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The UBC Migration Research Cluster explores the global challenge of international migration. Bringing together researchers from a wide range of disciplines and community organizations, this cluster examines the determinants and consequences of international migration, and focuses on the legal governance of migration and refugee flows, immigrant and refugee integration, the nexus between migration and Indigeneity, and the relationship between immigration and national identity.
| 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) | Sociology and social studies of science and technology; 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 |
| 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) | Arts, Literature and Subjectivity; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Spanish Cultural Studies; Catalan Literature and Culture; Gender Studies; Masculinities; Feminisms; Self-writing; Hispanic Cinemas |
| Cheong, Amanda | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Migrations, Populations, Cultural Exchanges; Stratification and inequality; links between legal status and the reproduction of inequality; undocumented migrants, stateless persons, and refugees; stateless children and immigration control regimes; use of documentation in the symbolic erasure and expulsion of the Rohingya minority from Myanmar; relationships between migration and legal status on health; relationship between undocumented experience and naturalization propensities |
| 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 |
| Creese, Gillian | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Women topics, Intersections of gender, sexuality, racialization and class, Processes of immigration and settlement in Canada, Gender, racialization, work and trade unions |
| 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 |
| Hiebert, Daniel Joseph | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Social and economic geography; immigration, diversity, national security; social policy; urban geography |
| Huot, Suzanne | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Occupational therapy; Rehabilitation medicine; 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 |
| 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 |
| Lauer, Sean | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Urban sociology and community studies; Community and Urban Sociology;; Community Organizations;; Immigration;; Marriange;; Applied Sociology |
| 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) | Economics and business administration; Organizational behavior; Discrimination and networks in the employment relationship; Distributed Trust Technologies (Blockchain, etc.); Early life factors role in later life workplace outcomes; Economic Systems; Entrepreneurship; 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 |
| Stecklov, Guy | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Sociology; Demographic behavior; Ethnic and racial identity; Immigrant assimilation; Migration and assimilation; Migration dynamics; Population and Development; Reproduction; Research and survey methodology; sub-Saharan Africa; Survey research |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| Zhou, Yang-Yang | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Political science; Comparative Politics; Conflict; Development; Experiments; migration; National identity; refugees |