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Diaspora (2025)
Book Chapter
Adamson, F. B. (2025). Diaspora. In B. Jahn, & S. Schindler (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of International Relations (90-91). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035312283.00044

This entry discusses the meaning of diaspora, its evolution and different usages of the term. It provides an overview of the main categories and types of diaspora found in the literature. Key areas of empirical research and policy debate are introduc... Read More about Diaspora.

The Colonial Migration State (2025)
Journal Article
Adamson, F. B., & Thiollet, H. (in press). The Colonial Migration State. Political Geography,

Multi-scalar and diasporic integration: Kurdish populations in Europe between state, diaspora and geopolitics (2024)
Journal Article
Adamson, F., Dag, V., & Craven, C. R. (in press). Multi-scalar and diasporic integration: Kurdish populations in Europe between state, diaspora and geopolitics. Journal of Refugee Studies, 37(2), 518-533. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feae027

This article challenges both methodological nationalist and decolonial approaches to ‘integration’ by drawing attention to how transnational factors—including trans-state diaspora networks and geopolitical relations between European states and Kurdis... Read More about Multi-scalar and diasporic integration: Kurdish populations in Europe between state, diaspora and geopolitics.

Diasporic Geopolitics, Rising Powers and the Future of International Order (2024)
Journal Article
Adamson, F. B., & Han, E. (2024). Diasporic Geopolitics, Rising Powers and the Future of International Order. Review of International Studies, 50(3), 476-493. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210524000123

This article examines ‘diasporic geopolitics’ as a significant factor in the future of global politics. Whereas discussions of global order in IR have been highly spatialised, we instead highlight the extent to which different regions of the world ar... Read More about Diasporic Geopolitics, Rising Powers and the Future of International Order.

The Political Geography of Globalized Civil Wars: Networked Actors and Multi-Scalar Strategies in the Kurdish Conflict Assemblage (2024)
Journal Article
Adamson, F. (in press). The Political Geography of Globalized Civil Wars: Networked Actors and Multi-Scalar Strategies in the Kurdish Conflict Assemblage. International Studies Quarterly, 68(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqad060

This article introduces and lays out a conflict assemblage framework for understanding the political geography of globalized civil wars. It suggests the utility of conceptualizing Turkey’s Kurdish conflict as an assemblage in which networked actors u... Read More about The Political Geography of Globalized Civil Wars: Networked Actors and Multi-Scalar Strategies in the Kurdish Conflict Assemblage.

Entangled migration states: mobility and state-building in France and Algeria (2023)
Journal Article
Adamson, F. (2024). Entangled migration states: mobility and state-building in France and Algeria. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 50(3), 597-616. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2023.2269774

This article develops the concept of ‘entangled migration states’ as a means of highlighting the centrality of migration governance to state-building processes, the constitution of state sovereignty, and interstate relations. Drawing on the example o... Read More about Entangled migration states: mobility and state-building in France and Algeria.