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Publications: Prof Nicola Piper

Chan YW, Piper N ( 2022 ) . Sanitized boundaries, sanitized homes: COVID-19 and the sporadic hyper-precarity of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong . Asian and Pacific Migration Journal vol. 31 , ( 3 ) 270 - 291 .
Jensen J, Piper N ( 2022 ) . Migrant workers, the ILO and the potential for labour justice . Global Social Policy vol. 22 , ( 2 ) 239 - 243 .
Piper N ( 2022 ) . The International Labour Organisation as nodal player on the pitch of networked governance: Shifting the goalposts for migrant workers in Qatar . Global Social Policy vol. 22 , ( 2 ) 323 - 340 .
Hennebry JL, Piper N, Hari KC, Williams K ( 2022 ) . BILATERAL LABOR AGREEMENTS AS MIGRATION GOVERNANCE TOOLS: AN ANALYSIS FROM A GENDER LENS . Theoretical Inquiries in Law vol. 23 , ( 2 ) 184 - 204 .
Parreñas RS, Piper N, Ishii SK, Choi C ( 2022 ) . Guest Editors’ Introduction Children and Youth in Asian Migration . Positions vol. 30 , ( 2 ) 219 - 243 .
Foley L, Piper N ( 2022 ) . Is ‘regular’ migration a safer form of migration? The case of Asia . Revista Diecisiete Investigación Interdisciplinar para los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible vol. 06 , ( MARZO 2022 ) 97 - 105 .
Piper N ( 2022 ) . Temporary labour migration in Asia: The transnationality-precarity nexus . International Migration
Piper N, Rother S ( 2022 ) . Governing regional migration from the ‘bottom-up’: a nodal approach to the role of transnational activist networks in Asia . Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies vol. 48 , ( 12 ) 2927 - 2944 .
Bastia T, Datta K, Hujo K, Piper N, Walsham M ( 2022 ) . Reflections on intersectionality: a journey through the worlds of migration research, policy and advocacy . Gender, Place and Culture
Lavenex S, Piper N ( 2022 ) . Regions and global migration governance: perspectives ‘from above’, ‘from below’ and ‘from beyond’ . Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies vol. 48 , ( 12 ) 2837 - 2854 .
Withers M, Piper N ( 2022 ) . Transnationalism and temporary labour migration . Handbook on Transnationalism ,
Foley L, Piper N ( 2021 ) . Returning home empty handed: Examining how COVID-19 exacerbates the non-payment of temporary migrant workers’ wages . Global Social Policy vol. 21 , ( 3 ) 468 - 489 .
Foley L, Piper N ( 2021 ) . The 2022 FIFA World Cup, the exploitation of migrant workers, and the role of transnational governing networks . Melbourne Asia Review vol. 8 ,
Piper N, Foley L ( 2021 ) . Global partnerships in governing labour migration: the uneasy relationship between the ILO and IOM in the promotion of decent work for migrants . Global Public Policy and Governance vol. 1 , ( 3 ) 256 - 278 .
Piper N, Guild EH ( 2021 ) . Special issue on “Rights-based governance and decent work for migrants: a global perspective” . Global Public Policy and Governance vol. 1 , ( 3 ) 235 - 238 .
Agartan T, Cook S, Kaasch A, Piper N, Ulriksen M ( 2021 ) . Editors’ Note . Global Social Policy vol. 21 , ( 2 )
Fanning C, Piper N ( 2021 ) . Global labor migration: Shifting governance mechanisms, rights deficits, and the search for order . Labor: Studies in Working-Class History vol. 18 , ( 1 ) 67 - 86 .
Mora C, Piper N ( 2021 ) . An Intersectional and Global Approach to the Study of Gender and Migration . The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Migration ,
Dannecker P, Piper N ( 2021 ) . Revisiting the Migration–Development Nexus Debate Through the Prism of Gender, Politics and Agency . The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Migration ,
Simeone LM, Piper N ( 2021 ) . From rights to risk: Labour migration and the securitization of justice . Handbook of Migration and Global Justice ,
Hennebry J, Piper N ( 2021 ) . Global migration governance and migrant rights advocacy: The flexibilization of multi-stakeholder negotiations . Research Handbook on the Law and Politics of Migration ,
Piper N ( 2021 ) . Solidarities and disjunctures in the (global) mobilization of migrant workers . Handbook on the Governance and Politics of Migration ,
Piper N, Rother S ( 2020 ) . Political remittances and the diffusion of a rights-based approach to migration governance: the case of the Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) . Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies vol. 46 , ( 6 ) 1057 - 1071 .
