Expertise

Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Migration governance
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
Disciplines
Methods
Geographies

Roles

  • University of Auckland

    University, Auckland, New Zealand
    Professor of Sociology

  • University of Auckland

    University, Auckland, New Zealand
    Professor

  • University of Waikato

    University, Hamilton, New Zealand
    Director

Research

Temporalities of creativity in city-making: DIY urbanism in post-earthquake Christchurch

Authors Rachael Boswell, Robin Kearns, Francis L. Collins
Year 2024
Journal Name Social & Cultural Geography
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1 Journal Article

Temporary migration and wage inequality: The effects of skills, nationality and migration status in Aotearoa New Zealand

Authors Ahmed Zohirul Islam, Francis L. Collins, Omoniyi B. Alimi
Year 2024
Journal Name Population, Space and Place
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2 Journal Article

Experimentation, privilege, and difference: The politics of do‐it‐yourself urbanism

Authors Rachael Boswell, Francis L Collins, Robin Kearns
Year 2024
Journal Name Geographical Research
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3 Journal Article

A critical race analysis of Māori representation in university strategic documents in Aotearoa New Zealand

Authors Waikaremoana Waitoki, Kyle Tan, Rituparna Roy, ...
Year 2024
Journal Name Race Ethnicity and Education
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4 Journal Article

Geographies of migration III: The digital migrant

Authors Francis L Collins
Year 2023
Journal Name Progress in Human Geography
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5 Journal Article

The trauma of exploitation: Emotional geographies of temporary migration and workplace unfreedom

Authors Francis L Collins, Christina Stringer
Year 2022
Journal Name Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
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6 Journal Article

Excess aspirations: Migration and urban futures in post-earthquake Christchurch

Authors Francis L Collins, Wardlow Friesen
Year 2022
Journal Name Urban Studies
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7 Journal Article

Temporary migration and regional development amidst Covid‐19: Invercargill and Queenstown

Authors Francis L. Collins
Year 2021
Journal Name New Zealand Geographer
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8 Journal Article

Blurred in translation: The influence of subjectivities and positionalities on the translation of health equity and inclusion policy initiatives in Aotearoa New Zealand

Authors Sandy Lee, Francis L. Collins, Rachel Simon-Kumar
Year 2021
Journal Name SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
Citations (WoS) 8
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9 Journal Article

Healthy Diversity? The Politics of Managing Emotions in an Ethnically Diverse Hospital Workforce

Authors Sandy Lee, Francis L. Collins, Rachel Simon-Kumar
Year 2020
Journal Name Journal of Intercultural Studies
Citations (WoS) 2
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10 Journal Article

The moral politics of emigration: gendered figures of migration and the anxiety of diasporic return

Authors Francis L. Collins, Salene Schloffel-Armstrong
Year 2020
Journal Name Social & Cultural Geography
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11 Journal Article

Towards an integrative understanding of contemporary educational mobilities: a critical agenda for international student mobilities research

Authors Sarah Jane Lipura, Francis Leo Collins
Year 2020
Journal Name Globalisation, Societies and Education
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12 Journal Article

Temporally Distributed Aspirations: New Chinese Migrants to New Zealand and the Figuring of Migration Futures

Authors Bingyu Wang, Francis Collins
Year 2020
Journal Name Sociology
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13 Journal Article

Legislated Inequality: Provisional Migration and the Stratification of Migrant Lives

Authors Francis L. Collins
Year 2020
Book Title Intersections of Inequality, Migration and Diversification
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14 Book Chapter

Introduction: The Intersections of Inequality, Migration and Diversification

Authors Francis L. Collins, Rachel Simon-Kumar, Wardlow Friesen
Year 2020
Book Title Intersections of Inequality, Migration and Diversification
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15 Book Chapter

The good migrant: Everyday nationalism and temporary migration management on New Zealand dairy farms

Authors Francis L. Collins, Thomas Bayliss
Year 2020
Journal Name Political Geography
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16 Journal Article

Anxious desires: Temporary status and future prospects in migrant lives

Authors Francis L. Collins
Year 2019
Journal Name Emotion, Space and Society
18 Journal Article

Keeping Bodies Moving: Hope, Disruption and the Possibilities of Youth Migration

Authors Francis L. Collins
Year 2018
Journal Name Journal of Intercultural Studies
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19 Journal Article

Imaginations of post-suburbia: Suburban change and imaginative practices in Auckland, New Zealand

Authors Cameron Johnson, Tom Baker, Francis L Collins
Year 2018
Journal Name Urban Studies
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20 Journal Article

Discrepant knowledge and interAsian mobilities: unlikely movements, uncertain futures

Authors Francis L. Collins, K. C. Ho
Year 2018
Journal Name Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
21 Journal Article

Aspirations, ambivalence, and performances: the hyphenated identities of Indonesian worker-students in South Korea

Authors Suray Nugroho, Younghan Cho, Francis L. Collins
Year 2018
Journal Name Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
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22 Journal Article

Migration Borders Freedom by Harald Bauder, Routledge, London and New York, 2017, 136 pp., cloth US$145.00 (ISBN 978-1138195608)

Authors Francis L. Collins
Year 2018
Journal Name Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes
23 Journal Article

Global Asian City

Authors Francis L. Collins
Year 2018
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24 Book

Desire as a theory for migration studies: temporality, assemblage and becoming in the narratives of migrants

Authors Francis L. Collins
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 12
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25 Journal Article

