Stephen Castles is Director of the Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies at the Universities of Wollongong and Newcastle, Australia. He also helps coordinate the UNESCO-MOST Asia Pacific Migration Research Network. Stephen Castles has spent many years studying international migration, multicultural societies and citizenship in Europe, Australia and the Asia Pacific region.
His recent publications include: 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).