Susan McGrath, Ph.D. (University of Toronto)

smcgrath@yorku.ca (Social Work)

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Director, Centre for Refugee Studies. Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies . Prof. McGrath’s academic and research interests include: refugee women’s mental health, rehabilitation of survivors of torture, community education and practice, community-based social development and trauma rehabilitation in Rwanda.

James C. Simeon, Ph.D. (York University)

jcsimeon@yorku.ca  (School of Public Policy and Administration, Atkinson)

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Deputy Director, Centre for Refugee Studies, Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration, Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies, York University. Immediately before joining the faculty at York University, he served as the first Executive Director of the International Association of Refugee Law Judges (IARLJ), www.iarlj.nl, the foremost international professional association of its kind. From 1994 to 2005, he served on the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB), as a Member and Coordinating Member, where he was assigned to a number of special projects and sat on several high profile cases, including, Pushpanathan, an exclusion case under Article 1F, that had been argued at the Supreme Court of Canada.

Research interests include: regional refugee rights instruments, asylum and refugee status determination systems, immigration and refugee policy.

Jennifer Hyndman, Ph.D. (University of British Columbia)

jhyndman@yorku.ca (York, Social Science and Geography)

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Associate Director, Centre for Refugee Studies, and Professor, Departments of Social Science and Geography in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University. Areas of teaching and research: Refugee Studies, Conflict and Displacement, Gender and Nationalism, Humanitarianism, Immigration and refugee resettlement in Canada, transnationalism.

Geographic areas of interest include: South Asia, East Africa

Nergis CanefePh.D. (York)

ncanefe@yorku.ca (York: Political Science, Social and Political Thought)

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Associate Director, Centre for Refugee Studies, and Associate Professor, York University. Member of the  CRS Executive Committee. Research interests include: Citizenship and diaspora studies, minority and group rights, politics of religion in comparative perspective, Middle Eastern and Southeast European Studies, International Migration, Refugee and Migrant Identities, issues of social justice and toleration in. Guest editor of Refuge.

Howard Adelman, Ph.D. (University of Toronto)

howarda72@gmail.com (York: Philosophy, Atkinson; FGS, CPE, YCISS)

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Professor of Philosophy, Member of the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Founder and Director of the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University as well as Editor of Refuge until 1993. Research interests focuses on refugees, Palestinians, humanitarian intervention, membership rights, ethics, refugee policy and resettlement, in addition to his more philosophical works. He is presently undertaking a retrospective study on early warning and conflict resolution with respect to the genocide in Rwanda, and is a member of the Pax Warrior Project. In 2003/2004 he was Visiting Fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.

He most recently co-authored an international report: Early Warning and Conflict Management: Genocide in Rwanda and co-edited, The Path of a Genocide: The Rwandan Crisis from Uganda to Zaire,1999. Other major publications include: The Path of a Genocide: The Rwanda Crisis from Uganda to Zaire and Early Warning and Conflict Management: the Genocide in Rwanda (with Astri Suhrke; Transaction Books, 1999). Prof. Adelman has written extensively on the Middle East, humanitarian intervention, membership rights, ethics, refugee policy and refugee resettlement. His most recent co-edited books are: Immigration and Refugee Policy: Australia and Canada Compared (University of Melbourne Press and U of Toronto Press, 1994) and African Refugees (Westview Press, 1994).

Vijay Agnew, Ph.D. (University of Toronto)

vagnew@yorku.ca (York: Social Science, Women’s Studies, History, FGS)

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Associate Professor, Division of Social Science, School of Women’s Studies. Affiliated with Faculty of Graduate Studies. Recent publications include: In Search of a Safe Place: Abused Women and Culturally Sensitive Services (University of Toronto Press,1998) She has published numerous articles, books and delivered conference papers on gender, race and class; violence against women, the women’s movement, and South Asian women. Prof. Agnew is currently involved in field work with South Asian Women’s Organizations in India and Canada. Prof. Agnew is a Board Member of the Public Policy Research Fund of the Status of Women Canada, and the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women.