Aspiration, desire and drivers of migration

Authors Jørgen Carling, Francis Collins
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 21
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26 Journal Article

Producing mobility: visual narratives of the rural migrant worker in Chinese television

Authors Yu Shi, Francis L. Collins
Year 2017
Journal Name Mobilities
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27 Journal Article

Migration, the Urban Periphery, and the Politics of Migrant Lives

Authors Francis L. Collins
Year 2016
Journal Name Antipode
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28 Journal Article

Digital belongings: The intersections of social cohesion, connectivity and digital media

Authors Jay M Marlowe, Allen Bartley, Francis Collins
Year 2016
Journal Name Ethnicities
Citations (WoS) 4
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29 Journal Article

Ranking and the multiplication of reputation: reflections from the frontier of globalizing higher education

Authors Francis L. Collins, Gil-Sung Park
Year 2016
Journal Name Higher Education
30 Journal Article

Emotions and cosmopolitan sociability: Barriers and opportunities for intercultural encounters amongst new Chinese migrants in New Zealand

Authors Bingyu Wang, Francis L. Collins
Year 2015
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 4
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31 Journal Article

Migrant times beyond the life course: The temporalities of foreign English teachers in South Korea

Authors Francis L. Collins, Sergei Shubin
Year 2015
Journal Name Geoforum
Citations (WoS) 24
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32 Journal Article

Mediated animal geographies: symbolism, manipulation and the imaginary in advertising

Authors Lauren Burton, Francis L. Collins
Year 2014
Journal Name Social & Cultural Geography
33 Journal Article

Globalising higher education and cities in Asia and the Pacific

Authors Francis L. Collins, Kong Chong Ho
Year 2014
Journal Name Asia Pacific Viewpoint
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35 Journal Article

Mobility and desire: international students and Asian regionalism in aspirational Singapore

Authors Francis L. Collins, Ravinder Sidhu, Nick Lewis, ...
Year 2014
Journal Name Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
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36 Journal Article

Teaching English in South Korea: mobility norms and higher education outcomes in youth migration

Authors Francis L. Collins
Year 2014
Journal Name Children's Geographies
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37 Journal Article

Introduction to special section on migration methodologies: emerging subjects, registers and spatialities of migration in Asia

Authors Francis Leo Collins, Shirlena Huang
Year 2012
Journal Name Area
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38 Journal Article

Researching mobility and emplacement: examining transience and transnationality in international student lives

Authors Francis Leo Collins
Year 2012
Journal Name Area
39 Journal Article

Organizing Student Mobility: Education Agents and Student Migration to New Zealand

Authors Francis Leo Collins
Year 2012
Journal Name Pacific Affairs
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40 Journal Article

Transnational mobilities and urban spatialities

Authors Francis Leo Collins
Year 2012
Journal Name Progress in Human Geography
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41 Journal Article

CHOOSING ETHNICITY, NEGOTIATING RACE: KOREAN ADOPTEES IN AMERICA

Authors Francis Leo Collins
Year 2012
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
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42 Journal Article

Making the Most of Diversity? The Intercultural City Project and a Rescaled Version of Diversity in Auckland, New Zealand

Authors Francis Leo Collins, Wardlow Friesen
Year 2011
Journal Name Urban Studies
Citations (WoS) 12
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43 Journal Article

International students as urban agents: International education and urban transformation in Auckland, New Zealand

Authors Francis Leo Collins
Year 2010
Journal Name Geoforum
Citations (WoS) 36
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44 Journal Article

Negotiating un/familiar embodiments: investigating the corporeal dimensions of South Korean international student mobilities in Auckland, New Zealand

Authors Francis Leo Collins
Year 2009
Journal Name Population, Space and Place
Citations (WoS) 28
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45 Journal Article

Connecting ‘Home’ With ‘Here’: Personal Homepages in Everyday Transnational Lives

Authors Francis Leo Collins
Year 2009
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
46 Journal Article

Transnationalism Unbound: Detailing New Subjects, Registers and Spatialities of Cross-Border Lives

Authors Francis Leo Collins
Year 2009
Journal Name Geography Compass
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47 Journal Article

Bridges to learning: international student mobilities, education agencies and inter‐personal networks

Authors FRANCIS LEO COLLINS
Year 2008
Journal Name Global Networks
Citations (WoS) 49
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48 Journal Article

Ofkimchiand coffee: globalisation, transnationalism and familiarity in culinary consumption

Authors Francis Leo Collins
Year 2008
Journal Name Social & Cultural Geography
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49 Journal Article

LANGUAGE AND SKILLED MIGRATION

Authors Francis Leo Collins, Seunghee Pak
Year 2008
Journal Name Asian Population Studies
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50 Journal Article

Making Asian students, making students Asian: The racialisation of export education in Auckland, New Zealand

Authors Francis Leo Collins
Year 2006
Journal Name Asia Pacific Viewpoint
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51 Journal Article

Geographies of migration II: Decolonising migration studies

Authors Francis L. Collins
Year 2022
Journal Name Progress in Human Geography
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52 Journal Article

Geographies of migration I: Platform migration

Authors Francis L Collins
Year 2020
Journal Name Progress in Human Geography
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53 Journal Article

Changing Spaces of Education

Year 2012
54 Book

Suggested Research

International student mobilities in a contagion: (Im)mobilising higher education?

Authors Ravinder Sidhu, Yi' En Cheng, Francis Collins, ...
Year 2021
Journal Name Geographical Research
1 Journal Article
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