Biographical Note

Stephen Castles is Director of the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. Until January 2001 he was Director of the Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies at the Universities of Wollongong and Newcastle, Australia. Stephen Castles studied sociology at Frankfurt am Main, and took an MA and DPhil at the University of Sussex. He has carried out research on migration and multicultural societies in Europe, Australia and Asia for many years. He has also been involved in community education work in the UK and Southern Africa. From 1994 to 2001, Castles helped establish and coordinate the UNESCO-MOST Asia Pacific Migration Research Network. He has been an advisor to the Australian Government on immigration issues, and has carried out work for the ILO, the IOM, UNESCO, and other international bodies.  His books include: Immigrant Workers and Class Structure in Western Europe (with Godula Kosack, London: Oxford University Press, 1973); Here for Good: Western Europe. s New Ethnic Minorities (London: Pluto, 1984); The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World (with Mark Miller, London: Macmillan, 1998); Citizenship and Migration: Globalization and the Politics of Belonging (with Alastair Davidson, London: Macmillan, 2000); and Ethnicity and Globalization: From Migrant Worker to Transnational Citizen (London: Sage, 2000).