Martin Geiger
Migration Governance, Development and Innovation, Europe, Africa and Central Asia
- Dipl.-Geograph (Bonn) PhD (Bonn)
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Associate Professor
Dr. Martin Geiger (PhD, University of Bonn/Germany) is Associate Professor of ‘Politics of Human Migration and Mobility’ at Ӱԭ University. His work focuses on European and global migration governance, the role of inter-state and private actors in migration management, and interrelated aspects of political regulation, development (innovation and growth) and population change.
Dr. Geiger is cross-appointed between the Department of Political Science, the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, and the Institute of African Studies. He is also an active member of Ӱԭ’s ‘Migration & Diaspora Studies’ (MDS) initiative, the Centre for Europe Studies (CES), and other initiatives and networks at Ӱԭ. Before joining Ӱԭ, Dr. Geiger held other academic appointments at centres and universities in Europe and Canada. He is an honorary member and former senior researcher of the renowned European migration research centre (University of Osnabrück, Germany); furthermore, he regularly guest-lectures courses at other universities, e.g., the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH). Dr. Geiger is the founding editor of the peer-reviewed ‘’ series with Palgrave Macmillan (co-editor: Marta Pachocka, SGH/CMR Warsaw).
Dr. Geiger has received various research and teaching awards, including a prestigious German PhD fellowship (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), a Government of Canada Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Ontario Early Researcher Award (ERA) and a Capital Educators’ Award. Furthermore, he was the recipient of various Canadian and international research grants, including an Ontario ERA project and a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant on the topic of talent mobility (), and a SSHRC Insight Development Grant on the role of international organizations in migration management.
Selected Publications
Geiger M & Syrakvash V (2023) “”. Journal of International Migration and Integration 24: 957-978.
Molano J & Dale O & Geiger M (2023) “”. Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 30(1): 114-128.
Geiger M & Kokoeva N & Zhang Y (2022) “”. Journal of International Analytics 13(1): 48-65.
Geiger M and Koch M (2018) “”. Journal of International Organizations Studies (JIOS) 9(1): 23-42.
Geiger, Martin (2018) ““, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS) 44(10): 1639-1655.
Geiger, M and Pécoud A (2014) ‘’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS) 40(6): 865-887.
Geiger, M and Pécoud, A (2010/paperback 2012) , Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan.