Peter Nyers

Publications

Books

Peter Nyers, Irregular Citizenship, Immigration, and Deportation. London: Routledge, 2019.
Peter Nyers, Rethinking Refugees: Beyond States of Emergency. London: Routledge, 2006.

Edited Books

Engin F. Isin and Peter Nyers, eds. Routledge Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies. London: Routledge, 2014.
Peter Nyers and Kim Rygiel, eds. Citizenship, Migrant Activism, and the Politics of Movement. London: Routledge, 2012.
Peter Nyers, ed. Securitizations of Citizenship. London: Routledge, 2009.
Engin F. Isin, Peter Nyers, and Bryan S. Turner, eds. Citizenship between Past and Future. London: Routledge, 2008

Journal Special Issues

Peter Nyers, Johanna Reynolds, Julie Young, eds., Dis/placing the Borders of North America. Special issue of International Journal of Migration and Border Studies 5:1/2 (2019).
Engin F. Isin, Peter Nyers, and Bryan S. Turner, eds. Celebrating Ten Years of Citizenship Studies. Special issue of Citizenship Studies 11:1 (2007).
Peter Nyers, ed. What’s Left of Citizenship? Special issue of Citizenship Studies 8:3 (2004).
Michelle Lowry and Peter Nyers, eds. Global Movements for Refugee and Migrant Rights. Special issue of Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees 21:3 (2003).

Journal Articles

  • Peter Nyers. 2024. ‘Decolonizing blockades: settler-citizen solidarities with indigenous blockades’, Environment & Planning C: Politics and Space, pp. 1-17.
  • Peter Nyers. 2024. ‘Refusals of noncitizenship’, American Ethnologist, 51:3 (August).
  • “Protection” and “Struggle” (multi-authored) in Nicholas de Genova and Martina Tazzioli, eds. 2022. ‘Minor Keywords of Political Theory: Migration as a Critical Standpoint’, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 40:4, pp. 781-875.
  • Peter Nyers. 2019. ‘Humanitarian Hubris in the Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration’, Global Affairs 5:2, pp. 171-178.
  • Peter Nyers, Johanna Reynolds, Julie Young. 2019. ‘Introduction: Contesting the Borders of North America’, International Journal of Migration and Border Studies 5:1/2, pp. 1-11.
  • Peter Nyers. 2015. ‘Migrant Citizenships and Autonomous Mobilities’, Migration, Mobility & Displacement 1:1, pp. 23-39.
  • Peter Nyers. 2012. ‘Moving Borders: the politics of dirt’, Radical Philosophy, No. 174, pp. 2-6.
  • Peter Nyers. 2011. ‘Alien Equality’, Issues in Legal Scholarship, 9:1.
  • Peter Nyers. 2010. ‘Dueling Designs: The Politics of Rescuing Dual Citizens’, Citizenship Studies, 14:1, pp. 47-60.
  • Peter Nyers. 2010. ‘No One is Illegal between City and Nation’, Studies in Social Justice 4:2, pp. 127-143.
  • Lauren Dunn, Peter Nyers, Richard Stubbs. 2010. ‘Western Interventionism versus East Asian Non-Interference: Competing ‘Global’ Norms in the Asian Century’, Pacific Review, 23:3, pp. 295-312.
  • Peter Nyers. 2010. ‘Missing Citizenship’, International Political Sociology, 4:1, pp. 95-98.
  • Engin F. Isin, Peter Nyers, Bryan S. Turner. 2009. ‘The Thinking Citizenship Series’, Citizenship Studies 13:1, pp. 1-2.
  • Peter Nyers. 2008. ‘In Solitary, In Solidarity: Detainees, Hostages, and Contesting the Anti-Policy of Detention’, European Journal of Cultural Studies, 11:3, pp. 333-349.
  • Carolina Moulin and Peter Nyers. 2007. ‘“We live in the country of UNHCR”: Refugee Protests and Global Political Society’, International Political Sociology 1:4, pp. 356-372.
  • Peter Nyers. 2007. ‘Why Citizenship Studies’, Citizenship Studies 11:1, pp. 1-4.
  • Peter Nyers. 2006. ‘The Accidental Citizen: Acts of Sovereignty and (Un)Making Citizenship’, Economy and Society 34:1, pp. 22-41.
  • Peter Nyers. 2005. ‘The Regularization of Non-Status Immigrants in Canada: Limits and Prospects’, Canadian Review of Social Policy No. 55, Spring/Summer, pp. 109-114.
  • Peter Nyers. 2004. ‘What’s Left of Citizenship?’ Citizenship Studies 8:3. pp. 203-215.
  • Peter Nyers. 2003. ‘Abject Cosmopolitanism: The Politics of Protection in the Anti-Deportation Movement’, Third World Quarterly24:6, pp. 1069-1093. Italian translation: ‘Cosmopolitismo abietto’, in Sandro Mezzadra, ed., Liberta in movimento. Per una analisi politica delle migrazioni contemporanee, Rome: DeriveApprodi, 2004, pp. 230-244.
  • Michelle Lowry and Peter Nyers. 2003. ‘Introduction: Global Movements for Refugee and Migrant Rights’, Refuge: Canada’s Periodical on Refugees 21:3, pp. 1-3.
  • Michelle Lowry and Peter Nyers. 2003. ‘Roundtable Report: “No One is Illegal”: The Fight for Refugee and Migrant Rights in Canada’, Refuge: Canada’s Periodical on Refugees 21:3, pp. 66-72.
  • Peter Nyers. 2000. ‘The Politics of Enclosure in Thomas More’s Utopia’, Problématique: Journal of Political Studies No. 6, pp. 1-21.
  • Peter Nyers. 1999. ‘Emergency or Emerging Identities? Refugees and Transformations in World Order’, Millennium: Journal of International Studies 28:1, pp. 1-26.
  • Peter Nyers. 1998. ‘Refugees, Humanitarian Emergencies, and the Politicization of Life’, Refuge: Canada’s Periodical on Refugees 17:6, pp. 16-21.

