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PhD Sociology University of Cape Town
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According to Wikipedia, Robin Cohen is a social scientist working in the fields of globalisation, migration and diaspora studies. He is Emeritus Professor of Development Studies and former Director of the International Migration Institute, University of Oxford.

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Global Diasporas: An Introduction (1998) (2220)
Conceiving cosmopolitanism : theory, context and practice (2002) (654)
The Cambridge survey of world migration (1995) (341)
Diasporas and the nation-state : from victims to challengers (1996) (340)
Frontiers of Identity: The British and the Others (1994) (243)
Introduction: Conceiving cosmopolitanism (2002) (224)
Global Social Movements (2004) (202)
Migration, diasporas and transnationalism (2001) (202)
Labour in the South African Gold Mines, 1911-1969 (1973) (161)
The New Helots: Migrants In The International Division Of Labour (1988) (128)
Creolization and Cultural Globalization: The Soft Sounds of Fugitive Power (2007) (103)
Resistance and Hidden Forms of Consciousness Amongst African Workers (1980) (82)
Rethinking 'Babylon' : iconoclastic conceptions of the diasporic experience (1995) (82)
Theories of Migration (1996) (81)
Migration and its Enemies: Global Capital, Migrant Labour and the Nation-State (2006) (70)
The Interaction Between Race and Colonialism: A Case Study of the Liverpool Race Riots of 1919 (1974) (68)
Fuzzy frontiers of identity: The British case (1995) (61)
Popular Struggles in South Africa (1988) (52)
Global social movements : towards a cosmopolitan politics (2000) (51)
Reluctant hosts : Europe and its refugees (1989) (46)
Diaspora entrepreneurial networks: four centuries of history (2006) (44)
Forced Labour in Colonial Africa (1981) (44)
The creolization reader : studies in mixed identities and cultures (2010) (43)
The Defence of White Power: South African Foreign Policy under Pressure (1989) (41)
Labour and Politics in Nigeria: 1945-71 (1974) (38)
Labour and Politics in Nigeria (1982) (36)
African Labor History (1980) (36)
Class in Africa : Analytical Problems and Perspectives (1972) (33)
Peasants and proletarians : the struggles of Third World workers (1980) (32)
Diasporas, the nation-state and globalisation (1997) (32)
Contested Domains: Debates in International Labour Studies (1991) (30)
The detention of asylum-seekers in the UK (1987) (29)
Socialism in Sub-Saharan Africa: A New Assessment (1980) (28)
The Incredible Vagueness of being British/English (2000) (27)
Chapter Five. Solid, Ductile And Liquid: Changing Notions Of Homeland And Home In Diaspora Studies (2009) (26)
Transnational social movements : an assessment (1998) (24)
The making of ethnicity : a modest defence of primordialism (1999) (24)
Democracy and Socialism in Africa (1991) (23)
African peasants and resistance to change: a reconsideration of sociological approaches (1975) (23)
The diaspora of a diaspora: the case of the Caribbean (1992) (22)
African Islands and Enclaves (1985) (22)
Industries in the Southern African Periphery (1976) (21)
East-West and European migration in a global context. (1991) (20)
DIASPORAS AND THE STATE: FROM VICTIMS TO CHALLENGERS (1996) (20)
Brain drain migration (1997) (18)
Music in the Mix: the Story of South African Popular Music . By Muff Andersson. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1981. 189pp. (1984) (18)
Endgame in South Africa?: The changing structures & ideology of apartheid (1986) (17)
The Development of an African Working Class: Studies in Class Formation and Action. (1977) (17)
The creolization debate : analysing mixed identities and cultures (2009) (17)
1Cultural diaspora: the Caribbean case (2002) (15)
International labour and the Third World : the making of a new working class (1989) (14)
Crisis in the Caribbean (1983) (14)
Casual Work and Poverty in Third World Cities.@@@Peasants and Proletarians: The Struggles of Third World Workers.@@@Choice, Class and Conflict: A Study of Southern Nigerian Factory Workers (1980) (14)
Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Studies (2018) (13)
From Peasant to Proletarian: Capitalist Development and Agrarian Transition (1982) (13)
Chinese cockle-pickers, the transnational turn and everyday cosmopolitanism : reflections on the new global migrants (2004) (13)
Diasporas: changing meanings and limits of the concept (2006) (10)
Open the Social Sciences: Report of the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences, edited by Immanuel Wallerstein (1998) (10)
Editorial statement [for first issue of Global Networks] (2001) (10)