Sharryn Aiken, LL.M. (Osgoode)

aiken@post.queensu.ca (Queen's University: Law)

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Sharryn Aiken is an associate professor and the Associate Dean in the faculty of law at Queen's University where she teaches immigration and refugee law, international human rights, administrative law and law and poverty. Sharry is a past president of the Canadian Council for Refugees and has represented the CCR in a number of interventions at the Supreme Court of Canada. She is editor-in-chief of Refuge, co-published by York University's Centre for Refugee Studies and Queen's University; and National Coordinator for Canada of the University of Michigan's Refugee Caselaw website (with Dr. Catherine Dauvergne). Her research interests include Canadian immigration and refugee policy; the post 9/11 security agenda and its impact on refugee diasporas; as well as citizenship in the context of national and international rights regimes.

Raj Bardhouille, Ph.D. (Economics)

rajbardouille@yahoo.com

Former Senior Economic Affairs Officer, United Nations Secretariat, lecturer and research fellow at the Universities of Zambia, Guyana and the West Indies.

Research Interests: international migration, post conflict development, economic development.

Deborah Barndt, Ph.D. (Michigan State University)

dbarndt@yorku.ca (York: Faculty of Environmental Studies)

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Professor and Associate Dean, York University. Research areas include: women migrant workers, the global food system, popular education and community arts.

Sasha Baglay, LL.M., DJur (Osgoode Hall Law School)

sasha.baglay@uoit.ca (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Faculty of Criminology, Justice and Policy Studies)

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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Criminology, Justice and Policy Studies, UOIT. Research areas include: refugee and immigration law, Canadian refugee determination, security certificates, human trafficking.

Ranu Basu, Ph.D. (University of Toronto)

ranubasu@yorku.ca (York: Geography)

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Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director in the Department of Geography at York University. Her research and teaching interests relate to the geographies of marginality, diversity and social justice in cities; power relations and governance of local communities; resistance and social movements; critical geographies of education; and spatial methodologies including GIS and Spatial Phronesis. Her projects explore the impacts of neoliberalization of educational restructuring in Ontario; multiculturalism in schools through questions of 'integration'; social sustainability and the meaning of public space as it relates to diversity; and the provision of infrastructure for marginal groups in suburban regions

Pablo S. Bose, PhD  (York)

pablobose@gmail.com (University of Vermont: Geography)

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Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Vermont.

Areas of research interest: Development studies, diaspora and migration studies; immigration, multiculturalism, diversity and refugee issues; postcolonial theory and subaltern studies; media and communications; cultural production and cultural studies

Geographic areas of interest include: South Asia, Canada, United States, United Kingdom.

Janet Cleveland Ph.D. (Université du Québec à Montréal)

janet.cleveland@umontreal.ca

Researcher, Canada Research Chair in International Migration Law (Université de Montréal) and McGill University Health Centre

Rudhramoorthy Cheran

cheran@uwindsor.ca (University of Windsor: Sociology and Anthropology)

Research interests include: international migration, diasporas, transnationalism, ethnicity.

Christina Clark-Kazak, Ph.D. (Oxford University)

cclark-kazak@glendon.yorku.ca  (York: International Studies, Glendon)

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Assistant Professor, International Studies and School of Public and International Affairs, Glendon College, York University. Current and past teaching includes: Global Migration and Canadian Law and Policy; Research Methods; Diplomacy; Children, Migration and Conflict; Gender and Development. Research interests include: conflict-induced displacement in the African Great Lakes; children and young people’s political participation; Canadian aid policy in conflict and migration contexts; refugee discourses and imagery. For 10 years, Christina Clark-Kazak  has also worked as a development practitioner and consultant for the Canadian Government, international non-governmental organizations and the United Nations.

Bruce Collet, Ph.D. (Loyola University) 

bruce.collet@gmail.com (Bowling Green University: Education)

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Assistant Professor, Educational Foundations and Inquiry, School of Leadership & Policy Studies, College of Education & Human Development, Bowling Green State University

Research interests: Somali refugees, secondary schooling, national identity (doctoral dissertation); Forced migration and education; Immigrant Education; Schooling and identity construction; Multiculturalism in the Canadian context; Anti-Racist education; Education and Religion; Community-based participatory research.

