1: Human Geopolitics
2: The Global Rise of Diaspora Institutions
3: Exile Ingathering: An Exposition
4: Regime Shocks in India, Mexico, and Eritrea
5: Labour Export from the Asian Body Shops
6: Intercultural Borders in Europe and its Emulators
7: Human Geopolitics in the Black Sea and Beyond
8: Diaspora Engagement Goes Global
9: Orchestrating a Migration Regime
10: Following Diaspora Policies
11: Conclusion
pendix 1: Full List of Diaspora Institutions in the Study, with
Sources
Appendix 2: Origin State Interviews and Formal Statements
Appendix 3: International Organisations and Donor States
Alan Gamlen is a Professor in the School of Regulation and Global
Governance at The Australian National University. He is an expert
on human migration and mobility. Alan has previously held
appointments at Oxford University, Stanford University, the Max
Planck Society, the Japan Centre for Area Studies, Monash
University and Wellington University in his homeland, New Zealand.
He holds a Doctorate from the University of Oxford (St Antony's
College), where he studied
as a New Zealand Top Achiever Scholar.
Gamlen has produced an ambitious and compelling work that can, and
should, be employed as a catalyst for further research into the
complexity of global diaspora and migration policymaking.
*Dr. Gerasimos Tsourapas, University of Birmingham, Global Policy
Journal*
With Human Geopolitics, Alan Gamlen crowns more than a decade of
work studying diaspora institutions.... Human Geopoliticsdescribes
the impressive trend for creating diaspora institutions, provides
explanations as to why that trend took hold and, most grippingly,
provides a narrative of how it occurred. The book has a remarkable
geographic scope, providing short case studies of the creation of
diaspora institutions in all regions of the world. ...Because of
its coverage, this study seems fundamental to the development of
the literature on diasporas.... the book serves as a splendid
appetiser for developing many enticing research projects...
Intriguing models pepper the book through and through,...
*Dr Luicy Pedroza, Research Fellow, GIGA Institute for Latin
American Studies*
Gamlen's Human Geopolitics makes a convincing argument for the
changing nature of diaspora governance based on a comparative
mixed-method study with an impressive global and longitudinal
scope. The book provides a compelling story about the political
drivers of this process and invites scholars to further explore,
both qualitatively and quantitatively,geographic and temporal
variation in adherence to this new global trend. The original data
collected by the author will doubtless be in high demand not just
among migration and diaspora scholars, but also within the field of
citizenship studies at large.
*Prof. Dr. Maarten Vink, Professor of Political Sociology,
University of Maastricht*
Alan Gamlen's Human Geopoliticsenters this field as a powerful and
especially well-informed critical analysis....This empirical
analysis is another key reason why the book will become an
essential reference in this field....no one has attempted such an
authoritative and wide-ranging review before and this becomes the
reference to which all other attempts must improve on.... The
central conclusion is a powerful one: the rapid spread of diaspora
institutions results from a network of international organisations
sponsoring global policy exchanges and is evidence of an evolving
migration regime. This is ground-breaking stuff, it demonstrates
the value of theoretical analysis of the fantastic new policy
database and presents an important response to the 'missing regime'
thesis of global migration governance.... The book has provided a
framework of very significant and lasting value....
*Professor Michael Collyer, Professor of Geography, University of
Sussex*
Alan Gamlen has written an ambitious and insightful book on the
emergence and spread of diaspora management institutions.....He
provides a superb intellectual history of the process and unpacks
the mechanisms....There is no doubt that the phenomenon under study
inHuman Geopolitics is of critical importance today.... Alan Gamlen
has written an important comparative book that will be widely read
and debated by political scientists, sociologists, political
geographers, and migration studies scholars. His empirical work
documenting the spread of diaspora institutions already constitutes
a seminal 'academic public good'; while the intellectual history of
the emerging global migration regime he has provided us with is a
well-timed and much appreciated contribution.
*Harris Mylonas, Associate Professor of Political Science and
International Affairs, George Washington University*
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