dr. D.V. (Darshan) Vigneswaran
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Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group: Challenges to Democratic Representation
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Nieuwe Achtergracht
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1018 WV Amsterdam
Room number: 3.40B
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D.V.Vigneswaran@uva.nl
Biography
Darshan Vigneswaran is the Co-Director of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies and Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam. He is also a Senior Researcher at the African Centre for Migration and Society, WITS University. In 2008, he was a British Academy Fellow at the International Migration Institute, University of Oxford where he continues to serve as the reviews editor on the working paper series. From 2010-12 he was a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Religious and Ethnic Diversity where he co-coordinates an international working group on Public Space and Diversity.
His research aims to understand and explain deep changes in the structure of international politics. His work is primarily interested in how the state's claim to territory has been reconfigured in response to changing patterns of human mobility. Since completing his doctoral studies at Monash University, Australia in 2006, he has authored Territory, Migration and the Evolution of the International System (2013), co-edited Slavery, Migration and Contemporary Bondage in Africa (2013) and Mobility Makes States (forthcoming 2015), and published peer-reviewed articles in journals including Political Geography, Environment & Planning D: Society & Space and Review of International Studies. Darshan has also provided expert consultation for INTERPOL, the EU and the South African Police Service and comment for Reuters, the BBC, and the New York Times. His profile and publications can be found at academia.edu and google scholar
2014
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2014). Methods and Modern Slavery: A South African Case Study. In A. Bunting & J. Quirk (Eds.), Contemporary Slavery and Human Rights (Law and Society). Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press.
- D. Vigneswaran (2014). The contours of disorder: crime maps and territorial policing in South Africa. Environment and Planning D - Society & Space, 32 (1), 91-107. doi: 10.1068/d18311
- D. Vigneswaran (2014). Protection and conviviality: community policing in Johannesburg. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 17 (4), 471-486. doi: 10.1177/1367549413510416
- D.V. Vigneswaran & J. Quirk (in press). Introduction. In D.V. Vigneswaran & J. Quirk (Eds.), Mobility Makes States. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2014). Being Like a State: Policing Space in Johannesburg. In Mobility Makes States. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
2013
- J. Quirk & D. Vigneswaran (2013). Human bondage in Africa: historical legacies and recent innovations. In J. Quirk & D. Vigneswaran (Eds.), Slavery, migration and contemporary bondage in Africa (The Harriet Tubman Series on the African Diaspora) (pp. 1-36). Trenton, NJ [etc.]: Africa World Press.
- D. Vigneswaran (2013). Territory, migration and the evolution of the international system (Palgrave studies in international relations). Houndmills [etc.]: Palgrave Macmillan.
- D. Vigneswaran (2013). Making mobility a problem: how South African officials criminalize migration. In K.F. Aas & M. Bosworth (Eds.), The borders of punishment: migration, citizenship, and social exclusion (pp. 111-127). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2012
- D. Vigneswaran (2012). Rapport d'incident: méthodes expérimentales de collecte des données et gouvernance de la migration. In M. Berriane & H. de Haas (Eds.), Les recherches sur les migrations africaines: méthodes et méthodologies innovantes (pp. 113-143). Paris [etc.]: L'Harmattan.
- D. Vigneswaran (2012). Experimental data collection methods and migration governance. In M. Berriane & H. de Haas (Eds.), African migrations research: innovative methods and methodologies (pp. 115-146). Trenton [etc.]: Africa World Press.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2012). Policing Mobility in South Africa. In The Borders of Punishment: Criminal Justice, Citizenship and Social Exclusion. Oxford: Oxford University.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2012). South African Deportation Policies. In IMISCOE 9th Annual Conference. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam.
- A. Segatti, C. Hoag & D. Vigneswaran (2012). Can organisations learn without political leadership? The case of public sector reform among South African Home Affairs officials. Politique Africaine, 128, 121-142. doi: 10.3917/polaf.128.0121
- D. Vigneswaran & J. Quirk (2012). Quantitative methodological dilemmas in urban refugee research: a case study of Johannesburg. Journal of Refugee Studies, 26 (1), 110-116. doi: 10.1093/jrs/fes035
- D. Vigneswaran (2012). Taking out the trash? A ‘garbage can’ model of immigration policing. In L.B. Landau (Ed.), Exorcising the demons within: xenophobia, violence and statecraft in contemporary South Africa (pp. 150-171). Johannesburg [etc.]: Wits University Press.
