Daniel Robins is an economic and migration geographer. He is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies at the University of Oxford. His project is titled, ‘New Strategies of Survival in Venezuela: migration and alternative remittances’. The project explores the causes, impacts and policy implications of the use of alternative channels to send remittances. These channels include cryptocurrencies, ‘in-kind’ remittances, and informal and parallel exchanges. He is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Remittances. He was previously an Associate Lecturer in the School of Geography and Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews and is currently an honorary fellow of the University of St Andrews. He was also an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, in the Department of Geography and a Research Associate at Cambridge Zero, both at the University of Cambridge. He obtained his PhD in Geography at the University of St Andrews.
Research Interests: Human migration, immobility, alternative economies, lifestyle migration, geographical imaginaries, globalisation, national identity, alternative remittances, environmental migration, climate change adaptation.
Countries: Venezuela, Brazil, UK.
