DR NICOLA PIPER 3, Margaret Street, Sydney, NSW 2039, Australia

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CURRENT POSITION &

MAILING ADDRESS: Professor of International Migration

Department of Sociology and Social Policy

&

Director, Sydney Asia Pacific Migration Centre

School of Social and Political Sciences

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

The University of Sydney, NSW 2006

Australia

Affiliate Professorial Fellow

Arnold Bergstraesser Institute

Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg

Windausstr. 10

79110 Freiburg, Germany

TELEPHONE: (+61) (0) 2 93514684 (work)

FAX: (+61) (0) 2 9036 9380 (work)

E-MAIL: nicola.piper@sydney.edu.au

CITIZENSHIP: German

(permanent resident of Australia)

DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: 09 January 1966, in Műnchen/Germany

LANGUAGE ABILITY: German (language of birth)

English (fluent)

French (good)

Japanese (good)

Spanish (basic)

ACADEMIC EDUCATION

Undergraduate

Conducted between three universities (NB: the German university system did not used to

have BA degrees)

1986-88 Trier University, Germany Japanese Studies & Political

(Vordiplom/Prediploma) Science

1988-1989 University of Vienna, Austria Japanese Studies & Political

Science

1989-1990 Sophia University, Tokyo Japanese Studies & Political Science

Postgraduate

1990-91 University of Sheffield, UK

M.A. in Japanese Studies, School of East Asian Studies, 1991

1992-97 University of Sheffield, UK

Ph.D., Department of Sociological Studies, 1997

(ESRC scholarship and top-up grant from the University of Sheffield)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

2014 to now Professor of International Migration, University of Sydney

2012-2014 (June) Associate Professor in Human Rights, University of Sydney

2011-2012 (July) Senior Research Fellow, coordinator of migration research, Arnold

Bergstraesser Institute, Freiburg University/Germany

2010 Reader, Department of Geography, and Associate Director, Centre for

Migration Policy Research, Swansea University/UK

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

2004 (June – December) Consultant, United Nations Research Institute for Social

Development, Geneva/Switzerland

2001-2004 Senior Research Fellow, Regulatory Institutions Network, Research School of

Social Science, The Australian National University, Canberra/Australia

1998-2001 Research Fellow, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen University,

Copenhagen/Denmark

1998-1999 Research and Teaching Fellow, University of Sheffield, School of East Asian,

Sheffield/UK

1997-1999 Research and Teaching Assistant, University of Sheffield, School of East Asian

Studies, Sheffield/UK

RESEARCH INTERESTS/AREAS

political sociology (social movements, transnational advocacy networks, labour and

rights activism); international migration studies (labour migration; gendered

migration; migrants rights, migration governance); development sociology; area

expertise on Asia, Latin America and Europe

PUBLICATIONS

Single-Authored Book

Piper, N. (1998) Racism, Nationalism and Citizenship: the Situation of Ethnic Minorities in

Germany and Britain, Aldershot: Ashgate

Co-authored book

Grugel, J.B. and Piper, N. (2007) Critical Perspectives on Global Governance: Rights and

Regulation in Governing Regimes, London: Routledge

Edited Books

Hujo, K. and Piper, N. (eds) (2010) South-South Migration: Implications for Social Policy and

Development, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Piper, N. (ed) (2008) New Perspectives on Gender and Migration – Rights, Entitlements and

Livelihoods, London: Routledge

Lorente, B., Piper, N., Shen, H.H., Yeoh, B.A. (eds) (2005) Asian Migrations: Sojourning,

Displacement, Homecoming and Other Travels, Singapore: Singapore University Press

Piper, N. and Uhlin, A. (eds) (2004) Transnational Activism in Asia – Problems of Power and

Democracy, London: Routledge

Piper, N. and Roces, M. (eds) (2003) Wife or Worker? Asians Marriage and Migration,

Boulder/Colorado: Rowan & Littlefield

Gills, D.S. and Piper, N. (eds) (2002) Women and Work in Globalizing Asia, London:

Routledge

Guest-Edited Special Journal Issues

Piper, N. (2016 + 2017) ‘Rethinking Marriage Migration in Southeast and East Asia:

Development, Gender and Transnationalism,’ in: Critical Asian Studies 48(4) and 49(1)

Piper, N. and Segrave, M. (2015) ‘Contemporary Forms of Forced Labour’: processes,

institutions, and actors’, in: Anti-Trafficking Review no. 5

Piper, N. and Rother, S. (eds) (2015) ‘Migration and Democracy’, in: International Migration,

vol. 53(3)

Bastia, T., Piper, N. and Prieto-Carron, M. (eds) (2011) ‘Geographies of

Migration, Geographies of Justice? Migration, intersectionality and human rights’,

in: Environment and Planning D, vol. 43

Piper, N. and Amber, F. (eds) (2011) ‘Female Migration Outcomes - Human Rights

Perspectives’, in: Diversities – International Journal on Multicultural Societies, vol. 13(1)

Piper, N (ed) (2009) ‘Rethinking the Migration-Development Nexus –Bringing marginalized

visions and actors to the fore’, in: Population, Space and Place, vol. 15, no. 2

Piper, N. and Ford, M. (eds) (2006) ‘Migrant NGOs and Labor Unions: A Partnership in

Progress?’, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 14, no. 9

Piper, N. and Yeoh, B. (eds) (2005) ‘Meeting the Challenges of HIV/AIDS in Southeast and

East Asia’, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, vol. 46, no. 1

Piper, N. and Yamanaka, K. (eds) (2003) ‘Gender, Migration, and Governance’, Asian and

Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 12, no 1-2

International Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

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) (in

press)

Chung, C., Kim, K., Piper, N (2016) ‘Marriage Migration in Southeast and East Asia Revisited

through a Migration-Development Nexus Lens: Preface to a Special Issue’, in: Critical Asian

Studies 48(4) (in press)

Piper, N, Segrave, M. and Napier-Moore, R. (2015) ‘What’s in a name? Distinguishing forced

labour, trafficking and slavery’, in: Anti-Trafficking Review no. 5, pp. 1-5

Piper, N. (2015) ‘Democratising Migration from the Bottom Up: the rise of the global

migrant rights movement’, in: Globalizations 12(5): 788-802

Piper, N. and Rother, S. (2015) ‘Migration and Democracy: Citizenship and Human Rights

from a Multi-Level Perspective’, in: International Migration vol. 53(3): 3-7

Rother, S. and Piper, N. (2015) ‘Democratising migration governance through migrant rights

activism: engaging ASEAN and beyond’, in: International Migration vol. 53(3):36-49

Spitzer, D. and Piper, N. (2014) ‘Retrenched and Returned: Filipino Migrant Workers During

Times of Crisis’, in Sociology 48(5): 1007-1023 (Special Issue on ‘Sociology and the Global

Economic Crisis’)

Piper, N. and Rother, S. (2014) ‘More than remittances - Resisting the Global Governance of

Migration’, Journal fuer Entwicklungspolitik/Austrian Journal for Development Studies

(Special Issue on “Rethinking Resistance in Development Studies”), Vol. 30(1): 30-45

Piper, N. and Rother, S. (2012) ‘Let’s argue about migration: Advancing a ‘Rights’ Discourse

via Communicative Opportunities’, in: Third World Quarterly (Special Issue on ‘Global

Governance, Contentious Politics and Human Rights in the South’, guest-edited by J.B.

Grugel and A. Uhlin), vol. 33(9): 1735-1750

Basok, T. and Piper, N. (2012) ‘ Management versus Rights: Migration of Women and Global

Governance Organizations in Latin American and the Caribbean’, in: Feminist Economics

(special issue on ‘Gender and International Migration’ guest-edited by L. Beneria, C. D.