Michael Creal S.T.B. (University of Toronto)

mcreal@yorku.ca (York: Humanities, Emeritus)

Professor of Humanities (Emeritus), York University. Former Chair of the Division of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, York University. Former Coordinator, Religious Studies Program York University). Prof. Creal has contributed to several journals and newspapers and his published works include Dynamics of Revolution (Macmillan of Canada, 1970) and Idea of Progress (Macmillan of Canada, 1970). He edited In the Eye of the Catholic Storm: The Church since Vatican II (Harper Collins, 1992). Prof. Creal is active in a number of community service projects, including the Southern Ontario Sanctuary Coalition as well as being the CRS NGO Liaison.

Alison Crosby, Ph.D. (York University)

acrosby@yorku.ca (School of Women's Studies)

Assistant Professor, School of Women's Studies, York University

Tania Das Gupta, Ph.D. (OISE/UT)

tdasgu@yorku.ca (York: Social Sciences)

Associate Professor, York University. Research interests: refugees and immigrants, politics of race, gender and labour.

David Dewitt Ph.D. (Stanford)

 ddewitt@yorku.ca (York: Political Science, Arts: YCISS, FGS)

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Professor of Political Science and former Director for the Centre for International and Security Studies. Affiliated with Faculty of Graduate Studies. In 1995-96 he concurrently also was the Interim Director of the Centre for Refugee Studies. He is author or editor and contributing editor of eight books dealing with Canadian, foreign, security and defence policy, regional security and conflict management, arms control, nuclear proliferation and international security. Publications include: Canada’s International Security Policy (with David Leyton-Brown; Prentice-Hall, 1995) and Confidence Building Measures in the Middle East (with Gabriel Ben-Dor; Westview Press, 1994). Other publications have covered security concepts and approaches in the Asia Pacific and security politics in the Middle East. Current work includes research on linkages between development and security, regional security mechanisms and the Canadian state, civil society and foreign policy.

Don Dippo, Ph.D. (University of Toronto)

ddippo@edu.yorku.ca (York: Education, IRIS, FGS)

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Professor of Education, York University. Member of the CRS Executive Committee. Ph.D. in the Sociology of Education with specialization in the sociology of knowledge. Education Coordinator of the Graduate Diploma in Environmental and Sustainability Education offered by the Faculties of Education and Environmental Studies. Co-chair of the York University Faculty Association (YUFA) Community Projects Committee that supports the creation of joint research and development projects involving York faculty and members of local community organizations. Teacher/Researcher on a multi-year Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) project investigating an action research approach to teacher education and school/community development in northern Peru. Current research interests include: the social and political organization of knowledge; critical pedagogy and cultural studies; community and popular education; issues related to University/Community relations; education for sustainability. Recent papers and publications: "Redefining Community/ Urban University Relations: A Project for Education Faculties?", Teaching Education, V. 16, # 2, June 2005. "Public Schooling, Public Knowledge, and the Making of Public Culture", CSSE, 2005. With Marcela Duran, Luis Angel Contreras, Alejandro Balarezo, "What Are We/They Doing Here? Situated Reflections on the Possibility of Reciprocity in North/South Collaborations", AERA, 2005.

sarahdrydenpeterson@gmail.com

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Research interests: refugee education, education in conflict/post conflict settings, local integration, institution building in post-conflict settings.

Mohamed Osman Fadal, Ph.D. (Berlin)

mohdfadal@yahoo.ca

Independent researcher, specializing in the Horn of Africa (Somaliland, Sudan). Areas of interest: development and recovery, peace building and transitional governance, community development.

Liette Gilbert, PhD (UCLA)

gilbertL@yorku.ca  (York: Environmental Studies)

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Associate Professor, PhD Coordinator and Associate Dean, FES

Research Interests: Criminalization and marginalization of immigrants in North America, schisms between policies, practices and ideologies of immigration, multiculturalism and citizenship, neoliberalization of immigration, multiculturalisation of cities. Current work includes the expansion of border politics into municipal governance, the neoliberalization of immigration and multiculturalism, media representations of immigration and multiculturalism, and a collaborative research on immigrants/refugees perceptions of public spaces/institutions.

