Biography

Andrew Geddes is a Professor of Migration Studies and the Director of the Migration Policy Centre. During his career, he has led and participated in a number of major projects on aspects of international migration working with a wide range of academic and non-academic partners. For the period 2014-19 he was awarded an Advanced Investigator Grant by the European Research Council for a project on the drivers of global migration governance (the MIGPROSP project see www.migrationgovernance.org for further details). The MIGPROSP project analysed how ‘actors’ of various types in migration governance systems such as political leaders, officials, international organisations and civil society organisations make sense of the issues and challenges that they face and how these understandings then shape their actions. He has published extensively on global migration, with a particular focus on policy-making and the politics of migration and on regional cooperation and integration. Recent publications include The Politics of Migration and Immigration in Europe (London: Sage, co-authored with Peter Scholten); The Dynamics of Regional Migration Governance (edited with Marcia Vera Espinoza, Leila Hadj-Abdou and Leiza Brumat) and A Rising Tide? The Salience of Immigration and the Rise of Anti-Immigration Political Parties in Western Europe (Political Quarterly, with James Dennison). A full list of his publications can be found here.

Prior to joining EUI he was a Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield, UK where he served as Head of Department between 2008 and 2011.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Ongoing

• Refugee Entrepreneurship in the EU: Sparking Grass-roots Innovation, Civic Empowerment and Transnational Connectivity
• Innovating to Enhance Dialogues on Migration Policies and Practices
• Exploring the integration of post-2014 migrants in small and medium-sized towns and rural areas from a whole of community perspective
• Observatory of public attitudes to migration
• Global asylum governance and the European Union’s role
• Measuring Irregular Migration and related Policies
• 'Durable solutions' for displaced child migrants in Europe
• Enhancing migration narrative to develop further union’s long-term actions
• Values, issues, and socio-political behaviour at Europe’s border: towards a psychological model of migration

Completed

• Migrants’ integration in EU countries: for a selected few only?
• Prospects for international migration governance
• Un-owned personal data – Interoperable EU borders and transitioning rights
• IT tools and methods for managing migration flows
• Provision of studies targeting public attitudes on migration - EUROMED Migration V

Supervisees

• Erendira Leon Salvador
• Madiha Z Sadiq

Recent research output

• GEDDES, Andrew (2024), Repertoires of migration governance in Europe and north America, Contribution to book
• GEDDES, Andrew (2024), Knowledge of, about, for, and against criminalized migration, Article
• GEDDES, Andrew; HADJ-ABDOU, Leila (2024), Migration, Contribution to book
• GEDDES, Andrew (2024), Who governs migration and mobilities globally?, Contribution to book
• MARU, Mehari Taddele; GEDDES, Andrew (2022), Post-pandemic cooperation between Africa and Europe : five ways to improve the partnership on migration and mobility, Other
• PICCOLI, Lorenzo; RUEDIN, Didier; GEDDES, Andrew (2023), A global network of scholars? : the geographical concentration of institutes in migration studies and its implications, Article