Nicola Piper, a political sociologist, is Professor of International Migration at the University of Sydney and is Director of the Sydney Asia Pacific Migration Centre. Other appointments or roles held by her include Affiliate Professorial Fellows at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute, Freiburg University/Germany, external adviser on migration research to the UN Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva, and co-founder and Vice-President of the Global Migration Policy Associates initiative. Nicola’s research focuses on international migration for work, migrants’ labour and social rights, the global and regional governance of migration, and gender and migration.