Deere, and N. Kabeer), vol. 18(2): 1-26

Grugel, J.B. and Piper, N. (2011) ‘Global governance, economic migration and

the difficulties of social activism’, in: International Sociology , vol. 26(4):435-454

Piper, N., and French, A. (2011) ‘Do Women Benefit from Migration? An Editorial

Introduction’, in: Diversities – International Journal on Multicultural Societies, vol. 13(1): 1-4

Mora, C., and Piper, N. (2011) ‘Notions of Rights and Entitlements Among Peruvian Female

Workers in Chile’, in: Diversities – International Journal on Multicultural Societies, vol. 13(1):

5-18

Piper, N. (2010) ‘All Quiet on the Eastern Front? – Temporary contract migration in Asia

revisited from a development perspective’, in: Policy and Society, (special issue on ‘Guest

Worker Programs: Friend or Foe of an Integrated Immigration Policy’ guest-edited by P.

Lenard and C. Straehle), vol. 90, pp. 1-13

Asis, M.B.A., Piper, N. and Raghuram, P. (2010) ‘Migration and development in Asia:

knowledge frameworks’, in: International Migration, vol. 48(3): 76-106

Piper, N. (2010) ‘Temporary Economic Migration and Rights Activism – an organisational

perspective’, in: Ethnic and Racial Studies (special issue on Mobilization of Migrants and

Minorities, guest-edited by J. Solomos and D. Pero), issue no. 1, pp. 1-33

Piper, N. (2009) ‘Temporary migration and political remittances: the role of advocacy

networks in the transnationalisation of human rights’, in: European Journal of East Asian

Studies (special issue on Migration and Democracy guest-edited by J. Rüland, C. Kessler und

S. Rother), vol. 8(2): 215-243

Piper, N. (2009) ‘Editorial Introduction: The Complex Interconnections of the Migration-

Development Nexus - a social perspective’, in: Population, Space and Place, vol. 15(2): 93-

102

Teo, Y. and Piper, N. (2009) ‘Foreigners in our homes: linking migration and family policies in

Singapore’, in: Population, Space and Place, vol. 15(2): 147-159

Grugel, J.B. and Piper, N. (2009) ‘Do rights promote development?’, in: Global Social Policy ,

vol. 9(1): 79-98

Piper, N. (2008) ‘Feminisation of Migration and the Social Dimensions of development: The

Asian Case’, in: Third World Quarterly (special issue guest-edited by R. Munck), vol. 29(7):

1287-1303

Piper, N. (2008) ‘The ‘Migration-Development Nexus’ Revisited from a Rights Perspective’,

in: Journal of Human Rights vol. 7: 1-18

Asis, M.B.A. and Piper, N. (2008) ‘Researching International Labor Migration in Asia’, in: The

Sociological Quarterly, vol. 49(3): 423-444

Hujo, K. and Piper, N. (2007) ‘South-South Migration: challenges for development and social

policy’, in: Development, vol. 50(4): 1-7

Piper, N. (2006) ‘Gendering the Politics of Migration’, in: International Migration Review, vol.

40(1): 133-164

Piper, N. (2005) ‘Transnational Politics and the Organising of Migrant Labour in Southeast

Asia – NGO and Trade Union Perspectives’, in: Asia-Pacific Population Journal, vol. 20(3): 87-

110

Piper, N. (2005) ‘A Problem by a Different Name? A Review of Research on Trafficking in

Southeast Asia and Oceania’, in: International Migration, vol. 43(1/2): 203-233

Piper, N. and Yeoh, B.A. (2005) ‘Introduction: Meeting the challenges of HIV/AIDS in

Southeast and East Asia’, in: Asia Pacific Viewpoint, vol. 46(1): 1-5, 2005

Piper, N. (2004) ‘Rights of Foreign Workers and The Politics of Migration in Southeast and

East Asia’, in: International Migration, vol. 42(5): 71-97

Ono, H. and Piper, N. (2004) ‘Japanese Women Studying Abroad: The Case of the United

States’, in: Women's Studies International Forum, vol. 27(2): 101-118

Piper, N. (2004) ‘Gender and Migration Policies in Southeast and East Asia: Legal Protection

and Socio-Cultural Empowerment of Unskilled Migrant Women’, in: Singapore Journal of

Tropical Geography, vol. 25(2):216-231

Courville, S. and Piper, N. (2004) ‘Harnessing Hope through NGO Activism’, in: The Annals of

the American Academy of Political and Social Science (special issue edited by V. Braithwaite),

vol. 592, pp. 39-61, March 2004

Piper, N. (2003) ‘Wife or Worker? Worker or Wife? Marriage and Cross-Border Migration in

Contemporary Japan’, in: International Journal of Population Geography, vol. 9 (6): 457-469

Piper, N. (2003) ‘Feminisation of Labour Migration as an Issue of Violence - International,

Regional and Local NGO Responses in Asia', in: Violence Against Women, vol. 9 (6): 723-745

Ball, R.E. and Piper, N. (2002) ‘Globalisation and Regulation of Citizenship - Filipino Migrant

Workers in Japan', in: Political Geography (special issue), vol. 21(8): 1013-1034

Piper, N. and Ball, R.E. (2001) ‘Globalisation of Asian Migrant Labour: The Philippine-Japan

Connection, in: Journal of Contemporary Asia, vol. 31(4):533-554

Piper, N. (2001) ‘War and Memory: Victim Identity and the Struggle for Compensation in

Japan’, in: War & Society, vol. 19(1): 131-148 (May 2001)

Piper, N. (2001) ‘Transnational women’s activism in Japan and Korea: the unresolved issue of

military sexual slavery’, in: Global Networks – a journal of transnational affairs, vol. 1(2):155-

170

Piper, N. (2000) 'Migration, Globalisation and Gender: Japan's Sex Workers', in: Pan-Japan:

The International Journal of the Japanese Diaspora, vol. 1(1): 24-48

Piper, N. (1999) ‘Labor Migration, Trafficking and International Marriage: Female Cross-

Border Movements into Japan', in: Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, vol. 5(2): 69-99

Piper, N. (1997) ‘International Marriage in Japan: ‘Race’ & ‘Gender’ Perspectives, in: Gender,

Place and Culture, vol. 4(3): 321-338

Non-peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Piper, N. (2017) ‘Migration and the SDGs’ , Global Social Policy 17(2)

Iskandar, P. And Piper, N. (2016) ‘Why Low-Skilled Migration Matters’, 3 Indonesian Journal

of International & Comparative Law, 577-581

Piper, N. (2016) ‘Keeping on the Move: Study of the Genesis of the 1990 Convention on the

Rights of All Migrant Workers and their Families and its Implications today’, Issue (Heft) no.

130 (series Gerechtigkeit und Frieden), German Commission for Justice and Peace, Bonn

(ISBN 978-3-940137-70-8)

Piper, N. (2014) ‘More than remittances: Resisting the dominant discourse and policy

prescriptions of the current migration-development nexus debate’, in: Development Bulletin

(Development Studies Network, ANU) No. 76, pp. 84-88

Piper, N. (2014) ‘Pushing the Boundaries of Migrant Rights via Gendered Activism’,

Newsletter of the American Political Science Association, Organized Section on Migration and

Citizenship, Vol. 1(3): 42-47

Piper, N. (2008) ‘La Convention sur les travailleurs migrants en Asie: obstacles, opportunités

et perspectives’, Hommes & Migrations, no. 1271, pp. 94-107

Piper, N. (2006) ‘Migrant Worker Activism in Singapore and Malaysia –Freedom of

Association and the Role of the State’, in: Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 14(9):

359-380

Piper, N. (2005) ‘Rights of Foreign Domestic Workers – Emergence of Transnational and

Transregional Solidarity?’, in: Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 14(1-2):97-120

Piper, N. (2003) ‘Bridging Gender, Migration and Governance: Theoretical Possibilities in the

Asian Context’, in: Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 12 (1-2): 21-48

Yamanaka, K. and Piper, N. (2003) ‘Introductory Overview’, in: Asian and Pacific Migration

Journal, vol. 12 (1-2): 1-20

Piper, N. (2003) ‘’Birds of passage’ also in Asia: Women and labour migration from a regional

perspective’, Development Bulletin No. 62 August 2003 (Development Studies Network,

ANU), pp. 30-33

Piper, N. and Uhlin, A. (2002) ’Transnational Advocacy Networks and the Issue of Trafficking

and Labour Migration in East and Southeast Asia. A Gendered Analysis of Opportunities and

Obstacles’, in: Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 11(2): 171-195

