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)...
Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 2914
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4510-1951
Twitter https://twitter.com/@SverreMolland

Roles

  • 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
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1 Journal Article

Safe migration and the politics of brokered safety in Southeast Asia

Authors Sverre Molland
Year 2021
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2 Journal Article

Conclusion

Authors Sverre Molland
Year 2021
Book Title Safe migration and the politics of brokered safety in Southeast Asia
3 Book Chapter

Departures

Authors Sverre Molland
Year 2021
Book Title Safe migration and the politics of brokered safety in Southeast Asia
4 Book Chapter

Informal assistance

Authors Sverre Molland
Year 2021
Book Title Safe migration and the politics of brokered safety in Southeast Asia
5 Book Chapter

Omnipresence and nothingness

Authors Sverre Molland
Year 2021
Book Title Safe migration and the politics of brokered safety in Southeast Asia
6 Book Chapter

From traffic to safety

Authors Sverre Molland
Year 2021
Book Title Safe migration and the politics of brokered safety in Southeast Asia
7 Book Chapter

State-centric safety and biometric economies

Authors Sverre Molland
Year 2021
Book Title Safe migration and the politics of brokered safety in Southeast Asia
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8 Book Chapter

Brokers, migrants, and safety

Authors Sverre Molland
Year 2021
Book Title Safe migration and the politics of brokered safety in Southeast Asia
9 Book Chapter

Destinations

Authors Sverre Molland
Year 2021
Book Title Safe migration and the politics of brokered safety in Southeast Asia
10 Book Chapter

On humanitarian spaces

Authors Sverre Molland
Year 2021
Book Title Safe migration and the politics of brokered safety in Southeast Asia
11 Book Chapter

Introducing safe migration

Authors Sverre Molland
Year 2021
Book Title Safe migration and the politics of brokered safety in Southeast Asia
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12 Book Chapter

On trafficking survivors: biolegitimacy and multiplications of life

Authors Sverre Molland
Year 2019
Journal Name Dialectical Anthropology
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13 Journal Article

‘Humanitarianized’ Development? Anti‐trafficking Reconfigured

Authors Sverre Molland
Year 2019
Journal Name Development and Change
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14 Journal Article

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
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15 Journal Article

Capitalism Disrupted: Precarity and Struggle in a Southeast Asian Industrial Zone

Authors Sverre Molland
Year 2018
Journal Name The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
16 Journal Article

Sedentary Optics: Static Anti-trafficking and Mobile Victims

Authors Sverre Molland
Year 2018
Journal Name Current Anthropology
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17 Journal Article

Book Review: Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States

Authors Sverre Molland
Year 2016
Journal Name International Migration Review
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18 Journal Article

Hjorleifur Jonsson, Slow anthropology: negotiating difference with the Iu Mien

Authors Sverre Molland
Year 2015
Journal Name Asian Ethnicity
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19 Journal Article

Anthropology and Development: Culture, Morality and Politics in a Globalised World

Authors Sverre Molland
Year 2014
Journal Name The Journal of Development Studies
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20 Journal Article

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
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21 Journal Article

Tandem ethnography: On researching ‘trafficking’ and ‘anti-trafficking’

Authors Sverre Molland
Year 2013
Journal Name Ethnography
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22 Journal Article

Editorial: Human rights at the border

Authors Sverre Molland
Year 2013
Journal Name Anti-Trafficking Review
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23 Journal Article

The Perfect Business? Anti-Trafficking and the Sex Trade along the Mekong

Authors Sverre Molland
Year 2012
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25 Journal Article

The inexorable quest for trafficking hotspots along the Thai–Lao border

Year 2012
Book Title Labour Migration and Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia
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26 Book Chapter

‘I am helping them’: ‘Traffickers’, ‘anti-traffickers’ and economies of bad faith

Authors Sverre Molland
Year 2011
Journal Name The Australian Journal of Anthropology
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27 Journal Article

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
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28 Journal Article

Thinking about Development

Authors Sverre Molland
Year 2010
Journal Name Forum for Development Studies
29 Journal Article

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
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30 Journal Article

Scalability, Social Media and Migrant Assistance: Emulation or Contestation?

Authors Sverre Molland
Year 2021
Journal Name Ethnos
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31 Journal Article

‘The Perfect Business’: Human Trafficking and Lao-Thai Cross-Border Migration

Authors Sverre Molland
Year 2010
Journal Name Development and Change
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32 Journal Article

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