Robin Cohen is Emeritus Professor of Development Studies at the University of Oxford. For the first decade of his academic career, he worked on comparative labour issues. His books included Labour and Politics in Nigeria (1974) and the co-edited collections The development of an African working class (1975), International Labour and the Third World (1987), African Labor History (1978) and the current title, Peasants and Proletarians. He subsequently wrote on the themes of migration, globalization and diasporas. His best-known work is Global diasporas: An introduction (3
rd edition, 2022).
Fitzroy Ambursley was born in London. However, his parents came from Jamaica as part of the ‘Windrush generation’. Fitzroy’s Jamaican origins gave him a strong affinity with Caribbean politics, and his PhD thesis was the first attempt to describe the Grenadian revolution and its aftermath written by somebody who was actually in the country during that period. He obtained a BA Honours Degree in African Studies and Geography from the University of Birmingham in the UK, and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Warwick in the UK. He went on to be come a Senior Lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and followed this with a career as an international HIV/AIDS consultant developing strategies for international development agencies such as UNAIDS, the World Bank, USAID, and the former UK assistance agency, the Department for International Development. Fitzroy’s current activities include teaching English to international students online and maintains an active interest in Caribbean and world politics.
