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 |
| Bloemraad, Irene | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Political science; Sociology; migration & mobilities - politics, law, social movements; immigrants and refugees - integration & incorporation; comparative research design & mixed methods |
| 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, n.e.c.; Arts, Literature and Subjectivity; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Arts and Technologies; Dostoevsky; Russian literature; genre; Digital Humanities; Computational text analysis; gothic fiction; imagined geography; literary culture; narrative; Russian culture; the novel; Environmental Humanities |
| Brunner, Lisa | Faculty (non-G+PS member) | Higher education; Public policy; international migration; Higher Education; Canadian immigration policy; settler colonialism; Citizenship |
| 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 |
| 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) | Comparative literatures; Other Arts; German Language Cultures and Literatures; Transnational Literatures; Visual Arts and Literature; European Studies; Literature and Sciences; Literature and Migration; Narratives of Belonging; Decolonization and Indigenization |
| Hooper, Michael | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Social sciences; Urban planning; Urban Policy; Comparative Politics; Spatial Planning and Policy; International development; Disasters; Displacement; Densification; Organizations |
| 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 |
| Karimi, Aryan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Race and ethnic relations; Sociological methodology and research methods; Sociology and social studies of science and technology; Social relations; migration and refugee studies; ethnic and racial boundaries studies; assimilation, integration, transnationalism; Research methods |
| 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) | Global Journalism; Innovation in Journalism; Documentary Production; Investigative Reporting |
| Lee, Barbara | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Social work; Social Work; Child Welfare; Child Maltreatment; Child Protection; Ethno-Cultural Communities; Newcomers; Service Delivery; Service Outcomes |