Oakley, Robin, b 1940, sociologist

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Oakley, Robin, b 1940, sociologist

1940-

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.

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