Martin Geiger
Migration Governance, Development and Innovation, Europe, Africa and Central Asia
| Degrees: | Dipl.-Geograph (Bonn) PhD (Bonn) |
| Phone: | 613-520-2600 x 3232 (emails preferred) |
| Email: | martin.geiger@carleton.ca |
| Office: | 3314 RB |
On sabbatical July 2024 – December 2024
Associate Professor
Dr. Martin Geiger (PhD, University of Bonn/Germany) is Associate Professor of ‘Politics of Human Migration and Mobility’ at Carleton 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 Carleton’s ‘Migration & Diaspora Studies’ (MDS) initiative, the Centre for Europe Studies (CES), and other initiatives and networks at Carleton. Before joining Carleton, 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 IMIS (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 ‘Mobility & Politics’ 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 (migrationforinnovation.info), and a SSHRC Insight Development Grant on the role of international organizations in migration management.
Selected Publications
Geiger M & Syrakvash V (2023) “Georgia as Transient Space and Talent Harbor for Russian and Belarusian IT Specialists”. Journal of International Migration and Integration 24: 957-978.
Molano J & Dale O & Geiger M (2023) “Leveraging the Canada-Ukraine authorization for emergency travel program to facilitate talent mobility”. Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 30(1): 114-128.
Geiger M & Kokoeva N & Zhang Y (2022) “The International Organization for Migration (IOM): “Competent Structure” and “Inevitable Choice” for Russia and China to Affect Global Migration Governance”. Journal of International Analytics 13(1): 48-65.
Geiger M and Koch M (2018) “World Organizations in Migration Politics: The International Organization for Migration”. Journal of International Organizations Studies (JIOS) 9(1): 23-42.
Geiger, Martin (2018) “‘Ideal Partnership or Marriage of Convenience?’ Canada’s Ambivalent Relationship with the International Organization for Migration“, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS) 44(10): 1639-1655.
Geiger, M and Pécoud A (2014) ‘International Organisations and the Politics of Migration’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS) 40(6): 865-887.
Geiger, M and Pécoud, A (2010/paperback 2012) The Politics of International Migration Management, Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan.