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Overview

Adrian Favell is affiliated with University College Cork in Ireland and has a substantial publication record primarily in social sciences, focusing on migration studies, sociology, and political science. Their research spans several subfields including sociology and political science, political science and international relations, demography, health, and economics and econometrics.

The scientist's main topics of work cover:

  • Migration, refugees, and integration
  • Migration and labor dynamics
  • Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
  • Social policy and reform studies
  • European Union policy and governance
  • Irish and British studies
  • Migration, racism, and human rights

Favell has published numerous papers in reputable academic journals. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Immigration, integration and citizenship: elements of a new political demography," 2022, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  • "Migration studies and colonialism," 2021, Ethnic and Racial Studies
  • "Commentary: A Citizenship without Social Rights? EU Freedom of Movement and Changing Access to Welfare Rights," 2020, International Migration
  • "Pull up the roots: response to Dahinden, Goodman, Statham and Schinkel on The Integration Nation: Immigration and Colonial Power in Liberal Democracies (Polity 2022)," 2022, Ethnic and Racial Studies
  • "Stories from a Migrant City: Living and Working Together in the Shadow of Brexit," 2020, Ethnic and Racial Studies

Frequent publication venues for Favell's work include:

  • Ethnic and Racial Studies
  • JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies
  • Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  • International Migration
  • European Societies

Favell collaborates regularly with a group of co-authors, including Toni Ha, A Nd, Richa Rd, G Whit M A N, and Heather Macr.

Best Publications

  • Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe

    Adrian Favell

  • The New Face of East–West Migration in Europe

    Adrian Favell

  • Philosophies of integration : immigration and the idea of citizenship in France and Britain

    Adrian Favell

  • The human face of global mobility: a research agenda

    Adrian Favell;Mirian Feldblum;Michael Peter Smith

  • Markets against politics: Migration, EU enlargement and the idea of Europe

    Adrian Favell;Randall Hansen

  • INTEGRATION NATIONS: THE NATION-STATE AND RESEARCH ON IMMIGRANTS IN WESTERN EUROPE

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  • Rebooting migration theory: Interdisciplinarity, globality and postdisciplinarity in migration studies

    Adrian Favell

  • :Democracy in Europe: The EU and National Polities

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  • Pioneers of European Integration

    Ettore Recchi;Adrian Favell

  • Sociology of the European Union

    Adrian Favell;Virginie Guiraudon

  • The Sociology of the European Union: An Agenda

    Adrian Favell;Virginie Guiraudon

  • The Politics of Belonging : Migrants and Minorities in Contemporary Europe

    Andrew Geddes;Adrian Favell

  • Eurostars and Eurocities

    Adrian Favell

  • Immigration, migration, and free movement in the making of Europe

    Adrian Favell

  • The Europeanisation of immigration politics

    Adrian Favell

  • Philosophies of integration

    Adrian Favell;Zig Layton-Henry;Danièle Joly

  • New Xenophobia in Europe

    Bernd Baumgartl;Adrian Favell

  • Migration, mobility and globaloney: metaphors and rhetoric in the sociology of globalization

    Adrian Favell

  • The Human Face of Global Mobility

    Adrian Favell

  • The human face of global mobility : international highly skilled migration in Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific

    Michael Peter Smith;Adrian Favell

  • Social mobility and spatial mobility

    Adrian Favell;Ettore Recchi

  • Games without frontiers? Questioning the transnational social power of migrants in Europe

    Adrian Favell

  • Integration: twelve propositions after Schinkel

    Adrian Favell

  • Europe's identity problem

    Adrian Favell

  • Pioneers of European Integration: An Introduction

    Adrian Favell;Ettore Recchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Mike Savage
Mike Savage London School of Economics and Political Science
Marco Martiniello
Marco Martiniello University of Liège
Ron Johnston
Ron Johnston University of Bristol
Andrew Geddes
Andrew Geddes European University Institute
Paul Robbins
Paul Robbins University of Wisconsin–Madison
Gordon L. Clark
Gordon L. Clark University of Oxford
Hans-Jörg Trenz
Hans-Jörg Trenz University of Copenhagen
Randall Hansen
Randall Hansen University of Toronto

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