Daniel Robins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3845706 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Robins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Robins |
| SIGNATURE | ROBINS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9468-4743 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Digital dollarization in Venezuela: Social meaning, inequalities and governance
This paper examines digital dollarization in Venezuela as a lived socio-cultural process rather than a purely economic one. Moving beyond macroeconomic accounts of dollarization, it analyses how Venezuelans interpret and practice two distinct digital forms of the US dollar: Zelle payments and stablecoins (cryptocurrencies pegged to the US dollar). Drawing on in-person fieldwork and analysis of social media, the paper explores how different forms …
Reciprocal remittances: Inventive practices, alternative economies, and the differing role of ‘friends’
This article examines Venezuelan migrants’ remittance practices in Madeira and Trinidad & Tobago (T&T) to highlight how similar-sounding remittance methods diverge sharply across contexts. In Madeira, it identifies a novel remittance system termed ‘reciprocal remittances’ whereby friends enable transfers through parallel domestic transactions in both countries. Unlike systems like hawala, these exchanges are bidirectional, non-profit, and enabled…
Invisible Migration and “Perverse” Capital: Exploring the Experiences of Migrant Delivery Riders
This article focuses on “semi-documented” Brazilian migrant delivery riders in London. It uses (in)visibility as a conceptual lens to perform two roles. First, it explores the experiences of this group through the analytical lens of invisibility. In doing so, it demonstrates that in multiple ways, this group does not conform with statistical norms or with the way “invisible” and/or undocumented migrant workers are portrayed in the literature. Sec…
Staying put in an era of climate change: The geographies, legalities, and public health implications of immobility
In response to the proliferation of “climate migration” discourses, researchers are exploring how climate related hazards affect immobile populations. This paper contributes to the conceptualization of “environmental immobility.” Researchers from geography, public health, psychology, and law explore the climate change immobility nexus via three themes: (1) risk; (2) (mal)adaptation; and (3) resilience, protection, and vulnerability. The aim of th…
The medium is the message: The geographies of cryptocurrency remittances to Venezuela
Cryptocurrency remittances overcome many regulatory and practical barriers, but there is little empirical research into this increasingly popular remittance medium. In response, this article explores cryptocurrency remittances from Latin America and the Caribbean into Venezuela. Cryptocurrencies as a remittance medium conveys important messages for advocates and critics. To appropriately critique cryptocurrencies, it is important to understand ho…
Ghost Criminology: The Afterlife of Crime and Punishment
Bringing together prominent early contributions from this emergent perspective, the volume traces the origins, theory, and method of ghost criminology. From the powers of exorcism and erasure marshalled by state agents, street-level struggles over memorialization and memory, to the lingering violence of crime scenes and the ghostly traces of outlaw artists, Ghost Criminology is a volume attuned to that which is well-theorized in other disciplines…
Re‐imagining belonging to Brazil: Active immobility in times of crisis
This paper uses qualitative data conducted in São Paulo, Brazil with those who possessed the capability to emigrate yet had chosen to remain in place. It explores the strategies these ‘stayers’ employed to create and reproduce a sense of belonging to place in the midst of political disruption and alienation. This is in the context of Brazil's lava jato (car wash) political corruption scandal which culminated in the election of President Bolsonaro…
Immobility as loyalty: ‘Voluntariness’ and narratives of a duty to stay in the context of (non)migration decision making
In order to broaden research into different forms of immobility, this article explores how immobility can be motivated by a sense of duty to stay by using data collected from residents of São Paulo, Brazil who had decided not to emigrate despite having the capability to do so. This is in the context of the increasing out-migration that Brazil is experiencing. The article argues that immobility that is motivated by a duty to stay cannot easily be …
Lifestyle migration from the Global South to the Global North: Individualism, social class, and freedom in a centre of “superdiversity”
Lifestyle migration is a growing field of interest. Traditionally, research into lifestyle migration has focused on either “North to North” or “North to South” migration. This article analyses middle‐class Brazilian migration to London together with examples from the lifestyle migration literature to argue that there are instances of movement from the Global South to the Global North, which should be classified as lifestyle migration according to…
Imagining London: The role of the geographical imagination in migrant subjectivity and decision‐making