Piper, N. (2000) ‘Dynamics of Interethnic Marriages - the Case of Korean-Japanese Couples’,

in: Bulletin of the Faculty of Sociology, vol. 31(2): 175-195 (Kansai University, Osaka/Japan)

Book Chapters

Piper, N. (2017) ‘Global Governance of Labour Migration: from “Management” of Migration

to an Integrated Rights-Based Approach’, in: Peter Drahos (ed), New Perspectives on

Regulation, ANU University Press, pp. 377-394

Piper, Nicola (2016) ‘Make Migration a Choice not Necessity: Challenging the

Instrumentalisation of Migration as Tool for Development’, in: Jean Grugel and Daniel

Hammett (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of International Development, London: Palgrave

Macmillan, pp. 365-380

Chavez, J. and Piper, N., (2015) ‘The Reluctant Leader: The Philippine Journey from Labor

Export to Championing a Rights-Based Approach to Overseas Employment’, in: Evan Berman

and M. Shamsul Hague (eds), Asian Leadership in Policy and Governance, Emerald Publishers,

pp. 307-344

Piper. N. and Grugel, J. B. (2015) ‘Global Migration Governance, Social Movements and the

Difficulties of Promoting Migrant Rights’, in: Migration, Precarity and Global Governance –

Challenges for Labour, edited by C-U Schierup, R. Munck, B. Likic-Brboric, and A. Neergaard,

Oxford University Press, pp. 261-278

Basok, T., Piper, N. and Simmons, V. (2013) ‘International Organizations and Female

Migration in Argentina: Human Rights in the Times of Border Management’, in: Disciplining

the Transnational Movement of People’, edited by Martin Geiger and Antoine Pécoud,

Palgrave Macmillan IPE Series, pp. 162-184

Basok, T. and Piper, N. (2013) ‘Justice for Migrants: Mobilizing a Rights-Based Understanding

of Migration’, in: Suzan Ilcan (ed), Mobilities, Knowledge and Social Justice’, McGill-Queen’s

University Press, pp. 255-276

Piper, N. (2013) ‘Resisting Inequality: global migrant rights activism’, in: T. Bastia (ed),

Migration and Inequality, Routledge, pp. 45-64

Piper, N. (2012) ‘Organizations and Conventions, Rights of Migrants’, in: I. Ness, P. Bellwood

and H. Lee (eds), Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, Wiley-Blackwell

Piper, N. and Rother, S. (2011) ‘Transnational Inequalities, Transnational Responses: The

Politicisation of Migrant Rights in Asia’, in: B. Rehbein (ed), Globalization and Inequality in

Emerging Societies, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 235-255

Piper, N. (2011) ‘Towards a Gendered Political Economy of Migration: The ‘Feminizations’ of

Migration, Work and Poverty’, in: N. Phillips (ed), Migration in the Global Political Economy ,

Lynne Rienner publishers, pp. 61-82

Raghuram, P. and Piper, N. (2011) ‘Women and Global Economic Migration in Asia – eroding

borders, new fixities’, in: D. Wastl-Walter (ed) Ashgate Research Companion to Border

Studies, Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 529-548

Piper, N. (2010) ‘Migration and Social Development: Organizational and Political

Dimensions’, in: K. Hujo and N. Piper (eds), South-South Migration: Implications for Social

Policy and Development, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 120-157

Hujo, K. and Piper, N. (2010) ‘Linking Migration, Social Development and Policy in the South

– an Introduction’, in: K. Hujo and N. Piper (eds), South-South Migration: Implications for

Social Policy and Development, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-45

Hujo, K. and Piper, N. (2010) ‘Bridging gaps in research and policy: towards inclusive

migration and social policy regimes’, in: K. Hujo and N. Piper (eds), South-South Migration:

Implications for Social Policy and Development, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 220-

229

Piper, N. (2009) ‘Obstacles to, and opportunities for, ratification of the ICRMW in Asia’, in: P.

de Guchteneire, A. Pecoud and R. Cholewinski (eds), Migration and Human Rights – The

United Nations Convention on Migrant Workers’ Rights, Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press, pp. 171-192

Piper, N. (2009) ‘Overview of gender and labour migration in Asia’, in: D. Ionesco and C.

Aghazarm (eds), Gender and Labour Migration in Asia, Geneva: International Organization

for Migration, pp. 22-42

Piper, N. (2009) ‘Concluding remarks, gender and migration - public and social policy

interventions’, in: D. Ionesco and C. Aghazarm (eds), Gender and Labour Migration in Asia,

Geneva: International Organization for Migration, pp. 293-297

Piper, N. (2009) ‘Feminisation of Migration and the Social Dimensions of Development: the

Asian case’, in: R. Munck (ed), Globlisation and Migration – New Issues, New Politics,

London: Routledge

Zoomers, A., Rivera-Salgado, G., Asis, M.M.B, Piper, N., Raghuram, P., ASwumbila, M.,

Manuh, T., Schapendonk, J. (2009) ‘Migration in a globalizing world: Knowledge, migration

and development’, in: H. Molenaar, L. Box, and R. Engelhard (eds), Knowledge on the Move:

Emerging Agendas for Development-oriented Research, Leiden: International Development

Publications

Piper, N. (2008) ‘Governance of Economic Migration and Transnationalization of Rights’, in:

C. Gabriel and H. Pellerin (eds), Governing International Labour Migration: Current Issues,

Challenges and Dilemmas, London: Routledge, pp. 182-197

Piper, N. (2008) ‘International Migration and Gendered Axes of Stratification– Introduction’,

in: N. Piper (ed), New Perspectives on Gender and Migration – Rights, Entitlements and

Livelihoods, London: Routledge, pp. 1-18

Piper, N. (2008) ‘Political Participation and Empowerment of Foreign Workers - Gendered

Advocacy and Migrant Labour Organising in Southeast and East Asia’, in: N. Piper (ed), New

Perspectives on Gender and Migration – Rights, Entitlements and Livelihoods, London:

Routledge, pp. 249-275

Piper, N. and Yamanaka, K. (2008) ‘Feminised Migration in East and Southeast Asia and the

Securing of Livelihoods’, in: N. Piper (ed), New Perspectives on Gender and Migration –

Rights, Entitlements and Livelihoods, London: Routledge, pp. 161-190

Lindquist, J. and Piper, N. (2007) ‘From HIV to Counter-Trafficking: Institutional Continuity by

a Different Name’, in: M. Lee (ed), Human Trafficking, Willan Publishing, pp. 138-158

Ford, M. and Piper, N. (2007) ‘Southern sites of female agency: informal regimes and female

migrant labour resistance in East and Southeast Asia’, in: J. Dobson and L. Seabrooke (eds),

Everyday International Political Economy, Cambridge University Press, pp. 63-80

Piper, N. and Satterthwaite, M. (2007) ‘The Rights of Migrant Women’, in: R. Cholewinski, R.

Perruchoud and E. Macdonald (eds), International Migration Law – Developing Paradigms

and Key Challenges, The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press, pp. 237-254

Piper, N. (2006) ‘Regional Perspectives on the 1990 UN Convention on the Rights of All

Migrant Workers’, in: A. Kaur and I. Metcliffe (eds), Mobility, Labour Migration and Border

Controls in Asia, Palgrave/Macmillan, pp. 292-310

Bell, D. and Piper, N. (2005) ‘Justice for Migrant Workers? The Case of Foreign Domestic

Workers in East Asia’, in: W. Kymlicka and B. Ye (eds), Asian Minorities and Western

Liberalism, Oxford University Press, pp. 196-222

Ball, R.E. and Piper, N. (2005) ‘Trading labour-trading rights: the regional dynamics over

rights recognition of migrant workers in the Asia-Pacific- the case of the Philippines and

Japan’, in: K. Hewison and K. Young (eds.), Transnational Migration and Work in Asia,

London: Routledge, pp. 213-234

Piper, N. and Uhlin, A. (2004) ’New Perspectives on Transnational Activism’, in: N. Piper and

A. Uhlin (eds), Transnational Activism in Asia – Problems of Power and Democracy, London:

Routledge, pp. 1-25

Piper, N. (2003) ’Global Norms and Transnational Advocacy Networks: Female Migrant

Labour in East and Southeast Asia’, in: T. J. Scrase, T. Holden and S. Baum (eds),

Globalization, Culture and Inequality in Asia, Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, pp. 48-67

Piper, N. (2003) 'Migration in Japan', in: W. Gieler (ed), Handbuch der Auslaender- und

Zuwanderungspolitik – Von Afghanistan bis Zypern (Handbook of Foreigners and Migration

Policy), New York/Muenster: Lit-Verlag, pp. 238-246

Chantavanich, S. and Piper, N. (2003) 'Migration in Thailand', in: W. Gieler (ed), Handbuch

der Auslaender- und Zuwanderungspolitik – Von Afghanistan bis Zypern (Handbook of

Foreigners and Migration Policy), New York/Muenster: Lit-Verlag, pp. 646-652.

