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Alisdair Rogers
Editor

Ali Rogers is a human geographer at the School of Geography and Environment, Oxford University. He has a wide range of interests, including transnational communities, migration, environmentalism and globalization. Ali is also a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford University.



Robin Cohen
Co-Editor

Robin Cohen is Director of the International Migration Institute, James Martin 21st Century School and Professor of Development Studies at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University. He was Professor of Sociology at the University Warwick from 1979 to 2007 and also served as Dean of Humanities at the University of Cape Town (2001/3). He has held full-time appointments at the Universities of Ibadan, Birmingham and the West Indies. His recent books include, Global diasporas (2nd edition 2008), Global sociology (with Paul Kennedy, revised 2007) and Migration and its enemies (2006). He has edited or co-edited 18 further volumes, particularly on labour studies, ethnicity, diasporas, migration, transnationalism and globalisation. Robin’s current project is the first major comparative study of creolization and mixed identity.

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/research/cscs/



Steven Vertovec
Co-Editor

Steven Vertovec is Director of the Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen and Honorary Joint Professor of Sociology and Ethnology, University of Göttingen. Previously he was Professor of Transnational Anthropology at Oxford University, Director of the ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society. Steve’s research interests concern transnational social formations, international migration, ethnic and religious diasporas, cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism. He is the author of Hindu Trinidad (1992), The Hindu Diaspora (2000) and Transnationalism (2008) and editor or co-editor of 22 other volumes.  Steve has acted as consultant or advisor to numerous agencies, including the UK government's Home Office, UNESCO, the European Commission, World Bank and British Council.

http://www.mmg.mpg.de/profil/vertovec/vita.html


Regional Editors

  • North America and the Caribbean - Professor Nancy Foner, Hunter College and Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA
  • Latin American - Professor Luis Eduardo Guarnizo, Department of Human and Community Development, University of California Davis, California, USA
  • Asia-Pacific - Dr Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Africa - Professor Peter Alexander, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Europe - Professor Dr. Ludger Pries, Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaft, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
  • Australasia - Loretta Baldassar, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Western Australia, Australia

Associate Editors

  • Professor Gary Bridge, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
  • Dr Ayse Çaglar, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
  • Professor Rey Koslowski, University of Albany, State University of New York, USA
  • Professor Katharyne Mitchell, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
  • Professor Robert C. Smith, Baruch College, City University of New York, USA

 

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