Jeffrey H. Cohen

Jeffrey H. Cohen (born 1962) is an American anthropologist.

Education and early career

Cohen received his undergraduate degree from Indiana University Bloomington. He went on to earn his PhD at Indiana under the supervision of Richard Wilk.

Cohen's work is centered ethnographically in Oaxaca. For his dissertation, he explored how an indigenous peasant community responded to globalization. Since that time much of his work has focused on migration, economic development and identity.

He received his doctorate in 1994 and is currently a professor at Ohio State University in the department of anthropology and a member of steering committee for the Initiative in Population Research.

Research

Since the late 1980s, Cohen has worked in Oaxaca's central valleys region, specifically in the community of Santa Ana del Valle. This research is documented in his book, Cooperation and Community, published in 1999 by the University of Texas Press.

In 2004 he published the Culture of Migration, also with the University of Texas Press. This book documents a long-term study of migration in 13 villages, all located in Oaxaca's central valleys. The book argues that a "culture of migration" defines movement and frames migration as one of the many strategic moves Oaxacans participate in to organize their lives. Cohen notes the importance of domestic migration, the rise of international and transnational movers and the role that remittances play in the lives of Oaxaquenos in their home communities.

He has also worked on Dominican migration to the United States where he was part of an interdisciplinary investigation of why Dominicans are traveling to Reading, Pennsylvania.[1] He conducts collaborative and comparative research with Ibrahim Sirkeci on Kurdish and Mexican immigration issues.

In 2007 he began an analysis of the impact of political and civil unrest in Oaxaca on migration patterns[2] and compared Oaxacan and Chiapaneco migration patterns. He also studies food and nutrition among immigrants and the role traditional foods, such as chapulines (grasshoppers) play for Oaxacans.[3]

He is co-editor of Migration Letters, an academic journal,[4] as well as of the journal Remittances Review.[5] He is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the book series Research in Economic Anthropology.[6]

Works
  • Cohen, Jeffrey H. (1999). Cooperation and Community: Economy and Society in Oaxaca. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-71220-0. OCLC 40996161.[7]
  • Cohen, Jeffrey H.; Dannhaeuser, Norbert, eds. (2002). Economic Development: An Anthropological Approach. AltaMira Press.[8]
  • Cohen, Jeffrey H. (2004). The Culture of Migration in Southern Mexico. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-70570-0. OCLC 54066190.[9]
  • Cohen, Jeffrey H.; Sirkeci, Ibrahim (2011). Cultures of Migration: The Global Nature of Contemporary Mobility. University of Texas Press.[10]
  • Cohen, Jeffrey H. (2015). Eating Soup without a Spoon: Anthropological Theory and Method in the Real World. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-1-4773-0783-0. OCLC 922325779.[11]

References
  1. Jensen, Leif; Cohen, Jeffrey H.; Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline; De Jong, Gordon F.; Rodríguez, Leila (December 2006). "Ethnic Identities, Language, and Economic Outcomes Among Dominicans in a New Destination". Social Science Quarterly. 87 (s1): 1088–1099. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6237.2006.00417.x. ISSN 0038-4941.
  2. Cohen, Jeffrey H. (2007). "The Role of Crises in Migration Outcomes: Rural Oaxacans and Politics in Oaxaca City, Mexico". Population Review. 46 (2): 22–31. doi:10.1353/prv.2008.0004. S2CID 154942524.
  3. Cohen, Jeffrey H.; Sáánchez, Nydia Delhi Mata; Montiel-Ishino, Francisco (February 2009). "Chapulines and Food Choices in Rural Oaxaca". Gastronomica. 9 (1): 61–65. doi:10.1525/gfc.2009.9.1.61. ISSN 1529-3262.
  4. "Migration Letters". Transnational Press London. 2018-09-18. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  5. Editorial Team, Remmittances Review; Transnational Press London. Accessed 2020-09-13.
  6. Information page, Research in Economic Anthropology; Emerald Publishing. Accessed 2020-09-13.
  7. Reviews of Cooperation and Community: Economy and Society in Oaxaca:
  8. Schröder, Peter (2004). "Review of Economic Development: An Anthropological Approach". Anthropos. 99 (1): 245–246. JSTOR 40466329.
  9. Reviews of The Culture of Migration in Southern Mexico:
  10. Reviews of Cultures of Migration:
    • Wang, Linda Q. (2012). "Review of Cultures of Migration". International Social Science Review. 87 (3–4): 166–167. JSTOR 41887548.
    • Nájera, Lourdes Gutiérrez (August 2012). "Review of Cultures of Migration". American Ethnologist. 39 (3): 643–644. JSTOR 23250802.
    • McDowell, Linda (August 2012). "Review of Cultures of Migration". Ethnic and Racial Studies. 35 (8): 1503–1504. doi:10.1080/01419870.2012.679667. S2CID 145528354.
    • Seker, B. Dilara; Strielkowski, Wadim (May 2015). "Review of Cultures of Migration". Migration Letters. 12 (2): 174–175. ProQuest 1721465327.
  11. Schwartzkopf, Stacey A. (October 2017). "Review of Eating Soup without a Spoon". Ethnohistory. 64 (4): 545–546. doi:10.1215/00141801-4174408. ISSN 0014-1801.
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