Wenona Giles, Ph.D. (University of Toronto)

wgiles@yorku.ca (York: Social Science, Atkinson)

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Wenona  Giles is the former Deputy Director, Centre for Refugee Studies and a Professor in the Anthropology Department, York University. She teaches and publishes in the areas of gender, migration, refugee issues, ethnicity, nationalism, work, globalization, and war. She coordinated the international Women in Conflict Zones Research Network and the project “A Comparative Study of the Issues Faced by Women as a Result of Armed Conflict: Sri Lanka and the Post-Yugoslav States” at York University. She recently completed (with Jennifer Hyndman) an international research project concerning protracted refugee situations. See: http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/~gprs/HTML/agprs.html. She is now engaged in an international collaborative research endeavor to bring higher education degree programs to long term refugees in camps. See: borderlesseducation.ca As well, she is a Senior Co-investigator of the international SSHRC Cluster Grant: A Refugee Research Network: Globalizing Knowledge.  See: http://www.refugeeresearch.net/ Giles is the Academic Course Director for the CRS Annual Summer Course on Forced Migration Issues: http://crs.yorku.ca/summer/.

Luin Goldring

goldring@yorku.ca (York: Sociology, Arts; CERLAC, FGS)

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Associate Professor of Sociology, Fellow, Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean; Fellow and domain coordinator (through 2012), Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement (CERIS), Toronto; Executive Committee member, International Network on Migration and Development.  Luin Goldring researches and writes in the fields of international migration, transnationalism, citizenship, non-citizen precarious status, precarious work, and migration & development. Recent work has centered on non-citizen precarious status in Canada; immigrants and precarious work in Canada; and Latin American community organizing in the GTA.  Earlier research addressed Mexico-U.S. migration. Areas of teaching: migration and globalization, transnational migration, immigrant incorporation.  For further information, please see:

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Luann Good Gingrich, Ph.D. (University of Toronto)

luanngg@yorku.ca (York: School of Social Work)

Associate professor in the School of Social Work at York University in Toronto. Her current primary research interests extend the study of paradoxical conceptions and experiences of “choice” and social exclusion in transnational livelihoods; and the influences of migration, gender, religion, ethnicity, race, and wealth on the nature and dimensions of social inclusion. The complex relationship between the state and culturally-distinct communities, such as Old Order Mennonites and Mennonites from Mexico, has been central in her research. She has applied her conceptual model of social exclusion in an ongoing national study of lone mothers on welfare. She is also a researcher with a SSHRC-CURA project entitled Rural Women Making Change that seeks to influence the social, political, and economic processes that hinder the full participation and well-being of rural women. Her work with this project has contributed to a deeper understanding of the paradoxes of preservation and sacrifice in transnational livelihoods for Low German Mennonite women and their families.

Ian Greene

igreene@yorku.ca (York: Political Science)

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Professor, Dept. of Political Science, York University

Amrita Hari (University of Oxford), CERIS-CRS Postdoctoral Fellow

ahari@yorku.ca

Amrita Hari is a recently appointed CERIS-CRS Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research interests include anti-racist, postcolonial and feminist thought and the growth in international migration and transnationalism in the context of globalization and neoliberalism. Her empirical work has examined the labour market and settlement experiences of South Asian migrants in Canada, in particular gendered negotiations of productive and reproductive work. In her role as the CERIS-CRS Postdoctoral Fellow, her focus is temporary migration programs in Canada and the various pathways to and implications of temporary status (including refugee claimants, live-in caregivers, seasonal agricultural workers and temporary foreign workers).

M. Khalis R. Hassan, (Ph.D.) (University of Liverpool)

mkhassan@yorku.ca  (York: Environmental Studies)

Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, Coordinator of the CRS Education Program. Academic and research interests include: Urban and Regional Planning, Urbanization in Developing Countries, Urban Sustainability, Refugee and Migration Studies, Forced Migration and Diasporic Studies. Published numerous papers in refereed journals, co-author of Housing Geography, translated Geography and Planning from English into Arabic.

Zulfikar Hirji, DPhil (Oxford)

zhirji@yorku.ca (York, Anthropology)

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Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology

Michaela Hynie, Ph.D. (McGill)

mhynie@yorku.ca (York Institute for Health Research - YIHR, York)

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Associate Professor/Associate Director, YIHR. Research areas include: refugee and immigrant mental health. culture and health access.