Piper, N. and Roces, M. (2003), ‘Introduction: Marriage and Migration in an Age of

Globalisation’, in: N. Piper and M. Roces (eds.), Wife or Worker? Asians Marriage and

Migration, Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 1-22

Prapairat, R. Mix and Piper, N. (2003) ’Does Marriage "Liberate" Women from Sex Work? -

Thai Women in Germany’, in: N. Piper and M. Roces (eds.), Wife or Worker? Asians Marriage

and Migration. Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 53-72

Lee, M. and Piper, N. (2003) ’Reflections on Transnational Life-Course and Migratory

Patterns of Middle Class Women - Preliminary Observations from Malaysia’, in: N. Piper and

M. Roces (eds.), Wife or Worker? Asians Marriage and Migration. Rowman & Littlefield, pp.

121-136

Piper, N. (2002) ‘Global labour markets and national responses: legal regimes governing

female migrant workers in Japan’, in: D. S. Gills and N. Piper (eds), Women and Work in

Globalising Asia, London: Routledge, pp. 188-208

Piper, N. (2000) 'Female Labour Migration to Japan: Myth and Reality’, in: L. Sperling and M.

Owen (eds), Women and Work: The Age of Post-Feminism?, Aldershot: Avebury, pp. 149-

163

Piper, N. (2000) ‘Globalisation, Gender and Migration: International Marriage in Japan’, in: J.

Roberts, G. Waylen and H. Cook (eds), Towards A Gendered Political Economy, Basingstoke:

Macmillan, pp.205-225

Piper, N. (1999) ‘Citizenship and National Identity in Reunified Germany - the Experience of

the Turkish Minority’, in: H. Williams, N. Kapferer, and C. Wight (eds), Political Thought and

German Reunification: A German Identity? Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp. 96-115

Published Research Papers

Wright, C.F., Clibborn, S., Piper, N., and Cini, N. (2016) ‘Economic Migration and Australia in

the 21st Century’, Analysis Paper for the Lowy Institute for International Policy, Lowy

Institute: Sydney

Hujo, K. and Piper, N. (2016) (eds) ‘Addressing Multiple Forms of Migrant Precarity: beyond

Management of Migration to an Integrated Rights-Based Approach’, UNRISD Working Paper

Series, UNRISD: Geneva

Piper, N., Rosewarne, S. and Withers, M. (2016) ‘Refining a Rights-based Approach in the

Context of Temporary Labour Migration in Asia’, UNRISD Working Paper 2016-11, Geneva:

UNRISD

Lee, S. and Piper, N. (2013) ‘Understanding Multiple Discrimination against Labour Migrants

in Asia – An Intersectional Analysis’, International Policy Analysis Series, Friedrich Ebert

Stiftung, June 2013 (http://www.fes.de/cgi-bin/gbv.cgi?id=10073&ty=pdf)

Piper, N. and Lee, S. (2013) ‘Contributions of Migrant Domestic Workers to Sustainable

Development’, Policy Report prepared for UN Women, Regional Office for Asia and the

Pacific (http://asiapacific.unwomen.org/publications/2013/5/policy-paper-for-the-pregfmd-vi-high-

level-regional-meeting-on-migrant-dw)

Piper, N. (2009) ‘The Gendered Political Economy of Migration’, IMDS Working Paper Series,

Working Paper no. 17, November 2009, New Delhi: International Migration and Diaspora

Studies Project/Jawaharlal Nehru University

Piper, N. (2009) ‘Migration and Social Development: Organizational and Political

Dimensions’, Social Policy and Development Programme Paper No. 39, Geneva: UNRISD

Piper, N. (2007) ‘Enhancing the Migration Experience: Gendering Political Advocacy and

Migrant Labour in Southeast and East Asia’, IDRC Working Paper No. 1, February 2007,

Ottawa: International Development and Research Centre (http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-

113354-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html)

Piper, N. (2006) ‘The Management of Migration - an Issue of Controlling or Protecting?

Normative and institutional developments and their relevance to Asia’, ARI Working Paper

Series No.69, 2006, Singapore: ARI (www.ari.nus.edu.sg/docs/wps/wps06_069.pdf)

Piper, N. (2006) ‘Economic Migration and the Transnationalisation of the Rights of Foreign

Workers – A Concept Note’, ARI Working Paper Series No. 58, February 2006, Singapore: ARI

(www.ari.nus.edu.sg/docs/wps/wps06_058.pdf)

Yamanaka, K. and Piper, N. (2006) ‘Feminised Migration in East and Southeast Asia: Policies,

Actions and Empowerment’, UNRISD Occasional Paper no. 11, Geneva: UN Research

Institute for Social Development

Piper, N. (2005) ‘Social Development, Transnational Migration and the Political Organising of

Foreign Workers’, prepared for Day of General Discussion, 15 December 2005 at the

OHCHR/Geneva, Migrant Committee;

http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cmw/mwdiscussion.htm

Iredale, R., Piper, N. and Ancog, A. (2005) ‘Impact of Ratifying the 1990 UN Convention on

the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Family: Case Studies of the

Philippines and Sri Lanka’ (2005), prepared for UNESCO, APMRN Working Paper No. 15,

Australian National University, 2005

Piper, N. and Iredale, R. (2003) ‘Identification of the Obstacles to the Signing and Ratification

of the UN Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers 1990 - The Asia

Pacific Perspective’, prepared for UNESCO, APMRN Working Paper no. 14, University of

Wollongong, 2003

Piper, N. (1997) ‘The Legal and Social Reality of Female Labour Migrants to Japan', C.A.P.R.

Research Paper 97/3, University of Dundee/UK: Centre For Applied Population Research

(1997)

Piper, N. (1997) ‘International Marriage: a Problem of 'Internationality' or 'Gender'?, EARC

Research Papers 97.1, East Asia Research Centre, University of Sheffield (1997)

Piper, N. (1997) ‘The Impact of Racism and Nationalism on Non-European Union Nationals'

Citizenship: A Comparative Analysis of Britain and Germany’- in: Political Studies Association

(ed), Contemporary Political Studies 1997 (Volume Two), Nottingham: PSA

Published Reports

Piper, N., Oberoi, P. and Alefsen, H. (2012) ‘Protection of the Rights of Migrants in South and

South-West Asia: key issues’, in: United Nations Regional Thematic Working Group on

International Migration including Human Trafficking (ed), Situation Report of International

Migration in South and South-West Asia, UN: Bangkok

Opinion piece/newspaper article

Iskandar, P. and Piper, N. (2016) Why Low-Skilled Migration Matters, in: Jakarta Post

Lee, S. and Piper, N. (2014) ‘Long overdue rights for domestic workers’, 18 June 2014, The

Jakarta Post http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/06/18/long-overdue-rights-domestic-

workers.html

WORK IN PROGRESS

Book

Piper, N. Rethinking Migrant Rights (tentative title; book manuscript in drafting)

Edited Book

Desmond, A. and Piper, N (eds), The UN Migrant Worker Convention at 25 (Pretoria

University Law Press, under contract)

Guest-Edited Special Journal Issue

Zajak, S., Piper, N. and Zanden N. (eds), Networks of Labour: Collective Action across Asia

and Beyond, in: Development and Change

Refereed Articles

Piper, N., ‘Addressing Migrant Precarity: ‘networks of labour’ for a rights-based the

governance of migration’, in: Development and Change (post-review final revision)

