Nicholas Van Hear is a Deputy Director and Senior Researcher at COMPAS. His background is in Anthropology and Development Studies.
He is the author of "New Diasporas" (1998), and co-editor of "The Migration-Development Nexus" (2003) and "Catching Fire" (2006), as well as the author of numerous articles in journals, edited volumes and practitioner publications.
Nicholas has worked on forced migration, development and related issues for many years, with field experience in Africa, the Middle East, Europe and South Asia. Before joining COMPAS, he was a Senior Researcher at the Danish Centre for Development Research in Copenhagen. Prior to this he was a Senior Researcher at the Refugee Studies Centre in Oxford.
Selected Publications
'Beyond control: informal remittance transfer, regulation and development', (with Frank Pieke and Anna Lindley), accepted by Global Networks , 2007
Informal Remittance Systems in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries: synthesis study , (with Frank Pieke and Anna Lindley), a report for the European Community Poverty Reduction Effectiveness Programme (EC-PREP) and the Department for International Development (DFID), January 2005. Revised version to be published in Global Networks , 2007.
Catching fire: containing forced migration in a volatile world, (edited with Christopher McDowell). Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield, 2006, xiv + 261pp. ISBN 0739112449.
'Linking return and reintegration to complex forced migration emergencies' (with C McDowell) in Palestinian refugee repatriation: global perspectives , edited Michael Dumper, Abingdon: Routledge, 2006, 154-179, ISBN 0415384974.
'Forced Migration, Conflict and Development: Some Policy Issues', (with Stephen Castles), in Mediterranean Transit Migration , edited by Ninna Nyberg Sørensen, Copenhagen : Danish Institute for International Studies, June 2006, ISBN: 8776051412.
'Refugees and internally displaced people - policy issues', id21 Global Issues, 07-2006, Research Highlight, www.id21.org/society/s10csc1g3.html (with Stephen Castles).