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Professor Nicholas Harney

Cassamarca Foundation Professor
Anthropology and Sociology

Research Interests

• Ethnicity
• Europe (Italy)
• Global processes
• Informal economics
• Knowledge and power
• Migration
• North America (Canada)
• Race, space and place

Qualifications:

BA <em>Harv</em>., MA PhD <em>Tor</em>.

Teaching:

Migration and the New Europe, Refugees and Human Rights, The Social Meaning of Money and Reading Migration; Honours and postgraduate supervision

Key Research and Expertise:

Nick is the Cassamarca Foundation Associate Professor in Migration Studies. His research interests include the social anthropology of economic life, ethnic and migration studies, global processes and urban studies with a geographic focus on North America (Canada) and Europe (Italy).
His first book by University of Toronto Press, 'Eh Paesan! Being Italian in Toronto' was called 'the most nuanced analysis of identity available for contemporary populations of people of Italian origin anywhere in the world.” (Diaspora 7:2 1998, p. 273)

Nick received his AB from Harvard University in Social Anthropology and his Phd from University of Toronto

Publications:

Harney, N. (2007) “Transnationalism and entrepreneurial migrancy in Naples, Italy”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 33(2):219-232.

Harney, N. and Baldassar, L. (eds.) (2007) Special Issue “Introduction: Migrancy and Tracking Transnationalism”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 33(2: 189-198.


Harney, N. (2007) “Ethnicity, Social Organization and Urban Space. A Comparison of Italians in Toronto and Montreal”, J. Sloan (Ed.), Urban Enigmas: Montreal, Toronto and the Problem of Comparing Cities, McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal & Kingston, pp. 178-219.

Harney, N. (2006) “Precarious migrant knowledge workers: new entrepreneurial identities in Naples, Italy”, International Journal of Manpower, 27 (6)572-587

Harney, N. (2006) “The politics of urban space: Modes of place-making by Italians in Toronto's neighbourhoods", Modern Italy, 11(1): 27-44.

Harney, N. (2006) “Alternative economies, migration and the Real in the Italian nation space”, Mobilities, 1(3): 373-390.

Harney, N. (2006) "Rumour, migrants in the informal economies of Naples, Italy", International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 26(9-10): 374-384

Harney, N. (2006) “Shadow Work (focus on Ivan Illich)”, G. Ritzer (Ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Blackwell, Malden, MA, Vol. X, pp. 5294-5.

Harney, N. (2006) “Introduction: Italian Diasporas Share the Neighborhood”, Modern Italy , 11(1):5-9.

Harney, N. (2004) “Migrant Productivities: street vendors and the informal knowledge work in Naples”, International Journal of Economic Development, 6(2): 303-327.

Harney, N. (2004) “Migration, nation and anthropology', Cultural Anthropology: The State of the Field”. Antropologicheskii forum/Forum for Anthropology and Culture. 1(1):49-55

Harney, N. (2004) `I nuovi vicinati: urbanizzazione multiculturale come stile
di vita' Per una cittadinanza multiculturale - Studi antropologici sulla
contemporaneità edited by Cesare Pitto, XVIIIª Cattedra "Antonio Guarasci"

Harney, N. (2002) "Building Italian Regional Identity in Toronto: Using Space
to Make Culture Material. Anthropologica, 44 (1):43-54.

Books:

Harney, N. and F. Sturino (2002)(eds. compiled with notes and introductions)
The Lucky Immigrant: The Public Life of Fortunato Rao.) CITD Press,
University of Toronto/MHSO.

Eh, Paesan! Being Italian in Toronto. University of Toronto Press, 1998. 2nd Edition, 1999