St Cross College, Oxford

Email: nicholas.vanhear

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Dr Nicholas Van Hear is a Senior Researcher at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), the University of Oxford.He has worked on forced migration, development, conflict, diaspora, transnationalism and related issues for more than 25 years, with field experience in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia and Europe.

Before joining COMPAS when it was launched in 2003, he held senior research posts at the Refugee Studies Centre in Oxford (1990-2000) and at the Danish Centre for Development Research in Copenhagen (2000-2003). His books include New Diasporas (London: Routledge, 1998), The Migration-Development Nexus (Geneva: International Organisation for Migration, 2003), and Catching Fire: Containing forced migration in a volatile world (Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006).

He has been a consultant for, among others, UNHCR, the European Commission, the UK Department for International Development (DfID), the UK Home Office, the UK National Audit Office, and other British, Scandinavian, German, North American government departments and research institutions. He was director of COMPAS during 2006-2008.