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180
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Thomas Faist is affiliated with Bielefeld University in Germany and focuses their research primarily within the social sciences and environmental science fields. Their work spans multiple subfields including sociology and political science, ecology, demography, health, and geography, planning and development.

The research topics covered in their publications concentrate on migration and labor dynamics, diaspora, migration and transnational identity, health disparities and outcomes, social capital and networks, social and cultural dynamics, urban, neighborhood and segregation studies, as well as isotope analysis in ecology.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Thomas Faist include Başak Bilecen, Isabell Diekmann, Josie South, Roxana Barbulescu, and Rafael L. Macêdo. These collaborations indicate a broad engagement across related research areas within migration studies and environmental sociology.

The scientist has published multiple papers in notable venues, with the following recent papers documented:

  • Introduction: Migration and Unequal Positions in a Transnational Perspective, 2021, Social Inclusion
  • Commentary: Getting out of the climate migration ghetto: Understanding climate degradation and migration as processes of social inequalities, 2020, International Migration

In addition to these, Thomas Faist has contributed to other publications co-authored with colleagues, including work appearing in the European Journal of Higher Education, Environmental Sociology, and further papers in International Migration and other respected journals.

Their publication record shows a strong connection to leading venues such as Ethnic and Racial Studies, International Migration, European Journal of Higher Education, Environmental Sociology, and Social Inclusion.

Thomas Faist's research portfolio reflects a multidimensional approach to understanding migration phenomena, environmental responsibility, social inequalities, and networks, integrating perspectives from sociology, political science, and environmental disciplines.

Best Publications

  • The Volume and Dynamics of International Migration and Transnational Social Spaces

    Thomas Faist

  • Transnationalization in international migration: implications for the study of citizenship and culture

    Thomas Faist

  • Migrants as transnational development agents: An inquiry into the newest round of the migration - development nexus.

    Thomas Faist

  • Diaspora and transnationalism : concepts, theories and methods

    Rainer Bauböck;Thomas Faist

  • The mobility turn: a new paradigm for the social sciences?

    Thomas Faist

  • Citizenship : discourse, theory, and transnational prospects

    Peter Kivisto;Thomas Faist

  • Transnational social spaces out of international migration: evolution, significance and future prospects

    Thomas Faist

  • De-naturalizing the national in research methodologies: Key concepts of transnational studies in migration

    Anna Amelina;Thomas Faist

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

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

  • Diversity – a new mode of incorporation?

    Thomas Faist

  • Beyond a Border: The Causes and Consequences of Contemporary Immigration

    Peter Kivisto;Thomas Faist

  • Transstaatliche Räume : Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur in und zwischen Deutschland und der Türkei

    Thomas Faist

  • How to define a Foreigner? The symbolic politics of immigration in German partisan discourse, 1978–1992

    Thomas Faist

  • Transnational social spaces : agents, networks and institutions

    Thomas Faist;Eyüp Özveren

  • Social Citizenship in the European Union: Nested Membership

    Thomas Faist

  • The Crucial Meso-level

    Thomas Faist

  • Dual citizenship in global perspective : from unitary to multiple citizenship

    Thomas Faist;Peter Kivisto

  • Diaspora and Transnationalism: What Kind of Dance Partners?

    Thomas Faist

  • Transnational Social Protection: Migrants' Strategies and Patterns of Inequalities

    Thomas Faist;Başak Bilecen;Karolina Barglowski;Joanna Jadwiga Sienkiewicz

  • Towards Transnational Studies: World Theories, Transnationalisation and Changing Institutions

    Thomas Faist

  • “Extension du domaine de la lutte”: International Migration and Security before and after September 11, 2001

    Thomas Faist

  • The Europeanization of national policies and politics of immigration : between autonomy and the European Union

    Thomas Faist;Andreas Ette

  • International Migration, Immobility and Development : Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    Raymond E. Wiest;Tomas Hammar;Grete Brochmann;Kristof Tamas

  • Irregular Migration. The Dilemmas of Transnational Mobility.

    Thomas Faist

  • Transnationalization in international migration: imöocations for the study of citizenship and culture

    Thomas Faist

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Kivisto
Peter Kivisto Augustana College
Oliver Razum
Oliver Razum Bielefeld University
Nina Glick Schiller
Nina Glick Schiller Max Planck Society
Rainer Bauböck
Rainer Bauböck European University Institute
Christian Joppke
Christian Joppke University of Bern
Eleonore Kofman
Eleonore Kofman Middlesex University
Marco Martiniello
Marco Martiniello University of Liège

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