Michael Imoudu and the Nigerian labour movement (1977) (10)
St. Helena : welfare colonialism in practice (1983) (9)
Repression and resistance : insider accounts of apartheid (1993) (9)
Shaping the nation, excluding the other : the deportation of migrants from Britain (1997) (9)
Education for dependence : aspirations, expectations and identity on the island of St. Helena (1983) (9)
Annotation of Rhetorical Moves in Biochemistry Articles (2019) (8)
The free movement of money and people: debates before and after ‘9/11’ (2005) (8)
The Salience of Islands in the Articulation of Creolization and Diaspora (2013) (8)
New Roles for Diasporas in International Relations (2008) (8)
Opportunity Structures in Diaspora Relations: Comparisons in Contemporary Multilevel Politics of Diaspora and Transnational Identity (2007) (7)
Migration and Health in Southern Africa (2006) (7)
Capital and the Work Ethic (1979) (7)
The politics of migration. (1999) (7)
Citizens, denizens and helots : the politics of international migration flows in the post-war World (1989) (7)
Work, culture and the dialectics of proletarian habituation (1980) (7)
Introduction : the “new refugees” of Europe (1989) (6)
Creolization and diaspora : the cultural politics of divergence and some convergence (2008) (6)
Lessons from the first capacity market auction in Great Britain (2015) (6)
Six frontiers of identity: the British and the rest (1992) (5)
Early Caribbean Jewry: a demographical perspective. (1983) (5)
Diaspora Studies (2018) (5)
Migration and diasporas (2006) (5)
Introduction to Vertovec, S. and Cohen, R., eds. Migration, diasporas and transnationalism (1999) (5)
An overview of the U.S. OTEC development program (1978) (4)
Reconsidering social inclusion/exclusion in social theory: nine perspectives, three levels (2015) (4)
Marxism in Africa : the grounding of a tradition (1986) (4)
The free movement of people: ethical debates before and after 9/11 (2007) (4)
Diaspora, the nation-state, and globalization (2005) (4)
Theorising international labour (1987) (4)
Nigeria's labour leader no. 1: notes for a biographical study of M.A.O. Imoudu (1970) (4)
The Cambridge Survey of World Migration: Prologue (1995) (3)
Online abuse detection: the value of preprocessing and neural attention models (2019) (3)
Coping with Abundance: Energy and Environment in Industrial America. (1986) (3)
Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship (2017) (3)
Migration and the new international division of labour (1992) (3)
Solid, ductile and liquid : the changing role of homeland and home in diaspora (2007) (3)
The diaspora of a diaspora : the Caribbean case (1991) (3)
International migration : South Africa in global perspective (1997) (3)
Policing the frontiers : the state and the migrant in the international division of labour (1987) (3)
FOUR PHASES OF DIASPORA STUDIES (2008) (2)
The Sociology of ‘Developing Societies’: Problems of Teaching and Definition (1977) (2)
Popular struggles or one struggle : dilemmas of liberation (1988) (2)
What will drive international migration in the next 50 years (2005) (2)
Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium (2004) (2)
The Emergent African Proletariat (1976) (2)
Diaspora entrepreneurial networks: four centuries of history By Ina Baghdiantz McCabe, Gelina Harlaftis and Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou, eds., Oxford and New York: Berg, 2005. Pp. xxii + 440. ISBN 1-85973-880-x; $84.95 (hb), ISBN 1-85973-875-3 (2006) (2)
Quotidian creolization and diasporic echoes: Resistance and co-optation in Cape Verde and Louisiana (2013) (2)
Migrants in Europe: Processes of exclusion and inclusion (1992) (2)
Connecting culture and migration (2011) (2)
Industrial relations in Nigeria: development and practice. By Tayo Fashoyin. London: Longman 1980, x, 166 p. £3.95 (1981) (2)
Social identities, diaspora and creolization (2010) (2)
The Sociology of Development and the Development of Sociology: Perspectives and Prospects in Social Anthropology and Sociology in Eastern Africa (1968) (2)
Forced Labour and Migration: Patterns of Movement within Africa (1990) (2)
Nigeria's Central Trade Union Organisation: a study guide (1971) (2)
Combining the transnational and intersectional approaches (2021) (2)
International migration and the future of the nation‐state (1996) (2)
Covid‐19 and Global Networks: Reframing our understanding of globalization and transnationalism (2022) (1)
The free movement of money and people : old arguments, new dangers (2004) (1)
Introduction to Cohen, R., ed. African islands and enclaves (1983) (1)
Afterword: Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion in African Societies (2018) (1)
