The University of Manchester

Faculty Member, Social Anthropology

Director, Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures; Professor of Social Anthropology

School of Social Sciences

About

The grandchild of immigrants to New York City, Nina Glick Schiller has turned her lifelong interest in cities and migration into a comparative and historical perspective on migration, transnational and diasporic processes and social relations, methodological nationalism, and urban restructuring. Her research has been conducted in Haiti, the United States, and Germany and she has worked with migrants from all regions of the globe. Founding editor of the journal Identities, Global Studies in Culture and Power, she has critiqued the governmentality of regimes of truth including those reflected in research paradigms in migration, urban and health studies. Her co-authored book, Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments, and Deterritorialized Nation-States, examines differences of power within transnational social fields in relationship to the constitution of race, class, status, citizenship, and national identity.  One of her recent books,  Locating Migration: Rescaling Migrants and Cities,  (co-edited with Ayse Caglar and published by Cornell University Press),  explores the relationship between variations in the scalar positioning of cities and the forms of migrant local and transnational incorporation. Another recent publications addresses migration and development (Migration, Development, and Transnationalization: A Critical Stance 2010, Berghahn, co-edited with Thomas Faist ). A special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies examines the relationship between mobility and cosmopolitanism (Cosmopolitan Sociability: Locating Transnational Religious and Diasporic Networks,2011 34(3) co-edited by Tsypylma Darieva; Nina Glick Schiller; and Sandra Gruner-Domic)

Glick Schiller is an Associate of the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale Germany and a senior associate of the Max Planck Institute for Ethnic and Religious Diversity, an Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at University of New Hampshire, USA.