2011
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2011). Incident reporting: a technique for studying police corruption. Policing & Society, 21 (2), 190-213. doi: 10.1080/10439463.2010.540658
- R. Sutton & D. Vigneswaran (2011). A Kafkaesque state: deportation and detention in South Africa. Citizenship Studies, 15 (5), 627-642. doi: 10.1080/13621025.2011.583794
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2011). The Future of the Entertainment Industry? Piracy, Gang Warfare and Intellectual Property in Johannesburg. In African Studies Association.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2011). Monopolizing Territory: Segregation and Security in Johannesburg and Mumbai. In Transcendence and Control in a Global Mega City. Tata Institute for the Social Sciences.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2011). Methods and Modern Slavery: A South African Case Study’, Modern Slavery. In Human Rights and Development. York University.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2011). Underworld Esperanto: Corruption as a Universal Medium. In Comparing Conviviality: Dreams and Realities of Living with Difference. Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.
- D. Vigneswaran (2011). Migration control, documentation, and state transformation. In A. Segatti & L.B. Landau (Eds.), Contemporary migration to South Africa: a regional development issue (Africa development forum) (pp. 105-119). Washington, DC: World Bank.
- D. Vigneswaran & L.B. Landau (2011). The transformation of sovereign territoriality: a case study of South African immigration control. In S. Cornelissen, F. Cheru & T.M. Shaw (Eds.), Africa and international relations in the 21st century (International political economy series) (pp. 121-144). Basingstoke [etc.]: Palgrave Macmillan.
- R. Sutton, D. Vigneswaran & H. Wels (2011). Waiting in liminal space: migrants' queuing for home affairs in South Africa. Anthropology Southern Africa, 34 (1&2), 30-37.
2010
- D. Vigneswaran & J. Quirk (2010). Past masters as modern inventions: intellectual history as critical theory. International Relations, 24 (2), 107-131. doi: 10.1177/0047117809366192
- D. Vigneswaran, T. Araia, C. Hoag & X. Tshabalala (2010). Criminality or monopoly? Informal immigration enforcement in South Africa. Journal of Southern African Studies, 36 (2), 465-481. doi: 10.1080/03057070.2010.485797
2009
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2009). The Revolving Door: Asylum seekers, Access and Employment in South Africa. In S. Gallo-Mosala (Ed.), Migrants’ Experiences within the South African Labour Market. Cape Town: Scalabrini.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2009). Birds of a Feather: Segregation and Immigration Control in South Africa. In Slavery, Migration and Contemporary Bondage, 7th Annual Conference on Forced Labour.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2009). Separation Anxiety: The Historical Origins of Institutionalised Xenophobia. In Exorcising the Demon Within: Violence and Statecraft in Contemporary South Africa. University of the Witwatersrand.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2009). Do the Right Thing: Rights and Administrative Capacity in South Africa’s Refugee Reception System. In Refugee Futures Conference. Monash University.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2009). Residential Sampling and Johannesburg’s Forced Migrants. Journal of Refugee Studies, 25 (2), 1-21.
2008
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2008). Sequestered Sovereignty: ‘Policing Immigration in South Africa. In International Colloquium: The State of International Migration Studies in Southern Africa. University of the Witwatersrand.
- D.V. Vigneswaran & L. Landau (2008). Territorial Exclusion, Migrants and Statecraft in South Africa. In International Studies Association 50th Annual Convention.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2008). The Indian Sub-Continent. In Before the Arrival of the Anarchical Society: A Study of International Orders, 1492-1792. Bristol University.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2008). A Foot in the Door: Access to Status Determination in South Africa. In Best Practices for Refugee Status Determination. Monash University.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2008). Incident Reporting: Experimental Data Collection Methods and Migration Governance. In African Migration Workshop, African Migration Research: Methods and Methodology. Oxford University.
- D. Vigneswaran (2008). A foot in the door: access to asylum in South Africa. Refuge : Canada's Periodical on Refugees, 25 (2), 41-52.
