Michael Samers
Biographic Data
| ID | 390892 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Samers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Samers |
| SIGNATURE | SAMERS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4664-7179 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 310 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Migration and Nationalism: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives
Cities, Migration, and Governance: Beyond Scales and Levels
Do welfare policies matter for immigrant entrepreneurship? An analysis in the context of France
There is little research on the relationship between welfare policies and immigrant entrepreneurship. Accordingly, this paper examines changes in three welfare domains: child‐care, health/medical insurance, and unemployment insurance in the context of France since roughly the 1980s, but with a focus on the 21st century. Given changes in French welfare policy, I show that immigrants' greater access to fluctuating, sometimes declining, but overall …
Futurological fodder: On communicating the relationship between artificial intelligence, robotics, and employment
This article examines the debate concerning the employment implications of the so-called ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ (FIR) or the increasing presence of artificial intelligence and robotics in workplaces. I analyze three ‘genres’ associated with this debate (academic studies including neo-classical and heterodox/post-human approaches, the ‘gray literature’, and popular media) and I argue that together they represent ‘futurological fodder’ or d…
Transatlantic Perspectives on Urban Transformation and the Governance of Migration: Introduction to the Special Issue
Our aim in this Special Issue (SI) is to bring together a collection of papers that focus on the ways in which different (or indeed somewhat similar) policies and practices of what we call multiter
The Priority of Injustice: Locating Democracy in Critical Theory
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in this record
Towards an economic geography of FinTech
In this paper, we identify the ways in which the existing literature has examined financial technology (FinTech). Using the frame of the ‘FinTech Cube’, we examine how FinTech unfolds through the intersections of key actors, technologies and institutions. We demonstrate the relevance of FinTech for two areas of geographical enquiry: i) the reshaping of global production and financial networks, and ii) financial inclusion and poverty reduction in …
Unemployment and “Underclass”
While unemployment seems to have climbed the political agenda of wealthier countries since the economic and financial crisis of 2008, periodic crises and high levels of unemployment have plagued poorer countries since at least the late 1980s, and the same might be said for many Western European countries as well. There are significant differences between the methodological approaches, spatial emphasis, and explanations offered by economists and n…
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…
Conceptualizing Islamic banking and finance: A comparison of its development and governance in Malaysia and Singapore
In response to the limited engagement with critical social science concerning the governance of Islamic banking and finance (IBF), this paper compares and conceptualizes the development and governance of IBF in Malaysia and Singapore. We argue that IBF governance in Malaysia and Singapore can be distinguished on the basis of ethnic politics, moral suasion, product demand, product innovation, and the character of state practices. Concerning the la…
Migration
This chapter deals with the "political geography of migration." It explains how "migration" is being circumscribed. The focus here is on international migration. The analysis focuses on the control and facilitation of migration rather than policies of immigration. Emphasis is placed on the relationship between migration, "space," and state practices. The chapter assumes three aspects of spatial metaphors: that privileging a particular metaphor ov…
Stirrings in the attic: On the distinction between historical geographical materialism and critical realism
Kevin Cox’s (2013) analysis of the distinction between historical geographical materialism (HGM) and critical realism (CR) offers a sharp and remarkably timely discussion, despite that the debate between HGM and CR appears to be buried to one degree or another in geography’s philosophical archives. Its timeliness stems from a relative exhaustion with post-structuralism in the 21st century, a continually explicit, or more likely implicit use of CR…
Governing Islamic Finance: Territory, Agency, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Financial Geographies
This article examines the governance of Islamic finance in two non-Muslim-majority sites of its expansion, the United States and the United Kingdom. An alternative form of economic rationality is being constructed and practiced across diverse sociospatial contexts to produce what we term cosmopolitan financial geographies. Building from recent debates about territoriality, embeddedness, and relationality in economic geography, we respond to calls…
Reading Mustafa Dikeç's Badlands of the Republic: Space, Politics and Urban Policy
Migration
In the context of global security concerns, humanitarian crises and skill shortages migration and immigration have become central to economic, political and social debates at the beginning of the twenty-first century. And while migration and immigration have certainly not escaped the attention of social scientists, the study of both remains the most 'under-serviced' academic domain with respect to introductory texts. It is not surprising then tha…
Islamic banking and finance: Postcolonial political economy and the decentring of economic geography
A significant trend in global finance over the last 15 years has been the rapid growth of Islamic banking and finance (IBF), which has gathered momentum to become a significant feature of the financial landscape in the twenty‐first century. This paper explores the increasingly ‘Western’ character of IBF and has two key aims. First, we address the remarkably under‐theorized status of IBF by considering how various economic geographical and social …
