The UBC Centre for Migration Studies seeks to understand the drivers and consequences of international migration through research, education, and outreach.
International migration presents complex challenges and opportunities for governments, societies, and the international community. At the UBC Centre for Migration Studies, we bring together researchers and collaborators from a wide range of disciplines, to promote debate and share their expertise on cross-border migration. Our research covers various migration-related topics, including social inclusion and integration, immigration policy, public opinion and xenophobia, border politics, and the intersection of Indigeneity and immigration.
The Centre for Migration Studies is supported by the GCRC program of the Office of the Vice President, Research and Innovation, the Faculty of Arts, the Departments of Political Science, Sociology, Geography, Anthropology, and Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies, and the Peter A. Allard School of Law.
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Arbel, Efrat | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Law and legal practice; Law; Constitutional law; Gender and Law; Legal and Critical Theory; Prison Law and Policy; Refugee Law; Tort Law |
| Averill, Gage | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Haitian music, barbershop harmony, sound, music and power, music and politics, Caribbean music, steelband, ethnomusicology, world music, Ethnomusicology, Haiti, Haitian diaspora, American Popular Culture, Trinidad and Tobago, and Traditional Irish Music |
| Bloch, Alexia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Social sciences; migration; Gender; Eurasia; Russia; ethnography |
| Bouchard, Marie-Eve | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Humanities and the arts; Sociolinguistics; Linguistic Anthropology; ethnography; language ideologies; Language and identity; migration; Language variation and change; Language contact; Creole languages |
| Bowers, Katherine | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Literature and literary studies; Arts, Literature and Subjectivity; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Arts and Technologies; Arts and Literary Policies; Dostoevsky; genre; gothic fiction; imagined geography; literary culture; narrative; Russian culture; Russian literature; the novel |
| Brunner, Lisa | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Higher education; Public policy; international migration; Higher Education; immigration; settler colonialism |
| Bryce, Benjamin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Historical studies; Argentina; Canada; Education; health; migration; Race and ethnicity; The Americas; Transnational history |
| Casas Aguilar, Anna | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Contemporary literatures; Spanish Cultural Studies; Catalan Literature and Culture; Gender Studies; Masculinities; Feminisms; Self-writing; Hispanic Cinemas |
| Cheong, Amanda | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Sociology; migration; Citizenship and Legal Status; Statelessness |
| Christopoulos, John | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Historical studies; Early modern Europe; History of pre-modern medicine; Social and cultural history of early modern Italy |
| Daniels, Megan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Classical religion; Archaeology of Greece and the broader eastern Mediterranean; Late Bronze Age to Hellenistic Period; Ancient religion, sanctuaries, votive objects; Cross-cultural interaction; Ancient economies and trade; Divine kingship; Digital/data science approaches to the ancient world, particularly ancient religion; Migration and mobility across Eurasia; Phoenician culture; Ceramic analysis |
| Dauvergne, Catherine | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Immigration, Immigration Law, Refugee Law, Legal Theory, Globalization |
| De Angelis, Franco | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Ancient Greek world history, environment, urbanism, developmnet of societies, colonization, economics, ancient literature |
| Ellermann, Antje | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Political science; Migrations, Populations, Cultural Exchanges; Migratory Flows; Public Policies; Identity and Transnationality; Role of Governments and Institutions; Comparative Public Policy; Migration and Citizenship |
| Goold, Benjamin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Law and legal practice; Law; Border Studies; Criminal Justice; Human Rights; migration; Privacy; security |
| Green, David | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Antibiotic Resistance, Infectious Disease, Epidemiology, Determinants of the wage and employment structure bridging between macro labour and micro labour identification issues |
| Hallensleben, Markus | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Transcultural Studies; Artistic and Literary Theories; Literary or Artistic Works Analysis; Migrations, Populations, Cultural Exchanges; German Language Cultures and Literatures; Transnational Literatures; Visual Arts and Literature; European Studies; Literature and Sciences; Literature and Migration; Narratives of Belonging |
| Hastie, Bethany | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Labour & Employment Law, Human Rights, Socio-Legal Studies, Access to Justice |
| Huot, Suzanne | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Occupational therapy; Human geography; asylum seekers; bilingualism; community-engaged research; critical theory; francophone minority communities; francophones; french; Gender; immigration; intersectionality; Migration Studies; Migrations, Populations, Cultural Exchanges; occupational science; Qualitative research; refugees; social inclusion; social integration; Platform economy |
| Ibrahim, Mohamed | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | mental health; addiction among new immigrants and refugees; global mental health |
| Jurkevics, Anna | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | critical theory, democratic theory, and the history of German political thought |
| Kaushal, Asha | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cultural Difference and Law; Constitutional Law and Theory; Critical and Legal Theory; Immigration Law; Citizenship Law; international law |
| Klein, Peter | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Media Types (Radio, Television, Written Press, etc.); Video and New Media; Global Health and Emerging Diseases; Large International Projects; Media and Democratization; Global Journalism; Innovation in Journalism; Documentary Production; Investigative Reporting |
