Human Geopolitics

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Gamlen has produced an ambitious and compelling work that can, and should, be employed as a catalyst for further research into the complexity of global diaspora and migration policymaking. * Dr. Gerasimos Tsourapas, University of Birmingham, Global Policy Journal * With Human Geopolitics, Alan Gamlen crowns more than a decade of work studying diaspora institutions.... Human Geopoliticsdescribes the impressive trend for creating diaspora institutions, provides explanations as to why that trend took hold and, most grippingly, provides a narrative of how it occurred. The book has a remarkable geographic scope, providing short case studies of the creation of diaspora institutions in all regions of the world. ...Because of its coverage, this study seems fundamental to the development of the literature on diasporas.... the book serves as a splendid appetiser for developing many enticing research projects... Intriguing models pepper the book through and through,... * Dr Luicy Pedroza, Research Fellow, GIGA Institute for Latin American Studies * Gamlen's Human Geopolitics makes a convincing argument for the changing nature of diaspora governance based on a comparative mixed-method study with an impressive global and longitudinal scope. The book provides a compelling story about the political drivers of this process and invites scholars to further explore, both qualitatively and quantitatively,geographic and temporal variation in adherence to this new global trend. The original data collected by the author will doubtless be in high demand not just among migration and diaspora scholars, but also within the field of citizenship studies at large. * Prof. Dr. Maarten Vink, Professor of Political Sociology, University of Maastricht * Alan Gamlen's Human Geopoliticsenters this field as a powerful and especially well-informed critical analysis....This empirical analysis is another key reason why the book will become an essential reference in this field....no one has attempted such an authoritative and wide-ranging review before and this becomes the reference to which all other attempts must improve on.... The central conclusion is a powerful one: the rapid spread of diaspora institutions results from a network of international organisations sponsoring global policy exchanges and is evidence of an evolving migration regime. This is ground-breaking stuff, it demonstrates the value of theoretical analysis of the fantastic new policy database and presents an important response to the 'missing regime' thesis of global migration governance.... The book has provided a framework of very significant and lasting value.... * Professor Michael Collyer, Professor of Geography, University of Sussex * Alan Gamlen has written an ambitious and insightful book on the emergence and spread of diaspora management institutions.....He provides a superb intellectual history of the process and unpacks the mechanisms....There is no doubt that the phenomenon under study inHuman Geopolitics is of critical importance today.... Alan Gamlen has written an important comparative book that will be widely read and debated by political scientists, sociologists, political geographers, and migration studies scholars. His empirical work documenting the spread of diaspora institutions already constitutes a seminal 'academic public good'; while the intellectual history of the emerging global migration regime he has provided us with is a well-timed and much appreciated contribution. * Harris Mylonas, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University *