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William Walters

William Walters

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Political Science

D-Index
40
Citations
9605
World Ranking
491
National Ranking
18

William Walters publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William Walters sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 90 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

William Walters D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William Walters sits on this spectrum.

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20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Overview

William Walters is affiliated with Carleton University in Canada. Their research primarily addresses issues related to migration, borders, and the politics of deportation within the Social Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Demography, and Political Science and International Relations.

Their scholarly contributions have appeared in a variety of peer-reviewed journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  • Environment and Planning C Politics and Space
  • Mobilities
  • Political anthropological research on international social sciences
  • International Migration

William Walters has authored numerous papers that explore migration and border control practices. Some recent publications are:

  • "The deportation plane: charter flights and carceral mobilities," 2024, published in Mobilities
  • "Border practices and border games," 2022, published in Environment and Planning C Politics and Space
  • "Controlling borders: A note on ordinary technologies of power," 2023, published in International Migration

They have also contributed to the field through related works by other authors in their research network, such as:

  • "No place like home? The International Organization for Migration and the new political imaginary of deportation," 2021, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  • "Blood, sweat and tears: On the corporeality of deportation," 2024, Environment and Planning C Politics and Space

William Walters collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Travis Van Isacker
  • Shoshana Fine
  • Lisa Marie Borrelli
  • Barbara Lüthi

The main topics their work covers are diverse but mostly cluster around themes in migration and social dynamics:

  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Digital Economy and Work Transformation
  • Communism, Protests, Social Movements

Throughout their academic career, William Walters has focused on the nuanced and complex nature of border practices, deportation mechanisms, and migration politics. Their multidisciplinary approach integrates social science methodologies, bringing insight to the intersections of migration policy, human mobility, and governance technologies.

Best Publications

  • Global Governmentality: Governing International Spaces

    Wendy Larner;William Walters

  • Governmentality: Critical Encounters

    William Walters

  • Deportation, Expulsion, and the International Police of Aliens

    William Walters

  • Mapping Schengenland: Denaturalizing the Border

    William Walters

  • The Deportation Regime

    Nicholas De Genova;Nathalie Peutz;William Walters;Galina Cornelisse

  • Foucault and Frontiers: Notes on the Birth of the Humanitarian Border

    William Walters

  • Secure borders, safe haven, domopolitics

    William Walters

  • The International Organization for Migration and the International Government of Borders

    Rutvica Andrijasevic;William Walters

  • Border/Control

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  • Globalization as Governmentality

    Wendy Larner;William Walters

  • The 'Active Society': new designs for social policy

    William Walters

  • Governing Europe: Discourse, Governmentality and European Integration

    William Walters;Jens Henrik Haahr

  • Some Critical Notes on "Governance"

    William Walters

  • The Frontiers of the European Union: A Geostrategic Perspective

    William Walters

  • Rethinking Borders Beyond the State

    William Walters

  • Unemployment and Government: Genealogies of the Social

    William Walters

  • Acts of Demonstration: Mapping the Territory of (Non-)Citizenship

    William Walters

  • Drone strikes, dingpolitik and beyond: Furthering the debate on materiality and security:

    William Walters

  • The political rationality of new regionalism: Toward a genealogy of the region

    Wendy Larner;Wendy Larner;William Walters;William Walters

  • The Power of Inscription: Beyond Social Construction and Deconstruction in European Integration Studies:

    William Walters

  • Social Capital and Political Sociology: Re-imagining Politics?

    William Walters

  • Migration, vehicles, and politics Three theses on viapolitics

    William Walters

  • “Actor‐Network Theory” and International Relationality: Lost (and Found) in Translation

    Jacqueline Best;William Walters

  • The Sight of Migration: Governmentality, Visibility and Europe’s Contested Borders*

    Martina Tazzioli;William Walters

Frequent Co-Authors

Wendy Larner
Wendy Larner Victoria University of Wellington
Martina Tazzioli
Martina Tazzioli University of Bologna
Claudia Aradau
Claudia Aradau King's College London
Mark B. Salter
Mark B. Salter University of Ottawa
Vicki Squire
Vicki Squire University of Warwick
Jef Huysmans
Jef Huysmans Queen Mary University of London

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