Randall Hansen

Works on forced and voluntary migration, eugenics and population policy, and the effect of war on civilian populations. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Global Migration in the Department of Political Science and is Director of International Partnerships at the Munk School. His current book project examines the effect of post-1970s global capitalism on low-skilled migration and refugees. He is author of War, Work & Want: How the OPEC Oil Crisis Caused Mass Migration and Revolution, Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance after Valkyrie (Oxford, 2014), Sterilized by the State: Eugenics, Race and the Population Scare in 20th Century North America (with Desmond King, Cambridge, 2013), Fire and Fury: the Allied Bombing of Germany and Japan, 1942-1945 (Penguin, 2009, Faber 2020, August Books 2024), Citizenship and Immigration in Postwar Britain (Oxford, 2000), as well as numerous edited volumes and articles in World Politics, Comparative Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, and the European Journal of Political Research.