The Myopia of "Diverse Economies", or a Critique of the "Informal Economy
Spaces of Work: Global Capitalism and the Geographies of Labour
Spaces of Work is an accessible examination of the role of labour in the modern world. The authors critically assess the present condition and future prospects for workers through the geographies of place, space and scale, and in conjunction with other more commonly studied components of the globalisation such as production, trade and finance. Each chapter presents examples of labour practice from around the world, and across multiple sectors of …
An Emerging Geopolitics of 'Illegal' Immigration in the European Union
Banal plagiarism
Diaspora unbound: Muslim identity and the erratic regulation of Islam in France
Despite the apparent innocuity of the diaspora concept, it has not escaped critical reflection and sustained debate. Some have bemoaned its obscurantist fetishism, and in particular its reliance on ‘ethnic essentialism’, while others defend it as a useful metaphor for explaining at least some types of migrant communities. In terms of the latter, Sayyid (2000) argued for a Muslim umma – a shared identity that may be considered ‘diasporic’. While h…
Invisible capitalism: Political economy and the regulation of undocumented immigration in France
What explains the French government's unwillingness to accept more legal immigrants or at least ignore those who enter or over-stay clandestinely? This paper answers this question by exploring the political economy and regulation of undocumented immigration in France during the 1990s. In light of a broad liberal and Marxist literature on the political economy of immigration, I argue that three 'proximate determinants' shape the regulation of undo…
Immigration and the Global City Hypothesis: Towards an Alternative Research Agenda
The debate around the 'Global City Hypothesis' (GCH), and particularly the research agenda of the 'Globalization and World Cities' network, have been preoccupied recently with the business and technological dimensions of so-called 'global cities'. This article seeks to recover the role of immigration in large urban economies. Using mainly observations from European metropolises, I argue first that the GCH requires significant revision insofar as …
What Is the Point of Economic Geography
Exclusions, Inclusions, and Occlusions in 'Anglo-American Geography: "Reflections on Minca's "Venetian Geographical Praxis
Islamic banking and finance: Postcolonial political economy and the decentring of economic geography
A significant trend in global finance over the last 15 years has been the rapid growth of Islamic banking and finance (IBF), which has gathered momentum to become a significant feature of the financial landscape in the twenty‐first century. This paper explores the increasingly ‘Western’ character of IBF and has two key aims. First, we address the remarkably under‐theorized status of IBF by considering how various economic geographical and social …
Exclusions, Inclusions, and Occlusions in 'Anglo-American Geography: "Reflections on Minca's "Venetian Geographical Praxis
Towards an economic geography of FinTech
In this paper, we identify the ways in which the existing literature has examined financial technology (FinTech). Using the frame of the ‘FinTech Cube’, we examine how FinTech unfolds through the intersections of key actors, technologies and institutions. We demonstrate the relevance of FinTech for two areas of geographical enquiry: i) the reshaping of global production and financial networks, and ii) financial inclusion and poverty reduction in …
The Myopia of "Diverse Economies", or a Critique of the "Informal Economy
Immigration, ‘ethnic minorities’, and ‘social exclusion’ in the European union: A critical perspective
Immigration and the Global City Hypothesis: Towards an Alternative Research Agenda
The debate around the 'Global City Hypothesis' (GCH), and particularly the research agenda of the 'Globalization and World Cities' network, have been preoccupied recently with the business and technological dimensions of so-called 'global cities'. This article seeks to recover the role of immigration in large urban economies. Using mainly observations from European metropolises, I argue first that the GCH requires significant revision insofar as …
Invisible capitalism: Political economy and the regulation of undocumented immigration in France
What explains the French government's unwillingness to accept more legal immigrants or at least ignore those who enter or over-stay clandestinely? This paper answers this question by exploring the political economy and regulation of undocumented immigration in France during the 1990s. In light of a broad liberal and Marxist literature on the political economy of immigration, I argue that three 'proximate determinants' shape the regulation of undo…
Conceptualizing Islamic banking and finance: A comparison of its development and governance in Malaysia and Singapore
In response to the limited engagement with critical social science concerning the governance of Islamic banking and finance (IBF), this paper compares and conceptualizes the development and governance of IBF in Malaysia and Singapore. We argue that IBF governance in Malaysia and Singapore can be distinguished on the basis of ethnic politics, moral suasion, product demand, product innovation, and the character of state practices. Concerning the la…
Diaspora unbound: Muslim identity and the erratic regulation of Islam in France
Despite the apparent innocuity of the diaspora concept, it has not escaped critical reflection and sustained debate. Some have bemoaned its obscurantist fetishism, and in particular its reliance on ‘ethnic essentialism’, while others defend it as a useful metaphor for explaining at least some types of migrant communities. In terms of the latter, Sayyid (2000) argued for a Muslim umma – a shared identity that may be considered ‘diasporic’. While h…