Pablo Idahosa, Ph.D. (University of Toronto)

pidahosa@yorku.ca (York: Coordinator, African Studies Programme)

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Professor in the Division of Social Science at York University, where he also directs the African Studies Program, and teaches development Studies. He has written on development ethics, African political thought, the politics of ethnicity, and globalization and development. He is Author of the Populist Dimension of African Political Thought, co-editor of The Somali Diaspora and co-editor, with Peter Vandergeest and Pablo Bose, of the forthcoming Development's Displacements. He is currently researching the relationship between ethnicity and displacement in Nigeria, and co-writing a work on the relationship between development and modernity in Africa. Among his ongoing research interests is the relationships between development and Cultural production in Africa, and the politics of AIDS in Africa. He is currently on the executive of the International Development Ethics Association, and among his future research projects is the History of Social Welfare in Africa.

Nancy Johnston R.N. Ph.D. (McMaster)

 RJohn79236@aol.com (York: Nursing)

Associate Professor, School of Nursing; Past-President, Canadian Federation of Mental Health Nurses; former Vice-President Nursing, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry. Teaching course entitled "Health in the Global Context." Interests and publications relate to resilience and personal coherence in the face of adversity, social suffering, healing relational practices and global health. Currently involved in project entitled "Rebuilding Health in Rwanda" and in collaborative research with the Black Creek Community Health Centre, Toronto.

Ilan Kapoor Ph.D. (University of Toronto)

ikapoor@yorku.ca (York: Environmental Studies)

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Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies. Affiliated with Faculty of Graduate Studies. Areas of teaching and research: Critical Development studies; Postcolonial theory and Cultural Studies; Global environmental politics; Participatory development; Democratic theory and democratization;  Social/environmental movements in the North and South; Critiques of development (ecological, postdevelopment, postmarxist, feminist, anti-racist, non-western, postcolonial). Geographic areas of interest include: South Asia, East and Central Africa and Latin America.

Philip Kelly, Ph.D. (University of British Columbia)

pfkelly@yorku.ca (Geography)

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Graduate Program Director & Associate Professor, Dept. of Geography, York University

Gerald Kernerman, Ph.D. (York)

 geraldk@yorku.ca  (York: Political Science, Atkinson; FGS)

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Associate Professor of Political Science, Atkinson School of Social Sciences; affiliated with the Graduate Program in Political Science and former Associate Director of CRS. Previously, he was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and a Canada-U.S. Fulbright Scholar at Rutgers University. Scholarly publications include: Multicultural Nationalism: Civilizing Difference, Constituting Community (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005) and co-editor (with Philip Resnick) of Insiders & Outsiders: Alan Cairns and the Reshaping of Canadian Citizenship (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005). Current research: explores contemporary refugee issues in comparative perspective, focusing on the relationship between practices of refugee interdiction, national and international rights regimes, and so-called “states of exception”.

Kyle Killian Ph.D. (Syracuse)

 killian@yorku.ca (York: Psychology)

Kyle Killian is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health at York University, and teaches in Nursing and  Psychology and the Faculty of Graduate Studies. He has published articles and book chapters on trauma, immigrant and refugee families, prejudice, and factors associated with resilience and burnout in helping professionals. A family therapist and clinical supervisor, Dr. Killian teaches the "Trauma, Psychological Issues, and Vicarious Trauma" course in the Refugee and Forced Migration Issues certificate program.

Larry Lam Ph.D. (York)

 larrylam@yorku.ca (York: Sociology, Arts, FGS)

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Associate Professor of Sociology. Member of the Faculty of Graduate Studies. His research expertise includes migration and social relations. Prof. Lam’s most significant research contribution has been related to the development of collective identity embodied in the reconstituted refugee communities. His work has addressed the applicability of relevant sociological theory in general, and migration theories in particular, to refugee studies and has taken a critical stance regarding discursive practices in Canada regarding refugees and immigrants. Prof. Lam’s major work is From Being Uprooted to Surviving: Resettlement of Vietnamese-Chinese Boat People in Montreal, 1980-90. His recent research projects include a study of newcomer youth at risk and a survey of sponsors of refugees from Kosovo.

Michael Lanphier

lanphier@yorku.ca (York: Sociology, Arts, FGS)

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Professor of Sociology. Member of the CRS Executive Committee and Faculty of Graduate Studies. Editor of Refuge (1985-87 and 1993-2000. Former Director, Centre for Refugee Studies (1994-95) and is currently Deputy Director. Prof. Lanphier has published several articles and book chapters in his areas of expertise which include: refugee resettlement, Canadian refugee and immigration policy, comparative refugee policy, non-governmental immigrant serving organizations, community resettlement and newcomer integration. Recent projects include: “Accommodating Diversity” co-edited with Paul Anisef, sponsored by the Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement.

