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Fiona B. Adamson's Outputs (26)

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.

Global Security Entanglement and the Mobility Paradox (2022)
Journal Article
Adamson, F., & Greenhill, K. M. (2022). Global Security Entanglement and the Mobility Paradox. Current History, 121(831), 3-9. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2022.121.831.3

The world today is profoundly interconnected, but also characterized by ongoing national competition and intra-state conflict. At the nexus of these dynamics is the question of cross-border mobility, which cuts through and connects myriad, disparate... Read More about Global Security Entanglement and the Mobility Paradox.

Globality and Entangled Security: Rethinking the Post-1945 Order (2021)
Journal Article
Adamson, F., & Greenhill, K. M. (2021). Globality and Entangled Security: Rethinking the Post-1945 Order. New Global Studies, 15(2/3), 165-180. https://doi.org/10.1515/ngs-2021-0006

In this essay we argue for the utility of moving from a “national” to an “entangled global” perspective on security. Focusing on the post-1945 international context, we discuss how the concept of “globality” can inform and reframe our understanding o... Read More about Globality and Entangled Security: Rethinking the Post-1945 Order.

Pushing the Boundaries: Can We “Decolonize” Security Studies? (2019)
Journal Article
Adamson, F. (2020). Pushing the Boundaries: Can We “Decolonize” Security Studies?. Journal of Global Security Studies, 5(1), 129-135. https://doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogz057

This essay reflects on the approaches to inclusion and exclusion put forward in this special issue and suggests a more radical alternative: the project of “decolonizing” the field of security studies. Drawing on work in decolonial thought and critica... Read More about Pushing the Boundaries: Can We “Decolonize” Security Studies?.

The Migration State in the Global South: Nationalizing, Developmental and Neoliberal Models of Migration Management (2019)
Journal Article
Adamson, F., & Tsourapas, G. (2020). The Migration State in the Global South: Nationalizing, Developmental and Neoliberal Models of Migration Management. International Migration Review, 54(3), 853-882. https://doi.org/10.1177/0197918319879057

How do states in the Global South manage cross-border migration? This article identifies Hollifield’s “migration state” as a useful tool for comparative analysis yet notes that in its current version the concept is limited, given its focus on economi... Read More about The Migration State in the Global South: Nationalizing, Developmental and Neoliberal Models of Migration Management.

Non-State Authoritarianism and Diaspora Politics (2019)
Journal Article
Adamson, F. (in press). Non-State Authoritarianism and Diaspora Politics. Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs, 20(1), 150-169. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12246

Diaspora politics has been celebrated as a form of transnationalism that can potentially challenge authoritarian regimes. Arguably, opposition groups and political activists can mobilize beyond the territorial limits of the state, thus bypassing some... Read More about Non-State Authoritarianism and Diaspora Politics.

Migration Diplomacy in World Politics (2018)
Journal Article
Adamson, F., & Tsourapas, G. (2019). Migration Diplomacy in World Politics. International Studies Perspectives, 20(2), 113-128. https://doi.org/10.1093/isp/eky015

Academic and policy debates on migration and refugee ‘crises’ across the world have yet to fully engage with the importance of cross-border population mobility for states’ diplomatic strategies. This article sets forth the concept of ‘migration diplo... Read More about Migration Diplomacy in World Politics.

Sending States and the Making of Intra-Diasporic Politics: Turkey and Its Diaspora(s) (2018)
Journal Article
Adamson, F. (2019). Sending States and the Making of Intra-Diasporic Politics: Turkey and Its Diaspora(s). International Migration Review, 53(1), 210-236. https://doi.org/10.1177/0197918318767665

The multiple politics and identities of many contemporary diasporic configurations raise a number of important conceptual issues for the study of diaspora politics, including what counts as a “diaspora,” how do particular “diasporas” emerge, and what... Read More about Sending States and the Making of Intra-Diasporic Politics: Turkey and Its Diaspora(s).

Spaces of Global Security: Beyond Methodological Nationalism (2016)
Journal Article
Adamson, F. Spaces of Global Security: Beyond Methodological Nationalism. Journal of Global Security Studies, 1(1), 19-35. https://doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogv003

The changing political and social meanings of space under conditions of advanced globalization point to the need to analyze security – or the deployment and management of violence -- as a socio-spatial practice. This article draws attention to the “m... Read More about Spaces of Global Security: Beyond Methodological Nationalism.