Robin Cohen
Former IMI Director
Robin Cohen is Professor Emeritus of Development Studies and Senior Research Fellow, Kellogg College, University of Oxford. He directed the International Migration Institute (2009-11) and was principal investigator on the Oxford Diasporas Programme (2011-5).
Robin Cohen is editor of the Routledge series on Global diasporas and of the Cambridge survey of world migration. His books include The new helots: migrants in the international division of labour (1987), Frontiers of identity (1994), Global diasporas: an introduction (1997, rev. 2008), Migration and its enemies (2006), and Encountering difference (co-author 2016).
Key publications
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Global Sociology
Book
Robin Cohen and Paul Kennedy, (2013), Global Sociology (third edition)
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Global Diasporas: an introduction
Book
Robin Cohen, (2008), Global Diasporas: an introduction
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Migration and Culture
Book
Robin Cohen and Gunvor Jónsson (Eds.), (2012)
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The Creolization Reader: Studies in Mixed Identities and Cultures
Book
Robin Cohen and Paola Toninato (Eds.), (2009)
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Migration and its Enemies: Global Capital, Migrant Labour and the Nation-state
Book
Robin Cohen, (2006)
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Migration and Health in Southern Africa
Special journal issue
Robin Cohen (guest editor), (2006), Ethnic and Racial Studies, 32(4)
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The Salience of Islands in the Articulation of Creolization and Diaspora
Journal article
Robin Cohen and Olivia Sheringham, (2013), Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, Islands, Diaspora, and Creolization, 17 (1), 6 - 17
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Connecting culture and migration
Book chapter
Robin Cohen and Gunvor Jónsson in Robin Cohen and Gunvor Jónsson (eds.), (2011), Migration and Culture, xiii - xxxii
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Cinematic representations of diaspora: Italians and Jews
Journal article
Lesley Marx and Robin Cohen, (2010), Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture, 1 (1), 5 - 23
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The creolization debate: analysing mixed identities and cultures
Book chapter
Robin Cohen and Paola Toninato, (2009), The Creolization Reader: Studies in Mixed Identities and Cultures
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Solid, ductile and liquid: the changing role of homeland and home in diaspora studies
Book chapter
Robin Cohen, (2009), Transnationalism: Diasporas and the Advents of a New Dis(order)
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Creolization and diaspora: the cultural politics of divergence and (some) convergence
Book chapter
Robin Cohen and In Gloria Totoricagüena (ed), (2008), Opportunity Structures in Diaspora Relations: Comparisons in Contemporary Multi-level Politics of Diaspora and Transnational Identity, 85 - 112
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Creolization and cultural globalization: the soft sounds of fugitive power
Journal article
Robin Cohen, (2007), Globalizations, 4(3), 369 - 384
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The free movement of people: ethical debates before and after 9/11
Book chapter
Robin Cohen and In Christine Chinkin, David Downes, Conor Gearty and Paul Rock (eds.), (2007), Sociology and politics of denial: crime, social control and human rights - Essays in honour of Stanley Cohen, 211 - 225
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Diasporas: changing meanings and limits of the concept
Book chapter
Robin Cohen and in William Berthomière and Christine Chivallon (eds.), (2006), Les diasporas dans le monde contemporain, 39 - 48