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Dr. Benjamin Muller is Associate Professor with the Departments of Political Science at King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario. His research and publications reflect his interdisciplinary background in international relations theory and contemporary social and political thought, covering issues from contemporary aviation security and trusted traveler programs, to the increasing reliance on biometric technology and risk management in contemporary border security, to a critical security studies analysis of Hizballah. In general, Dr. Muller is interested in the […]

Simon Dalby is a Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. His published research deals with climate change, environmental security and geopolitics. He is co-editor of Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals(Routledge 2019), Rethinking Geopolitics (Routledge 1998), The Geopolitics Reader (Routledge 1998, 2006), Reframing Climate Change (Routledge 2016) and author of Creating the Second Cold War (Pinter and Guilford, 1990/Bloomsbury 2016), Environmental Security (University of Minnesota Press, 2002) , Security and Environmental Change (Polity, 2009) and Anthropocene Geopolitics: Globalization, Security, Sustainability (University of Ottawa Press 2020). Simon Dalby was educated at Trinity College […]

Harald Bauder is the founding Director (2011-2015) of the Ryerson Centre for Immigration and Settlement (RCIS) at Ryerson University in Toronto. He is Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, and the Graduate Program for Immigration and Settlement Studies (ISS). Professor Bauder published several books, dozens of popular and academic articles on issues of immigration. In 2015 he was awarded the Konrad Adenauer Research Award in recognition of his academic achievements and to promote further collaboration projects between Canada and […]

Pablo Ouziel is co-founder of the Cedar Trees Institute at the University of Victoria. He is Associate Fellowship at the Centre for Global Studies at the same university and is a visiting fellow at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain and the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Pablo’s research interests include public philosophy, collective presences, horizontality, nonviolence and civic democracy. By standing within the tradition of public philosophy, the core of his work is centred on excavating […]

Ahmed Hamila is Winer-Anspach Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Cambridge. Currently he is also the  FNRS-F.R.S. research fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Université Libre de Bruxelles and the President of the Young Researchers Network of the European Community Studies Association – Canada. Ahmed was awarded the Robert Bourassa Foundation Excellence Award for the most promising doctoral thesis project in European Studies. The title of his PHD is: European Asylum Policy Related to Sexual Orientation: A Common System, Several Implementation Models. Ahmed’s research […]

Victor Satzewich is Professor at the McMasters University. His research interests focus on historical sociology, aboriginal peoples, race and ethnic relations, racism, immigration, Indian administration in Canada, political sociology and the Ukrainian Diaspora. Currently Prof. Satzewich is leading the research project ‘Immigration Consulting in Sending and Receiving Countries, Growth, Activities and State Regulation’, funded by the Insight Grant of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Research Interests: Immigration Policies, Minorities and Immigration, Policing and Immigration, Social Inequality, […]

I am Associate Professor of Sociology and hold the Chair in Multiculturalism at McGill University in Montreal. For the 2024-25 academic year I am serving as Interim Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (MISC). Her research activities focus on the following issues: immigration policy and the boundaries of national belonging; the place of culture in political institutions and policy making; state categorization practices (e.g. ethnic classifications in official statistics and legal categories created by immigration policies) and their […]

Scott Watson is an Associate Professor and Chair at the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria . His research interests include the construction of security threats and conditions of ‘national’ insecurity, particularly in the realm of migration; as well as the role various actors play in these processes. Scott Watson is the author of The Securitisation of Humanitarian Migration (Routledge, 2009).  “This book examines how western liberal states are progressively restricting access to refugees and asylum seekers, even […]

Amrita Hari is the Director and an Associate Professor at the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation. Her research focuses on global migration, transnationalism, citizenship, gender, diasporic formations, intersectional identities and acts of resistance of refugees and asylum seekers. Dr. Hari’s work engages with the notion of “doing gender” within the context of migration, gendered division of household labor, and the Canadian labor market. Research Interests: Global migration, Transnationalism, Citizenship, Gender, Migration Canadian labor market, Diaspora, Refugee Movements. 

Roderic Beaujot was Director of the Population Studies Centre and Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario. His research interests include evolving demographics and implications for social policy in areas such as health, family, labour force, multiculturalism, and education.   Research Interests: Demographics; Population change; Social Policy; Immigration Policy

Ethel Tungohan is the Canada Research Chair in Canadian Migration Policy, Impacts and Activism, and Assistant Professor of Politics and Social Science at York University. She has also been appointed as a Broadbent Institute Fellow. Previously, she was the Grant Notley Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta’s Department of Political Science. She received her doctoral degree in Political Science and Women and Gender Studies from the University of Toronto. Her research looks at migrant labor, specifically assessing migrant activism. Her forthcoming book, “From the Politics of Everyday Resistance to […]

Luann Good Gingrich is a Professor in the School of Social Work, and Academic Director of the Research Commons at York University. Using an approach to critical analysis of social systems based in Reflexive Sociology (Bourdieu), Popular Education (Freire), Institutional Ethnography (Smith) and Community-Based Research, her research aims to describe and measure the processes and outcomes of social exclusion and inclusion. Her work zeros in on the interface of ideology (or worldview), material and symbolic inequality, migration and displacement, and social welfare […]

David Moffette is a sociologist who studies various questions related to the intersections between criminal law and immigration law, the securitization of immigration, borders and bordering practices, policing, state multiculturalism, and race and racism. His recent book Governing Irregular Migration: Bordering Culture, Labour and Security in Spain (UBC Press, 2018) looks at the logics and practices that have informed immigration and border policies in this southern European country since the 1980s. He is the principal investigator for a new community-engaged research titled […]

Patti Tamara Lenard’s research focuses on the moral questions raised by migration across borders, as well as on multiculturalism, trust and social cohesion, and democratic theory more generally.   She is particularly interested in the ways in which movement across borders, especially for asylum seekers, is made more difficult by extra-territorial border control measures; by the ways in which states are acting to limit mobility rights for all citizens, in the name of protecting them from terror; and by the possibilities […]

Howard Ramos is a political sociologist who investigates issues of social justice and equity. He has published on social movements, human rights, environmental advocacy, immigration, ethnicity, and race. He is currently working on projects looking at secondary cities, environmental advocacy, tourism development, and integration of immigrants and refugees. He works with graduate students looking at these issues as state funding of women’s organizations, new technology, and public attitudes and social values. Research Interests: Political sociology, Immigration, Race and ethnic relations, […]

Dr. Habiba Zaman is Professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Simon Fraser University. Her areas of research interest include Immigrants, settlement and work in Canada; Global south and social justice movements; Gender and development; Globalization and labour mobility; Race, gender and class; South Asia. She has published extensively in international journals. Research Interests: Immigrants and settlement in Canada, Global south and social justice movements, Labour mobility, and Race, gender and class