THOMAS FAIST
Thomas Faist
Bielefeld University, Faculty of Sociology
Professor of Transnational Relations and Sociology of Development
Chair, Transnational Relations and Sociology of Development/
Director, Centre on Migration, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD)
Education:
1999 Habilitation in Political Science, University of Bremen
1992 PhD in Political Science, The Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, New York
1986 Magister Artium (MA), University of Tuebingen
Research Interests: Transstate Migration, Transstate Spaces, Citizenship, Social Policy, Sociology of Development.
2008-2011 Research project "Transnationalisation, Migration and Transformation:
Multi-Level Analysis of Migrant Transnationalism" (TRANS-NET), Research Project, 7th Framework Programme of the European Union (EU) 2006-2008 Research Project "Environmental Degradation and Forced Migration" (Each-For), European Union, 6th Framework Project 2003-2006 Research Project „Migration Control and Democratic Legitimacy“ (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Collaborative Research Center 597: Transformations of Statehood) 2002-2005 „Multiple Citizenship in a Globalising World - Germany in Comparative Perspective“(VolkswagenStiftung) 2005-2006 „Transnational Political Practices of Migrants“ (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft & European Science Foundation) 1998-2000 “The European Social Model” (European Union) 1995-1997 „The Employment of Contract Workers from Eastern Europe in Germany“ (VolkswagenStiftung)
PUBLICATIONS
Faist, Thomas/Peter Kivisto (eds.) (2009): Beyond a Border: The Causes and Consequences of Contemporary Immigration. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.
Faist, Thomas/Peter Kivisto (2008): Dual Citizenship in Global Perspective: From Unitary to Multiple Citizenship. Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan
Faist, Thomas (ed.) (2007): Dual Citizenship in Europe: From Nationhood to Societal Integration. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.
Faist, Thomas/Andreas Ette (eds.) (2007): The Europeanization of National Immigration Policies: Between Autonomy and the European Union. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Faist, Thomas/Peter Kivisto (eds.) (2007): Dual Citizenship in Global Perspective: From Unitary to Multiple Citizenship. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Kivisto, Peter/Thomas Faist (2007): Citizenship: Theory, Discourse and Transnational Prospects. Oxford: Blackwell.
Faist, Thomas/Eyüp Özveren (eds.) (2004): Transnational Social Spaces: Agents, Networks and Institutions. Aldershot: Avebury.
Faist, Thomas/Rosemarie Sackmann/Bernhard Peters (eds.) (2003): Identity and Integration: Migrants in Western Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Faist, Thomas (2000): Transstaatliche Räume. Bielefeld: transcript.
Faist, Thomas (2000): The Volume and Dynamics of International Migration and Transnational Social Spaces. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Faist, Thomas/Tomas Hammar/Grete Brochmann/Kristof Tamas (eds.) (1997): Migration, Immobility and Development: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. Oxford: Berg.
Faist, Thomas (1995): Social Citizenship for Whom? Young Turks in Germany and Mexican Americans in the United States. Aldershot: Avebury.
Faist, Thomas (2009): Diversity - a new mode of incorporation? Ethnic and Racial Studies 32, 1: 171-190
Faist, Thomas (2009): The Transnational Social Question: Social Rights and Citizenship in a Global Context, International Sociology 24, 1: 7-35.
Faist, Thomas (2008): Migrants as Transnational Development Agents: An Inquiry into the Newest Round of the Migration-Development Nexus, Population, Space and Place 14, 1: 21-42.
Faist, Thomas (2007): Diversität als neues Paradigma für Integration? Nova Acta Leopoldina NF 94, Nr. 348.
Faist, Thomas (2007): Migration, Transnationalisation and Development: An Unfinished Agenda, Finnish Journal of Ethnicity and Migration 2, 2: 2-9.
Faist, Thomas (2007): Transnationale Migration als relative Immobilität in einer globalisierten Welt, Berliner Journal für Soziologie 17, 3: 415-437.
Faist, Thomas (2007): Transnationalisation and Development(s): Towards a North-South Perspective, in: Migration Letters 4(2): 183-199.
Faist, Thomas/Andreas Ette (2007): Between Autonomy and the European Union: The Europeanisation of National Policies and Politics of Immigration, European View Vol. 5 (Spring 2007), 19-26 (Download). Faist, Thomas (2006): The Transnational Social Spaces of Migration, Sciences Humaines No. 173: 38-44.
Gerdes, Jürgen/Thomas Faist (2006): Von ethnischer zu republikanischer Integration: Der Diskurs um die Reform des deutschen Staatsangehörigkeitsrechts, Berliner Journal für Soziologie Nr. 3.
Faist, Thomas (2006): Espacio Social Transnacional y Desarrollo: Una Exploración de la Relación entre Communidado, Estado y Mercado, Migración y Desarrollo, No. 5: 2-34.
Faist, Thomas (2004): Dual Citizenship as a Path-Dependent Process, International Migration Review 38, 3, 2004: 913-944.
Faist, Thomas (2004): Towards a Political Sociology of Transnationalism, European Journal of Sociology 45, 3, 2004: 19-54.
