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Walter J. Nicholls is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States and works primarily within the Social Sciences, particularly focusing on Sociology and Political Science. Their research engages with topics related to migration, refugees, and integration, as well as social and cultural dynamics, urban studies, and issues surrounding homelessness.

The scientist's body of work encompasses a range of fields and subfields including Political Science and International Relations, General Health Professions, Urban Studies, and Public Administration. With a total of 38 publications in Social Sciences, their work often intersects themes such as migration and labor dynamics, the ethnic and economic aspects of migration, and urban planning and governance.

Walter J. Nicholls has published several papers, notably:

  • The Uneven Geographies of Politicisation: The Case of the Undocumented Immigrant Youth Movement in the United States, 2020, Antipode
  • Dynamics of Distinction and Solidarity within Social Movements: Explaining Relations between Privileged and Underprivileged Groups in the U.S. Immigrant Rights Movement, 2021, Sociological Perspectives

Other frequently cited papers related to their area of study, though authored by different researchers, include:

  • Undocumented Immigrant Activism and the Political: Disrupting the Order or Reproducing the Status Quo?, 2020, Antipode
  • The Swarm versus the Grassroots: places and networks of supporters and opponents of Black Lives Matter on Twitter, 2022, Social Movement Studies
  • Municipal institutions and local policy responses to immigrants: policies towards day labourers in California, 2021, Territory Politics Governance

Walter J. Nicholls is also an author of the book The DREAMers published by Stanford University Press eBooks in 2020, which has been cited extensively.

Frequent co-authorship includes collaborations with:

  • Marieke de Wilde
  • Floris Vermeulen
  • Susan Bibler Coutin
  • Sander van Haperen
  • Justus Uitermark

The scientist has contributed multiple articles to prominent venues such as:

  • Antipode
  • Stanford University Press eBooks
  • Social Movement Studies
  • Sociological Perspectives
  • Territory Politics Governance

Best Publications

  • The DREAMers: How the Undocumented Youth Movement Transformed the Immigrant Rights Debate

    Walter J. Nicholls

  • Place, networks, space: theorising the geographies of social movements

    Walter Nicholls

  • The Urban Question Revisited: The Importance of Cities for Social Movements

    Walter J. Nicholls

  • Cities and social movements: theorizing beyond the right to the city

    Justus Uitermark;Walter Nicholls;Maarten Loopmans

  • The Geographies of Social Movements

    Walter J. Nicholls

  • Social Movements in Urban Society: The City as A Space of Politicization

    Byron Miller;Walter Nicholls

  • Spaces of Contention: Spatialities and Social Movements

    Walter Nicholls;Byron Miller;Justin Beaumont

  • Plural governance, participation and democracy in cities

    Justin Beaumont;Walter Nicholls

  • From Politicization to Policing: The Rise and Decline of New Social Movements in Amsterdam and Paris

    Justus Uitermark;Walter Nicholls

  • Making Undocumented Immigrants into a Legitimate Political Subject: Theoretical Observations from the United States and France

    Walter J. Nicholls

  • The urban roots of anti-neoliberal social movements: the case of Athens, Greece

    Athina Arampatzi;Walter J Nicholls

  • How local networks shape a global movement: Comparing occupy in Amsterdam and Los Angeles

    Justus Uitermark;Walter Nicholls

  • Cities and Social Movements: Immigrant Rights Activism in the Us, France, and the Netherlands, 1970-2015

    Walter J. Nicholls;Justus Uitermark

  • The urbanisation of justice movements? Possibilities and constraints for the city as a space of contentious struggle

    Walter J. Nicholls;Justin R. Beaumont

  • Power and Governance: Metropolitan Governance in France:

    Walter J. Nicholls

  • Migrant cities: place, power, and voice in the era of super diversity

    Walter J. Nicholls;Justus Uitermark

  • Forging a ‘new’ organizational infrastructure for Los Angeles’ progressive community

    Walter Julio Nicholls

  • Dreamers Unbound Immigrant Youth Mobilizing

    Walter J. Nicholls;Tara Fiorito

  • From political opportunities to niche-openings: the dilemmas of mobilizing for immigrant rights in inhospitable environments

    Walter J. Nicholls

  • Introduction: Conceptualizing the spatialities of social movements

    Walter Nicholls;Byron Miller;Justin Beaumont

  • Between Relationality and Territoriality: Investigating the Geographies of Justice Movements in the Netherlands and the United States

    Justin Beaumont;Walter Nicholls

  • Planning for social justice: Strategies, dilemmas, tradeoffs

    Justus Uitermark;Justus Uitermark;Walter Nicholls

  • Building protest online: engagement with the digitally networked #not1more protest campaign on Twitter

    S. van Haperen;W. Nicholls;J. Uitermark

  • Jumping Off the Ladder

    Allison B. Laskey;Walter Nicholls

  • Associationalism from Above: Explaining Failure through France's Politique de la Ville:

    Walter J. Nicholls

Frequent Co-Authors

Justus Uitermark
Justus Uitermark University of Amsterdam
Cecilia Menjívar
Cecilia Menjívar University of California, Los Angeles

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