Contact
E: nicholas.vanhear@compas.ox.ac.uk
Profile: https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/people/nicholas-van-hear/
Twitter: @vanhear53
Happy to be contacted by policymakers, journalists, scholars or prospective students
Nicholas Van Hear
Emeritus Fellow
Affiliation: COMPAS
Expert in: Forced migration, Global development and climate change, Migration governance and policy, Transnationalism
Geographic focus: Global
With a background in anthropology and development studies, Nick has worked on forced migration, conflict, development, diaspora, transnationalism and related issues, and has field experience in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, North America and Europe. His main contributions have been on force and choice in migration; the relationship between mobility and immobility; migration and development; diaspora formation and engagement in conflict settings, including post-war recovery; and migration and class. He continues to explore the interplay between geopolitical shifts, mobility and political mobilisation, as well as pondering mobility futures.