Faist, Thomas (2003): „Extension du domaine de la lutte“: International Migration and Security. In: International Migration Review 36(1): 7-14.
Faist, Thomas (2001): Doppelte Staatsbürgerschaft als überlappende Mitgliedschaft. In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 42(2): 247-264.
Faist, Thomas (2000): Soziale Staatsbürgerschaft in der Europäischen Union: Verschachtelte Mitgliedschaft". In: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Sonderheft 40: 229-250.
Faist, Thomas (2000): Social Citizenship in the European Union: Nested Membership. In: Journal of Common Market Studies, 39(1): 39-60.
Faist, Thomas (2001): Jenseits von Nation und Post-Nation. Transstaatliche Räume und Doppelte Staatsbürgerschaft. In: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, 7(1): 109-144.
Faist, Thomas (2000): Transnationalization in international migration: implications for the study of citizenship and culture. In: Ethnic and Racial Studies, 23(2): 189-222.
Faist, Thomas (1998): Transnational social spaces out of international migration: evolution, significance and future prospects. In: Archives Européennes de Sociologie, 39(2): 213-247.
Faist, Thomas/Silvia Dörr (1997): Institutional Conditions for the Integration of Immigrants in Welfare States: A Comparison of Germany, France, Great Britain, and the Netherlands. In: European Journal of Political Research, 31: 401-26.
Faist, Thomas (1995): Ethnicization and racialization of welfare-state politics in Germany and the USA. In: Ethnic and Racial Studies, 18(2): 219-250.
Faist, Thomas/Michael Breuer/Bill Jordan (1995): Collective Action, Migration and Welfare States. In: International Sociology, 10(4): 369-386. Faist, Thomas (1994): States, Markets, and Immigrant Minorities. In: Comparative Politics 26(4): 439-460.
Faist, Thomas (1994): How to Define a Foreigner? The Symbolic Politics of Immigration in German Partisan Discourse, 1978-1993. In: West European Politics, 17(2): 50-71.
Faist, Thomas (2008): From Ethnic Nationhood to Republican Integration: Citizenship in Germany since the 1990s, Canadian Diversity/Diversité Canadienne, Special Issue on "Citizenship in the 21st Century: Status, Identity and Practice".
Faist, Thomas (2008): Dual Citizenship in an Age of Mobility, in Bertelsmann Stiftung, Migration Policy Institute and European Policy Centre (eds.), Delivering Citizenship. The Transatlantic Council on Migration. Gütersloh: Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung
Faist, Thomas (2008):Transstate Spaces and Development: Some Critical Remarks, in Ludger Pries (ed.), Rethinking Transnationalism. The Meso-Link of Organisations. London: Routledge, 62-79
Faist, Thomas (2008): We Are All "Republican" Now: Changes in, Prospects for, and Limits of Citizenship in Germany, in Oliver Schmidtke/Saime Ozcurumez (eds.), Of States, Rights, and Social Closure: Governing Migration and Citizenship. Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 113-134.
Faist, Thomas (2007/2008): Entwicklungspotenziale transnationaler Migration, WeltTrends 57 (Winter): 15, 4: 87-103.
Faist, Thomas (2007): Dual Citizenship: Change, Prospects, and Limits, in Thomas Faist (ed.), The Politics of Dual Citizenship in Europe: From Nationhood to Societal Integration. Aldershot, UK: Avebury, 171-200.
Faist, Thomas (2007): The Fixed and Porous Boundaries of Dual Citizenship, in Thomas Faist (ed.), The Politics of Dual Citizenship in Europe: From Nationhood to Societal Integration. Aldershot, UK: Avebury, 1-44.
Faist, Thomas (2007): Göç-Güvenlik Bağı: 11 Eylül Öncesi ve Sonrasıında Göç ve Güvenlik, in Ayhan Kaya/Bahar Şahin (eds.), Kökler ve Yollar. Türkiye’de Göç Süreçleri. İstanbul: İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 19-40.
Faist, Thomas (2007): Przedmowa (Introduction), in Agata Górny/Piotra Korysia (eds.), Obywatelstwo wielokrotnego wyboru: Interdyscyplinarne uje;cie kwestii podwójnego obwatelstwa w Polsce (Multiple Choice Citizenship: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Dual Citizenship in Poland). Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersyetetu Warszawskiego, Studia Migracyjne/Migration Studies, 11-15.
Faist, Thomas (2007): Transnational Migration and Development: A Critical Analysis of the New Enthusiasm around Migrant Communities and Associations, in Erik Berggren/Branka Likic-Brboric/Gulay Tokzös/Nicos Trimikliniotis (eds.), Irregular Migration, Informal Labour and Community in Europe. Maastricht: Shaker Publishing (forthcoming).
Faist, Thomas (2007): The Transnational Turn: Migration and Politics, in Ajaya Kumar Sahoo (ed.), Sociology of Diaspora: A Reader. New Delhi: Rawat Publications, 227-266.
