Nina Glick-Schiller is a Visiting Scholar at the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility. Dr. Glick Schiller joins Zolberg from the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany, where she is a Senior Research Partner. She is also an Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, U.K., and will hold a two- month residency in 2024 as Scholar of Excellence at CERC Migration and Integration at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Since the beginning of her career, Dr. Glick Schiller’s research has focused on migrant settlement and transnational connections; cities, migrants, and urban regeneration; cosmopolitanism; and methodological and long-distance nationalism. While at Zolberg, her research, “Emplacing Dispossession: Migrant Services, the Migration Industry, and Urban Governance”, will examine the humanitarian sector of migrant services, settlement, and policy as an industry “integrally
related to processes of capital accumulation” through unpaid/exploitative labor, collective dispossession, and increasing
financialization.
Dr. Glick Schiller holds a PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University, was awarded honorary degrees from Erasmus University (Netherlands) and Malmo University (Sweden), and has held faculty, research or visiting scholar positions at the University of Manchester, the University of New Hampshire, Columbia University, Stockholm University, University of Vienna, and the Free University of Amsterdam among other institutions. In addition to her academic posts, Dr. Glick Schiller
founded and edited the journal Identities, Global Studies of Culture and Power from 1992-2000, served as Chair of the New York Academy of Sciences’ Anthropology section from 1991-1992 and again from 2017- 2018 and is an editor of Anthropological Theory. Her current book co- edited book project is The Transnationality of Migrant Moral Economies
in a Transforming World.
Her books include: Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments and the Deterritorialized Nation-States, Towards a Transnational Perspective on Migration: Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Nationalism Reconsidered, Georges Woke Up Laughing: Long Distance Nationalism and the Search for Home, Beyond Methodological Nationalism: Research Methodologies for Cross-Border Studies, Cosmopolitan Sociability: Locating Transnational Religious and Diasporic Networks, Whose Cosmopolitanism? Critical Perspectives, Relationalities and Discontent, Regimes of Mobility: Imaginaries and Relationalities of Power, Locating Migration: Rescaling Cities and Migrants; and Migrants and City Making: Dispossession, Displacement and Urban Regeneration.