Citizens, denizens and helots: the politics of international migration flows after 1945 (2016) (1)
Hidden Forms of Labour Protest (1982) (1)
More Farage, more immigration (2015) (1)
Chapter One Introduction: conceiving cosmopolitanism (2002) (1)
The “new” international division of labour : a conceptual, historical and empirical critique (1985) (1)
Editorial [for Review of African Political Economy, 13(35)] (1981) (1)
An academic perspective (1987) (1)
Conclusion: Diasporas, Their Types and Their Future (2002) (1)
On the reproduction of the relations of production (1982) (1)
Competitive identity formation in the Turkish diaspora (2014) (1)
Transnational Chinese: Fujianese Migrants in Europe. By Frank N. Pieke, Pál Nyíyi, Mette Thunø and Antonella Ceccagno. (2007) (1)
Asylum policies and public attitudes : the British, German and French experience (1991) (1)
If you want to know about social identities, study the Caribbean (2018) (1)
THE CREOLIZING SUBJECT: RACE, REASON AND THE POLITICS OF PURITY (2013) (1)
Review of Open the social sciences : report of the Gulbenkian commission on the restructuring of the social sciences by Wallerstein, Immanuel (1998) (1)
Labour migration to western Europe after 1945 (1995) (1)
Cinematic representations of diaspora: Italians and Jews (2010) (1)
Trade unions and the military in Africa : the Nigerian case (1972) (1)
The army and the trade unions in Nigerian politics (1969) (1)
An Architecture for a Military AI System with Ethical Rules (2018) (1)
Classics in Migration - Introduction (2019) (1)
Introduction: Islands and Identities (2013) (1)
Introduction: From Fear to Solidarity (2006) (1)
Althusser meets Anancy : structuralism and popular protest in Ken Post’s history of Jamaica (1982) (1)
Elizabeth McLean Petras. Jamaican Labor Migration. White Capital and Black Labor, 1850–1930. Westview Press, Boulder, London 1988. x, 297 pp. $ 31.50; £ 23.50. (1990) (0)
St. Helena: the practice of welfare colonialism (1981) (0)
CHAMBERLAIN, MARY. Narratives of Exile and Return. [Warwick University Caribbean Studies.] Macmillan Press Ltd, London [etc.] 1997. xii, 236 pp. £14.95. (1999) (0)
Development strategies in the Caribbean with particular reference to socialist countries (1984) (0)
Preface to Avenues to integration : refugees in contemporary Europe, by Delle Donne, M., ed. (1995) (0)
The crisis of the state in the Caribbean (1983) (0)
Gabriel Warburg, Islam, nationalism and trade unionism in a traditional society: the case of Sudan, London: Frank Cass, 1978, 264 pp. (1983) (0)
Diasporas in the Age of Globalization (2002) (0)
Introduction to Theories of migration, by Cohen, R., ed. (1996) (0)
Introduction : Democracy or socialism, democracy and socialism (1991) (0)
'A Greater South': a reinterpretation of the prelude to the Nigerian civil war (1987) (0)
The analysis of social conflict : race and ethnicity after apartheid - "pluralism" revisited (1993) (0)
Transnational migrant networks (2004) (0)
Preface to Migration, ethnic relations and Chinese business, by Kwok-bun, C. (2005) (0)
The nation-state and freedom of movement in the wake of 9/11 and 911 (2004) (0)
Trade Unionism in Africa (1967) (0)
Monologue and dialogue in international labour studies (2008) (0)
Managing Critical Assessment and Development Components of a Global Leadership Development Program (2014) (0)
The end to the migrant labour boom (1981) (0)
Dismantling the heritage of apartheid in South Africa’s universities (2002) (0)
Some theories of migration : a synopsis and comment (1986) (0)
Globalization, cosmopolitanism and everyday life (2005) (0)
Modern Mouritius: The Politics of Decolonization (1982) (0)
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DETERRITORIALIZED DIASPORAS: The black Atlantic and the lure of Bombay (2008) (0)
Implications of Linking Emissions Trading Schemes On Market ParticipantsImplications of Linking Emissions Trading Schemes On Market Participants (2008) (0)
Introduction to The politics of migration, by Cohen R. and Layton-Henry, Z., eds. (1997) (0)
The construction of “the other” : a history of deportations from the UK (1993) (0)
Review of Culture and Cultivation in Early Modern England: Writing and the Land, by Michael Leslie and Timothy Raylor; Death and the... (1994) (0)
Unmaking the Grenada’s revolution (1983) (0)
Introduction [to section 'race and class', Contemporary Caribbean : a sociological reader, by Craig, S., ed.] (1981) (0)
Strangers and Migrants in the Making of African Societies: A Conceptual and Historical Review (2017) (0)
Policing the frontiers : regulating the supplies of migrant labour (1985) (0)
