Alan Gamlen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 188680 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alan Gamlen |
| NOMBRES | Alan |
| APELLIDO | Gamlen |
| FIRMA | GAMLEN A |
| AFILIACIONES | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5679-6608 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 541 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Trusted intermediaries? The role of diasporas in humanitarian assistance
This article explores the role of diasporas in humanitarian aid, focusing on their contributions and challenges during humanitarian crises such as natural disasters, economic collapse, and political conflicts. Utilizing data from the Diaspora Humanitarians project, it identifies seven key features of diaspora humanitarianism: under-resourcing , volunteering , commitment , access , needs assessment , partiality , and political divisions . While di…
Theorizing experiential time in refugee migration
This article theorizes the concept of experiential time in refugee migration. While recent migration studies have increasingly recognized the importance of immobility in understanding migration, research on refugee experiences remains predominantly focused on mobility from displacement through transit to settlement. This mobility-centric perspective overlooks the immobilities embedded within the broader mobility, which generate distinct temporali…
Temporal logics in geographical research on migration and refugees
This paper identifies and examines three key approaches prevalent in the geographical study of migration: the displacement and mobilities approach, the transit and waiting approach, and the immigrant settlement approach. Each approach is analyzed in terms of its treatment of time and migratory experiences, critiquing them for reinforcing conventional temporal categories: the past, present, and future. It argues that these categories are problemat…
Visualizing superdiversity and “seeing” urban socio-economic complexity
Recent migration has made traditional destination cities so diverse that many conventional social science concepts and methods have become inadequate to the task of understanding complex diversity, or what is now often termed superdiversity. Here, we address the need for new methods of "seeing" urban superdiversity in two ways. First, we highlight the need to understand urban contexts by examining new combinations and intersections of multiple so…
Religious diversity through a super-diversity lens
Melbourne's religious diversity is increasing. This article reveals distinctive new configurations of ethno-religious diversity arising from immigration and residential mobility at a fine spatial level in different parts of one of the world's most cosmopolitan cities - Melbourne. Using the lens of super-diversity, we see beyond multicultural groups to intersections of diversities, and identify new types of ethno-religious compound in neighbourhoo…
Temporal logics in urban place-making
The human sense of temporality – the way we experience time – has become a major focus in urban geography and in research on human migration. However, little has been written about how refugee place-making activities are temporally mediated. For refugees – especially those from rural backgrounds – navigating unfamiliar urban temporalities is an important and overlooked layer within the broader challenge of settlement. This paper draws on 52 inter…
The Migration Studies Journal Board(s)
Most journals list an editorial board on their website. In theory, these topic experts should comment on submissions, provide feedback on the scope of the journal, attract new authors, encourage submissions, and submit papers themselves. In practice, most editorial boards are symbolic: they are a list of recognizable names that strengthen the journal’s reputation and identity, despite that board members have little involvement in defining the sco…
Learning journeys
Education is one of the key objectives of, and means for, development. Its value is widely accepted though we rarely investigate the way different theories of development inform widely differing justifications and strategies for education. This article explores some of these issues and proposes five main paradigms regarding the education‐development nexus. These we term neoliberalism, retroliberalism, neostructuralism, place‐based and radical. Ea…
Human Geopolitics
This book describes and explains how diaspora engagement institutions have spread globally and begun to unleash a new wave of human geopolitics. Migration has become an urgent priority around the world and at every level of government, but most research still focuses exclusively on immigration policy, even while most governments care more deeply about emigration and the transnational involvements of emigrants and their descendants in the diaspora…
States of belonging
Explaining the rise of diaspora institutions
Origin-state institutions dedicated to emigrants and their descendants have been largely unnoticed by mainstream political studies even though diaspora institutions are now found in over half the countries of the world. In response, we first develop alternative theories explaining diaspora institution emergence. They emerge to: ‘tap’ diasporas for resources vital to origin-state development and security; ‘embrace’ diasporas to help define origin-…
Mixing Methods to Explain Emigration Policies
Growing numbers of researchers are using mixed methods to study migration, often highlighting the practical reasons connected with policy engagement. However, in this article we emphasize epistemological and theoretical rather than purely practical reasons for using mixed methods in the study of migration. Specifically, we argue that mixed methods designs are well suited to research that attempts to explain sociopolitical action within a post-pos…
The evolution and impacts of Graeme Hugo’s environmental migration research
Moving inkblots
