Michael Collyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 159377 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Collyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Collyer |
| SIGNATURE | COLLYER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0407-5600 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1005 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Rethinking the Migration‐Development Nexus Through Migration Management Aid
Official Development Assistance (ODA) has always been used flexibly to pursue other goals, including the control of migration. Despite strong evidence that ODA actually results in increased levels of emigration, a new approach to ‘migration management aid’ is driving widespread policy experimentation, particularly in Europe. In the case of ‘in‐donor refugee costs’, an earlier attempt to use ODA to pursue migration management goals, accounting met…
Evictability—A Relational Comparison: Fears, Manoeuvres and Regimes of Housing Insecurity in Rapidly Urbanising Cities
This article develops the concept of ‘evictability’—the potential of eviction—as a lens for relational comparison and global dialogue. The discussion is grounded in the fears and manoeuvres of marginalised urban dwellers, who live in ‘informal’ and ‘underserved’ spaces of rapidly urbanising cities, where substantive citizenship is compromised by systemic housing insecurity. It is important to focus on the threat of eviction rather than the act it…
Social Assistance and Forced Displacement: A New Solution to an Old Problem
Social protection is a well-accepted means to tackle poverty. This article focuses on social assistance, one aspect of social protection primarily involving non-contributory transfers, in cash or in-kind. Forcibly displaced people, particularly those displaced across international borders, have typically been excluded from state-provided social assistance. This has begun to change. In addition, informal sources of social assistance—community orga…
Beyond rights-based social protection for refugees
The use of social protection measures has garnered increasing attention in recent years from academics and policymakers aspiring to unite the humanitarian origins and development ambitions of displacement governance regimes. Much of this attention has been focused on establishing and strengthening national systems of social protection provision. Analysis of policy approaches to social protection has become increasingly detailed, but typically doe…
Offshoring Refugees: Colonial Echoes of the UK-Rwanda Migration and Economic Development Partnership
British proposals to forcibly deport asylum seekers to Rwanda have raised fierce opposition from across the political spectrum in the UK and internationally. These proposals differ from official practices of deportation as they have developed in liberal democracies since the 1970s. There are certainly some international parallels, such as Australia's 'Pacific Solution' of 'offshoring' asylum, which is often cited as an inspiration. Yet a much cle…
Believing is achieving: A Longitudinal Study of Self-Efficacy and Positive Affect in Resettled Refugees
Research has shown that self-efficacy can play an important role in recovery from trauma (Benight and Bandura 2004). We hypothesised that for refugees, whose (often traumatic) experiences pre- and post-resettlement have been linked to a decrease in their wellbeing (e.g., Aspinall and Watters 2010), self-efficacy would play a key role in improving wellbeing. This paper investigates the link between self-efficacy and positive affect among resettled…
Improving Refugee Well-Being With Better Language Skills and More Intergroup Contact
The effects of intergroup contact on prejudice are well established. However, its effects on minority group well-being have been rarely studied. We hypothesized that contact with members of the majority culture will be related to better well-being, and that this is facilitated by majority language proficiency. We tested this hypothesis in a three-wave longitudinal study of refugees over 2 years ( N = 180). Cross-lagged path modeling confirmed tha…
Resettled refugee youth and education: Aspiration and reality
This paper reports on research with 86 young refugees (aged 13–24 years) who were resettled to the UK between 2006 and 2010. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative data we explore the educational aspirations and experiences of refugee youth, and how they negotiate post-compulsory education pathways. We find that despite the promise of educational opportunity and transformed life chances enshrined in the notion of refugee resettlement, many …
You can’t have a good integration when you don’t have a good communication’: English-language Learning Among Resettled Refugees in England
The research presented here is based on a large-scale, multi-methods study of refugees who have been resettled to the United Kingdom. We analyse quantitative data on language proficiency four or more years after resettlement to identify the key characteristics of those who are most likely to have low language proficiency and to be at risk of long-term dependency and exclusion. Qualitative interviews on experiences of language learning suggest tha…
Londres ou rien: Rites de passage chez les jeunes Australiens de Londres
Londres constitue une destination de choix pour la jeunesse australienne, première bénéficiaire du Youth Mobility Scheme (YMS). Ce programme de mobilité destiné aux ressortissants du Commonwealth permet aux jeunes migrants de certaines nations de travailler et de résider au Royaume-Uni pendant deux ans au maximum. Les jeunes Australiens sont nombreux à se retrouver dans cette capitale cosmopolite, concevant leur séjour londonien comme un véritabl…
Migration
