Chronotopes and fractals: An afterword to a special issue on diasporic trajectories

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Notes

1. I am relying here on correspondence with Jan Blommaert. In some of his written work, he contrasts “thick” with “light”. (see, for example, Blommaert 2018, 63–73).

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Robin Cohen

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), Frontiers of Identity (1994), Global Diasporas: An Introduction (1997, 2008), Global Sociology (co-author, 2000, 2007, 2013), Migration and Its Enemies (2006), Encountering Difference (co-author, 2016) and Migration: The Movement of Humankind from Prehistory to the Present Day (2019). He has edited or co-edited 21 further volumes, including the Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Studies (co-edited, 2019). He writes particularly on the sociology and politics of developing areas, diasporas, international migration, creolization, transnationalism and globalization. He directed the International Migration Institute, part of the Oxford Martin School (2009–11) and was principal investigator on the Oxford Diasporas Programme funded by the Leverhulme Trust (2011–16).