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Robin Cohen Publications

Below is a list of publications relevant to globalization and regionalisation published since the establishment of CSGR in 1997

Forthcoming

‘The free movement of people: ethical debates before and after “9/11”’ in Christine Chinkin, David Downes, Conor Gearty and Paul Rock (eds) Sociology and politics of denial: crime, social control and human rights -Essays in honour of Stanley Cohen,Cullompton, Devon: Willan Publishing, 2007

“‘Diaspora”: changing meanings and limits of the concept’ in John LaGuerre (ed) Calcutta to Caroni and the Indian Diaspora Trinidad: Publisher? 2006/7?

‘Creolization’ in George Ritzer, (ed) The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007

‘Creolization and cultural globalization: the soft sounds of fugitive power’ Globalizations 4 (2) May 2007 pp tbc

Global sociology Much expanded 2nd edition (280,000 words) Completed. Due out 2007

2006

Migration and its enemies: global capital, migrant labour and the nation-state Aldershot: Ashgate 2006, pp. 252

‘Introduction: from fear to solidarity’ pp 1-7 in Robin Cohen (Guest Editor) Migration and health in Southern Africa Special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 32 (4), May 2006, pp. 194.

‘Chinese cockle-pickers, the transnational turn and everyday cosmopolitanism: reflections on the new global migrants’, Labour, Capital and Society, 37, (1&2) 2004, 130–49 [issued in January 2006]

Chinese translation of Global Sociology (co-authored with Paul Kennedy). [Publication details unclear from the information supplied.]

‘Diaspora and migration’ in John Scott (ed.) Sociology: the key concepts London: Routledge, 2006

2005

‘What will drive international migration in the next 50 years?’ Part of the Report of Global Commission on International Migration, Migration Futures Workshop, held 10 December 2004, St Antony’s College, Oxford. Report issued Feb. 2005

‘Reti di migranti transnazionali’ in Maddalena Tirabassi (ed.) Itinera: paradigmi delle migrazioni italiane Turin: Edizioni della Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli, pp. 21-42

‘Diaspora, the nation-state and globalization’ in Bruce Mazlish and Akira Iriye (eds.) The global history reader New York: Routledge, 2005, 92-103 [reprinted]

‘La liberté de circulation de devises et de personnes: les débats avant et après le 11 Septembre 2001’ Migrations Société, 27 (102) Nov-Dec 2005, 45-69

‘Transnationalism and everyday cosmopolitanism’ in Antonio Barreto (ed) Globalizaçao e migraçoes Lisboa: Instituto Ciencias Sociais, 2005. ISBN: 9726711509

‘Preface’ to Chan Kwok Bun Migration, ethnic relations and Chinese business London Routledge, 2005, xi-xii

2004

‘Quella ebraica, madre di tutti le diaspore’ Reset (Rome) 82, March–April 2004, 44–8

‘Diaspora, the nation-state and globalization’ in Bruce Mazlish and Akira Iriye (eds) The global history reader New York: Routledge, 2004 [reprint]

‘Il mondo delle diaspore ci fa paura’ Reset (Rome) 84, July–August 2004, 75–8

‘Migration’ in Adam Kuper and Jessica Kuper (eds) The Social Science Encyclopaedia London: Routledge 2004

2003

'Migration and health in Southern Africa' Proceedings of a conference held at the University of Cape Town, 26–9 January 2003. Contributions by 21 authors, perfect bound in A4 size by Van Schaik Content Solutions, Stellenbosch, South Africa, pp. 236.

New ‘Introduction’ to the 2 Vol. Japanese edition of Global sociology Tokyo, 2003 (with Paul Kennedy)

‘“Diaspora”: beyond the Jewish experience’ The 15th Jacob Gitlin Memorial Lecture. Public lecture at the Jacob Gitlin Memorial Library, Cape Town, South Africa, 18 September, 2003 Pamphlet published by the Gitlin Library, ISBN 0-620-31368-4, pp. 1–11

‘Introduction: from fear to solidarity’ in Migration and health in Southern Africa Proceedings of a conference held at the University of Cape Town, 26–9 January 2003. Van Schaik Content Solutions, Stellenbosch, South Africa. 2003, 1–7. Available from www.csol.co.za

‘Preface’ to the Greek edition of Global diasporas: an introduction Athens, 2003, 21–4

‘Crossing the line. Migration: the end of borders’, Index on Censorship, 32(2), May 2003, 60–9

2002

'Conceiving cosmopolitanism: theory, context and practice' (co-editor and contributor with Steve Vertovec) Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press 2002, pp. 314

‘Introduction: conceiving cosmopolitanism’ in Steven Vertovec and Robin Cohen (eds.) Conceiving cosmopolitanism: theory, context and practice Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press 2002, pp. 1–22 (with Steven Vertovec)

‘Four cosmopolitan moments’ in Steven Vertovec and Robin Cohen (eds.) Conceiving cosmopolitanism: theory, context and practice Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press 2002, pp. 137–62 (with Robert Fine)

2001

‘Labour in an age of global insecurity’ in Barbara Harris-White (ed.) Globalization and insecurity: political, economic and physical challenges, Basingstoke: Palgrave 2001, 203–17

