Nik Ostrand is a postdoc at the ARENA Centre for European Studies on the Deporting Foreigners: Contested Norms in International Practice (NORMS) project. She is also a research fellow at the Sussex Centre for Migration Research and an editorial assistant for the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Her current research is on Frontex and how norms on deportation are negotiated and contested at the street-level. She previously focused on the UK’s extraterritorial migration governance, especially overseas immigration liaison personnel. Nik received a PhD in Migration Studies from the University of Sussex, UK and an MA in Human Rights from Mahidol University, Thailand. Previously, she was a project coordinator for the Strengthening Human Rights for Rohingya Project. She was also a consultant at the Centre for Migration Studies of New York, where she wrote about the US and Europe’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis, stateless Rohingya in Thailand and Australia’s extraterritorial controls.
Nik's research interests include: immigration and asylum policy, extraterritorial migration governance, overseas immigration liaison networks, the UK Home Office, inequalities in access to mobility, immigration-related detention, Frontex, deportation and street-level learning
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 1355 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5546-4337 |
| X/Twitter | https://twitter.com/@NikkOstrand |
| ResearchGate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicole_Ostrand2 |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
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Migration infrastructures
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Socio-economic consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Migration policy and law
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Governance processes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
Methods
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Qualitative research
Geographies
Roles
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Sussex Centre for Migration Studies
University, Brighton, United Kingdom
Postdoc -
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Other, Brighton, United Kingdom
Editorial Assistant -
Center for Migration Studies of New York
Other, New York, United States
Consultant -
Mahidol University
University, Bangkok, Thailand
Research coordinator for Strengthening Human Rights Protection for the Rohingya Project -
ARENA Centre for European Studies
University, Oslo, Norway
postdoc -
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Other, Brighton, United Kingdom
Assistant Editor -
University of Oslo
University, Oslo, Norway
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research
Externalization Beyond “Immigration Risk”? UK Borderwork Creep in Africa and its Cumulative Rippling Effects
| Authors | Nicole Ostrand |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | International Migration Review | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Liaison officers as influential ‘immigration risk’ brokers in visa policy implementation: intermediaries across institutional and national borders
| Authors | Nicole Ostrand, Paul Statham |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
Overseas immigration liaison officers: ‘Knowledge brokers’ and transnational spaces of mid-level negotiations shaping extraterritorial migration control practices
| Authors | Nicole Ostrand |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Migration Studies |
‘Street-level’ agents operating beyond ‘remote control’: how overseas liaison officers and foreign state officials shape UK extraterritorial migration management
| Authors | Nicole Ostrand, Paul Statham |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
The Syrian Refugee Crisis: A Comparison of Responses by Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States
| Authors | Nicole Ostrand |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Journal on Migration and Human Security |
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