Dr. Nicole Ostrand

Dr Nicole (Nik) Ostrand is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department for Migration and Globalisation and an associate editor at the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. She is also a research associate at ARENA and the Sussex Centre for Migration Research.
 
Nik Ostrand has recently published on issues related to non/knowledge production, transnational negotiations and contestation on norms of violence in deportation, and the transnational co-production of externalisation policies in practice in journals like the International Migration Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Migration Studies and Geopolitics.

Her research interests centre largely on the messy and entangled processes of non/knowledge production, migration governance and forms of resistance. She is also interested in topics related to human rights, deportation monitoring, state sanctioned violence, state secrecy, externalisation practices, inequalities in access to mobility, dystopian narratives of border politics and alternative political imaginaries and forms of resistance.

Her previous positions include:

• postdoctoral researcher, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway,
• visiting research fellow, Brussels School of Governance, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium,
• project coordinator for the Strengthening Human Rights for Rohingya Project, Mahidol University, Thailand, and
• consultant at the Centre for Migration Studies of New York.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, a master’s degree from Mahidol University and a doctorate from the University of Sussex.