This article employs a qualitative, biographical approach, to explore the motivations and subjectivities behind migration of middle‐class Brazilians to London. It uses the concept of the geographical imagination to understand how migrants imagine not only their destinations and places of origin but also how their own identity is shaped by their imagined relationship to these places. The paper argues that for many middle‐class Brazilians, their mo…
Brazilians in London: Ideology, Social Class, and Motivations for Migration, Settlement, and Return
The United Kingdom now boasts the largest Brazilian population in Europe, but so far the processes behind this relatively new migration stream remain undertheorized. An examination of Brazilian migration to London suggests that, although increased access to economic capital certainly plays a role in it, what migrants do with this capital may vary significantly and, further, that these differences are related to social class and ideology. The like…
Immobility as loyalty: ‘Voluntariness’ and narratives of a duty to stay in the context of (non)migration decision making
In order to broaden research into different forms of immobility, this article explores how immobility can be motivated by a sense of duty to stay by using data collected from residents of São Paulo, Brazil who had decided not to emigrate despite having the capability to do so. This is in the context of the increasing out-migration that Brazil is experiencing. The article argues that immobility that is motivated by a duty to stay cannot easily be …
Re‐imagining belonging to Brazil: Active immobility in times of crisis
This paper uses qualitative data conducted in São Paulo, Brazil with those who possessed the capability to emigrate yet had chosen to remain in place. It explores the strategies these ‘stayers’ employed to create and reproduce a sense of belonging to place in the midst of political disruption and alienation. This is in the context of Brazil's lava jato (car wash) political corruption scandal which culminated in the election of President Bolsonaro…
Imagining London: The role of the geographical imagination in migrant subjectivity and decision‐making
This article employs a qualitative, biographical approach, to explore the motivations and subjectivities behind migration of middle‐class Brazilians to London. It uses the concept of the geographical imagination to understand how migrants imagine not only their destinations and places of origin but also how their own identity is shaped by their imagined relationship to these places. The paper argues that for many middle‐class Brazilians, their mo…
Lifestyle migration from the Global South to the Global North: Individualism, social class, and freedom in a centre of “superdiversity”
Lifestyle migration is a growing field of interest. Traditionally, research into lifestyle migration has focused on either “North to North” or “North to South” migration. This article analyses middle‐class Brazilian migration to London together with examples from the lifestyle migration literature to argue that there are instances of movement from the Global South to the Global North, which should be classified as lifestyle migration according to…
The medium is the message: The geographies of cryptocurrency remittances to Venezuela
Cryptocurrency remittances overcome many regulatory and practical barriers, but there is little empirical research into this increasingly popular remittance medium. In response, this article explores cryptocurrency remittances from Latin America and the Caribbean into Venezuela. Cryptocurrencies as a remittance medium conveys important messages for advocates and critics. To appropriately critique cryptocurrencies, it is important to understand ho…
Invisible Migration and “Perverse” Capital: Exploring the Experiences of Migrant Delivery Riders
This article focuses on “semi-documented” Brazilian migrant delivery riders in London. It uses (in)visibility as a conceptual lens to perform two roles. First, it explores the experiences of this group through the analytical lens of invisibility. In doing so, it demonstrates that in multiple ways, this group does not conform with statistical norms or with the way “invisible” and/or undocumented migrant workers are portrayed in the literature. Sec…
Staying put in an era of climate change: The geographies, legalities, and public health implications of immobility
In response to the proliferation of “climate migration” discourses, researchers are exploring how climate related hazards affect immobile populations. This paper contributes to the conceptualization of “environmental immobility.” Researchers from geography, public health, psychology, and law explore the climate change immobility nexus via three themes: (1) risk; (2) (mal)adaptation; and (3) resilience, protection, and vulnerability. The aim of th…
Lifestyle migration from the Global South to the Global North: Individualism, social class, and freedom in a centre of “superdiversity”
Lifestyle migration is a growing field of interest. Traditionally, research into lifestyle migration has focused on either “North to North” or “North to South” migration. This article analyses middle‐class Brazilian migration to London together with examples from the lifestyle migration literature to argue that there are instances of movement from the Global South to the Global North, which should be classified as lifestyle migration according to…
Imagining London: The role of the geographical imagination in migrant subjectivity and decision‐making