Paul Lovejoy

plovejoy@yorku.ca (York: History, Arts, FGS)

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Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History, Distinguished Research Professor, Department of History, Fellow of the Royal Society, Director, The Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples www.yorku.ca/tubman

David Lumsden Ph.D. (University of Cambridge)

lumsden@yorku.ca (Anthropology, Arts, FGS)

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Associate Professor of Anthropology (tenured) in the Faculty of Arts. Affiliated with Faculty of Graduate Studies. Lumsden is a Medical Anthropologist; his academic & research interests include: refugee mental health issues; stress & coping; the nature of 'exile' over time & culture; how societies address or try to bring closure to collective 'trauma', etc.; his geographic areas of interest include: West Africa, China, Canada; associated diasporas.

Elizabeth (Libby) Lunstrum Ph.D. (University of Minnesota)

lunstrum@yorku.ca (Geography)

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Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, and Faculty Associate, York Centre for International and Security Studies (YCISS).

Willem Maas, PhD (Yale)

 maas@yorku.ca (York: Political Science, Glendon; FGS)

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Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration and Associate Professor of Political Science and Public & International Affairs. Scholarly publications include Creating European Citizens (2007) and numerous chapters and articles. Research and teaching interests include comparative politics, European integration, citizenship and migration, sovereignty, nationalism, democratic theory, and federalism.

Audrey Macklin, Ph.D., 

audrey.macklin@utoronto.ca

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Associate professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. Professor Macklin’s teaching areas include criminal law, administrative law, and immigration and refugee law. Her research and writing interests include transnational migration, citizenship, forced migration, feminist and cultural analysis, and human rights. She has published on these subjects in journals such as Refuge and Canadian Woman Studies, and in collections of essays such as The Security of Freedom: Essays on Canada's Anti-Terrorism Bill and Engendering Forced Migration.

James Milner,  DPhil (University of Oxford)

James_Milner@carleton.ca  (Carleton: Political Science)

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James Milner  is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Carleton University where he teaches and conducts research on refugee movements in Africa and Asia, protracted refugee situations, conflict, peacebuilding, humanitarian action and international organizations.

Before joining Carleton, he was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. Since 2003, he has also been Co-Director of The PRS Project: Towards Solutions for Protracted Refugee Situations, an international research project at the University of Oxford focusing on the plight of refugees in situations of prolonged exile in Africa and Asia (www.prsproject.org). In recent years, he has undertaken field research in Kenya, Tanzania, Guinea, Thailand and India, and has presented research findings to stakeholders in New York, Geneva, London, Ottawa, Bangkok, Nairobi and elsewhere. He has worked as a Consultant for UNHCR in India, Cameroon, Guinea and its Geneva Headquarters. He is author of Refugees, the State and the Politics of Asylum in Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming), co-author of UNHCR: The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection into the 21st Century (Routledge, 2008), and co-editor of Protracted Refugee Situations: Political, Human Rights and Security Implications (UN University Press, forthcoming).

Haideh Moghissi Ph.D. (Queen's)

 moghissi@yorku.ca (Social Science, FGS, Women's Studies)

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Professor, tenured, Department of Sociology, Atkinson College. Affiliated with Faculty of Graduate Studies. Author of numerous articles on women and Islam, women’s movement in Iran, gender issues in the Iranian diaspora, domestic violence and anti-racism. Most recent book: Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Limits of Postmodern Analysis (London: Zed Press, 1999). Supervision of graduate students in Political Science, Women’s Studies, Osgoode Hall Law School, Sociology and Anthropology. Director of the MCRI/Ford grants, Diaspora, Islam and Gender.

Peter Nyers, Ph.D. (York)

nyersp@mcmaster.ca (McMaster University, Political Science, Globalization Studies)

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Peter Nyers is Associate Professor of the Politics of Citizenship and Intercultural Relations in the Department of Political Science, McMaster University. His research focuses on the social movements of non-status refugees and migrants, in particular their campaigns against deportation and detention and for regularization and global mobility rights. He is the author of Rethinking Refugees: Beyond States of Emergency (Routledge 2006), co-editor of Citizenship between Past and Future (Routledge 2008), and editor of Securitizations of Citizenship (Routledge 2009). He serves on the Editorial Board of the journal International Political Sociology and is the Associate Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies.

