Our Experts

Tuula Heinonen is a Professor at the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Manitoba. Her interests are in gender and international social development, women’s health, integration issues of immigrants and refugees in new host countries, photovoice, and arts-based social work practice and research. She also completed an advanced diploma in art therapy at the Vancouver Art Therapy Institute in 2016. Research Interests: International Social Development, Cultural Identity and Cultural Retention of Immigrants, Refugee and Immigrant Settlement Issues, Social […]

Jeff Sahadeo received his PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 2000. He joined Carleton after three years teaching at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. His teaching interests include diaspora, migration, and empire in Eastern Europe and Asia. He also works on issues of colonialism, nationality, frontiers, and borders in relations of power and the creation of identities and states. A specialist on the Caucasus and Central Asia, Dr. Sahadeo has conducted extensive work in several countries of the region. […]

For over a decade Nimo Bokore’s research focused on immigrant and refugee resettlement in Canada. Her latest study explores how Canadian-Somali women conceptualize war trauma, forced migration, and how these circumstances influence their later resettlement process.  She is currently collaborating with other teams on projects  such as: (1)“Emerging voices: how Syrian newcomers and other key stakeholders perceive Canada’s three sponsorship programs for refugee (re)settlement”   funded by the Social Science And Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Connection Grant (2) “Finding a Space […]

Jeffrey G. Reitz (Ph.D., FRSC) is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, and R.F. Harney Professor Emeritus of Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies.  He has published extensively on immigration and inter-group relations in Canada from comparative perspectives and has frequently contributed to discussions of policies on immigration, multiculturalism, and minority group employment in Canada.  He is the co-author of Multiculturalism and Social Cohesion: Potentials and Challenges of Diversity (2009); recent articles have appeared in the International Migration Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, the Journal of Ethnic and […]

Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross is a Professor at the Department of History (Humanities) at the University of Victoria. His research and teaching focus on migration, race, and inequality in the twentieth century, especially in North America. He is currently the Co-Director, with Audrey Kobayashi (Queen’s University), of Past Wrongs, Future Choices, a 7-year (2022-2029) multi-sector and community-engaged project to integrate and tell the history of the internment, incarceration, and dispossession of people of Japanese descent in Australia, Brazil, Canada, and the […]

Martin Geiger is Associate Professor at Carleton University and is cross-appointed with the Department of Political Science and the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies . Martin is leading a project “Smart New Border World – Information Technologies and Security Industries in the Management of Human Cross-Border Mobility in North America”. He recently received a SSHRC Insight Development Grant to continue his work on international organizations in migration management. Martin is a collaborator in a EU-funded, multi-year “Horizon 2020” […]

Anna Korteweg is Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on citizenship, constructions of national identity in public and parliamentary debates on immigrant integration, and the ways in which the problematic of immigrant integration is defined in the intersections of gender, religion, ethnicity and national origin. She has published in various scholarly journals, including Theory & Society, Annual Review of Sociology, Social Politics, Ethnic and Racial Studies and Gender & Society as well as […]

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 […]

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. […]

Joseph H. Carens’ research focuses on contemporary political theory, particularly on questions about multiculturalism and immigration. He is a full professor at the University of Toronto and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of over 60 articles or book chapters focusing primarily on issues relating to immigration and multiculturalism. Dr. Carens recently published a book on the ethics of immigration. Media Experience: Dr. Carens has acquired a great deal of media experience appearing on the […]

Oliver Schmidtke is Director of the Centre for Global Studies (CFGS) and Jean Monnet Chair in European Politics and History at the University of Victoria. Dr. Schmidtke, a former director of European Studies and president of the European Community Studies Association in Canada (ECSA-C), holds appointments in the departments of Political Science and History. His research focuses on issues of democracy, populism, memory politics, the labour market inclusion of highly skilled immigrants as well as processes of political advocacy of […]

Elisabeth Vallet is an Associate Professor and a Research Director in geopolitics at the Raoul-Dandurand Chair at the University of Quebec at Montreal. Transatlantic relations and EU-US constitutional analysis are her major fields of interest. Elisabeth has a great deal of media experience. See Dr. Vallet’s media profile. Research Interests: Transatlantic relations and EU-US constitutional analysis

Randall Hansen holds a Canada Research Chair in Global Migration and directs the Munk School’s Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian studies. He is Full Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He works on immigration and citizenship, demography and population policy and the effects of war on civilians. His published works include Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance after Operation Valkyrie (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), Sterilized by the State: Eugenics, Race and the Population Scare in 20th Century […]

Willem Maas (PhD Yale), Jean Monnet Chair and Professor of Political Science, Public & International Affairs, and Socio-Legal Studies at York University, chaired Glendon Political Science for three and a half years and Glendon Faculty Council for four. Professor Maas co-founded APSA’s Migration and Citizenship section, has held appointments at EUI, Leiden, NYU, and elsewhere, and writes on EU and multilevel citizenship, migration, borders, and politics focusing on Europe and North America. Research Interests: Citizenship and nationality, Migration, Immigration, Free movement […]

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 […]

Elke Winter is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Ottawa. Her research examines the relationship between social inequality, boundary construction, and pluralist inclusion in ethnically diverse societies. Her research 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 new book […]