasporas
Diasporas in the making -force, choice and agency Migration crises in Africa and the Middle East Migration crises in Asia, Europe, Central America and the Caribbean The character of migration crises
Creating Peace in Sri Lanka
Journal Article BOOK REVIEWS Get access Creating Peace in Sri Lanka: Civil War and Reconciliation. Edited by Robert I. Rotberg. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press and the World Peace Foundation 1999. x + 218pp. £20.95. ISBN 0 8157 7578 4 hb. Nicholas Van Hear Nicholas Van Hear Centre for Development ResearchCopenhagen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 13, Issue 3, S…
Locating internally displaced people in the field of forced migration
There appears to have been a shift in the nature of forced migration since the end of the Cold War: the total number of refugees worldwide has been declining since the latter part of the 1990s, while the number of internally displaced people has risen. This paper reflects on some aspects of this shift. First, it attempts to place internal displacement in the broader arena of forced migration: it locates internally displaced people within a simple…
The Volume and Dynamics of International Migration and Transnational Social Spaces
The Migration–Development Nexus Evidence and Policy Options State–of–the–Art Overview
In September 2001, the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs commissioned a study of the present and potential links between migration and development. In January 2002, the new Danish Government announced a decision to enhance the links between its aid and refugee policies as part of the overall focus on poverty reduction. The present paper provides a state–of–the–art overview of current thinking and available evidence on the migration–development n…
The Migration–Development Nexus
Migration and development are linked in many ways – through the livelihood and survival strategies of individuals, households, and communities; through large and often well–targeted remittances; through investments and advocacy by migrants, refugees, diasporas and their transnational communities; and through international mobility associated with global integration, inequality, and insecurity. Until now, migration and development have constituted…
New Diasporas
Refugees in Diaspora
When people flee conflict or persecution, a common pattern is for most to seek safety in other parts of their country, for a substantial number to look for refuge in a neighbouring country or countries, and for a smaller number to seek asylum in countries further afield, perhaps on other continents. If displacement persists and people consolidate themselves in their territories of refuge, complex relations will develop among these different domai…
Beyond control? The mechanics and dynamics of ‘informal’ remittances between Europe and Africa
Policy making usually assumes that the best way to harness migrant remittances for development is by shifting them into the regulated money transfer sector. However, much research evidence concludes that alternative methods are often cheaper and more reliable, accessible and convenient. In this article, we explore this tension between policy objectives and evidence. Based on a review of remittance mechanisms in seven sub‐Saharan African countries…
The Rise of Refugee Diasporas
If, as we may expect, conflict becomes more common as a result of the current economic crisis ... diasporas may find themselves increasingly called on to aid their conationals in distress
Theories of Migration and Social Change
The starting-point in this themed issue of JEMS on theories of migration and social change is to view migration as a process which is an integral part of broader social transformations, but which also has its own internal dynamics and which shapes social transformation in its own right. Migration is linked in complex ways to class, gender, generation, ethnicity and other social cleavages, which are embodied in hierarchies of power and social stat…
Forcing the Issue
Journal Article Forcing the Issue: Migration Crises and the Uneasy Dialogue between Refugee Research and Policy Get access Nicholas Van Hear Nicholas Van Hear Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 25, Issue 1, March 2012, Pages 2–24, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fer052 Published: 0…
Between the local and the diasporic
In May 2009, Sri Lankan government armed forces defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) after more than a quarter of a century of civil war. With the elimination of most of the LTTE leadership and the waning of its hold over Tamils in Sri Lanka and abroad, the scene was set for a transformation of relations between the diaspora and those at home. It is the dynamics of this transformation that we explore in this article, which traces …
Marriage-Related Migration to the UK
Spouses form the largest single category of migrant settlement in the UK, but research and policy making on marriage-related migration to Britain provides incomplete coverage of the phenomenon, having been dominated by a focus on the South Asian populations that are among the largest groups of such migrants. By bringing together immigration statistics with information from academic and third-sector sources, this article attempts to provide a more…
Refugees, Diasporas, and Transnationalism
This chapter examines the transnational and diasporic links that connect refugees, asylum seekers, and other migrants from conflict across countries and continents. It first looks at the emergence of diasporas and transnationalism as key concepts in studies of forced migration and refugees. It then considers the role of forced migration in the formation of diasporas, along with refugee engagement in transnational activities in conflict settings. …
Reconsidering Migration and Class
While once a mainstay of social science, class has lately been eclipsed in much of migration studies by consideration of other forms of social difference, affinity, and allegiance such as ethnicity, gender, generation, and lately religion. This article puts the case for renewing attention on the part class plays in shaping migration – particularly who is able to move and to where. It argues that the form of migration and ultimately its outcomes a…
Who Counts in Crises? The New Geopolitics of International Migration and Refugee Governance
Recent migration ‘crises’ raise important geopolitical questions. Who is ‘the migrant’ that contemporary politics are fixated on? How are answers to ‘who counts as a migrant’ changing? Who gets to do that counting, and under what circumstances? This forum responds to, as well as questions, the current saliency of migration by examining how categories of migration hold geopolitical significance—not only in how they are constructed and by whom, but…
Push-pull plus
Drivers can be understood as forces leading to the inception of migration and the perpetuation of movement. This article considers key drivers of migration and explores different ways that they may be configured. We modify existing explanations of migration to generate a framework which we call push-pull plus. To understand migration flows better, analysts could usefully distinguish between predisposing, proximate, precipitating and mediating dri…
Political science (20 obras) · Sociology (20 obras) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (18 obras) · Economics (16 obras) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (13 obras) · Development economics (12 obras) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (12 obras) · Geography (11 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Law (10 obras)