Steve Cohen studied law at Oxford University as an undergraduate and then gained his masters from Birmingham University. He practiced as an immigration lawyer in the South Manchester Law Centre and as director of the Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit for over 30 years.
He is politically opposed to immigration controls in their totality and has been involved in many anti deportation and immigration campaigns. Since having to retire from work through illness he has been active in forming and developing the No One is Illegal Group which campaigns against immigration controls.
He has been published extensively and his works include: Immigration controls, the family and the welfare state,(London:Jessica Kingsley Publishers) No One is illegal (Stoke-on-Trent:Trentham Books Ltd), Standing on the shoulders of Fascism, (Stoke-on-Trent:Trentham Books Ltd)
From the guide to the Greater Manchester Collection of Steve Cohen, lawyer and anti deportation campaigner, 1975-1996, 1975-1996, (Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre, University of Manchester)