Teaching migration studies
What defines the field of migration studies? This question is asked and answered daily by researchers and practitioners across a dozen or so academic journals with migration in the title, and hundreds of research units dedicated to the topic that have proliferated globally over the past 30 years. But some of the most influential definitions of this research field now also emanate from educators of the topic in the increasingly numerous university…
An inborn restlessness
Look at this mass of people whom the buildings of huge Rome can scarcely hold. . . .They have flocked together from their towns and colonies, in fact from the whole world, some brought by ambition, some by the obligation of public office, some by the duties of an envoy, some by self-indulgence seeking a place conveniently rich in vice, some by a love of liberal studies, some by the public shows; some have been attracted by friendship, some by the…
The impacts of extra-territorial voting
The new migration-and-development pessimism
Human geographers, and collaborators in cognate disciplines, have taken the lead in critiquing a wave of optimistic thinking about the relationship between migration and development that has emerged over the past two decades. This paper reviews and synthesizes recent human geographical and related critiques, arguing that they constitute a ‘new migration-and-development pessimism’, the main contentions of which are: (1) that the new optimism is no…
Diaspora Institutions and Diaspora Governance
Why do governments form institutions devoted to emigrants and their descendants in the diaspora? Such institutions have become a regular feature of political life in many parts of the world: Over half all United Nations Member States now have one. Diaspora institutions merit research because they connect new developments in the global governance of migration with new patterns of national and transnational sovereignty and citizenship, and new ways…
Comparing and theorizing state-diaspora relations
Migration Studies
What is migration studies? Every academic field has its own version of the saying that ‘philosophy is what philosophers do’. It means that you should leave such difficult questions to the experts, who are busy disagreeing about the answer. But defining a discipline in this way is not so much begging the question as making a statement about the way knowledge is produced: it emerges from specialized communities, to which access is gained by learnin…
Faultlines and contact zones
Alan Gamlen, Alexander Betts, Alexandra Délano, Thomas Lacroix, Emanuela Paoletti, Nando Sigona, Carlos Vargas-Silva
Creating and destroying diaspora strategies
New Zealand, like many countries, has recently shifted from casting emigrants in a negative light to celebrating expatriates as national champions. What explains this change? Wendy Larner focuses on recent government initiatives towards expatriates as part of a neoliberal ‘diaspora strategy’, aimed at constructing emigrants and their descendants as part of a community of knowledge‐bearing subjects, in order to help the New Zealand economy ‘go glo…
Human Geopolitics
Ethiopian migrant domestic workers
Ethiopian migrant domestic workers: migrant agency and social change." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 43(8), pp. 1507–1508
Diaspora Institutions and Diaspora Governance
Why do governments form institutions devoted to emigrants and their descendants in the diaspora? Such institutions have become a regular feature of political life in many parts of the world: Over half all United Nations Member States now have one. Diaspora institutions merit research because they connect new developments in the global governance of migration with new patterns of national and transnational sovereignty and citizenship, and new ways…
Comparing and theorizing state-diaspora relations
The emigration state and the modern geopolitical imagination
Explaining the rise of diaspora institutions
Origin-state institutions dedicated to emigrants and their descendants have been largely unnoticed by mainstream political studies even though diaspora institutions are now found in over half the countries of the world. In response, we first develop alternative theories explaining diaspora institution emergence. They emerge to: ‘tap’ diasporas for resources vital to origin-state development and security; ‘embrace’ diasporas to help define origin-…
Creating and destroying diaspora strategies
New Zealand, like many countries, has recently shifted from casting emigrants in a negative light to celebrating expatriates as national champions. What explains this change? Wendy Larner focuses on recent government initiatives towards expatriates as part of a neoliberal ‘diaspora strategy’, aimed at constructing emigrants and their descendants as part of a community of knowledge‐bearing subjects, in order to help the New Zealand economy ‘go glo…
The new migration-and-development pessimism
Human geographers, and collaborators in cognate disciplines, have taken the lead in critiquing a wave of optimistic thinking about the relationship between migration and development that has emerged over the past two decades. This paper reviews and synthesizes recent human geographical and related critiques, arguing that they constitute a ‘new migration-and-development pessimism’, the main contentions of which are: (1) that the new optimism is no…
The impacts of extra-territorial voting
Visualizing superdiversity and “seeing” urban socio-economic complexity
Recent migration has made traditional destination cities so diverse that many conventional social science concepts and methods have become inadequate to the task of understanding complex diversity, or what is now often termed superdiversity. Here, we address the need for new methods of "seeing" urban superdiversity in two ways. First, we highlight the need to understand urban contexts by examining new combinations and intersections of multiple so…
