Cluster:Immigration and Social Policy
Bernard, Paul Cluster Member
Paul Bernard is Professor of Sociology at the Université de Montréal. His research instrests focus on social inequality and lifecourse, and on epistemology and methods. Dr. Bernard's recent work is mostly comparative internationally (and inter-provincially within Canada), on job quality, social cohesion, social capital, welfare regimes and gender regimes, social inequalities of health, indicators of social development, lifecourse and social investment, flexicurity, and poverty among single-parent families. Paul Bernard is member of the National Statistics Council, of the Executive Board of the SSHRC-sponsored Population Change and Lifecourse Strategic Research Cluster, of the Steering Committee of the Canadian Household Panel Survey, of the Board of Governors of the Council of the Canadian Academies, of the Board of the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation, and of the Board of the Centre d'études sur la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale, in Quebec's Department of employment an ...
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Boismenu, Gérard Cluster Member
Gérard Boismenu is director of the Institute of European Studies and Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration at the University of Montreal. He is also engaged in the design and creation of professional publishing and distribution of digital academic publications. Dr. Boismenu is the chairman of the Interuniversity Consortium, which supports the platform Scholar (which broadcasts some fifty academic journals; www.erudit.org.
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Carens, Joseph Cluster Member
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- Political theory
- Ethics
- Immigration
- Multiculturalism
- Democratic theory
Gallagher, Stephen Cluster Member
Stephen Gallagher is the Program Chair of the Canadian International Council's Montreal Branch. His areas of research interest include: Canadian Refugee Policy, Comparative Asylum Policy, and Comparative Migration Policy. Dr. Gallagher studies comparative asylum policy and specifically, Canada's extended refugee policy system and the emerging ‘Common European Asylum System'. These policy areas are analyzed from a migration management perspective. A core theme is that international migratory flows have profound implications for state sovereignty, national security and national identity in Canada and the European Union.
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- Canadian Refugee Policy
- Comparative Asylum Policy
- Comparative Migration Policy
Gould, Robert Cluster Member
Robert Gould is an expert on examination of contemporary discourses of immigration and identity in a range of European countries – such as Austria, Germany, Ireland, Spain, United Kingdom, France and Switzerland. He also undertakes investigation of the statements in speeches and official documents from Brussels on the same topics. Dr. Gould works for the awareness of the media and on the political discourses concerning minorities in Latvia.
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- Immigration and identity discourses in a range of European countries - Austria, Germany, Ireland, United Kingdom, Spain, France, and Switzerland
Hansen, Randall Cluster Member
Professor Randall Hansen's research interests include public policy and history. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Immigration & Governance, and has published widely on immigration, citizenship and multiculturalism. He also publishes on military and political history, including the history and morality of strategic bombing. His most recent book is Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany (Doubleday, 2008): www.fireandfury.info.
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- European Politics
- Political History
- Comparative Politics
Jenson, Jane Cluster Member
Jane Jenson holds the Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Governance at the Université de Montréal, where she is professor of Political Science and Director of the Université de Montréal/McGill University Institute of European Studies. Her current research interests cover a wide spectrum, including social policy, social movements, citizenship, diversity, gender studies and knowledge transfer.
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Kuus, Merje Cluster Member
Merje Kuus' research focuses on political geography and geopolitics--particularly on policy-making processes in complex bureaucratic structures. In broad terms, it investigates how political practices are underpinned by spatially defined categories like center and margin, inside and outside, Self and Other. These categories are central to the processes by which complex political issues come to be defined and managed in a particular manner. Within that problematic, Dr. Kuus' interests converge on the question of how specifically spatial categories function in daily politics at various sites-for example, within foreign policy bureaucracies. By virtue of her ‘regional' expertise, Dr. Kuus is also keenly interested in the ways in which places and regions are ‘written onto' our mental maps on a daily basis.
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- Political geography and geopolitics
- Security and state sovereignty
- Policy processes
- Borders
- Identity and nationalism
Maas, Willem Cluster Member
Willem Maas holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration at York University and is executive member of the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies and of the Centre for Public Policy and Law, and is also member of the Centre for Refugee Studies. Currently, his areas of interest relate to: researching theoretical and empirical questions on citizenship, integration policies, the limits of tolerance and multiculturalism, and the intersection of migration and law. In 2007, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. published his book Creating European Citizens. The book suggests that integration has always been about much more than economics, and that free movement of persons is central to integration, and that the political project of transcending borders and building a European community of people has implications for the global rise of rights.