This article employs a qualitative, biographical approach, to explore the motivations and subjectivities behind migration of middle‐class Brazilians to London. It uses the concept of the geographical imagination to understand how migrants imagine not only their destinations and places of origin but also how their own identity is shaped by their imagined relationship to these places. The paper argues that for many middle‐class Brazilians, their mo…
Brazilians in London: Ideology, Social Class, and Motivations for Migration, Settlement, and Return
The United Kingdom now boasts the largest Brazilian population in Europe, but so far the processes behind this relatively new migration stream remain undertheorized. An examination of Brazilian migration to London suggests that, although increased access to economic capital certainly plays a role in it, what migrants do with this capital may vary significantly and, further, that these differences are related to social class and ideology. The like…
Ghost Criminology: The Afterlife of Crime and Punishment
Bringing together prominent early contributions from this emergent perspective, the volume traces the origins, theory, and method of ghost criminology. From the powers of exorcism and erasure marshalled by state agents, street-level struggles over memorialization and memory, to the lingering violence of crime scenes and the ghostly traces of outlaw artists, Ghost Criminology is a volume attuned to that which is well-theorized in other disciplines…
Re‐imagining belonging to Brazil: Active immobility in times of crisis
This paper uses qualitative data conducted in São Paulo, Brazil with those who possessed the capability to emigrate yet had chosen to remain in place. It explores the strategies these ‘stayers’ employed to create and reproduce a sense of belonging to place in the midst of political disruption and alienation. This is in the context of Brazil's lava jato (car wash) political corruption scandal which culminated in the election of President Bolsonaro…
Immobility as loyalty: ‘Voluntariness’ and narratives of a duty to stay in the context of (non)migration decision making
In order to broaden research into different forms of immobility, this article explores how immobility can be motivated by a sense of duty to stay by using data collected from residents of São Paulo, Brazil who had decided not to emigrate despite having the capability to do so. This is in the context of the increasing out-migration that Brazil is experiencing. The article argues that immobility that is motivated by a duty to stay cannot easily be …
Staying put in an era of climate change: The geographies, legalities, and public health implications of immobility
In response to the proliferation of “climate migration” discourses, researchers are exploring how climate related hazards affect immobile populations. This paper contributes to the conceptualization of “environmental immobility.” Researchers from geography, public health, psychology, and law explore the climate change immobility nexus via three themes: (1) risk; (2) (mal)adaptation; and (3) resilience, protection, and vulnerability. The aim of th…
The medium is the message: The geographies of cryptocurrency remittances to Venezuela
Cryptocurrency remittances overcome many regulatory and practical barriers, but there is little empirical research into this increasingly popular remittance medium. In response, this article explores cryptocurrency remittances from Latin America and the Caribbean into Venezuela. Cryptocurrencies as a remittance medium conveys important messages for advocates and critics. To appropriately critique cryptocurrencies, it is important to understand ho…
Invisible Migration and “Perverse” Capital: Exploring the Experiences of Migrant Delivery Riders
This article focuses on “semi-documented” Brazilian migrant delivery riders in London. It uses (in)visibility as a conceptual lens to perform two roles. First, it explores the experiences of this group through the analytical lens of invisibility. In doing so, it demonstrates that in multiple ways, this group does not conform with statistical norms or with the way “invisible” and/or undocumented migrant workers are portrayed in the literature. Sec…
Digital dollarization in Venezuela: Social meaning, inequalities and governance
This paper examines digital dollarization in Venezuela as a lived socio-cultural process rather than a purely economic one. Moving beyond macroeconomic accounts of dollarization, it analyses how Venezuelans interpret and practice two distinct digital forms of the US dollar: Zelle payments and stablecoins (cryptocurrencies pegged to the US dollar). Drawing on in-person fieldwork and analysis of social media, the paper explores how different forms …
Reciprocal remittances: Inventive practices, alternative economies, and the differing role of ‘friends’
This article examines Venezuelan migrants’ remittance practices in Madeira and Trinidad & Tobago (T&T) to highlight how similar-sounding remittance methods diverge sharply across contexts. In Madeira, it identifies a novel remittance system termed ‘reciprocal remittances’ whereby friends enable transfers through parallel domestic transactions in both countries. Unlike systems like hawala, these exchanges are bidirectional, non-profit, and enabled…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Context (archaeology (3 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (3 works)