States of belonging
Ethiopian migrant domestic workers
Ethiopian migrant domestic workers: migrant agency and social change." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 43(8), pp. 1507–1508
Religious diversity through a super-diversity lens
Melbourne's religious diversity is increasing. This article reveals distinctive new configurations of ethno-religious diversity arising from immigration and residential mobility at a fine spatial level in different parts of one of the world's most cosmopolitan cities - Melbourne. Using the lens of super-diversity, we see beyond multicultural groups to intersections of diversities, and identify new types of ethno-religious compound in neighbourhoo…
Temporal logics in urban place-making
The human sense of temporality – the way we experience time – has become a major focus in urban geography and in research on human migration. However, little has been written about how refugee place-making activities are temporally mediated. For refugees – especially those from rural backgrounds – navigating unfamiliar urban temporalities is an important and overlooked layer within the broader challenge of settlement. This paper draws on 52 inter…
Temporal logics in geographical research on migration and refugees
This paper identifies and examines three key approaches prevalent in the geographical study of migration: the displacement and mobilities approach, the transit and waiting approach, and the immigrant settlement approach. Each approach is analyzed in terms of its treatment of time and migratory experiences, critiquing them for reinforcing conventional temporal categories: the past, present, and future. It argues that these categories are problemat…
Learning journeys
Education is one of the key objectives of, and means for, development. Its value is widely accepted though we rarely investigate the way different theories of development inform widely differing justifications and strategies for education. This article explores some of these issues and proposes five main paradigms regarding the education‐development nexus. These we term neoliberalism, retroliberalism, neostructuralism, place‐based and radical. Ea…
The evolution and impacts of Graeme Hugo’s environmental migration research
Mixing Methods to Explain Emigration Policies
Growing numbers of researchers are using mixed methods to study migration, often highlighting the practical reasons connected with policy engagement. However, in this article we emphasize epistemological and theoretical rather than purely practical reasons for using mixed methods in the study of migration. Specifically, we argue that mixed methods designs are well suited to research that attempts to explain sociopolitical action within a post-pos…
An inborn restlessness
Look at this mass of people whom the buildings of huge Rome can scarcely hold. . . .They have flocked together from their towns and colonies, in fact from the whole world, some brought by ambition, some by the obligation of public office, some by the duties of an envoy, some by self-indulgence seeking a place conveniently rich in vice, some by a love of liberal studies, some by the public shows; some have been attracted by friendship, some by the…
Faultlines and contact zones
Alan Gamlen, Alexander Betts, Alexandra Délano, Thomas Lacroix, Emanuela Paoletti, Nando Sigona, Carlos Vargas-Silva
The emigration state and the modern geopolitical imagination
The New Migration and Development Optimism
Migration can benefit everybody if policy settings are right, says the new migration and development optimism, encapsulated in the 2009 Human Development Report. This review essay provides a review of the 2009 Human Development Report
Creating and destroying diaspora strategies
New Zealand, like many countries, has recently shifted from casting emigrants in a negative light to celebrating expatriates as national champions. What explains this change? Wendy Larner focuses on recent government initiatives towards expatriates as part of a neoliberal ‘diaspora strategy’, aimed at constructing emigrants and their descendants as part of a community of knowledge‐bearing subjects, in order to help the New Zealand economy ‘go glo…
Migration Studies
What is migration studies? Every academic field has its own version of the saying that ‘philosophy is what philosophers do’. It means that you should leave such difficult questions to the experts, who are busy disagreeing about the answer. But defining a discipline in this way is not so much begging the question as making a statement about the way knowledge is produced: it emerges from specialized communities, to which access is gained by learnin…
Faultlines and contact zones
Alan Gamlen, Alexander Betts, Alexandra Délano, Thomas Lacroix, Emanuela Paoletti, Nando Sigona, Carlos Vargas-Silva
The new migration-and-development pessimism
Human geographers, and collaborators in cognate disciplines, have taken the lead in critiquing a wave of optimistic thinking about the relationship between migration and development that has emerged over the past two decades. This paper reviews and synthesizes recent human geographical and related critiques, arguing that they constitute a ‘new migration-and-development pessimism’, the main contentions of which are: (1) that the new optimism is no…
Diaspora Institutions and Diaspora Governance
Why do governments form institutions devoted to emigrants and their descendants in the diaspora? Such institutions have become a regular feature of political life in many parts of the world: Over half all United Nations Member States now have one. Diaspora institutions merit research because they connect new developments in the global governance of migration with new patterns of national and transnational sovereignty and citizenship, and new ways…
Comparing and theorizing state-diaspora relations
An inborn restlessness
