Collection GDA/PP1 - OAKLEY, Robin (b 1940)

Key Information

Reference code

GDA/PP1

Title

OAKLEY, Robin (b 1940)

Date(s)

  • Chiefly 1965-2012 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

6 boxes, 1 outsize file

Scope and content

Articles by Robin Oakley on Greek Cypriot immigrants in the UK, 1968-2011, and related background material, 1920-2007, including: reports, articles and maps relating to the twentieth century history of the Greek and Turkish communities in Cyprus; notes, correspondence and articles relating to Greek Cypriots worldwide, especially in the USA and Australia; research material on Greek Cypriot immigration to the UK in the early twentieth century, including copy passenger lists and the personal reminiscences of London restaurateur John Stais; articles on the social conditions, education and health of Greek Cypriots in London, 1960s-1990s; published directories and guides (4 items) relating to Greek and Turkish Cypriots in London, 1965-1982; research notes on Greek Cypriots in Leeds, 1966. Also text of an MPhil thesis by Vicky Aloneftis, ‘”We’re different, we’re Greeks from London not Cyprus”: ethnic identity amongst Greek Cypriot youth in North London’, 1984, and a published book of photographs, Here and there: the Greek Cypriot community in London, by photojournalists Marianna Economou and Paul Halliday, 1988.

System of arrangement

The collection is in a series of 19 files, as outlined above.

General Information

Name of creator

(1940-)

Biographical history

Born, 1940. Studied Social Science, Cambridge University, 1959-1962; worked on archaeological excavations during summer vacations, 1961-1962, in Greece and Turkey; worked in archaeology, Greece and Middle East, 1962-1963; diploma in Anthropology, Oxford University, 1963-1964; lecturer in Sociology, Bedford College, London, 1965-1983; undertook extensive research on migration and settlement of Greek and Turkish Cypriots in the UK, 1965-1971; PhD, 1971; on the staff of the Centre for the Study of Community and Race Relations, Brunel University, London, 1983-1988; independent consultant on racism, ethnicity and integration of minorities in the UK and Europe, 1988-.

Principal publications: editor, New backgrounds: the immigrant child at home and at school (Oxford University Press, 1968); ‘The Cypriots in Britain’, in Race today, 1970; PhD thesis, ‘Cypriot migration and settlement in Britain’, Oxford University, 1971; ‘Family, kinship and patronage: the Cypriot migration to Britain’, in Minority families in Britain: support and stress (London, Macmillan, 1979); ‘Cypriot families’ in Families in Britain (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982); ‘The control of Cypriot migration to Britain between the wars’, in Immigrants & minorities, 1987; Changing patterns of distribution of Cypriot settlement (University of Warwick Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, 1987); ‘Cypriot migration to Britain prior to World War II’, in New community, 1989; ‘The Turkish peoples of Cyprus’, in The Turkic peoples of the world (London, Kegan Paul International, 1993); a series of reports, 1993-2011, published by the Council of Europe, on ethnic relations, policing and the situation of Roma in Europe.

Custodial history

Placed in King’s College London Archives by Dr Oakley, 2015.

Conditions governing access

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.

Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archives.

Language of material

  • English
  • Greek

Script of material

Finding aids

This summary guide, and a file list available in the Archives Reading Room.

Related materials

King’s College London: the Greek Diaspora Archive holds extensive interviews and related material concerning Greek Cypriot immigrants and their families in the UK

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Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

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