Piper, Prof. Dr. Nicola

Email:

n.piper [at] qmul.ac.uk

Areas of Research:

Political Sociology; International Labour Migration & Skills Mobility; Political Mobilization & Social Movements; Transnational Advocacy Networks; Multi-level & networked Governance; Migrant Rights; Gender and Migration; Social and Political Development

Regional Focus:

Primarily Asia, also Latin America and Africa

Education:

1992-1997	Ph.D. Department of Sociological Studies, Sheffield University/UK
1990-1991	M.A. Japanese Studies, School of East Asian Studies, Sheffield University/UK

Professional Experience / Applied Research:

2019-2022	British Academy Global Professor Fellow, Queen Mary University of London
2016-2017	EU Marie Curie Senior Fellowship, FRIAS, University of Freiburg
since 2013	Professor of International Migration, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney, founding director of Sydney Asia Pacific Migration Centre (2016)
2011-2012	Senior Researcher, Arnold Bergstraesser-Institute, Freiburg
2007-2010	Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, and Associate Director, Centre for Migration Policy Research, Swansea University/UK
2005-2007	Senior Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
2001-2004	Senior Research Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra/Australia

recent publications

Piper, N. and Rother, S. (2019) ‘Political Remittances and the Diffusion of a Migrant Rights Agenda in transnational activist networks: the case of the Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA)’, in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS) (preview online)

Piper, N. and Withers, M. (2018) ‘Forced Transnationalism and Labour Migration: a New Paradigm for Understanding Migrant Rights’, in: Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (special issue guest edited by P. Dannecker) (preview online)

Withers, M. and Piper, N. (2018) ‘Uneven Development and Displaced Care in Sri Lanka’, in: Current Sociology (preview online)

Hennebry, J., Hari KC and Piper, N. (2018) ‘Not without them: realising the sustainable development goals for women migrant workers’, in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS) (preview online)

Lee, S. and Piper, N. (2017) ‘Migrant Domestic Workers as “Agents of Development” in Asia: Collective Organising at the Intersection of Temporality and Transnationality’, in: European Journal of East Asian Studies 16(2): 220-247

Piper, N., Rosewarne, S. and Withers, M. (2017) ‘Migrant Precarity: ‘Networks of Labour’ for a rights-based governance of migration’, in: Development and Change 48(5): 1089-1110

Piper, N. and Lee, S. (2016) ‘Marriage Migration at the Intersection of Crisis and Development: Migrant Precarity and Social Reproduction’, in: Critical Asian Studies 48(4): 473-493

Piper, N. (2015) ‘Democratising Migration from the Bottom Up: the rise of the global migrant rights movement’, in: Globalizations 12(5): 788-802

Curriculum Vitae

Freelance Academic Staff

Publications

Zeitschriftenartikel (Wiss.)

Governing Regional Migration from the “Bottom Up”: a nodal...

PD Dr. Rother, Stefan / Prof. Dr. Nicola Piper

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1554291

This paper investigates the emerging regional governance of migration from the perspective of migrant rights activists and their strategies in advancing a rights-based framework in contrast to the ‘management’ (i.e. control-centred) approach typically championed by states. The key objective is to use the study of civil society activism, through its nodes and networks, to develop a ‘bottom-up’ approach as an alternative to the dominant perspective taken on multilateral migration governance thus far.

2021

Zeitschriftenartikel (Wiss.)

Political Remittances and the Diffusion of a Rights-Based...

PD Dr. Rother, Stefan / Prof. Dr. Nicola Piper

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1554291

2020

Zeitschriftenartikel (Wiss.)

Political remittances and the diffusion of a rights-based...

PD Dr. Rother, Stefan / Prof. Dr. Nicola Piper

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1554291

This paper aims to address a rarely researched dimension of political remittances by moving from the (trans)national to the regional level, and from the individual to the institutional level of collective action. We base our analyses of the regional and institutional aspects on the case of the Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA), a regional network comprising migrants’ rights organisations that span across Asia (from West to East).

2020

Herausgeberschaft (Wiss.)

Special Issue: Challenging State Sovereignty in the Age of...

PD Dr. Rother, Stefan / Prof. Dr. Nicola Piper / Jürgen Prof. Dr. Rüland

European Journal of East Asian Studies

2019

Zeitschriftenartikel (Wiss.)

Challenging State Sovereignty in the Age of Migration -...

PD Dr. Rother, Stefan / Prof. Dr. Nicola Piper / Jürgen Prof. Dr. Rüland

European Journal of East Asian Studies

https://doi.org/10.1163/15700615-01701007

This two-part Special Issue has examined the migration–sovereignty nexus in the context of intra-regional migration in Asia, with specific focus on Southeast Asia (‘Special Issue’). The sub-region represents the perfect laboratory for teasing out the complexities involved in (actual and rhetorical) attempts made by states to control and regulate migration in what has become a space characterised by increasing diversity of (collective and individual) actors operating at various levels.

2019