Piper N ( 2020 ) . Rights-based approaches to migration and development . Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development ,
Kaasch A, Piper N ( 2019 ) . Editors’ Note . Global Social Policy vol. 19 , ( 3 )
Hennebry J, Hari KC, Piper N ( 2019 ) . Not without them: realising the sustainable development goals for women migrant workers . Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies vol. 45 , ( 14 ) 2621 - 2637 .
Asis MMB, Piper N, Raghuram P ( 2019 ) . From Asia to the World: “Regional” Contributions to Global Migration Research . Revue européenne de migrations internationales vol. 35 , ( vol. 35 - n°1 et 2 ) 13 - 37 .
Bastia T, Piper N ( 2019 ) . Women migrants in the global economy: a global overview (and regional perspectives) . Gender and Development vol. 27 , ( 1 ) 15 - 30 .
Lavenex S, Piper N ( 2019 ) . Regional migration governance: perspectives 'from above' and 'from below' . The Dynamics of Regional Migration Governance ,
Piper N ( 2018 ) . The global compact on migration . Global Social Policy vol. 18 , ( 3 ) 323 - 324 .
Piper N, Withers M ( 2018 ) . Forced transnationalism and temporary labour migration: implications for understanding migrant rights . Identities vol. 25 , ( 5 ) 558 - 575 .
Withers M, Piper N ( 2018 ) . Uneven development and displaced care in Sri Lanka . Current Sociology vol. 66 , ( 4 ) 590 - 601 .
Piper N, Ramia G ( 2018 ) . The social regulation of transnational migration: Perspectives from the Asia Pacific . Asia Pacific Viewpoint vol. 59 , ( 1 ) 87 - 91 .
Piper N ( 2018 ) . Female labour migration to Japan: Myth and reality . Women and Work: The Age of Post-Feminism? ,
Piper N, Rother S, Rüland J ( 2018 ) . Challenging state sovereignty in the age of migration: Concluding remarks . European Journal of East Asian Studies vol. 17 , ( 1 ) 118 - 133 .
Piper N, Rosewarne S, Withers M ( 2017 ) . Migrant Precarity in Asia: ‘Networks of Labour Activism’ for a Rights-based Governance of Migration . Development and Change vol. 48 , ( 5 ) 1089 - 1110 .
Zajak S, Egels-Zandén N, Piper N ( 2017 ) . Networks of Labour Activism: Collective Action across Asia and Beyond. An Introduction to the Debate . Development and Change vol. 48 , ( 5 ) 899 - 921 .
Piper N ( 2017 ) . Migration and the SDGs . Global Social Policy vol. 17 , ( 2 ) 231 - 238 .
Piper N, Rother S, Rüland J ( 2017 ) . Challenging state sovereignty in the age of migration: A multi-level approach to southeast and east asian migration . European Journal of East Asian Studies vol. 16 , ( 2 ) 191 - 192 .
Lee S, Piper N ( 2017 ) . Migrant domestic workers as 'agents' of development in Asia an institutional analysis of temporality . European Journal of East Asian Studies vol. 16 , ( 2 ) 220 - 247 .
Chung C, Kim K, Piper N ( 2016 ) . Marriage migration in Southeast and East Asia revisited through a migration-development nexus lens . Critical Asian Studies vol. 48 , ( 4 ) 463 - 472 .
Piper N, Lee S ( 2016 ) . Marriage migration, migrant precarity, and social reproduction in Asia: an overview . Critical Asian Studies vol. 48 , ( 4 ) 473 - 493 .