Chapters in Books

  • Peter Nyers. 2021. ‘Petitions and Protest: Refugees and the Haunting of Canadian Citizenship’, chapter for Refugee States: Humanitarian Exceptionalism and Critical Refugee Studies in Canada, Thy Phu and Vinh Nguyen, eds., University of Toronto Press, pp. 99-116.
  • Peter Nyers. 2017. ‘Incipient Cosmopolitanisms’, in Terri Tomsky and Eddy Kent, eds., Negative Cosmopolitanisms: Cultures and Politics of World Citizenship after Globalization, Montreal-Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, pp. 326-335.
  • Peter Nyers. 2017. ‘Citizenship and an International Political Sociology’, in Pinar Bilgin and Xavier Guillaume, eds., Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology, London: Routledge, pp. 113-122.
  • Peter Nyers and Zeina Sleiman. 2016. ‘Citizenship’ in Aoileann Ni Mhurchu and Reiko Shindo, eds., Critical Imaginations in International Relations, London: Routledge, pp. 28-40.
  • Peter Nyers. 2015. ‘The Accidental Citizen: Acts of Sovereignty and (Un)Making Citizenship’, in Jo Shaw, ed., Citizenship and Constitutional Law, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, pp. 22-41. [reprint] 
  • Engin F. Isin and Peter Nyers. 2014. ‘Globalizing Citizenship Studies’, in Engin F. Isin and Peter Nyers, eds., Routledge Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies, London: Routledge, pp. 1-11.
  • Carolina Moulin and Peter Nyers. 2014. ‘“We live in the country of UNHCR”: Refugee Protests and Global Political Society’, Critical International Relations, Jenny Edkins, ed. London: Routledge. [reprint] 
  • Peter Nyers. 2013. ‘Liberating Irregularity: No Borders, Temporality, Citizenship’, Citizenship and Security: the constitution of political being, Xavier Guillaume and Jef Huysmans, eds. London: Routledge, pp. 37-52.
  • Peter Nyers. 2012. ‘Researching Anti-Deportation: Socialization as Method’, Research Methods in Critical Security Studies: An Introduction, Mark B. Salter and Can E. Matlu, eds. London: Routledge, pp. 97-100.
  • Peter Nyers and Kim Rygiel. 2012. ‘Introduction: Citizenship, Migrant Activism and the Politics of Movement’, in Peter Nyers and Kim Rygiel, eds., Citizenship, Migrant Activism, and the Politics of Movement, New York: Routledge, pp. 1-19. German translation: ‘Citizenship, migrantischer Aktivismus und Politiken der Bewegung’, in Lisa-Marie Heimeshoff, Sabine Hess, Stafanie Kron, Helen Schwenken, and Miriam Trzeciak, eds., Grenzregime II: Migration, Kontrolle, Wissen. Transnationale Perspektiven, Berlin: Assoziation A, 2014, pp. 197-216.
  • Peter Nyers. 2011. ‘Forms of Irregular Citizenship’, The Contested Politics of Mobility: Borderzones and Irregularity, Vicki Squire, ed. New York: Routledge, pp. 184-198.
  • Peter Nyers. 2011. ‘Missing Citizenship’, ‘I am an American’: Filming the Fear of Difference, Cynthia Weber, ed. Bristol, Intellect Press, 2011. [reprint]
  • Peter Nyers. 2010. ‘Abject Cosmopolitanism: The Politics of Protection in the Anti-Deportation Movement’, in Nicholas De Genova and Nathalie Peutz, eds., The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement, Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 413-442. [reprint]
  • Peter Nyers. 2010. ‘Abject Cosmopolitanism: The Politics of Protection in the Anti-Deportation Movement’, in Gerard Delanty and David Inglis, eds., Cosmopolitanism: Critical Concepts in Sociology, New York: Routledge. [reprint]
  • Peter Nyers. 2009. ‘Sovereignty Redux? Autonomy and Protection in Military Interventions’, Unsettled Legitimacy: Disruptions and Reconstructions of Political Community and Authority, Steven Bernstein and William Coleman, eds. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, pp. 194-212. Chinese translation published by Social Sciences Academic Press, 2011.
  • Peter Nyers. 2009. ‘Introduction: Securitizations of Citizenship’, Securitizations of Citizenship, Peter Nyers, ed. New York: Routledge.
  • Peter Nyers. 2009. ‘The Accidental Citizen: Acts of Sovereignty and (Un)Making Citizenship’, in Peter Nyers, ed., Securitizations of Citizenship, New York: Routledge, pp. 118-136. [reprint]
  • Peter Nyers. 2008. ‘No One Is Illegal Between City and Nation’, Acts of Citizenship, Engin F. Isin and Greg Nielsen, eds. London: Zed Books, pp. 160-181.
  • Peter Nyers. 2008. ‘Community without Status: Non-Status Migrants and Cities of Refuge’, Renegotiating Community: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Contexts, Diana Brydon and William Coleman, eds. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, pp. 123-138. Chinese translation published by Social Sciences Academic Press, 2011.
  • Peter Nyers. 2008. ‘Introduction: Why Citizenship Studies’, Citizenship between Past and Future, Engin F. Isin, Peter Nyers, Bryan S. Turner, eds., London: Routledge, pp. 1-4.
  • Peter Nyers. 2006. ‘Taking Rights, Mediating Wrongs: Disagreements over the Political Agency of Non-Status Refugees’, The Politics of Protection: Sites of Insecurity and Political Agency, Jef Huysmans, Andrew Dobson, Raia Prokhovnik, eds. London: Routledge, pp. 48-67.
  • Peter Nyers. 2000. ‘On Humanitarian Violence: “Humanity” and the Logic of Sovereignty’, (Dis)Placing Security: Critical Re-evaluations of the Boundaries of Security Studies, Samantha Arnold and J. Marshall Beier, eds., Toronto: Centre for International and Security Studies, pp. 71-78.

