Episode 5 (S2): Nina Glick Schiller on conceiving 'migrant transnationalism'

The Migration Podcast

In April 2019, a year before we launched The Migration Podcast, I sat down for an interview with Nina Glick Schiller in New York. New York is the city where Nina had based her PhD project on Haitian immigrants, a project that laid the foundation for the book “Nations Unbound”. The book, co-authored by Linda Basch, Nina Glick Schiller, and Cristina Szanton Blanc, would deeply impact how we think about migrant’s social, political and economic ties across national borders. In this episode, Nina recounts how the idea for Nations Unbound germinated, we spoke about her intellectual project throughout the years, and about how she carved out a career in academia from the margins. Nina Glick Schiller is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and was the Director of the Cosmopolitan Cultures Institute at the University of Manchester. She continues to be active with the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany. Nina published her latest book together with Ayse Çaglar in 2018: "Migrants and City Making: Dispossession, Displacement and Urban Regeneration" Duke University Press. The book can be downloaded for free here: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25763 Learn more about Nina here: https://www.eth.mpg.de/schiller or visit her profile on academia.edu: https://manchester.academia.edu/NinaGlickSchiller