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MacRae, Heather Cluster Member
Heather MacRae's research interests include Europeanization, the politics of the EU, gender regimes and German politics. Dr. MacRae has completed research on the interaction of various policy and institutional levels in re-shaping the German gender regime. Currently her research is investigating the gendered implications of transportation policies in the European Union. Media Experience: Dr. MacRae accepts inquiries from media working in TV, Radio and Print formats.
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- Comparative Politics
- Public Policy
- European Integration
- Gender Politics
Mahon, Rianne Cluster Member
Rianne Mahon’s earlier work focused on unions and labour market restructuring in Canada and Sweden. Over the past decade she has produced numerous articles and book chapters on the politics of childcare at multiple scales. Dr. Mahon's current SSHRC funded research project looks at policy learning in a multi-scalar world: Canada, Korea, Sweden and the OECD’s reconciliation agenda ($87,034). As part of this project, she is working with Australian, British and Swedish colleagues on care in a globalizing world from a multi-scalar perspective.
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- Rescaling the state and politics;
- Child care policy in Sweden
Marier, Patrik Cluster Member
Patrik Marier’s research focuses broadly on the impact of changing demographic structures on reforms to the welfare state in comparative contexts. His earlier work examined the politics of pension reform in a number of countries including Sweden, Canada, Mexico and the United States. Dr. Marier’s current research looks more broadly at the impact of aging populations on a number of public policy fields including education, health care, and labour policy across comparative cases. With Dolores Pushkar (Department of Psychology, Concordia), Dr. Marier has facilitated the organization of the Concordia Ageing Research Network which has brought a number of Concordia scholars together to examine the comparative impact of ageing from a multidisciplinary perspective. Media Experience: Dr. Marier has a great deal of experience responding to TV, Radio and Print Media inquiries.
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- Comparative Public Policy
- Comparative Welfare State
- Pensions
- Ageing
- Public Administration
Ross, George Cluster Member
George Ross is ad personam Jean Monnet Chair at the Université de Montréal, iserves as Morris Hillquit Professor emeritus at Brandeis University, and is a faculty associate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard. His research interests include the political economy of the European Union, EU elites and institutions, European politics and industrial relations, globalization, and social structures. He recently co-edited What`s Left of the Left, a book on European elites and the crisis of European integration, published by Duke University Press in 2009. Media Experience: Dr. Ross has a great deal of international media experience in TV, Radio and Print formats.
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- EU elites and institutions
- European political economy
- European social policy
- Comparative politics
Saint-Martin, Denis Cluster Member
Denis Saint-Martin is an expert in public administration and policy. Since 2008, he is the director of the European Union Centre of Excellence at Université de Montréal and McGill University. His research interests deal with the regulation of ethics in politics, continuity and institutional change, new public management, and the politics of expertise. In 2005, he was a Fulbright scholar at the Kennedy School of Government and before that was a policy advisor in the Office of the Prime minister of Canada. Media Experience: Dr. Saint-Martin has a great deal of experience responding to TV, Radio and Print Media inquiries.
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- Public Administration and Public Policy
Schmidtke, Oliver Cluster Member
Oliver Schmidtke is Jean Monnet Chair in European Politics and History, and he is also BC Metroplis' Domain leader for Citizenship and Social, Cultural and Civic Integration. Currently his research focuses on the labour market inclusion of highly skilled immigrants as well as processes of political advocacy of migrant and minority groups. Media Experience: Dr. Schmidtke has a great deal of experience responding to TV, Radio and Print media inquiries.
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- Immigration and citizenship
- Identity politics
- Comparative European politics
Soennecken, Dagmar Cluster Member
Dagmar Soennecken's research focuses on comparative politics and public policy in the EU and North America. She is particularly interested in questions concerning law and the courts as well as citizenship and migration. Dagmar is currently working on two major research projects: The first has generated a book manuscript, tentatively entitled Empowered Courts and the Fate of Refugees Compared, and a select number of articles. It investigates the growing influence of the judiciary over refugee determinations in Canada and in Germany from the 1950s to the present. The second project, Courts and Refugees in the UK: Juristocracy Reconsidered, for which research is still ongoing, expands the focus of the first to the UK and the European Union level.