| Lee, Barbara | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | |
| Li, Guofang | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | longitudinal studies of immigrant children |
| Mahtani, Minelle | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | critical mixed race theory; cultural forgetting; Social justice |
| Mawani, Renisa | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Sociology; Colonial Legal History; critical theory; Oceans and Maritime Worlds; Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies; Race and Racism; Time and Temporality |
| Murphy, Anne | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Asian history; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Religion; Literary or Artistic Work Analysis; Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies; cultural history; Early Modern Studies; Punjabi Studies; South Asian Studies |
| Pratt, Geraldine | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Feminist Geographies |
| Qian, Yue | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Sociology; family; Gender Relationship; Migrations, Populations, Cultural Exchanges; Demography; Family Studies; Gender Studies; sociology |
| Santos, Alessandra | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cinema studies; Film, television and digital media; Latin American history; Latin American literatures; Spanish language; Artistic and Literary Analysis Models; Artistic and Literary Theories; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Arts and Technologies; Brazilian Literature and Culture; Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies; Latin American Literatures and Cultures; Modern and Contemporary Literatures and Cultures |
| Seidel, Marc-David | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Entrepreneurship; Organizational behavior; Sociology and social studies of science and technology; Discrimination and networks in the employment relationship; Distributed Trust Technologies; Early life factors role in later life workplace outcomes; Economic Systems; Impacts of New Information Technologies; Life Cycles ( Childhood, Adolescence, Adulthood, etc.); Media and Society; New Technology and Social Impacts; Organizational Theory; Social Networks; Social Organization and Political Systems; Social networks and organizational decision making; Social, Economical and Political Impacts of Innovations; Socio-Economic Conditions |
| Senbel, Maged | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Urban design, environmental planning, climate change planning, public engagement, urban agriculture, multi-media, social media and youth engagement |
| Shan, Hongxia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Other education, n.e.c.; Immigration and adult education and learning; Lifelong learning; Gender and work; Prof. learning |
| Shneiderman, Sara | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Social and cultural anthropology; Indigenous issues; Disaster response and preparedness; Citizenship; migration |
| Stecklov, Guy | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Family and household demographic studies; Fertility; Migration; Mortality; Demography; Studies of Canadian society; Demographic behavior; Historical social change; Demographic Change in Sub-Saharan Africa; Migration and assimilation; Population and Development; Research and survey methodology |
| Sundberg, Juanita | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Militarization and Everyday Life in the US-Mexico Borderlands, environmental dimensions of US's border security policies in the Mexican border |
| Tworek, Heidi | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Historical studies; Europe; Germany; history of media and communications; international organizations; international relations; Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies |
| Vellutini, Claudio | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Music; Critical Musicology; Cultural and reception history of nineteenth-century Italian opera; Early 19th century music (opera); Habsburg cultural policies; Historiography; Italian opera in the Habsburg Empire; Performance and staging practices; Vienna opera (first half of 19th century) |
| Victoriano, Ramon Antonio | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Caribbean literatures; Latin American literatures; Contemporary literatures; Hispanic Caribbean Literatures and Cultures; Latin American Contemporary Novel and Short Story; Caribbean Literatures |
| Wilkes, Rima | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | protest, media and First Nations, media and racism, immigration, Collective Action by Indigenous Nations, Media and social movements, Public Opinion, Immigration, Trust |
| Wright, Matthew | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Political science; American politics; Comparitive politics; immigration; Immigration Policy; migration; National identity; Political behaviour; Political psychology; public opinion |
| Yan, Miu Chung | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Issues related to settlement and integration of immigrants and refugees, labour market experience of new generation youth from racial minority immigrant families, and community building roles and functions of neighbourhood-level place-based multiservice organizations |
| Yi, Christina | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Asian history; Cultural Studies; genre; Japanese colonial repatriates; Language politics; Linguistic nationalism; Modern/Contemporary Japanese literature; National identity; Postcoloniality; Resident Koreans; “Repatriation literature” (hikiage bungaku); “returned” Nikkei |
| Yu, Henry | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Asian migration to Canada, Chinese Canadian, Asian Canadian, Chinese in British Columbia, multiculturalism, racism, Asian American history, sports and race, Chinatown, Head Tax, United States, Global Vancouver, Trans-Pacific migration, American intellectual history, Asian Canadian and Asian American history, race and immigration, social science and social theory in US and Europe |
| Zhang, Gaoheng | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Intercultural and Ethnic Relationships; Cultural Exchanges; Migrations, Populations, Cultural Exchanges; Media and Society; Media Ethics; Media and Democratization; Migration Studies; Mobility Studies; Postcolonial Studies; Gender and Masculinity Studies; Race Theory; Film and Media Studies; Rhetoric and Communication Studies; Cultural Theory; Italian-Chinese relations; Italy's global networks; Modern and contemporary Italian literature and culture |