List of Publications

Samers, M. (2025). Migration, in Koch, N., Woon, C.Y., Agnew, J., and Mamadouh, V. (Eds.) The Wiley Companion to Political Geography (2nd ed.), Wiley Blackwell, forthcoming. 

Samers, M, and He, Y. (2024) A combinatory approach to understanding the relationship between artificial intelligence and financial labor markets, Finance and Space, 1(1):200-220.

Samers, M., and Rydgren, J. (eds.) (2024) Migration and Nationalism: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar

Samers, M., and Rydgren, J. (2024) Introduction: Migration and Nationalism, in Samers, M., and Rydgren, J. (eds.) Migration and Nationalism: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar

Hillmann, F., and Samers, M. (eds.) (2023) Cities, migration, and governance: Beyond scales and levels. London: Routledge.

Hillmann, F., and Samers, M. (2023) Introduction: Cities, migration, and governance: beyond scales and levels, in Hillmann, F., and Samers, M. (eds.) Cities, migration, and governance: Beyond scales and levels. London: Routledge.

Samers, M. (2023) Do welfare systems matter for immigrant entrepreneurship? An analysis in the context of France, International Migration.

Samers, M. (2021) Futurological fodder: on communicating the relationship between artificial intelligence, robotics, and employment, Space and Polity,  25(2): 237-256.  

Hillmann, F., and Samers, M. (2021) Transatlantic perspectives on urban transformation and the governance of migration: Introduction to the Special Issue, Geographical Review, 111, 2: 173-186  

Lai, K.P.Y, and Samers, M. (2021) Towards an economic geography of FinTech, Progress in Human Geography, 45, 4: 720-739

Samers, M. (2020) The Regulation of Migration, Integration, and of Multiculturalism in Twenty-First Century France, in Mielusel, R., and Pruteanu, R. (eds.) Citizenship and Belonging in France and North America. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 

Samers, M. (2020) Introduction to a Book Review Forum of Clive Barnett's  The Priority  of Injustice, Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 

Samers, M., and Collyer, M. (2017) Migration, 2nd edition. London: Routledge, now available at https://www.amazon.com/Migration-Ideas-Geography-Michael-Samers/dp/1138924474

Lai, K.P.Y., and Samers, M. (2017) Conceptualizing Islamic banking and finance: A comparison of its development and governance in Malaysia and Singapore, Pacific Review, available on-line.  

Samers, M. (2015) New guest-worker regimes, in Horvath, K., Amelina, A., and Meeus, B. (eds.) The International Handbook of Migration and Social Transformation in Europe, University of Amsterdam Press.

Samers, M. (2015) Migration, in Agnew, J. Mamadouh, V., Secor, A., and Sharp, J. The Companion to Political Geography, Wiley Blackwell.

Samers, M. (2015) Regional integration and migration in North America, in Leila Simona Talani and Simon McMahon (eds.) Handbook of International Political Economy of Migration. Edward Elgar.

Samers, M. (2015) Unemployment and the Underclass, in Richardson, D., Liu, W., and Pratt, G. (eds.) The Wiley-AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology.  

Samers, M. and Snider, M. (2015) Finding work: the experience of migrants in North America in Immigration, Integration and the Settlement Experience in North America. Toronto: Canadian Scholar's Press, Inc.

Samers, M., Bigger, P, and Belcher, O. (2015) Building a new world: activism in light of Marxist geographical thought, in Valentine, G, and Aitken, S. (eds.) (2nd ed) Key approaches to Human Geography, Sage.

Fickey, A., and Samers, M. (2015) Thinking about Appalachia: A study of limited economic imaginings and a re-thinking of ‘development’, in Shauna Scott, Phil Obermiller, and Chad Berry (eds.) Thinking about Appalachia, University of Illinois Press. 

Samers, M. (2014) Understanding the incorporation of migrants in European labor markets, in Martiniello, M., and Rath, J. (eds.) An Introduction to Immigrant Incorporation Studies: European Perspectives. University of Amsterdam Press.

Samers, M. (2014) A marriage of convenience? Islamic banking and finance meet neoliberalization in Brunn, S. (ed). The Changing World Religion Map, Springer. [See link below]

Samers, M. (2013) Stirrings in the attic: On the distinction between historical geographical materialism and critical realism, Dialogues in Human Geography. 3,1: 40-44. Full text available at http://dhg.sagepub.com/content/3/1/40.refs

Pollard, J., and Samers, M. (2013) Governing Islamic finance: territory, agency, and the making of cosmopolitan geographies, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 103, 3: 710-726. On-line preview available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00045608.2011.628256#preview

Samers, M. (2012) The political economy of labor migration in France, pre-publication version of 'France, political economy, labor migration' in Ness, I. and Bellwood, P. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration. Wiley-Blackwell. [See link below]

Samers, M. (2012) Migrazioni (Italian translation of my book Migration). Rome: Carocci Press

Samers, M. (2012) Islamic home finance, in Sanders, A. Wachter, S, and Smith, S. (eds.) The International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, Elsevier. [See PDF at end of page]

Samers, M. 2012) ‘Darkness on the edge of town’, Invited Review Essay of Badlands of the Republic by Mustafa Dikec, Political Geography. 31: 328-329.