While the subject of migration has received enormous attention in academic journals and books across the social sciences, introductory texts on the matter are few and far between. Even fewer books have explored migration through a critical and explicit engagement with spatial concepts. Now in its second edition, Migration remains the only text in more than a decade that emphasizes how geographical or spatial concepts can be used critically to und…
Narrating Europe's Migration and Refugee ‘Crisis’
It is very clear – as many journalists covering the unfolding migration and refugee crisis have pointed out – that geography lies at the heart of the events taking place in Europe and the Mediterranean. It is a story of borders and routes, of distance and proximity, and of location and accessibility. The role of (re-) bordering has been fundamental in states’ attempts to ‘manage’ and ‘control’ the refugee and migrant flows and, in this respect, w…
Geopolitics as a migration governance strategy: European Union bilateral relations with Southern Mediterranean countries
The significance of regional consultative processes in the field of migration is well documented. Their popularity for states is typically explained by the opportunity they provide for largely non-binding discussions around sensitive, sovereignty-laden issues such as border control. Since the mid-1990s, a variety of intergovernmental meetings have been sponsored by the EU with the aim of discussing migration with neighbouring countries. European …
The Puzzling Separation of International Migration and Border Studies
Immigration and Pensée d'Etat: Moroccan migration policy changes as transformation of 'geopolitical culture
According to Sayad's famous phrase, immigration policy reveals how a state 'thinks of itself'. Morocco 'thinks of itself' in very different ways: Arabic, Berber, Islamic, African, European, Maghrebian, Mediterranean, to name but a few. Each self-representation leads to an alternative set of policy orientations, and 'geopolitical cultures'. In terms of migration and mobility, however, the Moroccan government's approach, from its application to joi…
Steel wheels: The Age of Migration5.0
As with all previous editions, the fifth edition offers substantial updates and developments. The addition of de Haas as a third author in this edition has had noticeable impacts on the shape and content of the book. The Age of Migration does not simply report on or contribute to the field of migration studies; it has done more than any other book to define that field
Geographies of Forced Migration
This chapter examines the geography of forced migration. It argues that geographical research into forced migration, although dominated by subdisciplines of human geography, has increasingly focused on the relationships between forced migration and the physical environment. It also considers the use of research tools such as remote sensing, Geographical Positioning Systems (GPS), and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in emergency response pl…
Transit Migration in Europe
Transit migration is a term that is used to describe mixed flows of different types of temporary migrants, including refugees and labor migrants. In the popular press, it is often confused with illegal or irregular migration and carries associations with human smuggling and organized crime. This volume addresses that confusion, and the uncertainty of terminology and analysis that underlies it, offering an evidence-based, comprehensive approach to…
Producing transnational space: International migration and the extra-territorial reach of state power
Geographical research into migrants’ use of transnational space has contributed towards the materialization of a purely metaphorical construct. A largely separate literature on borders has sought to ‘transnationalize’ the border by identifying how control practices move away from the physical border line. This paper brings these developing approaches together. The various ways in which state institutions attempt to control transnational relations…
Inside out? Directly elected 'special representation' of emigrants in national legislatures and the role of popular sovereignty
Emigration Nations: Policies and Ideologies of Emigrant Engagement
Some states have a long history of reaching out to citizens living in other countries but since 2000 it has become much more common for states to encourage loyalty from current or former citizens livi
A geography of extra-territorial citizenship: Explanations of external voting
Geographers have a long-standing interest in citizenship as the link between political and territorial membership. Yet, even when key political processes associated with citizenship, such as voting or lobbying government institutions are carried out from beyond the territory there is a more complex relationship with territory than the simple ‘inside/outside’ division that external voting suggests. This article develops a specifically geographical…
Moving targets: Algerian state responses to the challenge of international migration
Depuis le « troisième âge » de l’émigration algérienne, décrit en 1977 par Abdelmalek Sayad, lesystème migratoire algérien a connu trois changements majeurs. Dans les années 1990, le profil des personnes quittant l’Algérie a évolué : aux migrations des décennies précédentes, touchant principalement la classe ouvrière, a succédé celle de représentants des classes moyennes séculières, en butte à la violence. L’année 2000 a marqué le début d’une imm…
Dual Disasters: Humanitarian Aid aft er the 2004 Tsunami
Book Review
Migrants as strategic actors in the European Union's Global Approach to Migration and Mobility
