Cohen, Robin

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COHEN, Robin

COHEN, Robin. British (born South Africa), b. 1944. Genres: Politics/Government, Race relations, Sociology. Career: University of Ibadan, Nigeria, lecturer in politics, 1967-69; University of Birmingham, England, research fellow, 1969-71, lecturer, 1971-75, senior lecturer in sociology, 1975-77; University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad, professor of sociology, 1977-79; University of Warwick, Coventry, England, professor of sociology, 1979-, executive director of Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, 1984-89; University of Cape Town, South Africa, dean of humanities, 2001-03. Consultant to Council of Europe, UK Government Home Office and UNHCR. Publications: Labour and Politics in Nigeria, 1974, rev. ed., 1982; Endgame in South Africa, 1986; The New Helots, 1987; Contested Domains, 1991; Frontiers of Identity, 1994; Global Diasporas, 1997; (with P. Kennedy) Global Sociology, 2000. EDITOR: (with R. Sandbrook) The Development of an African Working Class, 1975; (with P. Gutkind) African Labor History, 1978; (with Gutkind) Peasants and Proletarians, 1979; Forced Labour in Colonial Africa, 1979; African Islands and Enclaves, 1983; (with F. Ambursley) Crisis in the Caribbean, 1983, rev. ed., 1984; (with R. Boyd) International Labour and the Third World, 1987; (with W. Cobbett) Popular Struggles in South Africa, 1988; (with H. Goulbourne) Democracy and Socialism in Africa, 1991; The Cambridge Survey of World Migration, 1995; Theories of Migration, 1996; (with S. Rai) Global Social Movements, 2000; (with P. Kennedy) Global Sociology, 2001; (with S. Vertovec) Conceiving Cosmopolitanism, 2003. Address: Dept of Sociology, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, England.

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