Hennbry, J. and Piper, N. ‘’The Role of Civil Society in Gender Mainstreaming Migration

Governance and Development: From the GFMD to the UN Sustainable Development Goals’,

planned for publication in Special Issue in JEMS in 2017

Piper, N. and Withers, M. ‘Uneven Migration and the Shortcoming of ‘Migrant

Entrepreneurship in Sri Lanka’ (revision of conference paper presented in 2014)

OTHER WRITINGS

Newsletters

Piper, N., McClanahan, S. and Hujo, K. (2008) ‘Conference News – Social Policy and

Migration’, UNRISD/CN21/08/3, Geneva: UN Research Institute for Social Development

Piper, N. (2000) ‘Victim Identity and War - the Unsettled Issue of the ‘Military Comfort

Women in Japan’, NIASNytt No. 1, April 2000, pp. 4-9

Book Reviews

I have written reviews for the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, the Journal of

Comparative Studies in Society and History, for the Royal Institute of Asian Studies (London),

Political Geography

Commissioned Background Papers

Piper, N. (2011) ‘Study on the protection of migrant workers from and within South and

South West Asia’, Interregional Workshop on Strengthening Dialogue to Make Migration

Work for Development in the ESCAP and ESCWA Regions, 28-30 June 2011, Beirut

Piper, N. (2009) ‘Girls and young women in migration’, paper prepared for Plan

International’s report on Girls in the Global Economy: Adding it all up (2009)

Piper, N. (2008) ‘Gender, Migration and Development: Trends and Issues’, in: Situation

Report on International Migration in East and Southeast Asia, Regional Thematic Working

Group on International Migration including Human Trafficking, Bangkok

Piper, N. (2006) ‘Enhancing the Migration Experience – Gendering Political Advocacy and

Migrant Labour in Southeast and East Asia’, Concept Note prepared for the International

Development and Research Centre, November 2006 (published as Working Paper in 2007)

Piper, N. (2005) ‘Gender and Migration’, commissioned background paper for the Global

Commission on International Migration’, April 2005 (available on-line:

www.gcim.org/en/ir_experts.html)

Yamanaka, K. & Piper, N. (2004) ‘Gendered Migration, Entitlements and Civil Action in Asia’,

commissioned background paper for the United Nations Research Institute for Social

Development

Piper, N. (2004) ‘A Problem by a Different? A Review of Research on Trafficking in Southeast

Asia and Oceania’, Paper prepared for, and presented at, the IOM conference on Global data

and Research on Trafficking, Rome, 25-27 May 2004

RESEARCH GRANTS

Awarded

2017-2019 Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research Compact Grant, University of Sydney

• Funding: AU$ 150,000

• Purpose: project development

• Role: Chief Investigator, grant management

2016-2017 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney

• Funding: AU$ 140,000

• Purpose: seed funding for establishment of Sydney Asia Pacific Migration Centre

• Role: Director

2015-2016 World University Network, Research Development Scheme

• Funding: AU$ 20,000

• Title: Addressing Multiple Forms of Migrant Precarity – Beyond “Management of

Migration” to an Integrated Rights-Based Approach

• Role: Chief Investigator, management of project with multiple partners, leader of

USYD team

2015 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney

• Funding: AU$ 20,000

• Purpose: setting up of two Working Groups of newly formed SAPMIN (Sydney Asia

Pacific Migration Network) on (1) Health and Migration; and (2) Precariousness and

Migrant Labour

• Role: Chief Investigator, Leader of Working Group 1, Convenor of SAPMIN

2014-2016 Bread for the World (German Development NGO) and American Solidarity Center

• Funding: EUR 60,000

• Team project entitled: ‘Towards a Meaningful Ratification of ILO C189: Researching

Means of Securing Decent Work for Domestic Workers through Holistic Reform’

• Role: Consultant, Co-Investigator (fieldwork component), Co-Author of report and

academic publications (with Colombo Law School and Verité Research Ltd, Sri Lanka)

2014-2016 Korean Research Council

• Funding: $ 60,000

• Project: Marriage Migration in East Asia Revisited through the Migration-

Development-Nexus Lens

• Role: CI of University of Sydney team, editor of book (final outcome)

2013 – Sydney Social Justice Network

• Funding: AU$ 8,000

• Team Project entitled: ‘Organising Migrant Workers: Non-Government Organisation,

Community Based Organisation, and Trade Union Collaboration around Social Justice

for Migrant Workers in Australia’

• Role: Convenor of event and co-author of report

2007-2010 – IDRC (International Development Research Council) Research Grant

• Funding: CAN$ 400,000

• Team Project entitled: ‘Advancing the Rights of Female Migrants in Latin America and

the Caribbean’

• Role: Principal Investigator and Co-coordinator (with Prof. Tanya Basok, University of

Windsor) of team project carried out by five partner institutions in the five countries

under investigation; regional component of project’s objectives carried out by Basok

and Piper via primary fieldwork also

2005 -2007 – Japan Society for the Promotion of Science-National University of Singapore

Joint Research Funding

• Funding: S$ 38,000 (plus equivalent amount for team in Japan)

• Team Project entitled: ‘Care-workers and state policies in ageing societies of Asia:

comparative study of Singapore and Japan’ (with team in Tokyo)

• Role: Co-Investigator (together with Prof Brenda Yeoh and Dr. Mika Toyota)

2005- Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Small Grant Scheme

• Funding: S$ 5,000

• Individual Project entitled: ‘Global and Regional Approaches to Migrants’ Rights’

• Role: Principal Investigator

2005-2009 – Australian Research Council, Discovery Grant (No. DP0557294); with Profs.

Peter Drahos and Clifford Shearing

• Funding AUS $ 397,316 for five year project; awarded for fieldwork, research

assistance, and PhD fellowship

• Team Project entitled: ‘Nodal Governance and Human Security’

• Role: Principal Investigator and Manager of project

2003-2005 - Australian Research Council, Discovery Grant (No. DP0343303)

• Funding AUS $ 117,000 for three year project; for field work, equipment and research

assistant

• Individual Project entitled: ‘Asian Women, Migration and Transnational Governance

from Below’

• Role: Principal Investigator

1999 - Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (ID No. P 98316)

• Funding: Yen 270,000 for field-trip up to 12 months to Japan

• Individual Project entitled: ‘Victimhood and the Issue of Compensation -

unresolved war-time related issues in Japan and Germany’

• Role: Principal Investigator

1997 - Japan Foundation Endowment Committee Grant (No. 001)

• Funding GBP 4,770, for a short field-trip to Japan

• Individual Project entitled: ‘War Crimes and the Issue of Compensation in Japan’

• Role: Principal Investigator

THIRD MISSION GRANTS

2015 – Justicia et Pax (German INGO) and Caritas Internationalis

• Project title: “25th Anniversary of the 1990 UN Convention on Migrant Workers

Rights: revisiting its coming into being”

• Role: Chief researcher

2015 – Kule Institute

• Project title: Interrogating the Impact of Recent Changes to Canadian Temporary

Foreign Workers Policy on Canadians and Temporary Foreign Workers in Alberta:

• Role: Member of research team led by University of Alberta

2013 – Public Services International (PSI)

• Project title: Roles and Responsibilities of Trade Unions with Regards to Access and

Portability of Social Protection Entitlements for Migrant Workers

• Role: Research leader and author of report

2012 – UN Women

• Project title: Contributions by Migrant Domestic Workers to Sustainable

Development

• Role: Consultant, co-author of report (with Sohoon Lee, research assistant)

2012 – DanChurchAid

• Project title: Regional Asia Migration Program Context Analysis

• Role: Consultant, author of report

2011 – Building and Woodworker International (BWI)

• Project title: Policy Report and Regional mapping of Central Asia and Central-eastern

and Southeast Europe

• Role: Research leader and author of report

2011- UNESCAP

• Project title: ‘Strengthening national capacities to deal with international migration:

Maximizing development benefits and minimizing negative impact’

• Role: Consultant, Author of chapter on rights projection of migrant workers in South

and Southwest Asia

2010 –Building and Woodworker International (BWI)