The European Union's discourse of ‘partnership’ in the Global Approach to Migration and Mobility and the widely expressed critique of this discourse as a process of ‘externalization’ of EU policy both depend on unitary accounts of the main policy actors involved. Two separate literatures contest such unitary accounts. Within political science and international relations, institutional approaches identify a range of strategic actors involved in po…
In‐Between Places: Trans‐Saharan Transit Migrants in Morocco and the Fragmented Journey to Europe
As undocumented migration becomes more difficult, migrants' journeys become longer and more fragmented. This is a response to new spatialities of migration control which are continually reconfigured in an effort to eliminate clandestine movement. In the trans‐Saharan region, this pattern of fragmented journeys also arises from a network of transnational social organisations that depend upon newly available technologies. Migrants' social networks …
Stranded Migrants and the Fragmented Journey
Long and dangerous ‘fragmented journeys’ have become a common feature of global migration systems. These are more than simple responses to stricter migration controls and are associated with related developments in technology and communications. They are therefore a structural change in migration systems which require a re-examination of the ways in which protection is offered to migrants. This has become an important theme of international discu…
Developing dynamic categorisations of transit migration
This paper considers the ways in which the dynamic nature of transit migration may be captured in categories that provide a basis for developing our understanding of the phenomenon but do not attempt to artificially pin it down. The first section re‐examines common ways of categorising migrants and the second turns to existing research and activism around subjects of immigration in North Africa. The final section applies the common categorisation…
Critical approaches to transit migration
This article introduces the subject of this special issue and presents the papers that follow. It traces the origins of the label ‘transit migration’ to discussions of what was called the ‘new migration’ in the early 1990s. These migrations related to the particular geopolitical context at the end of the Cold War. Though they established the pre‐emptive rationale whereby concern is focused as much on potential migration as on actual movement, the…
Producing transnational space: International migration and the extra-territorial reach of state power
Geographical research into migrants’ use of transnational space has contributed towards the materialization of a purely metaphorical construct. A largely separate literature on borders has sought to ‘transnationalize’ the border by identifying how control practices move away from the physical border line. This paper brings these developing approaches together. The various ways in which state institutions attempt to control transnational relations…
A geography of extra-territorial citizenship: Explanations of external voting
Geographers have a long-standing interest in citizenship as the link between political and territorial membership. Yet, even when key political processes associated with citizenship, such as voting or lobbying government institutions are carried out from beyond the territory there is a more complex relationship with territory than the simple ‘inside/outside’ division that external voting suggests. This article develops a specifically geographical…
Inside out? Directly elected 'special representation' of emigrants in national legislatures and the role of popular sovereignty
When Do Social Networks Fail to Explain Migration? Accounting for the Movement of Algerian Asylum-Seekers to the UK
This paper examines the diversity of destinations of asylum-seekers in Europe, focusing on the particular situation of asylum-seekers who claim asylum in countries with no significant co-national population, such as the growing Algerian community in the UK. This movement challenges existing social network approaches to migration. It is clear that many Algerians have family links in France and that the majority continue to travel there, so there c…
Deportation and the Micropolitics of Exclusion: The Rise of Removals from the UK to Sri Lanka
The forced removal of foreign nationals has been a relatively uncommon occurrence in liberal democracies, at least since the 2nd World War. This can be explained by both the inherent violence of this process, which raises widespread public opposition, and by the geopolitical difficulties it raises, as there must be agreement of both countries concerned. In recent years these problems appear to have been partially overcome and since 2005 a ‘deport…
Immigration and Pensée d'Etat: Moroccan migration policy changes as transformation of 'geopolitical culture
According to Sayad's famous phrase, immigration policy reveals how a state 'thinks of itself'. Morocco 'thinks of itself' in very different ways: Arabic, Berber, Islamic, African, European, Maghrebian, Mediterranean, to name but a few. Each self-representation leads to an alternative set of policy orientations, and 'geopolitical cultures'. In terms of migration and mobility, however, the Moroccan government's approach, from its application to joi…
You can’t have a good integration when you don’t have a good communication’: English-language Learning Among Resettled Refugees in England
The research presented here is based on a large-scale, multi-methods study of refugees who have been resettled to the United Kingdom. We analyse quantitative data on language proficiency four or more years after resettlement to identify the key characteristics of those who are most likely to have low language proficiency and to be at risk of long-term dependency and exclusion. Qualitative interviews on experiences of language learning suggest tha…