Raghuram P, Piper N ( 2016 ) . Women and Migration in Asia - Eroding Borders, New Fixities . The Ashgate Research Companion to Border Studies ,
Piper N ( 2016 ) . ‘Make migration a choice not a necessity’: Challenging the instrumentalisation of migration as a tool for development . The Palgrave Handbook of International Development ,
Piper N ( 2015 ) . Democratising Migration from the Bottom Up: The Rise of the Global Migrant Rights Movement . Globalizations vol. 12 , ( 5 ) 788 - 802 .
Rother S, Piper N ( 2015 ) . Alternative Regionalism from Below: Democratizing ASEAN's Migration Governance . International Migration vol. 53 , ( 3 ) 36 - 49 .
Piper N, Rother S ( 2015 ) . Migration and Democracy: Citizenship and Human Rights from a Multi-level Perspective . International Migration vol. 53 , ( 3 ) 3 - 7 .
Piper N, Grugel J ( 2015 ) . Global Migration Governance, Social Movements, and the Difficulties of Promoting Migrant Rights . Migration, Precarity, and Global Governance: Challenges and Opportunities for Labour ,
Spitzer DL, Piper N ( 2014 ) . Retrenched and Returned: Filipino Migrant Workers during Times of Crisis . Sociology vol. 48 , ( 5 ) 1007 - 1023 .
Piper N, Rother S ( 2014 ) . More than remittances: Resisting the dominant discourse and policy prescriptions of the global 'migration-development-man tra' . Journal fur Entwicklungspolitik vol. 30 , ( 1 ) 44 - 66 .
Piper N ( 2013 ) . Resisting inequality: The rise of global migrant rights activism . Migration and Inequality ,
Basok T, Piper N ( 2013 ) . Justice for migrants: Mobilizing a rights-based understanding of migration . Mobilities, Knowledge, and Social Justice ,
Basok T, Piper N, Simmons V ( 2013 ) . Disciplining Female Migration in Argentina . Disciplining the Transnational Mobility of People ,
Piper N, Yamanaka K ( 2013 ) . Feminised Migration in East and Southeast Asia and the Securing of Livelihoods . New Perspectives on Gender and Migration: Livelihood, Rights and Entitlements ,
Lindquist J, Piper N ( 2013 ) . From Hiv prevention to countertrafficking: Discursive shifts and institutional continuities in South-East Asia . Human Trafficking ,
Piper N ( 2013 ) . International Migration and Gendered Axes of Stratification: Introduction . New Perspectives on Gender and Migration: Livelihood, Rights and Entitlements ,
Piper N ( 2013 ) . New perspectives on gender and migration: Livelihood, rights and entitlements .
Piper N ( 2013 ) . Political participation and empowerment of foreign workers: Gendered advocacy and migrant labour organising in southeast and east asia . New Perspectives on Gender and Migration: Livelihood, Rights and Entitlements ,
Piper N ( 2013 ) . The gender-migration-employment nexus . Conference: Family, Migration and Dignity
Piper N, Rother S ( 2012 ) . Let's argue about migration: Advancing a right(s) discourse via communicative opportunities . Third World Quarterly vol. 33 , ( 9 ) 1735 - 1750 .
Basok T, Piper N ( 2012 ) . Management versus rights: Women's migration and global governance in Latin America and the Caribbean . Feminist Economics vol. 18 , ( 2 ) 35 - 61 .
Raghuram P, Piper N ( 2012 ) . Women and migration in asia–eroding borders, new fixities . The Ashgate Research Companion to Border Studies ,
Bastia T, Piper N, Carrón MP ( 2011 ) . Geographies of migration, geographies of justice? Feminism, intersectionality, and rights . Environment and Planning A vol. 43 , ( 7 ) 1492 - 1498 .
Grugel J, Piper N ( 2011 ) . Global governance, economic migration and the difficulties of social activism . International Sociology vol. 26 , ( 4 ) 435 - 454 .
Piper N, Rother S ( 2011 ) . Transnational Inequalities, Transnational Responses: The Politicization of Migrant Rights in Asia . Globalization and Inequality in Emerging Societies ,
Piper N ( 2010 ) . All Quiet on the Eastern Front?-Temporary contract migration in Asia revisited from a development perspective . Policy and Society vol. 29 , ( 4 ) 399 - 411 .