Obiora Okafor

ookafor@yorku.ca (Osgoode Law School)

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Associate Professor. Dr Okafor joined York University in July 2000 after having held faculty positions at the University of Nigeria and Carleton University. He has served as an SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program and was recently named a Canada-US Fulbright Scholar at MIT. His doctoral dissertation at the University of British Columbia received the Governor General’s Gold Medal (the university prize for best dissertation). He is currently working on a funded study relating to human rights activism in Nigeria, as well as on a project examining the character of refugee law/refugeehood post 9/11. Professor Okafor has published extensively in the fields of international human rights law and refugee law, as well as general public international law. He is the author of Re-Defining Legitimate Statehood (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 2000) and Legitimizing Human Rights NGOs: Lessons from Nigeria (Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, forthcoming 2005). He has also co-edited three books: Legitimate Governance in Africa: International and Domestic Legal Perspectives (The Hague: Kluwer, 1999); Humanizing Our Global Order: Essays in Honour of Ivan Head (University of Toronto Press, 2003); and The Third World and International Order: Law, Politics and Globalization (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2003). Dr. Okafor has published widely in learned journals including Human Rights Quarterly, the Harvard International Law Journal, International Journal of Refugee Law, International Journal of Human Rights, International Journal of Minority and Group Rights, Buffalo Human Rights Law Review, Netherlands International Law Review, and the Journal of African Law.

Peter Penz

ppenz@yorku.ca (Environmental Studies, CPE, FGS)

Professor Penz is a previous Academic Director of CRS' Summer School on Refugee Issues, and is a former Director of York University's Centre for Refugee Studies and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies. He is the principal investigator of two team projects on the ethics of development-induced displacement, one in partnership with researchers at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.

Publications include the edited volumes Political Ecology: Global and Local (Routledge, 1998) and Global Justice, Global Democracy (Fernwood, 1997) as well as chapters and articles on atrocities, policing, development ethics, state sovereignty and international justice, power and justice in international relations, land-rights mobilization in India, and colonization of tribal lands in Bangladesh and Indonesia. He teaches on global justice, on environmental displacement, and on theoretical perspectives on environment and society.

Valerie Preston Ph.D. (McMaster University)

vpreston@yorku.ca (Geography)

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Professor of Geography, York University. Her research interests include: gender and urban labour markets, immigration and Canadian cities, and the social and economic effects of economic restructuring. Her recent publications include “Immigrants and Employment: A Comparison of Montreal and Toronto between 1981 and 1996,” (with J. Cox), Canadian Journal of Regional Science, 2000; “Asian Theme Malls in Suburban Toronto: Land Use Conflict in Richmond Hill,” (with L. Lo), The Canadian Geographer, 44: 86-94. Her current research projects include a SSHRC grant to study “Transnationalism, Citizenship and Social Cohesion: Recent Immigrants from Hong Kong to Canada.”

Ijaz Qamar, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin)

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Fahimul Quadir Ph.D.

fquadir@yorku.ca (Social Science)

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Associate Professor of the Division of Social Science and coordinator of the International Development Studies Program at York University in Toronto. He taught Political Studies at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, Global Studies at St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, International Development Studies at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Political Science at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. He also has participated in several large-scale development and research projects both in Canada and Bangladesh.

His current research interests include civil society, democratization, economic liberalization, globalization, governance, human development, human security, micro-finance, NGOs, and regionalism. He has recently published on these topics in Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Contemporary South Asia, New Political Economy, South Asian Studies, Development Review, Hentz and Bøås (eds.), New and Critical Security and Regionalism; Mukherjee Reed (ed.), Corporate Capitalism in Contemporary South Asia; Thomas and Wilkin (eds.), Globalization and the South; Gills (ed.), Globalization and the Politics of Resistance, and Poku and Pettiford (eds.), Redefining the Third World.