Introduction: Music and Migration
Attention to migration and the activities of migrants have added vigour to studies of a range of cultural phenomena from literature and film to architecture and food. Music is particularly interesting as it is one of the widest spread and most easily created forms of cultural production. Ethnomusicology has long been attentive to processes and results of migration but it is only relatively recently that this has had an impact on studies of migrat…
Resettled refugee youth and education: Aspiration and reality
This paper reports on research with 86 young refugees (aged 13–24 years) who were resettled to the UK between 2006 and 2010. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative data we explore the educational aspirations and experiences of refugee youth, and how they negotiate post-compulsory education pathways. We find that despite the promise of educational opportunity and transformed life chances enshrined in the notion of refugee resettlement, many …
Capitalizing social networks: Sri Lankan migration to Italy
Social capital is usually seen as a fixed asset, a property which individuals or in some cases communities possess or do not possess. Theoretical attention has therefore been devoted to the initial acquisition of this precious asset, focusing on the question of how to 'build' social capital, which partly explains the sustained policy interest, particularly in fields such as development. This particular focus is a result of a confusion between wha…
Narrating Europe's Migration and Refugee ‘Crisis’
It is very clear – as many journalists covering the unfolding migration and refugee crisis have pointed out – that geography lies at the heart of the events taking place in Europe and the Mediterranean. It is a story of borders and routes, of distance and proximity, and of location and accessibility. The role of (re-) bordering has been fundamental in states’ attempts to ‘manage’ and ‘control’ the refugee and migrant flows and, in this respect, w…
Routes to illegal residence: A case study of immigration detainees in the United Kingdom
Geopolitics as a migration governance strategy: European Union bilateral relations with Southern Mediterranean countries
The significance of regional consultative processes in the field of migration is well documented. Their popularity for states is typically explained by the opportunity they provide for largely non-binding discussions around sensitive, sovereignty-laden issues such as border control. Since the mid-1990s, a variety of intergovernmental meetings have been sponsored by the EU with the aim of discussing migration with neighbouring countries. European …
Transnational political participation of Algerians in France. Extra-territorial civil society versus transnational governmentality
Secret agents: Anarchists, Islamists and responses to politically active refugees in London
The literature on the securitization of migration has characterized a growing trend in migration legislation to treat migration as a security issue. This legitimizes increasingly harsh responses to migrants. Recent legislation in the UK has responded to security concerns directly through the immigration system, where discrimination on the basis of national origin remains permissible, rather than the criminal justice system, where it is not. A his…
The reinvention of political community in a transnational setting: Framing the Kabyle citizens' movement
Spontaneous demonstrations of solidarity in response to some significant event in migrants' homes are a common feature of modern diasporas. Periodic mobilizations around natural disasters or political events activate latent feelings of belonging and challenge notions of deterritorialized identities. Analysis of transnational social movements highlights framing processes as a key tool of analysis, focusing attention on the agency of participants. …
Migrants as strategic actors in the European Union's Global Approach to Migration and Mobility
The European Union's discourse of ‘partnership’ in the Global Approach to Migration and Mobility and the widely expressed critique of this discourse as a process of ‘externalization’ of EU policy both depend on unitary accounts of the main policy actors involved. Two separate literatures contest such unitary accounts. Within political science and international relations, institutional approaches identify a range of strategic actors involved in po…
Offshoring Refugees: Colonial Echoes of the UK-Rwanda Migration and Economic Development Partnership
British proposals to forcibly deport asylum seekers to Rwanda have raised fierce opposition from across the political spectrum in the UK and internationally. These proposals differ from official practices of deportation as they have developed in liberal democracies since the 1970s. There are certainly some international parallels, such as Australia's 'Pacific Solution' of 'offshoring' asylum, which is often cited as an inspiration. Yet a much cle…
Migrants, Migration and the Security Paradigm: Constraints and Opportunities
Scholars of migration have struggled with the concept of security since it was first connected with migrants in the early 1990s. The initial reaction was frequently a total rejection of any association between the two, emphasizing the usually negative effects of the security discourse on migrants. The security paradigm is now becoming so ingrained that it is impossible to ignore the impact of security concerns on the development of migration poli…
Believing is achieving: A Longitudinal Study of Self-Efficacy and Positive Affect in Resettled Refugees