- D. Vigneswaran (2008). Enduring territoriality: South African immigration control. Political Geography, 27 (7), 783-801. doi: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2008.10.003
2007
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2007). Captured Illegals: South African Representation of Undocumented Migrants. In Workshop on Representation and Displacement: Refugees, IDPs and Stateless Persons in State and Nation. Oxford University Refugee Studies Centre.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2007). Gentlemanly Expansion: British Ideals in India, 1757-1857. In International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2007). Lost in Space: Residential Sampling and Johannesburg’s Forced Migrants. In African Migrations Workshop: Understanding Migration Dynamics in the Continent. Oxford University.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2007). The Spectacle of Inhospitality. In Punishment and Incarceration. WITS Institute for Social and Economic.
- D.V. Vigneswaran & L. Landau (2007). Shifting the Focus of Migration Back Home: Perspectives from Africa. Development (Basingstoke), 50 (4), 82-87.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2007). The Territorial Strategy of the Italian City-State. International Relations, 21 (4), 427-444.
2005
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2005). The Construction of an Edifice: the Story of a First Great Debate. Review of International Studies, 31 (1), 89-107.
2004
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2004). The Contours of Political Space: A Macro-historical Analysis of Transformation in the Boundaries of European Community. In Oceanic International Studies Conference.
2012
- D. Vigneswaran (2012). Methodological debates in human rights research: a case study of human trafficking in South Africa. (Preprints, MMG Working Paper, no 12-07). Göttingen: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.
2010
- D. Vigneswaran, M. Yaso & J. Hornberger (2010). Policing the beat: music piracy in downtown Johannesburg. (extern rapport, International policing, mobility and crime in South Africa, no 1). Johannesburg: African Centre for Migration & Society.
- D. Vigneswaran (2010). Searching for reconciliation: policing, injustice and territoriality in Johannesburg. (Preprints, MMG working paper, no 10-06). Göttingen: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.
- D. Vigneswaran (2010). Being like a state: policing space in Johannesburg. (Preprints, MMG working paper, no 10-15). Göttingen: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.
2009
- D.V. Vigneswaran, M. Kiwanuka & T. Monson (2009). Zimbabwean Migration to Southern Africa: New Trends and Responses. (intern rapport). London: Oxfam: Great Britain.
- D. Vigneswaran & J. Hornberger (2009). Beyond ‘good cop’/ ‘bad cop’: understanding informality and police corruption in South Africa: Introduction. In D. Vigneswaran & J. Hornberger (Eds.), Beyond ‘good cop’/ ‘bad cop’: understanding informality and police corruption in South Africa (pp. 1-11). Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2009). Incident Reporting: Experimental Data Collection Methods and Migration Governance. (Preprints, no 16). Oxford: International Migration Institute, University of Oxford.
- D.V. Vigneswaran, A. Wa-kabwe Segatti & C. Hoag (2009). The Turnaround Strategy From Below: Public Sector Reform Among South African Home Affairs Migration Officials in Johannesburg. (Preprints, no 109). Mainz: Department of Anthropology and African Studies, University of Mainz.
- D.V. Vigneswaran & M. Duponchel (2009). One Burden too Many? A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Immigration Policing in Gauteng. (extern rapport). Johannesburg: African Centre for Migration and Society, WITS University.
2008
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2008). Barriers to Asylum: the Marabastad Refugee Reception Office. (extern rapport, no D). Johannesburg: African Centre for Migration and Society.
- D. Vigneswaran (2008). A foot in the door: access to asylum in South Africa. (Preprints, Migration studies working paper series, no 40). Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand.
- D.V. Vigneswaran, T. Araia, D. Breen, D. Cote, L. Landau, I. Palmary, T. Polzer, Y. Park, K. Ramjathan-Keogh & J. Vearey (2008). Protecting Refugees Asylum Seekers and Immigrants in South Africa. (extern rapport). Johannesburg: Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa.
2007
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2007). Lost in Space: Residential Sampling and Johannesburg’s Forced Migrants. (Preprints, Methods and Field Notes, no 4). Johannesburg: African Centre for Migration and Society, WITS University.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2007). Free Movement and the Movement’s Forgotten Freedoms: South African Representation of Undocumented Migrants. (Preprints, no 41). Oxford: Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2007). Fact or Fiction: Examining Zimbabwean Cross-border Migration into South Africa. (extern rapport, no B). Johannesburg: African Centre for Migration and Society.
- D.V. Vigneswaran, D. Cote, L. Landau, I. Palmary, T. Polzer & K. Ramjathan-Keogh (2007). Protecting Refugees and Asylum Seekers in South Africa. (extern rapport). Johannesburg: Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa.