Orlando Patterson, The Sociology of Slavery: Black Society in Jamaica, 1655–1838 (2022) (0)
Capital and labour in South Africa: class struggles in the 1970s . By Darcy Du Toit. London: Kegan Paul International Ltd 1981. xii, 495 pp., tables, bibl. £18.00 (1981) (0)
Migration to North America after 1945 (1995) (0)
The African Labourer in Colonial Times (1967) (0)
Chronotopes and fractals: An afterword to a special issue on diasporic trajectories (2019) (0)
Crossing the Line (2003) (0)
International Labour and the Third World. The Making of a New Working Class@@@The New Helots, Migrants in the International Division of Labour (1989) (0)
Socialism in sub-Saharan Africa: a new assessment. Eds. Carl G. Rosberg and Thomas M. Callaghy. Berkeley, California: Institute for International Studies, University of California 1979. x, 426 pp. (Res. Ser., 38). tables, bibl. $8.50. (1981) (0)
Citizenship: from three to seven principles of belonging (2021) (0)
US capital and cheap labour : migration from Mexico and the Caribbean (1979) (0)
Trade Diasporas: Chinese and Lebanese (2002) (0)
Review of Alternatives to independence : explorationsin post-colonial relations, by Hintjens, H.M. ; Africa's choices : after thirty years of the world bank, by Barratt Brown, M. (1996) (0)
Foreword to reissued book of Ken Pryce's Endless Pressure (1986) (0)
Representations: Powers and Pitfalls (2014) (0)
Class Analysis and African Studies / Analyse de classe et études africaines (1978) (0)
The British abroad : an imperial diaspora (1997) (0)
Nigerian Electoral Contests: Prolegomenon to Coup? - Structure and Conflict in Nigeria . By K. J. W. Post and Michael Vickers. Heinemann Educational Books, 1973. pp. 248. £3.50. (1975) (0)
Workers in developing societies (1982) (0)
Preface to Crisp, J. The story of an African working class : Ghanaian miners’ struggles, 1870–1980 (1984) (0)
The broken-backed state and uncivil society [Foreword] (1993) (0)
Book Reviews (1956) (0)
Contending models of national membership : Britain in comparative perspective (1997) (0)
From: Steven Vertovec and Robin Cohen (eds) (2002) Conceiving cosmopolitanism: theory, context and practice Oxford: Oxford Uni (2004) (0)
Islands, Diaspora, and Creolization (2013) (0)
For Creolization, Against Diaspora, Interlacing Both (2015) (0)
Migrants and asylum-seekers in contemporary Europe (1995) (0)
Trades unions and associations (1997) (0)
Foreword: Migration, Space and Transnational Identities (2014) (0)
Book Reviews (1996) (0)
Screening Strangers: Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary European Cinema. By Yosefa Loshitzky. (2011) (0)
Foreword to The new international labour studies : an introduction, by Munck, R. (1988) (0)
The proletariat at the gates : migrant and non-citizen labour, 1850–2000 (1991) (0)
Stuart Hall: a memoir and a tribute (2014) (0)
A tribute to Ken Post, 1935–2017 (2017) (0)
South Africa contemporary analysis by Glenn Moss and Ingrid Obery (eds). Southern African Research Service, 1990, pp. 517, £48.) (1991) (0)
'Diaspora' : beyond the Jewish experience (2003) (0)
Unfree labourers and modern capitalism (2016) (0)
Introduction to The sociology of migration, by Cohen, R., ed. (1996) (0)
The illusion of cultural identity (2006) (0)
Preface to Nationalization, a road to socialism? : the lessons of Tanzania, by Bolton, D. (1985) (0)
Introduction in Cohen, R. et al., eds. Resistance and repression : insider accounts of apartheid (1990) (0)
Democracy and development in Africa (1991) (0)
Jim, Antonia, and the Wolves: Displacement in Cather's "My Antonia". (2009) (0)
Strangers and Migrants in the Making of African Societies: A Conceptual and Historical Review (2019) (0)
Religion & Political Culture in Kano (1974) (0)
A death too far : deportations from the UK (1993) (0)
THEORY FOR GLOBAL AGE (2014) (0)
European and East-West migration in a global context (1996) (0)
Preface to Postnational citizenship and the state : the political integration of non-national residents in Portugal, by Carvalhais, I.E. (2007) (0)
The restructuring of international labour and capital : Britain and Hong Kong (1982) (0)
The sociology of migration (1996) (0)
Introduction: Socialism or Democracy, Socialism and Democracy (2019) (0)
Constructing the alien : seven theories of social exclusion (1995) (0)
Labour in the age of globalization (2002) (0)
Foreward: Connected sociologies (2014) (0)
Globalization, international migration and everyday cosmopolitanism (2002) (0)
The politics of unemployment in Mauritius (1978) (0)
Review of Transnational Chinese: Fujianese migrants in Europe, by Pieke, F. N., et al. (2007) (0)

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