Nina Glick Schiller

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. A forthcoming book from Cornell University Press (co-edited with Ayse Caglar), entitled Locating Migration: Rescaling Migrants and Cities, explores the relationship between variations in the scalar positioning of cities and the forms of migrant local and transnational incorporation. Prof Glick Schiller is the Director of the Research Institue for Cosmopolitan Cultures and Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. She is an Associate of the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale Germany, a Senior Associate of the Max Planck Institute for Ethnic and Religious Diversity, and an Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at University of New Hampshire, USA.