2006
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2006). In Direct Control? Territorial Exclusion of Migrants in South Africa, 1998-2004. (Preprints, Working Paper Series, no 28). Johannesburg: African Centre for Migration and Society.
2004
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2004). International Relations’ First Debate: Context and Tradition. (unknown, Working Paper Series, no 1). Canberra: Department of International Relations, Australian National University.
2013
2012
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2012). The Mobile Ghetto: West African Nationals and Drug Trade. In International Policing Round-Table Discussion. University of the Witwatersrand.
2008
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2008). The Revolting Door: Asylum Seekers, Access and Employment in South Africa. In The Impact of Migration on The Local Labour Market Workshop. Scalabrini Centre.
2007
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2007). Which Migration, What Development? Critical Perspectives on European-African Relations. (Preprints, no 37). Johannesburg: African Centre for Migration and Society.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2007). Undocumented Migration: Risks and Myths (1998-2005). In A. Wa-Kabwe-Segatti & L. Landau (Eds.), Migration in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Challenges and Questions to Policy-makers,. Agence Française de Développement.
2006
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2006). The Importance of Place in Understanding City-state Territoriality. (Preprints, Working Paper Series, no 24). Johannesburg: African Centre for Migration and Society.
- D.V. Vigneswaran & G. Singh (2006). Migration Analysis for Regional Strategy Paper. (intern rapport). Johannesburg: International Organization for Migration.
2009
- D.V. Vigneswaran & L. Landau (2009, August 05). Border management: Sensible immigration policy key to better, safer borders. Business Day
2008
- D.V. Vigneswaran & T. Hlalambelo (2008, January 01). The Spectacle of Inhospitality. Mail and Guardian Biannual Supplement
- D.V. Vigneswaran & L. Landau (2008, February 11). Here come the raids again. Here come the raids again
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2008, May 26). Myths about xenophobia distract us from real issues. The Cape Times
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2008, May 26). Too many past excuses for Xenophobia. Pretoria News, pp. 9-9.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2008, January 01). Can’t we all just get along? Focus, pp. 30-33.
2007
- D.V. Vigneswaran & J-P. Misago (2007, June 08). Police leave foreigners in the lurch. Mail and Guardian
Andere
- D.V. Vigneswaran & J. Quirk (2010). The State and Mobility in Africa.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2009). Slavery Migration and Contemporary Bondage in Africa.
Spreker
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2014, October 9). Who Belongs Where? A Synthetic Theory of Immigration and Urbanization Control. Stockholm, Invited lecture, Department of Human Geography Public Lecture Series, University of Stockholm.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2010, January 1). Civilian Policing and Territoriality in Johannesburg. University of Oslo., Centre for the Study of Cultural Complexity.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2009, October 8). Beyond ‘Good Cop’/’Bad Cop’: Everyday Police Corruption in South Africa. Leiden, African Studies Centre Seminar Series.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2009, January 1). Institutionalised Xenophobia in South Africa: The Historical Origins of the May 2008 Attacks’,. Institute for Social Studies, Seminar Series.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2009, October 5). A Suspended Sentence: Administrative Breakdown in South Africa’s Deportation System. Free University of Amsterdam, Centre For Migration and Diversity.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2008, January 1). Global Apartheid: Catchy Label or Emergent Order? Hull University, Wilberforce Institute for Slavery and Emancipation Public Lecture Series.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2008, January 1). Remembering Empire: In Search of a Political Theory of Diaspora. Rhodes University, Diaspora Teach In.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2008, January 1). Global Apartheid: Catchy Label or Emergent Order? Institute for Social Studies, Public Lecture Series.
- D.V. Vigneswaran (2006, January 1). Gentlemanly Expansion: British Strategies for Territorial Control in India, 1787-1857. Johannesburg, Forced Migration Studies Programme: Migration and Society Seminar Series.
Boekredactie
- D.V. Vigneswaran & J. Quirk (Eds.). (2014). Mobility Makes States. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
- J. Quirk & D. Vigneswaran (Eds.). (2013). Slavery, migration and contemporary bondage in Africa (The Harriet Tubman Series on the African Diaspora). Trenton, NJ [etc.]: Africa World Press.
- D. Vigneswaran & J. Hornberger (Eds.). (2009). Beyond ‘good cop’/ ‘bad cop’: understanding informality and police corruption in South Africa. Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand.
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