Research has shown that self-efficacy can play an important role in recovery from trauma (Benight and Bandura 2004). We hypothesised that for refugees, whose (often traumatic) experiences pre- and post-resettlement have been linked to a decrease in their wellbeing (e.g., Aspinall and Watters 2010), self-efficacy would play a key role in improving wellbeing. This paper investigates the link between self-efficacy and positive affect among resettled…
Migration and Development: The Euro–Moroccan Experience
Despite the huge output of research on Moroccan migration, particularly on the links between migration and development, comparative research between Morocco and other significant countries of emigration has been comparatively limited. We suggest two main reasons for this. First, a substantial quantity of this research is published in Morocco and receives very limited distribution elsewhere. Second, the barrier that is still posed by the French-En…
The Dublin Regulation, Influences on Asylum Destinations and the Exception of Algerians in the UK
Since the late 1990s factors influencing the destinations of asylum seekers have raised a growing interest in Europe. The Dublin regulation of 2003 sets out to limit asylum seekers' choice of asylum country due to the perception that this enables them to select a European country on the basis of favourable policy measures. This assumption receives very little support in the literature. Recent studies into the movement of asylum seekers suggest th…
The Search for Solutions: Achievements and Challenges
The ninth biennial conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) was held from 9–13 January in São Paulo, Brazil, hosted by the Pontifical Catholic University and the Latin American Parliament. The conference, entitled ‘The Search for Solutions: Achievements and Challenges’, provided the focus for wide ranging presentations, debates and discussion around all aspects of forced migration. As always, the confe…
Secret agents: Anarchists, Islamists and responses to politically active refugees in London
The literature on the securitization of migration has characterized a growing trend in migration legislation to treat migration as a security issue. This legitimizes increasingly harsh responses to migrants. Recent legislation in the UK has responded to security concerns directly through the immigration system, where discrimination on the basis of national origin remains permissible, rather than the criminal justice system, where it is not. A his…
When Do Social Networks Fail to Explain Migration? Accounting for the Movement of Algerian Asylum-Seekers to the UK
This paper examines the diversity of destinations of asylum-seekers in Europe, focusing on the particular situation of asylum-seekers who claim asylum in countries with no significant co-national population, such as the growing Algerian community in the UK. This movement challenges existing social network approaches to migration. It is clear that many Algerians have family links in France and that the majority continue to travel there, so there c…
Forced Migration and Global Processes: A View from Forced Migration Studies
Migration is at the center of much of the discussion on globalization. Migrants move across borders and thus defy state-centered traditions. Migration is often caused or influenced by aspects of global change: the transformation of the world economy with the expansion of free trade, the modification of the world balance of power and the challenge of global insecurity, the emergence of the global environment as an important political issue, and th…
Migrants, Migration and the Security Paradigm: Constraints and Opportunities
Scholars of migration have struggled with the concept of security since it was first connected with migrants in the early 1990s. The initial reaction was frequently a total rejection of any association between the two, emphasizing the usually negative effects of the security discourse on migrants. The security paradigm is now becoming so ingrained that it is impossible to ignore the impact of security concerns on the development of migration poli…
Citizens without Borders”: Discussions of Transnationalism and Forced Migrants at the Ninth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, São Paulo, Brazil, January 20…
The significance of transnational perspectives at the ninth conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) marks a key change in the development of work on both forced migration and migrant transnationalism. A transnational perspective highlights significant policy interventions that can be made in the search for durable solutions to refugee displacement; most significantly, recognizing that a refugee’s comm…
The Search for Solutions: Achievements and Challenges
Report of the 9th Meeting of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, Sao Paulo, Brazil 9-13 January 2005
Routes to illegal residence: A case study of immigration detainees in the United Kingdom
Transnational political participation of Algerians in France. Extra-territorial civil society versus transnational governmentality
Diasporas a la francaise: Recent Francophone Contributions to the Literature
Books reviewed in this article S. Dufoix, Les Diasporas C. Chivallon, La diaspora noire des Amériques: expériences et théories à partir de la Caraïbe M. Bruneau, Diasporas et espaces transnationaux L. Anteby-Yemini, W. Berthomière and G. Sheffer (eds) Les Diasporas: 2,000 ans d'histoire
Introduction: Music and Migration
Attention to migration and the activities of migrants have added vigour to studies of a range of cultural phenomena from literature and film to architecture and food. Music is particularly interesting as it is one of the widest spread and most easily created forms of cultural production. Ethnomusicology has long been attentive to processes and results of migration but it is only relatively recently that this has had an impact on studies of migrat…