‘Diaspora’ in Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (editors-in-chief) International Encyclopaedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Oxford: Pergamon, 2001, pp. 3642–5

‘Editorial statement’ to the opening issue of Global Networks 1 (1) 2001, iii–vi (with Alistair Rogers and Steve Vertovec)

‘The diaspora of a diaspora: the Caribbean case’ in Harry Goulbourne (ed.) Race and ethnicity: critical concepts in sociology Vol. 2 Solidarities and communities, London: Routledge, 2001 [reprinted from Social Science Information, 31 (1) 1992, 193–203]

‘Fuzzy frontiers of identity: the British case’ in Harry Goulbourne (ed.) Race and ethnicity: critical concepts in sociology Vol. 2 Solidarities and communities, London: Routledge, 2001 [reprinted from Social Identities 1 (1), Jan. 1995, 35–62]

‘European and East-West migration in a global context’ in Malcolm Cross (ed.) The sociology of race and ethnicity Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2001 [reprinted from New Community 17 (4), Oct. 1991, 9–26]

2000

Global sociology (with Paul Kennedy) Basingstoke: Macmillan and New York: New York University Press 2000, pp. 408. Reprinted 2001. Japanese translation 2002. New edition due 2005

'Global social movements' (co-editor and contributor with Shirin Rai) London: Athlone and New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2000, subsequently Continuum Publishers pp. 231

‘Global social movements: towards a cosmopolitan politics’ in Robin Cohen and Shirin M. Rai (eds.) Global social movements, London: Athlone and New Jersey: Transaction Books, 2000, 1–17 (with Shirin Rai)

‘The incredible vagueness of being British/English’ Review Article for International Affairs, 76 (3), 2000, 575–82

1999

'Migration, diasporas and transnationalism' Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, (ed. with Steve Vertovec) 1999, pp. 663

‘Migration and identity’. Public lecture supported by the Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 21 Oct. 1999 Audiotape of lecture and question/answer session (90 min.)

‘The making of ethnicity: a modest defence of primordialism’ in Edward Mortimer and Robert Fine (eds.) People, nation and state London: I. B. Tauris, 1999, 3–11

‘Migration and international politics: new forms, new sensitivities’ in Masses on the move: migration and international politics Summary record of a seminar series, Foreign Policy Studies Programme, All Souls College, University of Oxford, Hilary Term 1999 (convenors Julian Bullard and Robert O’ Neill), 1–19

Back to the future: from metropolis to cosmopolis’ in Jan Hjarn (ed) From metropolis to cosmopolis, Esbjerg, Denmark: South Jutland University Press, 1999, 9–26

‘Introduction’ to S. Vertovec and R. Cohen (eds.) Migration, diasporas and transnationalism, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1999, xiii–xxviii

‘Diasporas and the nation-state: from victims to challengers’ International Affairs 72 (3), July 1996, 507–20 reprinted in S. Vertovec and R. Cohen (eds.) Migration, diasporas and transnationalism, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1999, 266–79

Rethinking Babylon: iconoclastic conceptions of the diaspora experience’ New Community 21 (1), Jan. 1995, 5–18 reprinted in S. Vertovec and R. Cohen (eds.) Migration, diasporas and transnationalism, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1999, 252–65

1998

'Politics and migration' Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1998 (ed. with Zig Layton-Henry) pp. 341

‘Diasporas and the nation-state: from victims to challengers’ International Affairs 72 (3), July 1996, 507–20 reprinted in David Graham and Nana Poku (eds.) Redefining security: population movements and national security, Westport, CN: Praeger, 1998, 51–66

‘Introduction’ to Robin Cohen and Zig Layton-Henry (eds.) The politics of migration Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1998, ix–xvi

‘L’alieno come construzione sociale: sette teorie dell’esclusione’ in Marcella Della Donne (ed.) Relazioni etniche: stereotytipi e preguidizi, Rome: EdUP, 1998, 47–61

‘Cultural diasporas: the Caribbean case’ in Mary Chamberlain (ed.) Global identities, London: Routledge, 1998, 21–35

‘Transnational social movements: an assessment’, 1998. Working Papers on Transnational Communities (WPTC 98-09), posted at www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk

1997

'Global diasporas: an introduction' London: UCL Press and Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997 pp. 228. Reprinted 1999, 2000. Reprinted 2001, 2004 by Routledge. Japanese translation (Toyko: Akahi Shoten, 2001) by Komai Hiroshi. Greek Translation with new preface Athens: 2003 pp 374.

‘Shaping the nation, excluding the other: the deportation of migrants from Britain’ in Leo Lucassen and Jan Lucassen (eds.) Migration, migration history, history, old paradigms and new perspectives Bern: Peter Lang AG Europäishcher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1997, 351–73

‘Diasporas, the nation-state and globalisation’ in Wang Gungwu (ed.) Global history and migrations Boulder, CO: Westview, 1997, 117–43

‘Trades unions and associations’ in J. Middleton (ed.) The encyclopaedia of Sub-Saharan Africa New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997, 101–3