• Project title: Policy Report and Research Mapping of Labour Migration in BWI Sectors

in the Caribbean and Latin America

• Role: Research Leader and Author of report

2005- Friedrich Ebert Foundation (Manila Office)

• Team Project title: ‘Migrant Labour in Southeast Asia’

• Role: Project Coordinator of four country studies and organisation of workshop;

Researcher and Author of studies on Singapore and Malaysia

2003 - UNESCO-MOST

• Team Project title: ‘Identification of the Obstacles to the Signing and Ratification of

the UN Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Their

Families 1990’ (seven country study)

• Role: Principal Investigator and Project Coordinator, Lead Author of report

Other Funding/Grants

For the Organisation of Conferences/Workshops/Seminar Series

Awarded

‘Transnational Labour Rights Activism across Asia and Beyond’ (October 2014)

• Funding sought from the German Science Foundation (EUR 28,000)

‘Domestic Workers as Agents for Development? The migration-development nexus debate

revisited though the Decent Work Agenda’, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre

• Publication funding (AU$ 3,000) for turning UN Women report into academic article

‘Regional Governance of Migration and Socio-Political Rights: institutions, actors and

processes’, Thyssen Foundation Geneva January 2013

• Funding for international conference in Geneva, January 2013 (€ 20,000)

‘Understanding the Migrant Experience‘, UK Economic and Social Research Council Seminar

Series

• Funding for the running of six one-day workshops/seminars over the course of 1

October 2008 to 30 September 2010 (£ 15,000)

‘Migration and Social Policy in Developing Countries’, 22-23 November 2007, Stockholm

(organized with UNRISD, IOM and the Institute for Future Studies)

• Funding from the Swedish Development Agency SIDA (US$ 97,000)

‘International Migration and Social Development’, 20-21 November 2006 at NUS/Singapore

• Funding from the Asia Research Institute/NUS (S$ 20,000)

‘Migrant Rights and Gendered Advocacy in Asia’, 24-25 May 2006, Singapore

• Funding from IDRC, Canada (through Singapore office) (CAN $ 25,000)

‘Labour Migration in Southeast Asia’, 10-11 November 2005, Singapore

• Funding from Friedrich Ebert Foundation (Manila office) (US$ 15,000)

‘Rights of the Migrant Worker’, August 6-7, 2003, held at ANU/Canberra

• Funding from the ANU ($ 21,000) and AusAID ($ 2,800)

‘Gender, Migration and Governance’, December 5-7, 2002, held at ANU/Canberra

• Funding from Japan Foundation (US 17,500). UNESCO (AU $ 2500), ANU (AU $

20,000), and other (AU $ 3,000)

‘Transnational Advocacy and Problems of Democracy’, September 2001, in

Stockholm/Sweden; co-applicant: Dr. Anders Uhlin (Södertörns Högskola)

• Funding from three Swedish sources: STINT (the Swedish Research Council) (SKK

70,000), Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (SKK 100,000) and HSFR (the

Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher

Education) (SKK 40,000)

Publication Subsidy

• for edited book 'Wife or Worker? Asians' Marriage and Migration' (Rowman and

Littlefield), for preparation of a camera ready;

- AU $ 2500,- from ANU (Council and Boards Secretariat)

- AU $ 1000,- from UNSW (School of History)

CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP PAPERS AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS

Conference Work

Between 1996 and mid-2016 I presented 116 papers at international conferences and

workshops, including at annual meetings of the World Congress of the International Political

Studies Association (IPSA), World Congress of International Sociological Association (ISA),

International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE), Association for Asian Studies (US),

ICAS (International Congress for Asian Scholars), Royal Geography Society’s annual congress

(UK), Political Studies Association (UK), British Sociological Association, Latin American

Studies Association (LASA), Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

(CALACS), Society of Latin American Studies (SLAS)/UK, SGIR Pan-European International

Relations Conference, EADI General Conference (migration working group), European

Sociological Association (Research Network 35, Sociology of Migration), European

Association of Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS), AIPEN (Australian International Political

Economy Network), as well as various migration specific conferences such as the

International Metropolis and events like the First World Social Science Forum (Bergen, 10-12

May 2009).

Recent Keynotes and Plenaries

• keynote address on ‘Gender and Migration from a Global Perspective’ at the pre-

conference workshop on Gender and Migration the 11th International Metropolis

Conference in Lisbon, October 2006

• keynote address on ‘Rethinking the Migration-Development Nexus from a Gender

Perspective: insights from Asia’ at the International Conference on Knowledge

Production and Challenges of Feminisms in the Global Era, Korean Women’s Institute,

Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, 1-2 November 2007

• paper on ‘Feminized migration and Social Dimensions of Development’ at the plenary

session on Gender and Migration at the 13th International Metropolis Conference in

Bonn, October 2008

• keynote address on ‘Making Rights Matter – Feminized Migration and Political

Transnationalism’ at the conference Gendering Asia in Helsinki, May 2009

• paper on ‘The role transnational advocacy networks in the promotion of migrant

rights vis-à-vis international organisations’ at the plenary session on The Role of Civil

Society at the 15th International Metropolis Conference in The Hague, October 2010

• paper on ‘Regional governance of migration’ at the plenary session on Globalization

and Migration in the South at the 16th International Metropolis Conference in The

Azores, 12-16 September 2011

• keynote address on ‘Democratising Migration: an integrated rights-based approach’,

at the International Conference “Migration and Democracy”, Freiburg, 7-9 October

2011

• keynote address on ‘A Comprehensive Approach: Global, Regional, and National

Challenges and Solutions’, at the European Migration Network conference on

“Migration and Development”, Oslo, 18 June 2012

• keynote address on ‘Global Governance of Migration from a Rights-based Approach”,

at the International Symposium on “Human Rights and Development: Global

Governance and the University”, Seoul National University, 20 May 2013

• keynote address on “Revisiting Marriage Migration from the Migration-Development

Nexus lens”, at International Conference on Marriage Migration in East Asia:

governance, development and culture, Seoul National University, 16 May 2015

Organisation of international conferences/panels at world congresses

Since 2002, I (co-)organised seven international conferences (all of which resulted in edited

books or guest-edited special journal issues), the latest two of which:

• International Conference on Regional Governance of Migration and Socio-Political

Rights: institutions, actors and processes, 14-16 January 2013, Geneva (funded by

Thyssen Foundation, co-organised with UNRISD and UNU-CRIS)

• International Conference on Migration and Social Policy in Developing Countries,

22-23 November 2007, Stockholm (funded by SIDA, co-organised with UNRISD, the

IOM/Geneva and the Institute for Future Studies/Stockholm) (outcome: edited book,

UNRISD Working Papers)

I organised panels and had the role of session chair at numerous conferences throughout my

academic career and list here only the most recent and largest events:

• Organiser of one panel and paper presenter at the CALACS (Canadian Association of

Latin American and Caribbean Studies),Montreal, June 2010

• Organiser of two panels on gender and migration at the 21st

IPSA World Congress of

Political Science in Santiago, July 2009 (speaker at the one panel, chair of the other)

• Organiser of one panel and paper presenter at the Latin American Studies

Association, Sao Paolo, Brazil, June 2009

• Co-organiser of two panels at the Royal Geography Society Annual Conference in

London, 2008 (I was also speaker at one of the two panels; the best papers presented

are currently being turned into a special journal issue in Environment and Planning A,

guest-edited by me and two other colleagues)

• Organiser of, and speaker at, workshop sessions at the International Metropolis

Conference in Bonn, 2008, in Geneva 2006, and in Vienna 2004

• Organiser and chair of a panel, speaker on another, at the XVI ISA World Congress of

Sociology in Durban, South Africa, in July 2006

• Organiser and chair of a panel at the International Congress of Asian Studies,

Singapore, 2003

• Organiser of two panels (one as chair, one as speaker) at the American Asian Studies

Association’s annual congresses in San Diego 2000, Chicago 2001 and New York

2002

Papers presented by special invitation at international conferences

Throughout my career I have received special invitations to conferences on an average of

four to five times per year. The most recent conferences to which I was specially invited

(with all expenses paid) as speaker (paper presenter) were:

