Nicola Piper

Nicola Piper, a political sociologist, holds a PhD from Sheffield University/UK and is currently Professor of International Migration at the University of Sydney/Australia and Director of the Sydney Asia Pacific Migration Centre.

Other appointments or roles held by her include Professorial Research Fellow at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, Freiburg University/Germany; external advisor on migration research to the UN Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva, and co-founder and Vice-President of the Global Migration Policy Associates initiative.

Her research focuses on international migration for work, migrants’ labour and social rights, global and regional governance of migration as well as gender and migration. Her recent publications include the edited volumes New perspectives on gender and migration: livelihoods, rights, and entitlements (2008), South–South Migration: implications for social policy and development (with Katja Hujo, 2010) and the co-authored book Critical Perspectives on Global Governance: rights and regulation in governing regimes (with Jean Grugel, 2007).  She is co-founder and co-editor of the Routledge book series Asian Migration.