Dr. Quadir co-edited a few volumes, including Democracy and Civil Society in Asia: Volume 1 – Globalization, Democracy and Civil Society (2004)

Susan L. Ray, RN, Ph.D. (University of Alberta)

slray@uwo.ca (Nursing, University of Western Ontario)

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Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, University of Western Ontario; Past Provincial Representative, Canadian Federation of Mental Health Nurses; Clinical Nurse Specialist/ Nurse Practitioner. Research interests and publications relate to psychological trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among military peacekeepers; refugees/ immigrants; survivors of abuse and natural disasters with a particular focus on healing and resilience. Most recent articles published include: “Trauma from a global perspective”; and “The evolution of PTSD and future directions”.

srehaag@osgoode.yorku.ca (Osgoode Hall Law School)

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Assistant Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School. Research interests: migration law and human rights, as well as on the role that legal norms and institutions play in controversies that implicate multiple communities.

Roger Rickwood, Ph.D. LL.B., LL.M. (University of Toronto)

rickwood@yorku.ca (Political Science)

Visiting Professor, York University. Research interests include refugee law adjudication, international human rights law, international courts, refugee appeal mechanisms.

Richard Saunders

rsaunder@yorku.ca (Political Science)

Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Science, York University

Allan B. Simmons, Ph.D. (Cornell University)

asimmons@yorku.ca (Sociology)

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Senior Scholar, Department of Sociology and Faculty of Graduate Studies. His research interests include transnational migrant social and political links, migration and development, refugee flows and return movements, settlement in Canada, and Canadian immigration and refugee policies.

He is author of more than 70 journal articles, book chapters and other papers. In addition, he has published several monographs, including: International Migration, Refugee Flows and Human Rights in North America (New York: Center for Migration Studies, 1996) and Journeys of Fear: Refugee Return and National Transformation in Guatemala (jointly with Liisa North; McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1999). His most recent book, Immigration and Canada: Global and Transnational Perspectives (Canadian Scholars Press) will be available in early 2010.

Over his career, Professor Simmons has served as Visiting Professor at the Latin American Demographic Centre, Santiago, Chile; Director of the Population and Development Program at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), President of the Canadian Population Society, Member of the Council of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), Chair of the Department of Sociology at York University; and Visiting Scholar in Sociology and Migration and Ethnic Relations at the University of Western Ontario. He is currently member of the editorial boards of several scholarly journals, including the International Migration Review, Canadian Population Studies, and the Cahiers Québecois de Démographie.

Nandita Sharma Ph.D. (OISE/UT)

nanditas@yorku.ca, nsharma@hawaii.edu  (Social Sciences)

Nandita Sharma is currently on leave from the School of Social Sciences at York University and is an Assistant Professor in the Ethnic Studies and Sociology Departments at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Sharma's research interests are in the areas of national and international policies regarding migration, historic and contemporary processes of globalization, national state power, ideologies of racism and nationalism, and transnational social movements for justice. Dr. Sharma is an activist scholar whose research is shaped by the social movements she is active in, including No Borders movements, feminist, anti- racist, anti-colonial movements, sex workers movements, and movements for ecologically sound practices. She is the author of Home Economics: Nationalism and the Making of 'Migrant Workers' in Canada published in 2006 by the University of Toronto Press.

Dagmar Soennecken, Ph.D. (University of Toronto)

dsoennec@yorku.ca (School of Public Policy and Administration)

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Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy & Administration, York University. Previously a visiting study fellow at the Centre for Refugee Studies, University of Oxford and the Centre for European and International Aliens and Asylum Law at the University of Constance, Germany.

Research Interests include: comparative politics & policy regarding citizenship and migration, refugees and the role of the courts, anti-terrorism issues

Frehiwot Tesfaye, Ph.D. (University of Toronto)

ftesfaye@yorku.ca (Sociology)

Contract faculty, department of Sociology, York, previously Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department, St. Thomas University. Also taught at the University of Toronto.

Research and teaching interests: Food and Agriculture, Women and Development, Ethnographic Theory and Method, Gender and Migration. Geographic interest: Africa and North America.

Daphne Winland Ph.D.

winland@yorku.ca (Anthropology)

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Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, York University.

Patricia Wood Ph.D. (Duke University)

pwood@yorku.ca (Geography)

Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, Work University

Anna Zalik Ph.D. (Cornell University)

 azalik@yorku.ca (Faculty of Environmental Studies)

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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University