Asis MMB, Piper N, Raghuram P ( 2010 ) . International migration and development in Asia: Exploring knowledge frameworks . International Migration vol. 48 , ( 3 ) 76 - 106 .
Hujo K, Piper N ( 2010 ) . Linking Migration, Social Development and Policy in the South — An Introduction . South-South Migration ,
Piper N ( 2010 ) . Temporary economic migration and rights activism: An organizational perspective . Ethnic and Racial Studies vol. 33 , ( 1 ) 108 - 125 .
Hujo K, Piper N ( 2010 ) . Towards Inclusive Migration and Social Policy Regimes — Conclusion . South-South Migration ,
Piper N ( 2009 ) . Temporary migration and political remittances: The role of organisational networks in the transnationalisation of human rights . European Journal of East Asian Studies vol. 8 , ( 2 ) 215 - 243 .
Grugel J, Piper N ( 2009 ) . Do rights promote development? . Global Social Policy vol. 9 , ( 1 ) 79 - 98 .
Teo Y, Piper N ( 2009 ) . Foreigners in our homes: Linking migration and family policies in singapore . Population, Space and Place vol. 15 , ( 2 ) 147 - 159 .
Piper N ( 2009 ) . The complex interconnections of the migration-development nexus: A social perspective . Population, Space and Place vol. 15 , ( 2 ) 93 - 101 .
Piper N ( 2009 ) . Obstacles to, and opportunities for, ratification of the ICRMW in Asia . Migration and Human Rights: The United Nations Convention on Migrant Workers Rights ,
Piper N ( 2008 ) . The “Migration-Development Nexus” Revisited from a Rights Perspective . Journal of Human Rights vol. 7 , ( 3 ) 282 - 298 .
Piper N ( 2008 ) . KateBronfenbrennerGlobal Unions – Challenging Transnational Capital Through Cross-Border Campaigns2007ILR PressIthaca/London978-0-8014-7391-3280 . Political Geography vol. 27 , ( 7 ) 815 - 817 .
Asis MMB, Piper N ( 2008 ) . Researching international labor migration in Asia . Sociological Quarterly vol. 49 , ( 3 ) 423 - 444 .
Piper N ( 2008 ) . Feminisation of migration and the social dimensions of development: The Asian case . Third World Quarterly vol. 29 , ( 7 ) 1287 - 1303 .
Grugel J, Piper N ( 2007 ) . Critical perspectives on global governance: Rights and regulation in governing regimes .
Hujo K, Piper N ( 2007 ) . South-South migration: Challenges for development and social policy . Development vol. 50 , ( 4 ) 19 - 25 .
Ford M, Piper N ( 2007 ) . Southern sites of female agency: Informal regimes and female migrant labour resistance in East and Southeast Asia . Cambridge University Press , vol. 9780521877725 ,
Piper N ( 2006 ) . Regional perspectives on the 1990 un convention on the rights of all migrant workers . Mobility, Labour Migration and Border Controls in Asia ,
Piper N ( 2006 ) . Gendering the politics of migration . International Migration Review vol. 40 , ( 1 ) 133 - 164 .
Bell DA, Piper N ( 2006 ) . Justice for Migrant Workers? The Case of Foreign Domestic Workers in Hong Kong and Singapore 1 . Multiculturalism in Asia ,
Piper N ( 2006 ) . Migrant worker activism in Singapore and Malaysia: Freedom of association and the role of the state . Asian and Pacific Migration Journal vol. 15 , ( 3 ) 359 - 380 .
Ball R, Piper N ( 2005 ) . Trading labour-trading rights: The regional dynamics of rights recognition for migrant workers in the Asia-Pacific . Transnational Migration and Work in Asia ,
Shah NM, Abbasi-Shavazi MJ, Caldwell JC, Khoo S-E, Piper N, Erbas B, Hyndman R ( 2005 ) . Book reviews . Journal of Population Research vol. 22 , ( 2 ) 199 - 208 .
Piper N ( 2005 ) . A problem by a different name? A review of research on trafficking in South-East Asia and Oceania . International Migration . vol. 43 , 203 - 233 .
