Asma Atique

Asma Atique’s research is broadly on labour migration, environmental law and policy. She has worked on a wide range of interdisciplinary multi-stakeholder research projects. She is currently a Research Fellow at CERC Migration where she is doing qualitative research on international students and labour market integration in Canada. She earned a PhD in Law from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University where her dissertation studied the intersection between migrant justice and sustainable development through a multi-scalar sociolegal study on Pakistani migrant workers building eco-cities in the United Arab Emirates. She holds an LLM in Environmental Law from Newcastle Law School and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from the American University of Sharjah.

Before joining CERC Migration, Asma worked at the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants in a national partnership on Gender-based Analysis Plus. She has also conducted a study on narratives of care and has co-led a team of researchers for a project on pandemic zoonoses as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at York University. She has served on multiple committees in her academic and professional career including the Advisory Committee for the City of Toronto’s Toronto for All campaign. As an advocate for migrant justice, she has volunteered for various community initiatives such as the Syrian Refugee Sponsorship Lifeline Syria team.

Recent publications

With Clifford Astbury, C., Lee, K. M., Mcleod, R., Aguiar, R., Balolong, M., Clarke, J., Demeshko, A., Labonté, R., Ruckert, A., Sibal, P., Togño, K. C., Viens, A. M., Wiktorowicz, M., Yambayamba, M. K., Yau, A., & Penney, T. L. (2023). Policies to prevent zoonotic spillover: A systematic scoping review of evaluative evidence. Globalization and Health, 19(1), 82. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-023-00986-x (external link) 

With Viens, A. M. & Cassar, V. (2023). Carving the meat at the joint: The role of defining how animals are viewed and treated in the governance of (re‐)emergent pandemic zoonoses in international law. Law & Policy, 45(3), 392–413. https://doi.org/10.1111/lapo.12215 (external link) 

(2022). The Story of Masdar: ‘Sustainable Development’ for Migrant Justice? TWAIL Rev., 3, 68.

With Astbury, C. C., Lee, K. M., Aguiar, R., Balolong, M., Clarke, J., Labonte, R., Ruckert, A., Togño, K. C., Viens, A. M., Wiktorowicz, M., Yau, A., & Penney, T. L. (2022). Policies to prevent zoonotic spillover: Protocol for a systematic scoping review of evaluative evidence. BMJ Open, 12(11), e058437. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058437 (external link) 

(2020). Stateless Persons and the UN High Commission for Refugees. In M. Kocsis (Ed.), Global Encyclopedia of Territorial Rights (pp. 1–9). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68846-6_51-1 (external link) 

Blogs

(2020). Corona and Its Clear Blue Skies. Race Rights and the Law. https://www.civilrights.pitt.edu/corona-and-its-clear-blue-skies-asma-atique (external link)