Career

Senior Lecturer, Swansea University (2007 -  )

Senior Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (2005-2007)

Consultant, UN Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva (2004)

Senior Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra/Australia (2001-2004)

Research Fellow, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen/Denmark (1998-2001)

Research and Teaching Fellow, University of Sheffield, School of East Asian Studies, United Kingdom (1995-1999)

 

Research interests

My recent research interests revolve around international economic migration, multi-sited governance and policy networks, by exploring non-governmental organisations’ (including trade unions) participation in, and influence on, policy making processes in the area of migration and related policy areas, within and across borders (i.e. in form of transnational activist networks). I am specifically interested in the promotion and advancement of  the rights of migrants. Empirically, my work has mainly focused on Southeast and East Asia, but also on Europe and more lately Latin America and the Caribbean. My policy-relevant work has mostly been in form of writing background or concept papers for various international organizations such as the IOM, UNESCAP, UNRISD, UNIFEM, IDRC and the Global Commission on International Migration.

Current projects

• Advancing the Rights of Female Migrants in Latin America and the Caribbean (team project)
  IDRC Research Grant  (CAN$ 400,000)
• Governance of Economic Migration and the Rights of Migrants – the dynamics of networks and nodes
  (research project, grant application pending)
• Migration and Social Policy in Developing Countries (publication project)
• Rethinking the Migration-Development Nexus –which migration and what development?   (publication project)
• Children in economic migration (workshop/conference and publication project)

 

Selected publications

Books

Piper, N. (1998) Racism, Nationalism and Citizenship: the Situation of Ethnic Minorities in Germany and Britain, Aldershot: Ashgate

Grugel, J.B. and Piper, N.  (2007) Critical Perspectives on Global Governance: Rights and Regulation in Governing Regimes, London: Routledge

Piper, N. (ed) (2007) ‘New Perspectives on Gender and Migration – Rights, Entitlements and Livelihoods’, London: Routledge

Piper, N. and Uhlin, A. (eds) (2004) ‘Transnational Activism in Asia – Problems of Power and Democracy’ (2004), London: Routledge

Piper, N. and Roces, M. (eds) (2003) ‘Wife or Worker? Asians Marriage and Migration’, Boulder/Colorado: Rowan & Littlefield

Gills, D.S. and Piper, N. (eds) (2002) Women and Work in Globalizing Asia, London: Routledge

Guest Edited Special Journal Issues

Piper, N. and Ford, M. (eds) (2006) ‘Migrant NGOs and Labor Unions: A Partnership in Progress?’, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 14, no. 9, 2006

Piper, N. and Yeoh, B. (eds) (2005) ‘Meeting the Challenges of HIV/AIDS in Southeast and East Asia’, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, vol. 46, no. 1

Piper, N. and Yamanaka, K. (eds) (2003) ‘Gender, Migration, and Governance’, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 12, no 1-2

Refereed Articles

Piper, N. (2006) ‘Opportunities and Constraints for Migrant Worker Activism in Singapore and Malaysia –Freedom of Association and the Role of the State’, in: Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 14(9): 359-380 

Piper, N. (2006) ‘Gendering the Politics of Migration’, International Migration Review, vol. 40(1): 133-164

Piper, N. (2005) ‘Transnational Politics and the Organising of Migrant Labour in Southeast Asia – NGO and Trade Union Perspectives’, in: Asia-Pacific Population Journal, vol. 20(3): 87-110

Piper, N. (2005) ‘Rights of Foreign Domestic Workers – Emergence of Transnational and Transregional solidarity?’, in: Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 14(1-2):97-120

Piper, N. (2005) ‘A Problem by a Different Name? A Review of Research on Trafficking in Southeast Asia and Oceania’, in: International Migration, vol. 43(1/2): 203-233

Piper, N. (2004) ‘Rights of Foreign Workers and The Politics of Migration in Southeast and East Asia’, in: International Migration, vol. 42(5): 71-97

Ono, H. and Piper, N. (2004) ‘Japanese Women Studying Abroad: The Case of the United States’, in: Women's Studies International Forum 27(2): 101-118, (June-July)

Piper, N. (2004) ‘Gender and Migration Policies in Southeast and East Asia: Legal Protection and Socio-Cultural Empowerment of Unskilled Migrant Women’, in Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, vol. 25(2):216-231

Courville, S. and Piper, N. (2004) ‘Harnessing Hope through NGO Activism’, in The American Academy of Political and Social Science, special issue edited by V. Braithwaite, vol. 592, pp. 39-61, March 2004

Piper, N. (2003) ‘Wife or Worker? Worker or Wife? Marriage and Cross-Border Migration in Contemporary Japan’, in International Journal for Population Geography, vol. 9 (6): 457-469

Piper, N. (2003) ‘Bridging Gender, Migration and Governance: Theoretical Possibilities in the Asian Context’, in: Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, vol.  12 (1-2): 21-48

