Dr Corey Ranford-Robinson

  • Lecturer International Relations (Political & International Studies)

Biography

Working at the intersection of international political sociology, refugee and migration studies and critical security studies, Corey’s research examines the international politics of migration governance and border control.

With expertise in migrant smuggling, irregular migration, asylum and global migration governance, Corey's research has appeared in Geopolitics, Third World Quarterly, International Political Sociology, Security Dialogue, Millennium: Journal of International Studies and in several scholarly volumes. Corey’s writing has also appeared in media outlets such as The New Humanitarian, The Toronto Star and The Conversation.

Before coming to Glasgow in 2023, Corey was a Lecturer in International Relations at Durham University (2022-23). Previously, Corey held teaching positions at the University of Toronto and York University and conducted research in the field of humanitarian evaluation. At Humanitarian Outcomes, Corey co-authored the Joint Evaluation of the Protection of the Rights of Refugees During the COVID-19 Pandemic, conducted under the auspices of UNHCR, the OECD and other actors as a part of the COVID-19 Global Evaluation Coalition.

Corey holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and a Graduate Diploma in Refugee and Migration Studies from York University. Corey's Ph.D. research was funded through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships Program (CGS) Doctoral Scholarships and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS).

Research interests

Research groups

Publications

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Number of items: 13.

2025

Robinson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1306-1737 and Watson, Scott D. (2025) Conspiracy theory, anti-globalism and the Freedom Convoy: the Great Reset and conspiracist delegitimation. Review of International Studies, (doi: 10.1017/S0260210524000925) (Early Online Publication)

2024

Robinson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1306-1737 (2024) The international organization for migration in North Africa: making international migration management by Inken Bartels, New York, Routledge, 2022, 248pp., £130.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781032068541. Ethnic and Racial Studies, pp. 1735-1737. (doi: 10.1080/01419870.2023.2178952)[Book Review]

Su, Yvonne, Robinson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1306-1737 and Rehaag, Sean (2024) Setting the record straight on refugee claims by international students. Conversation, 5 May.

Robinson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1306-1737 (2024) Offshoring and outsourcing anti-smuggling policy: capacity building and the geopolitics of migrant smuggling. Geopolitics, 29(1), pp. 13-38. (doi: 10.1080/14650045.2022.2159385)

2023

Su, Yvonne and Robinson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1306-1737 (2023) Fearmongering about people fleeing disasters is a dangerous and faulty narrative. Conversation, 12 March.

2022

Su, Yvonne and Robinson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1306-1737 (2022) Debunking the myth of the ‘evil people smuggler’. Conversation, 20 July.

Su, Yvonne, Valiquette, Tyler, Greatrick, Aydan and Robinson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1306-1737 (2022) How LGBTQI+ to LGBTQI+ support is helping Ukrainian refugees find safety in the EU. New Humanitarian, 8 June.

Robinson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1306-1737 (2022) Deportability, humanitarianism and development: neoliberal deportation and the Global Assistance for Irregular Migrants program. Third World Quarterly, 43(4), pp. 879-897. (doi: 10.1080/01436597.2022.2038128)

Taylor, Glyn, Gilbert, G., Hidalgo, S., Korthals Altes, M., Lewis, B., Robinson, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1306-1737, Sandri, E., Stoianova, V. and Ward, J. (2022) Joint Evaluation of the Protection of the Rights of Refugees during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Documentation. UNHCR, Geneva.

2021

Watson, Scott D. and Robinson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1306-1737 (2021) Knowledge controversies of global migration governance: understanding the controversy surrounding the Global Compact. In: Dauvergne, Catherine (ed.) Research Handbook on the Law and Politics of Migration. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 323-339. ISBN 9781789902259 (doi: 10.4337/9781789902266.00035)

2020

Robinson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1306-1737 (2020) Measuring ‘well-governed’ migration: the IOM’s Migration Governance Indicators. In: Geiger, M. and Pécoud, A. (eds.) The International Organization for Migration. Series: International political economy series. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 123-143. ISBN 9783030329754 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-32976-1_6)

2018

Robinson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1306-1737 (2018) Making migration knowable and governable: benchmarking practices as technologies of global migration governance. International Political Sociology, 12(4), pp. 418-437. (doi: 10.1093/ips/oly020)

2017

Robinson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1306-1737 (2017) Tracing and explaining securitization: social mechanisms, process tracing and the securitization of irregular migration. Security Dialogue, 48(6), pp. 503-523. (doi: 10.1177/0967010617721872)

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 18:45:42 2025 BST.
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Number of items: 13.