Faist, Thomas (2007): Die transnationale soziale Frage: Soziale Rechte und Bürgerschaften im globalen Kontext, in Jürgen Mackert/Hans-Peter Müller (Hrsg.), Moderne (Staats)Bürgerschaft: Nationale Staatsbürgerschaft und die Debatten der Citizenship Studies. Wiesbaden: VS, 285-307.
Gerdes, Jürgen/Thomas Faist/Beate Rieple (2007): ‘We are all “Republican” now’: The Politics of Dual Citizenship in Germany, in Thomas Faist (ed.), The Politics of Dual Citizenship in Europe: From Nationhood to Societal Integration. Aldershot, UK: Avebury, 45-76.
Faist, Thomas (2006): The Migration-Security Nexus: International Migration and Security, in Y. Michal Bodemann/Gökce Yurdakul (eds.), Migration, Citizenship and Ethnos: Incorporation Regimes in Germany, Western Europe and North America. Palgrave Macmillan, 103-120.
Faist, Thomas (2006): Cultural Logics of Transnational Migration, in Council of Europe (ed.), The Challenge of Transcultural Diversities: Transversal Study on the Theme of Cultural Policy and Cultural Diversity. Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing, 51-68.
Faist, Thomas/Jürgen Gerdes/Beate Rieple (2005): Doppelte Staatsbürgerschaft: Determinanten der deutschen Politik des Staatsangehörigkeitsrechts, in Yvonne M. Schröter/Christoph Mengelkamp/Reinhold Jäger (Hrsg.), Doppelte Staatsbürgerschaft – ein gesellschaftlicher Diskurs über Mehrstaatigkeit, Landau: Verlag Empirische Pädagogik, 97-122.
Faist, Thomas (2004): Social Space, in George Ritzer (ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Theory, Vol. 2, Beverly Hills: Sage, 2004, 760-763.
Faist, Thomas (2004): The Transnational Turn in Migration Research: Perspectives for the Study of Politics and Policy, in Maja Povrzanović Frykman (ed.), Transnational Spaces: Disciplinary Perspectives. Malmö. Malmö University, 2004, 11-45.
Faist, Thomas (2004): Concluding Remarks, in Maja Povrzanović Frykman (ed.), Transnational Spaces: Disciplinary Perspectives. Malmö. Malmö University, 2004, 169-176.
Faist, Thomas (2004): Staatsbürgerschaft und Integration in Deutschland: Assimilation, kultureller Pluralismus und Transstaatlichkeit, in Yves Bizeul (Hrsg.), Integration von Migranten. Deutsche und französische Konzepte im Vergleich, Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, 77-104.
Faist, Thomas (2004): Dual Citizenship as Overlapping Membership, in Danièle Joly (ed.), International Migration in the New Millenium. Global Movement and Settlement. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2004, 210-232.
Faist, Thomas/ R. Sackmann/ B. Peters (2003) : Identity and Integration. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 19, 246-385.
Faist, Thomas (2001): Beyond National and Post-National Models: Transnational Spaces and Immigrant Integration. In: Luigi Tomasi (Hg.): New Horizons in Sociological Theory and Research. Burlington (USA): Ashgate, 277-312.
Faist, Thomas (2000): Grenzen überschreiten. Das Konzept Transstaatliche Räume und seine Anwendungen. In: Thomas Faist (Hg.), Transstaatliche Räume. Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur in und zwischen Deutschland und der Türkei. Bielefeld: transcript, 9-56.
Faist, Thomas (2000): Nation, Trans-Nation, Post-Nation. Eine neue Perspektive für die Integrationsforschung. In: Thomas Faist (Hg.), Transstaatliche Räume. Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur in und zwischen Deutschland und der Türkei. Bielefeld: transcript, 339-392.
Faist, Thomas (2000): Economic Activities of Migrants in Transnational Social Spaces. In: Sophie Body-Gendrot/Marco Martiniello (Hg.): Ethnic Minorities in European Cities. The Dynamics of Social Integration and Social Exclusion at the Neighbourhood Level. London: Macmillan, 11-25.
Faist, Thomas (2000): Social Citizenship and Labor Markets. In Peter Kivisto (Hg.): Multicultural America. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 421-436.
Faist, Thomas (2000): Developing Transnational Social Spaces. In: Ludger Pries (Hg.): Migration and Transnational Social Spaces. Aldershot: Avebury, 36-72.
Faist, Thomas (1997): Migration in Contemporary Europe: European Integration, Economic Liberalization, and Protection. In: Jytte Klausen/Louise Tilly (Hg.): European Integration in Social and Historical Perspective 1850 to the Present. Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield, 223-48.
Faist, Thomas (1996): Immigration, Integration and the Welfare State: Germany and the USA in comparative perspective. In: Rainer Bauböck/Agnes Heller/Aristide Zolberg (Hg.): The Challenge of Diversity. Integration and Pluralism in Societies of Immigration. Aldershot: Avebury, 227-258.
Faist, Thomas (1995): Boundaries of Welfare States: Immigrants and Social Rights. In: Robert Miles/Dietrich Thränhardt (Hg.): Inclusion and Exclusion: Migration and the Uniting of Europe, London: Pinter, 177-195.
