Members

Bree Akesson
Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University

Academic interests:

• international child protection
• psychosocial effects of war and disaster on young children and their families
• social service workforce strengthening

Maissaa Almustafa
Balsillie School of International Affairs; Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, York University

Academic interests:

• global migration governance
• refugees
• immigration and border control practices

Chris Anderson
Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University

Academic interests:

• Canadian citizenship
• immigration and refugee policies
• comparative liberal-democratic state border control
• Canadian foreign policy

Carla Angulo-Pasel
Political Science, University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley

Academic interests:

• Latin American politics
• border studies
• international migration
• gender and feminist theory

Nusrate Aziz
School of Business and Economics, Algoma University

Academic interests:

• migration, labour market, and trade
• institutional quality, labour mobility, and happiness
• economics of exchange rates
• economics of climate change and environment

Mohita Bhatia
Independent Scholar

Academic interests:

• borderlands
• nation-making
• refugees
• citizenship

Greg Bird
Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University

Academic interests:

• community in classical and contemporary social theory
• community in continental
• social and political philosophy

Masaya Llavaneras Blanco
Balsillie School of International Affairs

Academic interests:

• human mobilities
• feminist political economy
• feminist geopolitics
• political subjectivities

Alexandra Boutros
Cultural Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University

Academic interests:

• religion and media
• ubiquitous computing
• afrofuturism

Jonathan Crush
Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University; Balsillie School of International Affairs

Academic interests:

• research and policies that connect migration with development
• South-South migration
• diaspora engagement policy
• the nexus between migration and food security

Simon Dalby
Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University; Balsillie School of International Affairs

Academic interests:

• environmental security
• climate change
• geopolitics
• global security

Carol B. Duncan
Religion & Culture, Wilfrid Laurier University

Research interests:

• religion and culture of the African Diaspora
• postcolonialism
• educational studies
• women’s studies

Abdelfettah Elkchirid
Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University

Research interests:

• cultural and ethnic diversity
• children and youth in immigrant families
• the transmission of cultural values between generations and conflicts that may arise
• the choices that minority individuals and immigrants make to adjust to mainstream culture

Paul Freston
Religion & Culture, Wilfrid Laurier University; Balsillie School of International Affairs

Academic interests:

• religion and politics in comparative perspective
• globalization
• transnationalism
• transformations in the religious field of Latin America and especially Brazil

Jenna Hennebry
Communications Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University; Balsillie School of International Affairs

Academic interests:

• migrant worker rights and health
• gender
• transnationalism, mobility, and globalization
• racialization

Madelaine Hron
English, Wilfrid Laurier University

Academic interests:

• human rights
• post-colonial and globalization theory
• immigration and cross cultural encounters
• affect, trauma, violence, and healing

Suzan Ilcan
Sociology and Legal Studies, University of Waterloo

Academic interests:

• migration and mobilities
• social justice and citizenship
• humanitarianism
• qualitative methodology

Sandy Irvine
Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University

Academic interests:

• international relations theory
• internationalization of public policy
• international migration
• border control and security

Ginette Lafrenière
Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University

Academic interests:

• gaps in services for survivors of war and torture
• experiences of racism within health care systems
• economic integration of immigrants and refugees through the social economy
• inter-generational activism amongst undergraduate university students

Lucy Luccisano
Sociology and North American Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University

Academic interests:

• globalization
• international political economy
• gender and development inequality
• poverty

Sara Matthews
Global Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University

Academic interests:

• cultural studies of conflict and social reparation
• social justice
• reconciliation

Janet McLaughlin
Health Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University

Interests:

• temporary labour migration
• health and human rights
• workers’ compensation
• food systems

Robert McLeman
Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University

Academic interests:

• human dimensions of environmental change
• human migration
• citizen participation

Jade Miller
Communication Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University

Academic interests:

• political economy of creative production
• global media flows
• cultural/media industry development

Bessma Momani
Political Science, University of Waterloo

Academic interests:

• International Monetary Fund
• international financial institutions
• foreign policy to the Middle East
• economic integration of the Middle East

Alison Mountz
Director, International Migration Research Centre
Canada Research Chair in Global Migration
Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University; Balsillie School of International Affairs

Academic interests:

• migration and refugee studies, asylum, detention
• border studies and border enforcement
• political, feminist, and urban geography

Judith A. Nicholson
Communication Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University

Academic interests:

• mediated mobilities
• nonverbal communication
• race and media

Anh Ngo
Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University

Academic interests:

• critical refugee studies
• critical multiculturalism and migration
• cold war epistemology

Edmund Pries
Global Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University

Academic interests:

• global conflict
• disarmament
• global citizenship
• international humanitarian law

Liam Riley
Balsillie School of International Affairs

Academic interests:

• development geography
• household food security
• urban geographies
• gender and development

Kim Rygiel
Associate Director, International Migration Research Centre
Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University; Balsillie School of International Affairs

Academic interests:

• citizenship politics
• migration and asylum
• border security

Meena Sharify-Funk
Religion & Culture, Wilfrid Laurier University

Research interests:

• contemporary Islamic thought and identity
• social and intellectual history of pre-modern Islam
• peace studies
• women in the Islamic world

Eli Teram
Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University

Academic interests:

• organizational, inter-professional and inter-organizational contexts of social work practice

Andrew Thompson
Political Science, University of Waterloo; Balsillie School of International Affairs

Academic interests:

• international human rights
• civil society movements
• engagement with fragile states

Sarah Turnbull
Sociology and Legal Studies, University of Waterloo

Academic interests:

• immigration detention and deportation
• border control and penality
• gender, race and inequality

Margaret Walton-Roberts
Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University; Balsillie School of International Affairs

Academic interests:

• gender
• Indian migration
• immigrant settlement in mid-sized Canadian cities
• the impact of transnational networks in both source and destination locales

Kira Williams 
Post-doctoral Fellow, IMRC

Academic interests:

• illegalized (undocumented) migration
• border studies
• analytical methodology

Stacey Wilson-Forsberg
Human Rights and Human Diversity, Wilfrid Laurier University

Academic interests:

• immigrant integration (especially in small communities)
• context of reception (i.e., welcoming communities)
• civic engagement of immigrants and receiving community
• involvement of immigrants in community development initiatives

Jasmin Zine
Sociology, Cultural Analysis and Social Theory, Wilfrid Laurier University

Research areas:

• critical race and ethnic studies
• post-colonial theory and research methodologies
• education and social justice
• Muslim women’s studies

 

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