In‐Between Places: Trans‐Saharan Transit Migrants in Morocco and the Fragmented Journey to Europe
As undocumented migration becomes more difficult, migrants' journeys become longer and more fragmented. This is a response to new spatialities of migration control which are continually reconfigured in an effort to eliminate clandestine movement. In the trans‐Saharan region, this pattern of fragmented journeys also arises from a network of transnational social organisations that depend upon newly available technologies. Migrants' social networks …
The reinvention of political community in a transnational setting: Framing the Kabyle citizens' movement
Spontaneous demonstrations of solidarity in response to some significant event in migrants' homes are a common feature of modern diasporas. Periodic mobilizations around natural disasters or political events activate latent feelings of belonging and challenge notions of deterritorialized identities. Analysis of transnational social movements highlights framing processes as a key tool of analysis, focusing attention on the agency of participants. …
Migration and Development: The Euro–Moroccan Experience
Despite the huge output of research on Moroccan migration, particularly on the links between migration and development, comparative research between Morocco and other significant countries of emigration has been comparatively limited. We suggest two main reasons for this. First, a substantial quantity of this research is published in Morocco and receives very limited distribution elsewhere. Second, the barrier that is still posed by the French-En…
Critical approaches to transit migration
This article introduces the subject of this special issue and presents the papers that follow. It traces the origins of the label ‘transit migration’ to discussions of what was called the ‘new migration’ in the early 1990s. These migrations related to the particular geopolitical context at the end of the Cold War. Though they established the pre‐emptive rationale whereby concern is focused as much on potential migration as on actual movement, the…
Developing dynamic categorisations of transit migration
This paper considers the ways in which the dynamic nature of transit migration may be captured in categories that provide a basis for developing our understanding of the phenomenon but do not attempt to artificially pin it down. The first section re‐examines common ways of categorising migrants and the second turns to existing research and activism around subjects of immigration in North Africa. The final section applies the common categorisation…
Geopolitics and Empire: The Legacy of Halford Mackinder
Geopolitics and Empire: The Legacy of Halford Mackinder. GERRY KEARNS, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009, x + 344 pp., ISBN: 978-0-19-923011-1 (£53.00 hardback)
Stranded Migrants and the Fragmented Journey
Long and dangerous ‘fragmented journeys’ have become a common feature of global migration systems. These are more than simple responses to stricter migration controls and are associated with related developments in technology and communications. They are therefore a structural change in migration systems which require a re-examination of the ways in which protection is offered to migrants. This has become an important theme of international discu…
Capitalizing social networks: Sri Lankan migration to Italy
Social capital is usually seen as a fixed asset, a property which individuals or in some cases communities possess or do not possess. Theoretical attention has therefore been devoted to the initial acquisition of this precious asset, focusing on the question of how to 'build' social capital, which partly explains the sustained policy interest, particularly in fields such as development. This particular focus is a result of a confusion between wha…
Moving targets: Algerian state responses to the challenge of international migration
Depuis le « troisième âge » de l’émigration algérienne, décrit en 1977 par Abdelmalek Sayad, lesystème migratoire algérien a connu trois changements majeurs. Dans les années 1990, le profil des personnes quittant l’Algérie a évolué : aux migrations des décennies précédentes, touchant principalement la classe ouvrière, a succédé celle de représentants des classes moyennes séculières, en butte à la violence. L’année 2000 a marqué le début d’une imm…
Dual Disasters: Humanitarian Aid aft er the 2004 Tsunami
Book Review
Migrants as strategic actors in the European Union's Global Approach to Migration and Mobility
The European Union's discourse of ‘partnership’ in the Global Approach to Migration and Mobility and the widely expressed critique of this discourse as a process of ‘externalization’ of EU policy both depend on unitary accounts of the main policy actors involved. Two separate literatures contest such unitary accounts. Within political science and international relations, institutional approaches identify a range of strategic actors involved in po…
Deportation and the Micropolitics of Exclusion: The Rise of Removals from the UK to Sri Lanka
The forced removal of foreign nationals has been a relatively uncommon occurrence in liberal democracies, at least since the 2nd World War. This can be explained by both the inherent violence of this process, which raises widespread public opposition, and by the geopolitical difficulties it raises, as there must be agreement of both countries concerned. In recent years these problems appear to have been partially overcome and since 2005 a ‘deport…
Emigration Nations: Policies and Ideologies of Emigrant Engagement
Some states have a long history of reaching out to citizens living in other countries but since 2000 it has become much more common for states to encourage loyalty from current or former citizens livi
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