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Thériault, Barbara Cluster Member
Barbara Thériault applies a Weberian framework to her research interests which include: Sociological theory, Sociology of religions, and the Sociology of contemporary Germany. Currently, she is engaged in several research projects and notably, The "Carriers of Diversity" - a study on religion, toleration and the police in Germany. Dr. Thériault is interested in particular types of actors: "progressive" characters within semi-total organizations. Beyond their empirical interest, these characters raise an inherent challenge; how to transform from within or survive such organizations? Additionally, she is participating in three projects with The Canadian Centre for German and European Studies.
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- Sociological theory
- Sociology of religion
- Sociology of contemporary Germany
Triadafilopoulos, Phil (Triadafilos) Cluster Member
Phil Triadafilopoulos' research interests include comparative public policy, international migration, and ethnicity and nationalism. His current research focuses on how immigration and citizenship policies intersect with and help define boundaries of national belonging in liberal-democratic states (principally in Europe and North America). Presently, he is completing two book-length manuscripts, Becoming Multicultural: Immigration and the Politics of Citizenship in Canada and Germany, and, co-authored with Tobias K. Vogel, Moving People, Fixing Borders: Population Transfers, the Great Powers and the Quest for Stability in Europe. He is also beginning work on a comparative study of immigrant integration politics and policy-making in Europe and North America. Media Experience: Dr. Triadafilopoulos has a great deal of experience with Canadian and international media inquiries.
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- International migration
- Citizenship and nationhood
- Multiculturalism
- Ethnicity and race
van den Berg, Axel Cluster Member
Axel van der Berg's main empirical research deals with the question whether and how different configurations of social protection and labour market policy undermine or strengthen economic efficiency. His theoretical interests range from the debates about the status of rational choice theory and its cultural-institutional alternatives within the social sciences, flawed attempts to integrate ‘agency’ and ‘structure’ in social science explanatory models, and fads and fashions in contemporary, especially self-declared ‘critical’ social theory.
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- Economic sociology
- Welfare states and labour markets
- Contemporary sociological theory
van Rahden, Till Cluster Member
Till van Rahden is holding the Canada Research Chair in German and European Studies. He aims to develop a new research program to contribute to the writing of a cultural history of the political with an emphasis on the history of civil society, diversity, and democracy in Europe since the French Revolution. To speak of the "political" as opposed to "politics," is to direct attention to power and law, boundaries and nation, equality and justice, identity and difference, citizenship and civility. To explore key episodes in the cultural history of the political in modern Europe, Dr. van Rahden proposes three distinct areas of inquiry, the relationship of democracy and violence in the "Age of Extremes," the fragile and contested renaissance of democracy in postwar Western Europe, and the tension between equality and difference since the Enlightenment. Media Experience: Dr. van Rahden has a great deal of experience responding to TV, Radio and Print Media inquiries. ...
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Walters, William Cluster Member
William Walters is currently engaged in two research projects. The first examines the technopolitics of governing borders and human mobility and focuses on the emergence of new forms of identification and authentication such as the e-passport. The second is a book project exploring the recent uptake of Foucauldian political sociology within international relations. His previous research includes a contribution to the genealogy of social citizenship, and a study of the discourse of ‘illegal immigration' in Europe. Media Experience: Dr. Walters has media outreach experience predominantly in Print.
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- Political Sociology
- Social Theory
- Political Economy
Winter, Elke Cluster Member
Elke Winter's research interests includes: "Race"/racism, nation-building, immigration, pluralism, citizenship; Canada/Québec, Western Europe; Interpretative methodologies, discourse analysis; Social theory, historical sociology, comparative sociology, and the sociology of ethnic relations.Her research aims to understand the dynamics of unequal group relations, processes of ethnicization, and pluralist nation-building from a historical and comparative perspective. She is particularly interested in the ways in which (previously constructed) ethnic diversity is integrated normatively into discourses and policies of immigration and citizenship. Her current work examines the triangular relations between national majorities, established minorities, and immigration-related diversity in Canada and Western Europe.
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- Immigration and Citizenship
- Multiculturalism in Canada/Québec and Western Europe
- Discourse and policy analysis
- Comparative sociology
- Sociological theory