Daniel Robins is a human geographer working on issues around human mobility and immobility with a focus on Brazil. He is currently an ESRC postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Geography. Before coming to Cambridge he completed his doctoral thesis in the School of Geography & Sustainable Development at the Univesity of St Andrews.
Lifestyle migration, urban to urban migration from the Global South to the Global North, motivations for and theories of immobility particularly within cities in the Global South, the geographical imaginaries of 'world cities' and 'world citizenship', immigration policy, urbanisation, securitisation, inequalities in private and public space in São Paulo and other cities of the Global South.