Articles

Robinson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1306-1737 and Watson, Scott D. (2025) Conspiracy theory, anti-globalism and the Freedom Convoy: the Great Reset and conspiracist delegitimation. Review of International Studies, (doi: 10.1017/S0260210524000925) (Early Online Publication)

Su, Yvonne, Robinson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1306-1737 and Rehaag, Sean (2024) Setting the record straight on refugee claims by international students. Conversation, 5 May.

Robinson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1306-1737 (2024) Offshoring and outsourcing anti-smuggling policy: capacity building and the geopolitics of migrant smuggling. Geopolitics, 29(1), pp. 13-38. (doi: 10.1080/14650045.2022.2159385)

Su, Yvonne and Robinson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1306-1737 (2023) Fearmongering about people fleeing disasters is a dangerous and faulty narrative. Conversation, 12 March.

Su, Yvonne and Robinson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1306-1737 (2022) Debunking the myth of the ‘evil people smuggler’. Conversation, 20 July.

Su, Yvonne, Valiquette, Tyler, Greatrick, Aydan and Robinson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1306-1737 (2022) How LGBTQI+ to LGBTQI+ support is helping Ukrainian refugees find safety in the EU. New Humanitarian, 8 June.

Robinson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1306-1737 (2022) Deportability, humanitarianism and development: neoliberal deportation and the Global Assistance for Irregular Migrants program. Third World Quarterly, 43(4), pp. 879-897. (doi: 10.1080/01436597.2022.2038128)

Robinson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1306-1737 (2018) Making migration knowable and governable: benchmarking practices as technologies of global migration governance. International Political Sociology, 12(4), pp. 418-437. (doi: 10.1093/ips/oly020)

Robinson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1306-1737 (2017) Tracing and explaining securitization: social mechanisms, process tracing and the securitization of irregular migration. Security Dialogue, 48(6), pp. 503-523. (doi: 10.1177/0967010617721872)

Book Sections

Watson, Scott D. and Robinson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1306-1737 (2021) Knowledge controversies of global migration governance: understanding the controversy surrounding the Global Compact. In: Dauvergne, Catherine (ed.) Research Handbook on the Law and Politics of Migration. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 323-339. ISBN 9781789902259 (doi: 10.4337/9781789902266.00035)

Robinson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1306-1737 (2020) Measuring ‘well-governed’ migration: the IOM’s Migration Governance Indicators. In: Geiger, M. and Pécoud, A. (eds.) The International Organization for Migration. Series: International political economy series. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 123-143. ISBN 9783030329754 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-32976-1_6)

Book Reviews

Robinson, Corey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1306-1737 (2024) The international organization for migration in North Africa: making international migration management by Inken Bartels, New York, Routledge, 2022, 248pp., £130.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781032068541. Ethnic and Racial Studies, pp. 1735-1737. (doi: 10.1080/01419870.2023.2178952)[Book Review]

Research Reports or Papers

Taylor, Glyn, Gilbert, G., Hidalgo, S., Korthals Altes, M., Lewis, B., Robinson, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1306-1737, Sandri, E., Stoianova, V. and Ward, J. (2022) Joint Evaluation of the Protection of the Rights of Refugees during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Documentation. UNHCR, Geneva.

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 18:45:42 2025 BST.

Prior publications

Report

Corey Robinson (2021) Reference Group Briefing Paper - Emerging Findings - Joint Evaluation of the Protection of the Rights of Refugees During the COVID-19 Pandemic UNHCR Corey Robinson.

Article

Corey Robinson (2014) Suspension of foreign workers puts them at risk of deportation Toronto Star Corey Robinson.

Corey Ranford-Robinson (2013) Cosmopolitanism and Liberal Universalism in International Relations Theory: Moralising Politics or Politicising Ethics? Millennium: Journal of International Studies Corey Robinson. ISSN 1477-9021 (doi: 10.1177/0305829813492834)

Grants

2024 - ‘Climate Change Adaptation, Dispossession and Displacement: Co-constructing Solutions with Coastal Vulnerable Groups in Africa and Asia.’ (£1,838,174), Co-Principal Investigator

  • Three-year international grant with partners in UK, Norway, Canada, Philippines, Bangladesh, and Ghana, awarded by the Economic and Social Research Council, Norwegian Research Council and New Frontiers in Research Fund/Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

 

2023 - ‘Resettlement as Climate Change Adaptation? Exploring the longer-term impacts of post-disaster resettlements in rural coastal and island communities in Eastern Samar, the Philippines,’ Partnership Engage Grant (£14,993), Co-Principal Investigator

  • Awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council