Look at this mass of people whom the buildings of huge Rome can scarcely hold. . . .They have flocked together from their towns and colonies, in fact from the whole world, some brought by ambition, some by the obligation of public office, some by the duties of an envoy, some by self-indulgence seeking a place conveniently rich in vice, some by a love of liberal studies, some by the public shows; some have been attracted by friendship, some by the…
The impacts of extra-territorial voting
Moving inkblots
Teaching migration studies
What defines the field of migration studies? This question is asked and answered daily by researchers and practitioners across a dozen or so academic journals with migration in the title, and hundreds of research units dedicated to the topic that have proliferated globally over the past 30 years. But some of the most influential definitions of this research field now also emanate from educators of the topic in the increasingly numerous university…
Mixing Methods to Explain Emigration Policies
Growing numbers of researchers are using mixed methods to study migration, often highlighting the practical reasons connected with policy engagement. However, in this article we emphasize epistemological and theoretical rather than purely practical reasons for using mixed methods in the study of migration. Specifically, we argue that mixed methods designs are well suited to research that attempts to explain sociopolitical action within a post-pos…
The evolution and impacts of Graeme Hugo’s environmental migration research
Human Geopolitics
This book describes and explains how diaspora engagement institutions have spread globally and begun to unleash a new wave of human geopolitics. Migration has become an urgent priority around the world and at every level of government, but most research still focuses exclusively on immigration policy, even while most governments care more deeply about emigration and the transnational involvements of emigrants and their descendants in the diaspora…
States of belonging
Explaining the rise of diaspora institutions
Origin-state institutions dedicated to emigrants and their descendants have been largely unnoticed by mainstream political studies even though diaspora institutions are now found in over half the countries of the world. In response, we first develop alternative theories explaining diaspora institution emergence. They emerge to: ‘tap’ diasporas for resources vital to origin-state development and security; ‘embrace’ diasporas to help define origin-…
The Migration Studies Journal Board(s)
Most journals list an editorial board on their website. In theory, these topic experts should comment on submissions, provide feedback on the scope of the journal, attract new authors, encourage submissions, and submit papers themselves. In practice, most editorial boards are symbolic: they are a list of recognizable names that strengthen the journal’s reputation and identity, despite that board members have little involvement in defining the sco…
Learning journeys
Education is one of the key objectives of, and means for, development. Its value is widely accepted though we rarely investigate the way different theories of development inform widely differing justifications and strategies for education. This article explores some of these issues and proposes five main paradigms regarding the education‐development nexus. These we term neoliberalism, retroliberalism, neostructuralism, place‐based and radical. Ea…
Temporal logics in urban place-making
The human sense of temporality – the way we experience time – has become a major focus in urban geography and in research on human migration. However, little has been written about how refugee place-making activities are temporally mediated. For refugees – especially those from rural backgrounds – navigating unfamiliar urban temporalities is an important and overlooked layer within the broader challenge of settlement. This paper draws on 52 inter…
Visualizing superdiversity and “seeing” urban socio-economic complexity
Recent migration has made traditional destination cities so diverse that many conventional social science concepts and methods have become inadequate to the task of understanding complex diversity, or what is now often termed superdiversity. Here, we address the need for new methods of "seeing" urban superdiversity in two ways. First, we highlight the need to understand urban contexts by examining new combinations and intersections of multiple so…
Religious diversity through a super-diversity lens
Melbourne's religious diversity is increasing. This article reveals distinctive new configurations of ethno-religious diversity arising from immigration and residential mobility at a fine spatial level in different parts of one of the world's most cosmopolitan cities - Melbourne. Using the lens of super-diversity, we see beyond multicultural groups to intersections of diversities, and identify new types of ethno-religious compound in neighbourhoo…
Human Geopolitics
Temporal logics in geographical research on migration and refugees
This paper identifies and examines three key approaches prevalent in the geographical study of migration: the displacement and mobilities approach, the transit and waiting approach, and the immigrant settlement approach. Each approach is analyzed in terms of its treatment of time and migratory experiences, critiquing them for reinforcing conventional temporal categories: the past, present, and future. It argues that these categories are problemat…
Ethiopian migrant domestic workers
Ethiopian migrant domestic workers: migrant agency and social change." Ethnic and Racial Studies, 43(8), pp. 1507–1508
Political science (25 obras) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (19 obras) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (18 obras) · Sociology (18 obras) · Law (14 obras) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (13 obras) · Law (12 obras) · Geography (9 obras) · Computer Science (8 obras) · Diaspora (8 obras)