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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