I am an anthropologist specialising in the intersection between migration, aid and security in mainland Southeast Asia. Initially trained in social anthropology at University of Oslo and Macquarie University in Australia, I worked for the United Nations Development Programme in the Mekong region before returning to the social sciences. After completing my PhD and a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Anthropology at Macquarie University, I was in 2012 appointed lecturer in Anthropology (Development Studies) at the Australian National University. I am the current co-editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology (TAPJA) and have served in several leadership roles, including the Discipline Head of Anthropology and Research Convenor within the School or Archaeology and Anthropology, The Australian National University.
I have two decades research and programme experience on human trafficking, development and mobility in the Mekong region. In my PhD fieldwork I carried out research on migration and anti-trafficking interventions along the Lao-Thai border. My current research examines how “safe migration” has become an important modality of migration governance in the Mekong region. My overarching research agenda advances the study of the securitisation of aid and mobility in a comparative perspective. Its theoretical contribution is to illuminate how relations and structures of power permeate through development and humanitarian practices as well as how such efforts are mobilised, enacted, and legitimated. I extend my academic research through collaborations with UN agencies and other external partners through consultancies, commissioned research, and other forms of engagements.
I am the author of Safe Migration and the Politics of Brokered Safety in Southeast Asia and The Perfect Business? Anti-Trafficking and the Sex Trade along the Mekong (University of Hawaii Press).
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 2914 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4510-1951 |
| X/Twitter | https://twitter.com/@SverreMolland |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
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Migration infrastructures
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Migration policy and law
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Governance processes
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Migration research and theory
Geographies
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Scope
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UN Countries
Roles
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The Australian National University
University, Canberra, Australia
Associate Professor -
The Australian National University
University, N/A, Australia
Research
Safe migration: Re‐embedding as anticipatory, de‐territorial governance
| Authors | Sverre Molland |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Population, Space and Place |
Safe migration and the politics of brokered safety in Southeast Asia
| Authors | Sverre Molland |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Conclusion
| Authors | Sverre Molland |
| Year | 2021 |
| Book Title | Safe migration and the politics of brokered safety in Southeast Asia |
Departures
| Authors | Sverre Molland |
| Year | 2021 |
| Book Title | Safe migration and the politics of brokered safety in Southeast Asia |
Informal assistance
| Authors | Sverre Molland |
| Year | 2021 |
| Book Title | Safe migration and the politics of brokered safety in Southeast Asia |
Omnipresence and nothingness
| Authors | Sverre Molland |
| Year | 2021 |
| Book Title | Safe migration and the politics of brokered safety in Southeast Asia |
From traffic to safety
| Authors | Sverre Molland |
| Year | 2021 |
| Book Title | Safe migration and the politics of brokered safety in Southeast Asia |
State-centric safety and biometric economies
| Authors | Sverre Molland |
| Year | 2021 |
| Book Title | Safe migration and the politics of brokered safety in Southeast Asia | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Brokers, migrants, and safety
| Authors | Sverre Molland |
| Year | 2021 |
| Book Title | Safe migration and the politics of brokered safety in Southeast Asia |
Destinations
| Authors | Sverre Molland |
| Year | 2021 |
| Book Title | Safe migration and the politics of brokered safety in Southeast Asia |
On humanitarian spaces
| Authors | Sverre Molland |
| Year | 2021 |
| Book Title | Safe migration and the politics of brokered safety in Southeast Asia |
Introducing safe migration
| Authors | Sverre Molland |
| Year | 2021 |
| Book Title | Safe migration and the politics of brokered safety in Southeast Asia | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
On trafficking survivors: biolegitimacy and multiplications of life
| Authors | Sverre Molland |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Dialectical Anthropology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
‘Humanitarianized’ Development? Anti‐trafficking Reconfigured
| Authors | Sverre Molland |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Development and Change | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
What Happened to Sex Trafficking? The New Moral Panic of Men, Boys and Fish in the Mekong Region
| Authors | Sverre Molland |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Capitalism Disrupted: Precarity and Struggle in a Southeast Asian Industrial Zone
| Authors | Sverre Molland |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology |
Sedentary Optics: Static Anti-trafficking and Mobile Victims
| Authors | Sverre Molland |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Current Anthropology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Book Review: Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States
| Authors | Sverre Molland |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | International Migration Review |
Hjorleifur Jonsson, Slow anthropology: negotiating difference with the Iu Mien
| Authors | Sverre Molland |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Asian Ethnicity |
Anthropology and Development: Culture, Morality and Politics in a Globalised World
| Authors | Sverre Molland |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | The Journal of Development Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Managing Migration: Is border control fundamental to anti-trafficking and anti- smuggling interventions?
| Authors | Rebecca Miller, Sebastian Baumeister |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Anti-Trafficking Review | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Tandem ethnography: On researching ‘trafficking’ and ‘anti-trafficking’
| Authors | Sverre Molland |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Ethnography | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Editorial: Human rights at the border
| Authors | Sverre Molland |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Anti-Trafficking Review | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Safe Migration, Dilettante Brokers and the Appropriation of Legality: Lao-Thai "Trafficking" in the Context of Regulating Labour Migration
| Authors | Sverre Molland |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | Pacific Affairs |
The inexorable quest for trafficking hotspots along the Thai–Lao border
| Year | 2012 |
| Book Title | Labour Migration and Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Perfect Business? Anti-Trafficking and the Sex Trade along the Mekong
| Authors | Sverre Molland |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
‘I am helping them’: ‘Traffickers’, ‘anti-traffickers’ and economies of bad faith
| Authors | Sverre Molland |
| Year | 2011 |
| Journal Name | The Australian Journal of Anthropology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Trafficking of Scarce Elite Commodities: Social Change and Commodification of Virginity along the Mekong
| Authors | Sverre Molland |
| Year | 2011 |
| Journal Name | The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Thinking about Development
| Authors | Sverre Molland |
| Year | 2010 |
| Journal Name | Forum for Development Studies |
The Value of Bodies: Deception, Helping and Profiteering in Human Trafficking Along the Thai-Lao Border
| Authors | Sverre Molland |
| Year | 2010 |
| Journal Name | Asian Studies Review | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Scalability, Social Media and Migrant Assistance: Emulation or Contestation?
| Authors | Sverre Molland |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Ethnos | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
‘The Perfect Business’: Human Trafficking and Lao-Thai Cross-Border Migration
| Authors | Sverre Molland |
| Year | 2010 |
| Journal Name | Development and Change | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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