Edges of Empire

Francis L. Collins is a professor of sociology at Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland and has previously held positions in geography and population studies at the National University of Singapore and Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, the University of Waikato. His research encompasses a focus on the regulation and experiences of temporary migration, racism and workplace exploitation; international student mobilities; and the relationship between migration and cities. Francis is the author of Global Asian City: Migration, Desire and the Politics of Encounter in 21st Century Seoul (Wiley, 2018). Co-edited volumes include Intersections of Inequality, Migration and Diversification (Palgrave, 2020), Aspiration, Desire and the Drivers of Migration (Routledge, 2020) and Handbook on Transnationalism (Edward Elgar, 2022).

Alan Gamlen is a social scientist specialising in migration, mobility and identity. He is a professor at The Australian National University, founding director of the ANU Migration Hub, and an ARC Future Fellow and College of Experts member. He has held appointments at Oxford, Stanford and the Max Planck Society, among others, and formerly served as founding editor-in-chief of the journal Migration Studies (Oxford University Press) and director of the Australian Population and Migration Research Centre. Gamlen is a member of the Tainui confederation of Māori tribes in Aotearoa New Zealand. His last book Human Geopolitics: States, Emigrants, and the Rise of Diaspora Institutions (Oxford University Press, 2019) won the ENMISA Distinguished Book Award.

Neil Vallelly is a lecturer in the sociology, gender studies and criminology programme at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, the University of Otago. He is the author of Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness (Goldsmiths Press, 2021), which has been translated into Italian, and his work has appeared in journals such as Angelaki, Poetics Today, Critical Times, Journal of Gender Studies and Theory & Event. Neil is the editor of the journal Counterfutures: Left Thought & Practice Aotearoa, a member of the executive committee for the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, and a recipient of a Rutherford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (Royal Society Te Apārangi).