Kushan Azadah is a researcher who works on the Contemporary paradoxes and struggles of migration and belonging in Canada project at CERC Migration and the Narratives of racism and anti-racism mobilization project under the Citizenship and Participation Research Theme of the Migrant Integration in the Mid-21st Century: Bridging Divides research program. He uses NVivo software to code and analyze government and civil society materials to track the qualitative shifts in Canadian migration policy and discourse.
Kushan is a PhD candidate in Political Science at York University, where he has majored in the fields of International Relations and Gender Politics. His dissertation project explores the politics of Afghan resettlement in the context of Canadian settler-colonialism. Prior to this, he earned an MA in Social Justice & Equity Studies from Brock University where he first became interested in cross-disciplinary research on migrant, settler and Indigenous solidarities. These interests developed over years of study, work and engagement in social justice and community efforts in the Niagara and Toronto region. From 2016 to 2018 he worked at Brock University’s Social Justice Research Institute (SJRI) where he assisted in their work on global movements.
Recent Publications
With Carlaw, J. (2024). (PDF file) Pathways to Permanence and Immigration Levels: A Critical Policy Discourse Analysis (CPDA) of Struggles and Limits to Societal Membership for Migrants Amidst and Emerging from COVID-19 (2020-2022) in Canada. Toronto Metropolitan Centre for Immigration and Settlement (TMCIS) and the CERC in Migration and Integration Working Paper Series no. 2024/07.
(2022). (PDF file) The Necropolitics of Canada’s Afghan Resettlement Programmes. Refugee Watch, 60, 45–61.