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Nina Glick Schiller

Nina Glick Schiller

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
50
Citations
43472
World Ranking
2648
National Ranking
72

Overview

Nina Glick Schiller is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with a strong emphasis on migration studies and urban issues. Their work intersects multiple subfields, including sociology and political science, urban studies, demography, political science and international relations, and general health professions.

Their research covers a range of topics related to migration and social dynamics. Key topics include:

  • Migration and labor dynamics
  • Migration, refugees, and integration
  • Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
  • Urban planning and governance
  • Migration, ethnicity, and economy
  • Urbanization and city planning
  • Urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies

Their recent scholarly output includes several papers published in different academic journals. Notable recent papers are:

  • "Connecting place and placing power: a multiscalar approach to mobilities, migrant services and the migration industry," 2023, published in Mobilities
  • "Migration, Displacement, and Dispossession," 2021, published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology

In addition to co-authoring these works, the scientist has frequent collaborations with other academics. Their most frequent coauthors include:

  • Ayşe Çağlar
  • Andreas Wimmer
  • Thomas Faist
  • Michiel Baas
  • Andrew Irving

They have published in various venues, highlighting a diverse academic presence. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Geographical Review
  • Sociology of Power
  • Mobilities
  • Transitions Journal of Transient Migration
  • Ethnic and Racial Studies

The scientist has also contributed to book literature, notably with a publication via Berghahn Books titled "Whose Cosmopolitanism?" released in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments and Deterritorialized Nation-States

    Linda Green Basch;Nina Glick Schiller;Cristina Szanton Blanc

  • Methodological Nationalism and Beyond: Nation-State Building, Migration and the Social Sciences

    Andreas Wimmer;Nina Glick Schiller

  • Conceptualizing simultaneity: a transnational social field perspective on society

    Peggy Levitt;Nina Glick Schiller

  • FROM IMMIGRANT TO TRANSMIGRANT: THEORIZING TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION

    Nina Glick Schiller;Linda Basch;Cristina Szanton Blanc

  • Methodological Nationalism, the Social Sciences, and the Study of Migration: An Essay in Historical Epistemology

    Andreas Wimmer;Nina Glick Schiller

  • Transnationalism: A New Analytic Framework for Understanding Migration

    Nina Glick Schiller;Linda Basch;Cristina Blanc-Szanton

  • Regimes of Mobility Across the Globe

    Nina Glick Schiller;Noel B. Salazar

  • Towards a Transnational Perspective on Migration: Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Nationalism Reconsidered

    Nina Glick Schiller;Linda G. Basch;Cristina Blanc-Szanton

  • Georges woke up laughing

    Nina Glick Schiller;Georges Eugene Fouron

  • Cultural Citizenship as Subject-Making

    Aihwa Ong;Virginia R. Dominguez;Jonathan Friedman;Nina Glick Schiller

  • Towards a Comparative Theory of Locality in Migration Studies: Migrant Incorporation and City Scale

    Nina Glick Schiller;Ayse Caglar

  • Beyond the ethnic lens: Locality, globality, and born-again incorporation

    Nina Glick Schiller;Ayşe Çaglar;Thaddeus C. Guldbrandsen

  • Locating Migration: Rescaling Cities and Migrants

    Nina Glick Schiller;Ayse Caglar

  • Terrains of blood and nation : Haitian transnational social fields

    Nina Glick Schiller;Georges E. Fouron

  • Towards a definition of transnationalism. Introductory remarks and research questions.

    Nina Glick Schiller;Linda Basch;Cristina Blanc-Szanton

  • Methodological nationalism and the study of migration

    Andreas Wimmer;Nina Glick Schiller

  • Defining cosmopolitan sociability in a transnational age. An introduction

    Nina Glick Schiller;Tsypylma Darieva;Sandra Gruner-Domic

  • Transnational social fields and imperialism: Bringing a theory of power to Transnational Studies

    Nina Glick Schiller

  • Beyond methodological nationalism : research methodologies for cross-border studies

    Anna Amelina;Devrimsel Deniz Nergiz;Thomas Faist;Nina Glick Schiller

  • Towards a transnational perspective on migration

    Nina Glick. Schiller;Linda G. Basch;Cristina. Blanc-Szanton

  • Nations unbound : transnational projects, postcolonialpredicaments, and deterritorialized nation-states

    Linda G. Basch;Nina Glick Schiller;Cristina Szanton Blanc

Frequent Co-Authors

Aihwa Ong
Aihwa Ong University of California, Berkeley
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Columbia University
Talal Asad
Talal Asad City University of New York
Paul Farmer
Paul Farmer Harvard University
John L. Comaroff
John L. Comaroff Harvard University
Joseph J. Fins
Joseph J. Fins Cornell University
Arjun Appadurai
Arjun Appadurai New York University

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