Governing Islamic Finance: Territory, Agency, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Financial Geographies
This article examines the governance of Islamic finance in two non-Muslim-majority sites of its expansion, the United States and the United Kingdom. An alternative form of economic rationality is being constructed and practiced across diverse sociospatial contexts to produce what we term cosmopolitan financial geographies. Building from recent debates about territoriality, embeddedness, and relationality in economic geography, we respond to calls…
Globalization', the geopolitical economy of migration and the 'spatial vent
Despite a rapidly expanding literature in the last decade, the question of migration remains a neglected area of research in IPE, global political economy and political geography. In addressing this deficiency, this article seeks to contribute to the growing debate over the links between 'globalization', IPE and the geopolitical economy of migration. Rather than the more 'traditional' focus of IPE, I attempt to integrate different political21 eco…
The Production of Diaspora: Algerian Emigration from Colonialism toNeo–Colonialism (1840–1970)
The extensive literature on migration within a Marxist framework tends to focus on the difficulties migrants face in labor markets of “receiving countries.” This paper adopts a different approach, arguing that more attention should be paid to the historical production of diaspora, rather than the continued analysis of the problems of “integration.” It suggests that articulation of modes of production theory set within the transition from colonial…
What Is the Point of Economic Geography
Futurological fodder: On communicating the relationship between artificial intelligence, robotics, and employment
This article examines the debate concerning the employment implications of the so-called ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ (FIR) or the increasing presence of artificial intelligence and robotics in workplaces. I analyze three ‘genres’ associated with this debate (academic studies including neo-classical and heterodox/post-human approaches, the ‘gray literature’, and popular media) and I argue that together they represent ‘futurological fodder’ or d…
Transatlantic Perspectives on Urban Transformation and the Governance of Migration: Introduction to the Special Issue
Our aim in this Special Issue (SI) is to bring together a collection of papers that focus on the ways in which different (or indeed somewhat similar) policies and practices of what we call multiter
Reading Mustafa Dikeç's Badlands of the Republic: Space, Politics and Urban Policy
Do welfare policies matter for immigrant entrepreneurship? An analysis in the context of France
There is little research on the relationship between welfare policies and immigrant entrepreneurship. Accordingly, this paper examines changes in three welfare domains: child‐care, health/medical insurance, and unemployment insurance in the context of France since roughly the 1980s, but with a focus on the 21st century. Given changes in French welfare policy, I show that immigrants' greater access to fluctuating, sometimes declining, but overall …
The Production of Diaspora: Algerian Emigration from Colonialism toNeo–Colonialism (1840–1970)
The extensive literature on migration within a Marxist framework tends to focus on the difficulties migrants face in labor markets of “receiving countries.” This paper adopts a different approach, arguing that more attention should be paid to the historical production of diaspora, rather than the continued analysis of the problems of “integration.” It suggests that articulation of modes of production theory set within the transition from colonial…
Immigration, ‘ethnic minorities’, and ‘social exclusion’ in the European union: A critical perspective
Globalization', the geopolitical economy of migration and the 'spatial vent
Despite a rapidly expanding literature in the last decade, the question of migration remains a neglected area of research in IPE, global political economy and political geography. In addressing this deficiency, this article seeks to contribute to the growing debate over the links between 'globalization', IPE and the geopolitical economy of migration. Rather than the more 'traditional' focus of IPE, I attempt to integrate different political21 eco…
Exclusions, Inclusions, and Occlusions in 'Anglo-American Geography: "Reflections on Minca's "Venetian Geographical Praxis
What Is the Point of Economic Geography
Immigration and the Global City Hypothesis: Towards an Alternative Research Agenda
The debate around the 'Global City Hypothesis' (GCH), and particularly the research agenda of the 'Globalization and World Cities' network, have been preoccupied recently with the business and technological dimensions of so-called 'global cities'. This article seeks to recover the role of immigration in large urban economies. Using mainly observations from European metropolises, I argue first that the GCH requires significant revision insofar as …
Diaspora unbound: Muslim identity and the erratic regulation of Islam in France
Despite the apparent innocuity of the diaspora concept, it has not escaped critical reflection and sustained debate. Some have bemoaned its obscurantist fetishism, and in particular its reliance on ‘ethnic essentialism’, while others defend it as a useful metaphor for explaining at least some types of migrant communities. In terms of the latter, Sayyid (2000) argued for a Muslim umma – a shared identity that may be considered ‘diasporic’. While h…
Invisible capitalism: Political economy and the regulation of undocumented immigration in France
What explains the French government's unwillingness to accept more legal immigrants or at least ignore those who enter or over-stay clandestinely? This paper answers this question by exploring the political economy and regulation of undocumented immigration in France during the 1990s. In light of a broad liberal and Marxist literature on the political economy of immigration, I argue that three 'proximate determinants' shape the regulation of undo…
Spaces of Work: Global Capitalism and the Geographies of Labour
