Jen Dickinson is a political and development geographer. Her research examines the migration/development nexus, primarily focusing on extra-territorial citizenship, diaspora engagement strategies and diaspora entrepeneurship. Grounded in feminist and postcolonial approaches that engage with the everyday practices of the state, she explores this through a focus on: diaspora diplomacy, diaspora/hometown associations, young people & intergenerationality

Roles

  • University of Leicester

    University, Leicester, United Kingdom
    Lecturer in Human Geography

  • University of Winchester

    University, Winchester, United Kingdom
    Senior Lecturer in Human Geography

  • University of Southampton

    University, Southampton, United Kingdom

  • University of Southampton

    University, Southampton, United Kingdom

Research

Disrupting the Field?

Authors Jen Dickinson, Natasha Uwimanzi
Year 2024
Book Title Researching Justice
1 Book Chapter

Capacity-building and diasporic civil society

Authors Sarah Peck, Jen Dickinson, Tigist Grieve, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name Development in Practice
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2 Journal Article

Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia

Authors Jen Dickinson
Year 2023
Journal Name The Journal of Development Studies
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3 Journal Article

Being-in-family and being-in-community: Ontological (in)securities, diaspora youth agencies, and the Rwandan emigration state

Authors Jen Dickinson, Wayne Veck
Year 2023
Journal Name Political Geography
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4 Journal Article

Visualising the foreign and the domestic in diaspora diplomacy: images and the online politics of recognition in #givingtoindia

Authors Jen Dickinson
Year 2020
Journal Name Cambridge Review of International Affairs
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5 Journal Article

The political geographies of diaspora strategies: Rethinking the ‘sending state’

Authors Jen Dickinson
Year 2017
Journal Name Geography Compass
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6 Journal Article

Chronicling Kenyan Asian Diasporic Histories: ‘Newcomers’, ‘Established’ Migrants, and the Post‐Colonial Practices of Time‐Work

Authors Jen Dickinson
Year 2015
Journal Name Population, Space and Place
Citations (WoS) 1
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7 Journal Article

Negotiating the responsibilities of collaborative undergraduate fieldcourses

Authors Amita Bhakta, Jen Dickinson, Kate Moore, ...
Year 2015
Journal Name Area
8 Journal Article

Rethinking Centers and Margins in Geography: Bodies, Life Course, and the Performance of Transnational Space

Authors Max J. Andrucki, Jen Dickinson
Year 2015
Journal Name Annals of the Association of American Geographers
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9 Journal Article

Making space for India in post-apartheid South Africa: Narrating diasporic subjectivities through classical song and dance

Authors Jen Dickinson
Year 2014
Journal Name Emotion, Space and Society
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11 Journal Article

Decolonising the diaspora: neo-colonial performances of Indian history in East Africa

Authors Jen Dickinson
Year 2012
Journal Name Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
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12 Journal Article

Repaying the gift of life: self-help, organ transfer and the debt of care

Authors Matthew Sothern, Jen Dickinson
Year 2011
Journal Name Social & Cultural Geography
13 Journal Article

(Re)membering diaspora: Uneven geographies of Indian dual citizenship

Authors Jen Dickinson, Adrian J. Bailey
Year 2007
Journal Name Political Geography
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14 Journal Article

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