Amanda Flaim

Amanda Flaim
  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Sociology
  • PhD, Development Sociology, Cornell University
  • MS, Stanford University
  • S307 Case Hall
  • 842 Chestnut Road
  • East Lansing, MI 48824
  • 517-355-5504

CURRICULUM VITAE

Amanda Flaim

BIOGRAPHY

Professor Flaim studies problems and paradoxes in human rights policy, including statelessness and citizenship, human trafficking, and the global expansion of rights to education and birth registration. Her current research projects explore the risk of trafficking among Cambodian and Burmese men and boys into the Thai fishing industry, and the causes and consequences of statelessness in Thailand and Nepal. Professor Flaim has consulted for several NGOs and United Nations agencies on a number of projects, including designing and leading two of the largest country-level surveys of stateless populations conducted to date. Prior to arriving at James Madison College, she was a postdoctoral associate and Human Rights Fellow at Duke University, where she taught courses on human rights, citizenship, migration, and qualitative and mixed methods research for public policy students.

CURRENT RESEARCH

Dr. Flaim's current research projects explore the risk of trafficking among Cambodian and Burmese men and boys into the Thai fishing industry, and the causes and consequences of statelessness in Thailand and Nepal.

ASSOCIATED PROGRAMS

  • James Madison College

PUBLICATIONS

2019 Mohan, Taneesha, and Amanda Flaim. “Beyond Migration for/or Development.” Policy in
Focus. 16(1): Special edition Rural Poverty Reduction in the 21st Century. R. Nehring and A.P. de la O Campos, eds. (April 2019). Brasilia: International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth.

2019 Flaim, Amanda and Celine Villongco. “Vulnerability to Exploitation and Human Trafficking: A Multi-Scale Review of Risk.” Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies. 2nd edition.
Steven J. Gold and Stephanie J. Nawyn, eds. New York: Routledge Press.

2018 Ahlquist, Daniel, and Amanda Flaim. 2018. “Racialization and the Historical Production of
Contemporary Land Rights Inequalities in Upland Northern Thailand.” In Race and Rurality in
the Global Economy. Michaeline Crichlow, Patricia Northover, and Juan Giusti-Cordero Eds.
Fernand Braudel Center. SUNY Press, Albany, pp. 69-92.

2018 Flaim, Amanda and Guna Subramaniam. “Eliminating Human Trafficking from the Thai
Fishing Industry: Perspectives of Thai Commercial Fishing Owners.” Bangkok: Issara Institute.

2017 Rende-Taylor, Lisa, Amanda Flaim, Scott Sanders, and Josh Stride. Not in the Same Boat:
Prevalence and Patterns of Labour Abuse across Thailand’s Diverse Fishing Industry. Official Report.
Bangkok: Issara Institute.

2017 Flaim, Amanda. 2017. “Problems of Evidence, and Evidence of Problems: Citizenship and
Statelessness in Thailand’s Highlands.” in Citizenship in Question: Evidentiary Birthright and
Statelessness. Benjamin. Lawrence and Jacqueline. Stevens, eds. Duke University Press, Durham,
pp.147-164.

Forthcoming. Flaim, Amanda, Lindy B. Williams, and Daniel Ahlquist. “Undermining Benefits,
Exacerbating Burdens: How Statelessness Affects Left-Behind Elderly in the Context of Outmigration in the Highlands of Thailand.” Social Forces.