• Interregional Workshop on Strengthening Dialogue to Make Migration Work for

Development in the ESCAP and ESCWA Regions, 28-30 June 2011, Beirut, Lebanon

• First World Social Science Forum, 12-15 May 2009, Bergen, Norway

• International Conference ‘Gendering Asia’, 30-31 May 2009, Helsinki, Finland

• 13th

and 11th

(annual) Metropolis Conferences (13th in Bonn/Germany, October

2008; 11th in Lisbon/Portugal, October 2006)

• International Colloquium on Challenges to Human Rights and Global Justice: The

Struggles for Equality and Recognition of Difference, Centre for Social Science,

University of Coimbra, November 27-28, 2008, Coimbra, Portugal

• International Conference on Knowledge Production and Challenges of Feminisms in

the Global Era, Korean Women’s Institute, Ewha Women’s University, 1-2 November

2007, Seoul, Korea

• International Conference Transnationalisation and Development(s): Towards a

North-South Perspective, 31 May to 1 June 2007, Bielefeld University, Germany

• International Conference on Citizenship, Identity and Social Justice, 17-19 May

2007, University of Windsor, Canada

• International conference on Gender, Globalization, and Governance (panel

‘Governing Movement: Challenges of the Feminization of Migration’), April 12 and

13, 2007, The University of Texas at Austin, US

• International Conference on International Migration, Multi-local Livelihoods and

Human Security, Institute of Social Studies, 30-31 August 2007, The Hague, The

Netherlands

• International Workshop on Gender and Migration, United Nations University/Tokyo,

19-20 October 2005, Tokyo, Japan

• International Conference on Governing International Labour Migration, University

of Ottawa & Carlton University, 5-7 May 2005, Ottawa, Canada

Invited Lectures, Presentations (1996-2013)

I have presented 42 guest lectures/seminars at a range of institutions including the

University of Geneva/Switzerland, University of Oxford, School of Oriental and African

Studies/London, Amsterdam School of Social Science Research, Aarhus University/Denmark,

Lund University/Sweden, Kansai University/ Osaka, Chulalongkorn University/Bangkok,

Australian National University/Canberra, UN University/Tokyo, National University of

Singapore, Ochanomizu University/Tokyo, the Institute for Migration and Ethnic

Relations/Malmø University, National Sun Yat-Sen University/Taiwan, City University of Hong

Kong, Freiburg University/Germany, the Centre for International Development at Vienna

University, Ewha University/Korea, and Seoul National University/Korea.

I have also spoken at non-academic venues aimed at policy makers and practitioners such as

regional conferences on migration organized by UNESCAP in Bangkok and the International

Organisation for Migration (Bangkok office), by the International Development and Research

Centre (Singapore office), at the Open Days for civil society members by the Office of the

High Commissioner for Human Rights, regional meeting by the Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA)

in Singapore in November 2007, the Palmedagarna (annual conference by the Olof Palme

International Centre) in November 2008, the International Parliamentary Conference on

International Migration and Human Trafficking: maximizing benefits, overcoming challenges

in London in February 2009 and Global Forum on Migration and Development in Athens in

November 2009.

DEPARTMENTAL/INSTITUTIONAL/ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES

Founding Director, Sydney Asia Pacific Migration Centre, February 2016

• Management and Leadership on streamlining migration research and PG

training/teaching at USyd across disciplines and faculties

Director of MA Programme on Human Rights and Democratisation (Asia Pacific), The

University of Sydney, January 2013 to February 2016

• management and academic leadership of EU funded MA programme (with 20

scholarships) in conjunction with four partner universities in Asia

o capacity building in teaching and research

• member of Global Steering Committee (five regional MA programmes)

o overall management and content

o Global Classroom activities

Coordinator of Migration Research, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute, Freiburg University,

2011 - 2012

Associate Directorship of Centre for Migration Policy Research (CMPR), Swansea

University, 2007 - 2010

• co-leadership in running of the CMPR (officially launched in October 2007)

o building up of CMPR’s research capacity and profile

o conducting and advising on primary research activities

Committee Work

• member of Global Challenge – Understanding Cultures Steering Group, the World

University Network (WUN)

• member of Global Steering Committee, EU funded regional MA Programmes (“Global

Campus”)

• member of Chair Advisory Group, Department of Sociology, University of Sydney

(since January 2013)

• Representative of Geography staff on School’s Research Committee (since October

2007), Swansea University

• Library representative for human geography since 2007, Swansea University

• Staff representative of Board at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen

(2000 – 2001)

• Leader of Editorial Committee of NIAS Nytt (NIAS newsletter) 1999-2001

• Staff representative of Board at the Asia Research Institute, Singapore (2005-2007)

• Leader of ad hoc conference/workshop organizing committees at the Nordic Institute

of Asian Studies (three), Copenhagen (2000 – 2001), at the Australian National

University, Canberra (2001-2004) (two) and the Asia Research Institute, Singapore

(2005-2007) (three)

Postgraduate Supervision

• Supervision of MA/MSc dissertations (SEAS/Sheffield University, School of the

Environment and Society/Swansea University, Sociology/University of Sydney)

• Mentoring of postdoctoral fellows at the Asia Research Institute, National University

of Singapore

• Advisor for following PhD students (SEAS/Sheffield and ANU):

1. Daniela Ferrero D’Cavalho, (‘Ethnic identity of Nikkeijin in Japan’), SEAS

2. Sean Curtin (‘Changing Trends in Divorce since the 1990s’), SEAS

3. Judy Hemming (‘An ethnographic study of female bar workers in Chiang Mai,

Thailand’), Sociology, ANU

4. Anna Hutchins (‘Labour Standards and Fair trade’), Research School of Social

Sciences, ANU

Supervision and Examination of PhD Theses

As first supervisor:

• Ms Maksuda Sultana, International labour standards and the garment

industry in Bangladesh (July 2015-2018)

• Ms Polina Smiragina, Invisibility of Male Victims of Trafficking, University of

Sydney (2014-2017)

• Ms Tina Davis, Forced Labour in Australia’s Food Sector, University of Sydney

(2012-2016)

• Ms Ahn Ngyhen, Transnational Labour Migration of Vietnamese in Korea,

University of Sydney (2012-2016)

• Ms Sohoon Lee, Gender and Migration in Korea: an Intersectional Approach,

University of Sydney (2012-2016)

• Mr Calum Nicholson, A critical interrogation of the efficacy of epistemic

narratives in the context of migration governance’ , Swansea (2010-2013)

• Ms Bozena Sojka-Koirala, Living with a Difference: Legal Asian migrants in

Cyprus , Swansea (2010-2014) (successful viva in November 2014)

As second supervisor:

• Mr Chin Jin, Social Movements and Democratisation in Greater China (2015-

2018)

• Mr Hugh Tuckfield, Human Trafficking in South Asia: institutional processes

and responses (2015-2018)

• Mr Ben Rolfe, Social Transformation and the Ventriloquy of the Poor

(successful viva in June 2011), Swansea

• Ms Nilu Ahmed, (Re)Constructing Identities in a Transnational World –

Identity, health and well-being among first generation Bangladeshi women in

the UK (successful viva in 2012), Swansea

• Ms. Anna Skeels, Exploring the Participation of Children forced to migrate due

to natural disaster (2010-2013), Swansea

• Ms. Latefa Narriman Guemar, Engaging Algerian Women Diaspora as

Development Partners for Home and Hosting Countries: Politics and Policy

implications (2010-2013), Swansea

As member of Advisory Committee:

• Ms Samantha Page, Development discourses around HIV and AIDS: Social

context and interventions in Malawi, Swansea (2009-2011)

As external examiner of the following PhD theses:

• Ms Hsiao Hsuan Tao, The Narratives of Thai Migrant Women with Cross-

Cultural Relationships in Australia, The University of Sydney, 2014 (by written

report)

• Mr Giovanni Di Lieto, Borderless Labour Mobility – an innovative global

outlook for migrant workers, University of Otago, New Zealand, 2012 (by

written report and oral examination)