Spaces of Work is an accessible examination of the role of labour in the modern world. The authors critically assess the present condition and future prospects for workers through the geographies of place, space and scale, and in conjunction with other more commonly studied components of the globalisation such as production, trade and finance. Each chapter presents examples of labour practice from around the world, and across multiple sectors of …
An Emerging Geopolitics of 'Illegal' Immigration in the European Union
Banal plagiarism
The Myopia of "Diverse Economies", or a Critique of the "Informal Economy
Islamic banking and finance: Postcolonial political economy and the decentring of economic geography
A significant trend in global finance over the last 15 years has been the rapid growth of Islamic banking and finance (IBF), which has gathered momentum to become a significant feature of the financial landscape in the twenty‐first century. This paper explores the increasingly ‘Western’ character of IBF and has two key aims. First, we address the remarkably under‐theorized status of IBF by considering how various economic geographical and social …
Migration
In the context of global security concerns, humanitarian crises and skill shortages migration and immigration have become central to economic, political and social debates at the beginning of the twenty-first century. And while migration and immigration have certainly not escaped the attention of social scientists, the study of both remains the most 'under-serviced' academic domain with respect to introductory texts. It is not surprising then tha…
Reading Mustafa Dikeç's Badlands of the Republic: Space, Politics and Urban Policy
Stirrings in the attic: On the distinction between historical geographical materialism and critical realism
Kevin Cox’s (2013) analysis of the distinction between historical geographical materialism (HGM) and critical realism (CR) offers a sharp and remarkably timely discussion, despite that the debate between HGM and CR appears to be buried to one degree or another in geography’s philosophical archives. Its timeliness stems from a relative exhaustion with post-structuralism in the 21st century, a continually explicit, or more likely implicit use of CR…
Governing Islamic Finance: Territory, Agency, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Financial Geographies
This article examines the governance of Islamic finance in two non-Muslim-majority sites of its expansion, the United States and the United Kingdom. An alternative form of economic rationality is being constructed and practiced across diverse sociospatial contexts to produce what we term cosmopolitan financial geographies. Building from recent debates about territoriality, embeddedness, and relationality in economic geography, we respond to calls…
Migration
This chapter deals with the "political geography of migration." It explains how "migration" is being circumscribed. The focus here is on international migration. The analysis focuses on the control and facilitation of migration rather than policies of immigration. Emphasis is placed on the relationship between migration, "space," and state practices. The chapter assumes three aspects of spatial metaphors: that privileging a particular metaphor ov…
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…
Conceptualizing Islamic banking and finance: A comparison of its development and governance in Malaysia and Singapore
In response to the limited engagement with critical social science concerning the governance of Islamic banking and finance (IBF), this paper compares and conceptualizes the development and governance of IBF in Malaysia and Singapore. We argue that IBF governance in Malaysia and Singapore can be distinguished on the basis of ethnic politics, moral suasion, product demand, product innovation, and the character of state practices. Concerning the la…
Unemployment and “Underclass”
While unemployment seems to have climbed the political agenda of wealthier countries since the economic and financial crisis of 2008, periodic crises and high levels of unemployment have plagued poorer countries since at least the late 1980s, and the same might be said for many Western European countries as well. There are significant differences between the methodological approaches, spatial emphasis, and explanations offered by economists and n…
The Priority of Injustice: Locating Democracy in Critical Theory
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in this record
Towards an economic geography of FinTech
In this paper, we identify the ways in which the existing literature has examined financial technology (FinTech). Using the frame of the ‘FinTech Cube’, we examine how FinTech unfolds through the intersections of key actors, technologies and institutions. We demonstrate the relevance of FinTech for two areas of geographical enquiry: i) the reshaping of global production and financial networks, and ii) financial inclusion and poverty reduction in …
Futurological fodder: On communicating the relationship between artificial intelligence, robotics, and employment
This article examines the debate concerning the employment implications of the so-called ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ (FIR) or the increasing presence of artificial intelligence and robotics in workplaces. I analyze three ‘genres’ associated with this debate (academic studies including neo-classical and heterodox/post-human approaches, the ‘gray literature’, and popular media) and I argue that together they represent ‘futurological fodder’ or d…
Transatlantic Perspectives on Urban Transformation and the Governance of Migration: Introduction to the Special Issue
Our aim in this Special Issue (SI) is to bring together a collection of papers that focus on the ways in which different (or indeed somewhat similar) policies and practices of what we call multiter
Political science (22 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Politics (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Geography (12 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (10 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Economic geography (7 works)