Samers, M. (2011) Towards a critical economic geography of workfare, in Leyshon, A., Lee, R., McDowell, L., and Sunley, P. (eds.) The Sage Handbook of Economic Geography. London: Sage.

Samers, M. (2011) Strange castle walls and courtyards: the political economy of undocumented migration and undeclared employment, in Menz, G. and Caviedes, A. (eds.) The Changing Face of Labour Migration in Europe. Palgrave.

Samers, M. (2010) Migration (Key Ideas in Geography Series), Routledge.

Samers, M. (2010) The ‘socio-territoriality’ of cities: A framework for understanding the incorporation of migrants in urban labor markets, in Glick-Schiller, N., and Caglar, A. (eds.) The Location of Migration: the City and the Scale, Cornell University Press.

Samers, M. and Pollard, J. (2010) “Alterity’s geographies: socio-territoriality and difference in Islamic banking and finance, Lee, R. Fuller, D., Jonas, A (2009) Interrogating Alterity: alternative spaces of economy, society and politics. Ashgate Publishers

Zook, M., and Samers, M. (2010) Telemediated servants and self-servants of the global economy: labor in the era of ICT-enabled e-commerce, in McGrath-Champ, S, Herod, A., and Rainnie, A. (eds.) Handbook of Employment and Society:Working Space.

Samers, M. (2008) At the heart of ‘migration management’: immigration and labour markets in the European Union, in Gabriel, C., and Pellerin, H. (eds.) Governing International Labour Migration: current issues, challenges and dilemmas. London: Routledge.

Pollard, J. and Samers, M. (2007) Islamic banking and finance: postcolonial political economy and the decentring of economic geography, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 32: 313-330.

Samers, M. (2006) Changing the world: geography, political activism, and Marxism, in Valentine, G, and Aitken, S. Key approaches to Human Geography, London: Sage, pp. 273-285.

Samers, M. (2006) Immigration and the global city hypothesis: towards an alternative research agenda, reprinted in Brenner, N. and Keil, R. (eds.) The Global City Reader, Sage

Samers, M. (2005) "The 'underground economy', immigration and economic development in the European Union: An agnostic-skeptic perspective", International Journal of Economic Development, Vol 6, No. 2, pp199-272 [view online]

Samers, M. (2005) ‘Banal plagiarism’? Invited editorial, Geoforum, 35: 651-654. 

Samers, M. (2005)  'Dancing on an asymptote, and conveying it', Invited Review essay of Key Thinkers on Space and Place, Environment and Planning A, 171-173.

Castree, N. Coe, N., Ward, K., and Samers, M. (2004) Spaces of Work: global capitalism and geographies of labour. London: Sage

Samers, M. (2004) An emerging geopolitics of 'illegal' immigration in the European Union, European Journal of Migration and Law, 6,1: pp 23-41

Samers, M. (2003) "Invisible capitalism: political economy and the regulation of undocumented immigration in France, Economy and Society, 32, pp. 555-583.

Samers, M. (2003) Immigration and the spectre of Hobbes: some comments for the quixotic Dr. Bauder”, ACME: an International E-journal for Critical Geographies, 2,2: 210-217.  Available on-line at http://www.acme-journal.org/vol2/Samers.pdf

Samers, M. (2003)“Diaspora unbound: Muslim identity and the erratic regulation of Islam in France”, International Journal of Population Geography, 9: 351-364.

Samers, M. (2002) "Immigration and the global city hypothesis: towards and alternative research agenda", International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 26, pp. 389-402.

Sidaway, J., Samers, M. and Haylett, C. (2002) Conventions and context, a comment on Dear, Political Geography, 21: 287-292.

Samers, M. (2001) “What is the point of economic geography”? Antipode. 33, 2: 183-193.

Samers, M. (2001)“Here to work: undocumented immigration in the United States and Europe”, SAIS (School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins) Review, Winter-Spring. 21,1: 131-145.

Samers, M., and Sidaway, J. (1999) Exclusions, inclusions, and occlusions in Anglo -American geography: reflections on Minca’s Venetian Geographical Praxis”, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 18,6: 663-666.

Samers, M. (1999)“‘Globalization’ the geo-political economy of migration, and the‘spatial vent’”,Review of International Political Economy,6, 2: 163-196.

Samers, M. (1999)  ‘Une archaeologie contemporaine de la géographie économique: le cas Anglo-Americaine, in Chivallon, C. Ragouet, P., and Samers, M. (eds.) "Discours scientifiques et contextes culturels: geographies britanniques et françaises à l'épreuve postmoderne”, Bordeaux/Talence: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme d’Aquitaine. 

Samers, M. (1998) "'Structured Coherence': immigration, racism, and production in the Paris car industry", European Planning Studies (invited special issue paper on ‘Locality research: ten years on’), 6,1: 49-72. 

Samers, M. (1998) "Immigration, ‘ethnic minorities’, and social exclusion in the European Union: acritical perspective", Geoforum (invited special issue paper on ‘social exclusion’), 29, 2:123-144.

Samers, M. and Woods, R.I. (1998) Socio-economic change, EU policy and Social Disadvantage in D. Pinder (ed.) The New Europe: Economy, Society and Environment. New York: John Wiley Press.

Samers, M. (1997) "The production of diaspora: Algerian emigration from colonialism to neo-colonialism (1840-1970)" Antipode, 29,1: 32-64.