Robin Cohen is Professor Emeritus of Development Studies and Senior Research Fellow, Kellogg College, University of Oxford. His books include The new helots: migrants in the international division of labour (1987, 1993, 2003), Contested domains: debates in international labour studies (1991), Frontiers of identity (1994), Global diasporas: an introduction (1997, 2008), Global sociology (co-author, 2000, 2007, 2013), Migration and its enemies (2006) and Encountering difference (co-author, 2016). He has edited or co-edited 20 further volumes, particularly on the soci¬ology and politics of developing areas, ethnicity, international migration, transnationalism and globalization. He directed the International Migration Institute, part of the Oxford Martin School (2009–2011), and was principal investigator on the Oxford Diasporas Programme funded by the Leverhulme Trust (2011–2016). With Nicholas Van Hear, he is working on a solution to the problem of mass displacement (search term "Refugia project COMPAS).