Piper N, Yeoh BSA ( 2005 ) . Introduction: Meeting the challenges of HIV/AIDS in Southeast and East Asia . Asia Pacific Viewpoint vol. 46 , ( 1 ) 1 - 5 .
Piper N ( 2005 ) . Rights of foreign domestic workers - Emergence of transnational and transregional solidarity? . Asian and Pacific Migration Journal vol. 14 , ( 1-2 ) 97 - 119 .
Piper N ( 2005 ) . Transnational politics and organizing of migrant labour in South-East Asia - NGO and trade union perspectives . Asia-Pacific Population Journal vol. 20 , ( 3 ) 87 - 110 .
Piper N ( 2004 ) . Gender and migration policies in southeast and east asia: Legal protection and sociocultural empowerment of unskilled migrant women . Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography vol. 25 , ( 2 ) 216 - 231 .
Courville S, Piper N ( 2004 ) . Harnessing Hope through NGO Activism . Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science vol. 592 , 39 - 61 .
Ono H, Piper N ( 2004 ) . Japanese women studying abroad, the case of the United States . Women's Studies International Forum vol. 27 , ( 2 SPEC. ISS. ) 101 - 118 .
Piper N ( 2004 ) . Rights of foreign workers and the politics of migration in South-East and East Asia . International Migration vol. 42 , ( 5 ) 71 - 97 .
Piper N ( 2003 ) . Wife or worker? worker or wife? Marriage and cross-border migration in contemporary Japan . International Journal of Population Geography vol. 9 , ( 6 ) 457 - 469 .
Piper N, Uhlin A ( 2003 ) . New perspectives on transnational activism . Transnational Activism in Asia: Problems of Power and Democracy ,
Piper N, Uhlin A ( 2003 ) . Transnational Activism in Asia: Problems of power and democracy .
Piper N ( 2003 ) . Global labour markets and national responses: Legal regimes governing female migrant workers in Japan . Women and Work in Globalizing Asia ,
Gills DSS, Piper N ( 2003 ) . Women and work in globalizing Asia .
Piper N ( 2003 ) . Feminization of labor migration as violence against women. International, regional, and local nongovernmental organization responses in Asia . Violence Against Women vol. 9 , ( 6 ) 723 - 745 .
Yamanaka K, Piper N ( 2003 ) . An introductory overview . Asian and Pacific Migration Journal vol. 12 , ( 1-2 ) 1 - 20 .
Piper N ( 2003 ) . Bridging gender, migration and governance: Theoretical possibilities in the Asian context . Asian and Pacific Migration Journal vol. 12 , ( 1-2 ) 21 - 48 .
Piper N ( 2002 ) . Feminization of labor migration as violence against women: International, regional, and local nongovernmental organization responses in Asia . Violence Against Women vol. 8 , ( 6 ) 723 - 745 .
Ball R, Piper N ( 2002 ) . Globalisation and regulation of citizenship-Filipino migrant workers in Japan . Political Geography . vol. 21 , 1013 - 1034 .
Piper N, Uhlin A ( 2002 ) . Transnational advocacy networks, female labor migration and trafficking in East and Southeast Asia: A gendered analysis of opportunities and obstacles . Asian and Pacific Migration Journal vol. 11 , ( 2 ) 171 - 195 .
Piper N ( 2001 ) . Transnational women’s activism in Japan and Korea:the unresolved issue of military sexual slavery . Global Networks vol. 1 , ( 2 ) 155 - 170 .
Piper N, Ball R ( 2001 ) . Globalisation of Asian migrant labour: The Philippine-Japan connection . Journal of Contemporary Asia vol. 31 , ( 4 ) 533 - 554 .
Piper N ( 2001 ) . War and memory: victim identity and the struggle for compensation in Japan . War Soc vol. 19 , ( 1 ) 131 - 148 .
Piper N ( 1999 ) . Labor Migration, Trafficking and International Marriage: Female Cross-Border Movements into Japan . Asian Journal of Women's Studies vol. 5 , ( 2 ) 69 - 99 .
Piper N ( 1997 ) . International marriage in Japan: 'Race' and 'gender' perspectives . Gender, Place and Culture vol. 4 , ( 3 ) 321 - 338 .