Alan Gamlen is a DPhil. Candidate in Geography at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment, working on migration, diasporas and transnationalism. His thesis looks at the diaspora engagement policies of emigration states, focusing on two main case studies: New Zealand and Ireland. Alan is a Junior Member of St. Antony’s College and an Associate at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society. He was awarded a New Zealand Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarship in 2005. Prior to this, from 2003 to 2005, he was a Monbukagakusho Scholar based in Tokyo, and an Editor at the Japan Centre for Area Studies within Japan’s National Museum of Ethnology. Alan has been an invited presenter at the UNECE’s Conference of European Statisticians and UNESCO’s Diaspora Knowledge Networks Programme, and he has acted as a consultant and advisor to governments and NGOs in several migrant-sending countries. Alan teaches migration-related topics at several Oxford colleges.