Ball, R.E. and Piper, N. (2002) ‘Globalisation and Regulation of Citizenship - Filipino Migrant Workers in Japan', in: Political Geography (special issue), vol. 21(8): 1013-1034

Piper, N. and Uhlin, A. (2002) ’Transnational Advocacy Networks and the Issue of Trafficking and Labour Migration in East and Southeast Asia. A Gendered Analysis of Opportunities and Obstacles’, in: Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 11(2): 171-195

Piper, N. and Ball, R.E. (2001) ‘Globalisation of Asian Migrant Labour: The Philippine-Japan Connection, in: Journal of Contemporary Asia, vol. 31(4):533-554

Piper, N. (1999) ‘Labor Migration, Trafficking and International Marriage: Female Cross-Border Movements into Japan', in: Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, vol. 5(2): 69-99

Piper, N. (1997) ‘International Marriage in Japan: ‘Race’ & ‘Gender’ Perspectives, in: Gender, Place and Culture, vol. 4(3): 321-338

Book Chapters

Piper, N. (2007) ‘Political Participation and Empowerment of Foreign Workers - Gendered Advocacy and Migrant Labour Organising in Southeast and East Asia’, Piper, N. (ed), New Perspectives on Gender and Migration – Rights, Entitlements and Livelihoods, London: Routledge, pp. 249-275

Piper, N. and Yamanaka, K. (2007) ‘Feminised Migration in East and Southeast Asia and the Securing of Livelihoods’, Piper, N. (ed), New Perspectives on Gender and Migration – Rights, Entitlements and Livelihoods, London: Routledge, pp.  161-190

Lindquist, J. and Piper, N. (2007) ‘From HIV to Counter-Trafficking: Institutional Continuity by a Different Name’, in Human Trafficking, edited by Maggy Lee, Willan Publishing , pp. 138-158  

Ford. M. And Piper, N. (2007) ‘Southern sites of female agency: informal regimes and female migrant labour resistance in East and Southeast Asia’, in: Everyday International Political Economy, edited by John  Dobson and Lenard Seabrooke, Cambridge University Press, pp. 63-80

Piper, N. and Sattterthwaite, M. (2007) ‘The Rights of Migrant Women’, in: R. Cholewinski, R. Perruchoud and E. Macdonald (eds), International Migration Law – Developing Paradigms and Key Challenges, The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press, pp. 237-254

Bell, D. and Piper, N. (2005) ‘Justice for Migrant Workers? The Case of Foreign Domestic Workers in East Asia’, co-authored with Daniel Bell, in: Will Kymlicka and Baogang Ye (eds), Asian Minorities and Western Liberalism, Oxford University Press, pp. 196-222

Ball, R.E. and Piper, N. (2005) ‘Trading labour-trading rights: the regional dynamics over rights recognition of migrant workers in the Asia-Pacific- the case of the Philippines and Japan’, in: Kevin Hewison and Ken Young (eds.), Transnational Migration and Work  in Asia, London: Routledge, pp. 213-234

Piper, N. (2002) ‘Global labour markets and national responses: legal regimes governing female migrant workers in Japan’, in: Gills, D.-S. & Piper, N. (eds.), Women and Work in Globalising Asia, London: Routledge, pp. 188-208

Piper, N. (2000) ‘Globalisation, Gender and Migration: International Marriage in Japan’, in: Towards A Gendered Political Economy, edited by Roberts, J. & Waylen, G. & Cook, H., Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp.205-225

Published Research Papers

Piper, N. (2007) ‘Enhancing the Migration Experience: Gendering Political Advocacy and Migrant Labour in Southeast and East Asia’, IDRC Working Paper No. 2, February 2007, Ottawa: IDRC.

Piper, N. (2006) ‘The Management of Migration - an Issue of Controlling or Protecting? Normative and institutional developments and their relevance to Asia’,  ARI Working Paper Series No.69, 2006, Singapore: ARI (www.ari.nus.edu.sg/docs/wps/wps06_069.pdf)

Piper, N. (2006) ‘Economic Migration and the Transnationalisation of the Rights of Foreign Workers – A Concept Note’, ARI Working Paper Series No. 58, February 2006, Singapore: ARI: 
www.ari.nus.edu.sg/docs/wps/wps06_058.pdf

Yamanaka, K. and Piper, N. (2006) ‘Feminised Migration in East and Southeast Asia: Policies, Actions and Empowerment’, UNRISD Occasional Paper no. 11, Geneva: UNRISD

Iredale, R., Piper, N. and Ancog, A. (2005) ‘Impact of Ratifying the 1990 UN Convention on the Rights of All Migrant Workers and  Members of Their Family: Case Studies of the Philippines and Sri Lanka’ (2005), prepared for UNESCO, APMRN Working Paper No. 15, Australian National University, 2005

Piper, N. & Iredale, R. (2003) ‘Identification of the Obstacles to the Signing and Ratification of the UN Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers 1990 - The Asia Pacific Perspective’, prepared for UNESCO, APMRN Working Paper no. 14, University of Wollongong, 2003