• Ms Mackenzie Page Belt, Host and Domestic Workers: From Maintaining

Social Distance to Creating Cultural Intimacy between Sri Lankan Migrants

and Greek-Cypriots in Nicosia, Cyprus, Department of Archaeology and

Anthropology, University of Bristol, UK, 2012 (by oral examination)

• Ms Glenda Lopez Wui, Transnational Activism for Migrant Workers:

Examining the Struggles for Domestic Workers in Hong Kong, Department of

Sociology, National University of Singapore, 2011 (by written report)

• Ms Sylvia Yazid, The Role of Indonesian NGOs in policy making vis à vis Indonesian

overseas domestic workers, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash

University, Australia, 2010 (by written report)

• Ms Shae Garwood, Networks, NGOs and world civic politics: Transnational

advocacy and the global garment industry, University of Western Australia,

Department of International Relations and Political Science, 2009 (by written

report)

• Ms. Leah Briones, Beyond agency and rights: capability, migration and livelihood

in Filipina experiences of domestic work in Paris and Hong Kong, Development

Studies Department, Flinders University of South Australia, 2008 (by written

report)

• Mr. Mizanur Rahman, Bangladeshi Workers in Singapore: A Sociological Study of

Temporary Labor Migration, Department of Sociology, National University of

Singapore, 2006 (by written report)

As internal examiner and chairperson of viva examinations at Swansea University

Mentoring of junior staff (USYD)

Dr. Alexendra McCormick, post-doctoral fellow, Department of Education

A/Prof Lily Rahim, Department of Government and International Relations

Academic Lecture Courses/Programmes Designed or Directed

Sydney University (2012 to now)

• HRTD6903 Dynamics of Human Rights Violations

• HRTD6908 Intensive – ‘The Right to Food’ topic in 2013 (each year on

different topic)

Freiburg University (2011)

• Module “Global Societal Changes”, MSc Environmental Governance, Department of

Human Geography, Freiburg University (several seminars on international migration

as of October 2011)

• Module (Hauptseminar) “Globalisierung/Regionalisierung: Globale Governance von

Migration“, Political Science Department (led by Stefan Rother, my participation in

second semester)

Swansea University (2007 to 2010):

Course (newly designed, taught 100%)

• GEG MO1 Migration Theory and Practice (post-graduate MSc)

• GEG116 Political Geography (Year 1)

Module coordinator

• GEG 258 Research Methods in Human Geography (teaching 10%) (Year 2)

• GEG 333 Geographical Research Frontiers (research module) (Year 3)

Contributor to team-taught courses

• GEG 343 Geography of Forced Migration and Asylum (Year 3) (10%)

• GEG 105 Global Shifts: Towards a new world order? (Year 1) (33%)

• SSRM11 Contemporary Research Methods in Human Geography (MA) (10%)

Director of Programme

Postgraduate Scheme in ‘Social Development Policy and Management’ (2008-2010)

Tutoring

• Year One and Year Two tutorials

• Dissertation Support Groups (Year Three)

University of Sheffield/School of East Asian Studies (1997-99):

• MA course on ‘Sociology of Japan’

• taught undergraduate courses on ‘Women in East Asia’, ‘Contemporary Japanese

Society’, ‘Religion and Society in Japan’

• module coordinator for undergraduate course on ‘Japan and the Media’

AWARDS, PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

Awards

EU Marie Curie Senior Research Fellowship, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Freiburg

University/Germany, 2016 (June) – 2017 (February)

Editorial Board

• Series editor (with Yuk Wah Chan and Jonathan Lee) and co-founder of Routledge

book series Asian Migration

• Board member of Palgrave Macmillan book series Development, Justice &

Citizenship’, part of the ‘IPE, Development and Environment’ (series editor: Professor

Jean Grugel, Sheffield Institute of International Development) as of April 2014

• Board member, international peer-reviewed academic journal Review Europeenne

des Migrations (REMI) as of February 2016

• Board member, international peer-reviewed academic journal Global Social Policy as

of 01 January 2015

• Board member, international peer-reviewed academic journal Anti-Trafficking

Review as of 01 January 2013 (published by Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women,

an alliance of over 100 NGOs worldwide)

• Board member, international peer-reviewed academic journal Refugee Survey

Quarterly (Oxford University Press) as of 01 September 2010

Advisory Board

• on-line, open access, peer-reviewed journal Migration, Mobility & Displacement

(University of Victoria, Canada) as of 01 May 2015 (date of its launch)

Founding Member and Vice President

• Global Migration Policy Associates (GMPA) (www.globalmigrationpolicy.org)

Membership of Learned Societies

International Sociology Association (ISA, Research Committee No. 35, Sociology of Migration

and Research Committee No. 19 Global Social Policy), International Political Studies

Association (IPSA), European Association of Development Training and Research Institutes

(EADI, working group on international migration), Law and Society Association (research

groups on 1. Law and Social Movements, 2. Labour Rights), European Sociological

Association (Research Network 35 on Sociology of Migration), European Association of

Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS)

International Advisory Board member/external adviser/project consultant

• External advisor on migration research for the United Nations Research Institute for

Social Development (UNRISD) (since 2005)

• Member of International Advisory Board, The Institute for Migrant Rights (imr.or.id)

in Jakarta/Indonesia (since 2010)

• Project consultant to CARAM Asia Bhd (migrant rights network based in Kuala

Lumpur/Malaysia), project entitled Access to Justice for Migration Workers Beyond

Borders (2011-2014)

• Member of the International Advisory Board of the research program Democracy

Beyond the Nation State? Transnational Actors and Global Governance, Political

Science Departments at Lund University and Stockholm University (2007-2013)

Affiliations/associated membership

• Core member of the Network for Asian Migration Research (http://www.nams-

research.net/) led by Dr Yuk Wah Chan, City University of Hong Kong

• International Domestic Worker Research Network (IDWRN)

• Red International de Migracion y Desarrollo (International Network on Migration and

Development), academic network between North American and Central American

migration scholars

• Women and Global Migration Working Group

• Global Coalition on Migration (GCM)

• Centre on Migration, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD), University of

Bielefeld/Germany (http://www.uni-

bielefeld.de/(en)/tdrc/ag_comcad/team/index.html)

• Asia Pacific Migration Research Network (APMRN) (http://apmrn.usp.ac.fj/)

Visiting Appointments

2017 Rikkyu University, Tokoy/Japan, Department of Sociology, November 2017

• Keynote address as conference “Children in Migration”

• Seminar with postgraduate students

2011 University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario/Canada, Migration and Ethnic

Relations Research Center

o Purpose: presentation of two research seminars; discussion of research

collaboration

o Duration: one week (October)

2010 Tohoku University/Japan, Law Department

• Purpose: presentation of research seminar and guest lectures

• Duration: two weeks (January)

2009 Lund University/Sweden, Department of Political Science

• Purpose: design of collaborative research project with Dr. Sara Kalm; guest

seminar

• Duration: one month (May)

2007 Lund University/Sweden, Centre for Southeast and East Asian Studies

• Purpose: participation in two workshops, working on book manuscripts; guest

seminar

• Duration: one month (September)

2003 National University of Singapore, AsiaMeta Centre

• Purpose: guest editing of Special Journal Issue with Prof. Brenda Yeoh,

Director of AsiaMeta Centre

• Duration: two weeks (August)

City University of Hong Kong, Southeast Asia Research Centre

• Purpose: data gathering for ARC project; guest lecture

• Duration: one month (February)

2002 Sődertőrns Hőgskola, Stockholm/Sweden, Political Science Department

• Purpose: drafting of introduction chapter and finalizing of edited book project in

collaboration with Dr. Anders Uhlin

• Duration: two weeks (August)

Cambodia Resource Development Institute, Phnom Penh/Cambodia

• Purpose: data gathering on labour migration and trafficking; research seminar

• Duration: one month (April)

2000 University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy, School of

Geography and Oceanography, Canberra/Australia

• Purpose: collaborative publishing with Dr. R.E.Ball; guest lectures

• Duration: two months (July and August)

1999 Kansai University, Osaka/Japan, Department of Sociology

• Purpose: research on ‘International Marriage’ in Japan; socio-historical and

gender perspectives on Korean-Japanese couples; guest lecture

• Duration: three months (October to December)