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Fiona B. Adamson's Outputs (64)

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.

Rethinking the migration state: historicising, decolonising, and disaggregating (2023)
Journal Article
Adamson, F., Chung, E. A., & Hollifield, J. F. (2024). Rethinking the migration state: historicising, decolonising, and disaggregating. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 50(3), 559-577. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2023.2269769

This essay (re-) introduces the concept of the migration state and its significance for migration studies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, discussing its intellectual history and relationship to Hollifield’s wider body of work. The author... Read More about Rethinking the migration state: historicising, decolonising, and disaggregating.

Migration Governance in Civil War: The Case of the Kurdish Conflict (2023)
Journal Article
Adamson, F. (2023). Migration Governance in Civil War: The Case of the Kurdish Conflict. European Journal of International Security, 8(4), 513-530. https://doi.org/10.1017/eis.2023.11

This article examines the management and instrumentalisation of migration and mobility as an area of contested governance in civil wars. Building on work in migration studies and rebel governance, it shows how migration and mobility regimes form part... Read More about Migration Governance in Civil War: The Case of the Kurdish Conflict.

Re-Spatialising Migration Governance: From "Multi-Level" to "Entangled" (2023)
Journal Article
Adamson, F. (2023). Re-Spatialising Migration Governance: From "Multi-Level" to "Entangled". International Migration, 61(6), 3-14. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13138

Policy actors engaged in migration governance operate in complex environments characterised by spatial entanglements that bring together different levels and jurisdictions. While “levels-of-analysis” and multi-level governance (MLG) frameworks captur... Read More about Re-Spatialising Migration Governance: From "Multi-Level" to "Entangled".

Deal-making, Diplomacy and Transactional Forced Migration (2023)
Journal Article
Adamson, F., & Greenhill, K. M. (2023). Deal-making, Diplomacy and Transactional Forced Migration. International Affairs, 99(2), 707-725. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiad017

Former US President Donald J. Trump was infamous for his nakedly transactional approach to politics. However, as we demonstrate in this article through the lens of migration politics, this kind of unabashedly transactional approach is less an outlier... Read More about Deal-making, Diplomacy and Transactional Forced Migration.

Victims or Suspects? Identifying and Assisting Potentially Trafficked Fishermen: A Qualitative Study with Stakeholders and First Responders in Thailand (2022)
Journal Article
Pocock, N. S., Stöckl, H., Tadee, R., Rongrongmuang, W., Tharawan, K., Adamson, F., & Zimmerman, C. (in press). Victims or Suspects? Identifying and Assisting Potentially Trafficked Fishermen: A Qualitative Study with Stakeholders and First Responders in Thailand. Journal of migration and health, 4, Article 100074. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmh.2021.100074

Prompted by reports of ‘sea slavery’ in the fishing industry and threats of sanctions, Thailand has faced pressure to eradicate human trafficking the fishing sector. Although the Thai government has responded with anti-trafficking policies, there rem... Read More about Victims or Suspects? Identifying and Assisting Potentially Trafficked Fishermen: A Qualitative Study with Stakeholders and First Responders in Thailand.