Other Publications

  • Peter Nyers and David Moffette. 2022. Canada must grant permanent immigration status to undocumented residents. The Conversation (August 3).
  • Peter Nyers. 2022. Review of Nick Vaughan-Williams, Vernacular Border Securitiy: Citizens’ Narratives of Europe’s ‘Migration Crisis’ (Oxford 2021), Perspectives on Politics 20:3, pp. 1146-1148.
  • Peter Nyers, ed. 2019. States of Refuge: Keywords for Critical Refugee Studies, Working Paper Series, Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster University.
  • Peter Nyers interviewed by Julia Wong. 2018. Notes from the Field: Irregular Citizenship and Citizenship in a No-Borders World. Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS).
  • Peter Nyers. 2016. Review of Martina Tazzioli, Spaces of Governmentality: Autonomous Migration and the Arab Spring (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) in Radical Philosophy No. 199.
  • Peter Nyers. 2007. Review of Elspeth Guild and Joanne van Selm, eds. International Migration and Security: Opportunities and Challenges (Routledge, 2005) in Millennium: Journal of International Studies 36:1, pp. 154-155.
  • Peter Nyers. 2006. Comment on Nathalie Peutz, ‘Embarking on an Anthropology of Removal’, Current Anthropology 47:2, pp. 217-41 (p.235).
  • Carolina Berinstein, Peter Nyers, Cynthia Wright and Sima Zeheri. 2006. Access Not Fear: Non-Status Immigrants and City Services. Report prepared for the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Campaign, Toronto, Ontario, 25 pp.
  • Erika Khandor, Jean McDonald, Peter Nyers and Cynthia Wright. 2004. The Regularization of Non-Status Immigrants in Canada, 1960-2004: Past Policies, Current Perspectives, Active Campaigns. Report prepared for the STATUS Campaign, 50 pp.
  • Peter Nyers. 2002. Review of Bonnie Honig, Democracy and the Foreigner (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001) in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 8:3, pp. 129-130.
  • Peter Nyers. 1999. Refugees and Humanitarian Ethics: Beyond the Politics of the Emergency. York Centre for International and Security Studies, Occasional Paper No.58, 26 pp.
  • Peter Nyers. 1999. Review of Nicholas Van Hear, New Diasporas: The Mass Exodus, Dispersal and Regrouping of Migrant Communities (London: University College London Press, 1998) in The Ethnic Conflict Research Digest 2:1, p. 14.
  • Peter Nyers. 2019. Review of Jean Carlier, et al., eds., Who is a Refugee? A Comparative Case Law Study (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1997) in The Ethnic Conflict Research Digest 2:1, p. 15.