Deepa Nagari is a research assistant at CERC Migration who is currently working on the Pandemic Returns 2 project. She is a second year PhD student in the socio-legal studies program at York University. Her research focuses on forced migration and bordering laws and policies, particularly examining the Canada-U.S. border and the Safe Third Country Agreement. Prior to this, Deepa obtained her MA from Carleton University in the department of Law and Legal Studies, where she also explored the Canada-U.S. border between 2016 and 2018 in her research. Previously, she worked in the private sector alongside IRCC before realizing her passion for academia and research.
Blog
(2024) The Ethics of Conducting Community-Based Research with Forced Migrants as an Early Career Researcher (external link) . Blog on LERRN: The Local Engagement Refugee Research Network