Faculty
Faculty participating in the program are drawn from several departments within each of the faculties across the university.
The faculty participating in the program have varied research expertise across their broad fields and several faculty members have expertise in more than one field. Please check individual faculty member's departmental bio pages by clicking on their name to find more details.
Program Director
Dr. Henry Parada
Research Expertise: Latin America social work, community Development, anti-oppression, institutional ethnography, child welfare (nationally and internationally)
Department of Criminology
Dr. Dan Horner
Research expertise: History of migration; migration and the state
Dr. Alexandra Orlova
Research Expertise: Transnational organized crime, Russian organized crime, international terrorism and crimes, international law and traditional and non-traditional security threats
Dr. Anne-Marie Singh
Research Expertise: contemporary social theory, policing and governance; the role and interaction of various state and non-state actors in the field of security and the place of coercive practices in contemporary liberal democratic society
Dr. Emily van der Meulen
Research Expertise: Sex work; trafficking and prostitution policy; gendered surveillance studies; prisons and prisoners; transnational feminism
Department of Economics
Dr. John Isbister
Research Expertise: Economic Demography, Canadian Economic History, Immigration, Ethics
Dr. Paul Missios
Research Expertise: Regional government policy
Dr. Obeid Ur Rehman
Research Expertise: International migration, remittances, household decision-making, and tax systems
Department of English
Dr. Anne-Marie Lee-Loy
Research Expertise: Immigrant literatures in Canada, postcolonial world literatures and cultural studies
Dr. Nima Naghibi
Research Expertise: Postcolonial and Feminist Studies; Immigrant Literatures and Diasporic Studies
Dr. Ruth Panofsky
Research Expertise: Literature of immigration
Dr. Hyacinth Simpson
Research Expertise: Migrant writing and diasporic literature
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Dr. Harald Bauder
Research Expertise: Critical border studies; Political economy of migration; labour market experiences of immigrants; immigration discourses, policies and nationhood; Canada and Germany
Dr. Evan Cleave
Research Expertise: Immigration and local economic development; media and political discourse on sanctuary cities; the political-institutional context of non-status migration in Canada; influence of place branding and marketing on immigration decision-making.
Dr. Sutama Ghosh
Research Expertise: Migration and settlement geographies, transnationalism, critical 'race' theories, regional geography of 'South Asia' with particular reference to India
Dr. Emmanuel Kyeremeh
Research Expertise: Immigrant integration, social networks, transnationalism, return migration, immigrant health, gender and migration
Dr. Lu Wang
Research Expertise: Immigration and Access to Health Care; Ethnicity, Culture and Consumption; Health Geomatics; Economic Geography
Dr. Shuguang Wang
Research Expertise: Ethnic economy and immigrant business
Department of History
Dr. Arne Kislenko
Research Expertise: International relations and state security
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Dr. Ndeye Ba
Research Expertise: Postcolonialism, Diasporic Communities, Feminist Studies, Cultural Identities
Dr. Kathleen Kellett
Research Expertise: Minority literatures in Canada
Dr. Dana Osborne
Research Expertise: Community-based participatory research, anthropological fieldwork and methods, linguistics, Philippines, diaspora, precarious work, critical race theory
Department of Politics and Public Administration
Dr. Miriam Anderson
Research Expertise: Women, Peace, and Security (WPS); feminist security studies; peace negotiations; politics in exile; women's peace activism; post-war politics; non-state actors
Dr. Sedef Arat-Koc
Research Expertise: Immigration policy and immigrant women in Canada, racialization in Canada
Dr. Grace-Edward Galabuzi
Research Expertise: Racialization and Canadian labour markets; Immigrant integration; Social Exclusion/Inclusion; Poverty; Human Rights
Dr. Christopher Gore
Research Expertise: environmental and natural resource policy; the politics of energy and climate change; comparative urban governance; privatization of environmental services; tensions between local, national, and global interests in urban and environmental management, service delivery, and public sector reform
Dr. Tariq Amin-Khan
Research Expertise: security state and securitization, the post-colonial state, capitalist globalism and international development, political and militant Islam, comparative study of multiculturalism, nationalism, and issues of South Asian state and society
Dr. Janet Lum
Research Expertise: Ageing and immigrants and equity policy
Dr. Michael McGregor
Department of Politics and Public Administration
Research Expertise: Canadian politics, municipal politics, voting behaviour
Dr. Hudson Moura
Research Expertise: Diaspora studies, exile, immigration, and refugees in film, literature, new technologies, and media representation
Dr. Sorpong Peou
Research Expertise: democracy and security; human security; transnational migration, refugee issues, armed conflict, war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide.
Dr. Arthur Ross Professor Emeritus
Research Expertise: Immigration policy and community agency
Dr. Daniel Rubenson
Research Expertise: Political behaviour, elections and campaigns
Dr. Anver Saloojee
Research Expertise: Immigration policy, social inclusion and immigrant political participation
Dr. Madhura Mitu Sengupta
Research Expertise: global political economy, the global governance of development and human rights, development ethics, and the politics and political economy of South Asia
Dr. John Shields
Research Expertise: Labour markets and immigrants
Dr. Myer Siemiatycki, Professor Emeritus
Research Expertise: Immigrant Political Participation; Transnationalism; Religious Minorities; Cities and Diversity.
Department of Psychology
Dr. Becky Choma
Research Expertise: intergroup relations (e.g., psychological predictors of prejudice, prejudice-reduction); collective action; socio-political ideologies
Dr. Lixia Yang
Research Expertise: Cognition, culture and aging
Department of Sociology
Dr. Patrizia Albanese
Research Expertise: Family policies and policies affecting children
Dr. Conely De Leon
Research Expertise: Migrant care and emotional labour, transnational migrant networks, employment precarity, critical transnational feminist praxis, Critical Filipina/o/x Studies
Dr. Doreen Fumia, Professor Emerita
Department of Sociology
Research expertise: sexual citizenship, identities and migration, social equity movements in education
Dr. Amina Jamal
Research Expertise: transnational feminist practices and as part of theoretical and political attempts to problematize new forms of citizen-subjects that emerge through changing global economic, political and cultural relations
Dr. Melanie Knight
Research Expertise: Black activism; Black collective economic initiatives; Black women business owners, Anti-Black Racism and Racism and Precarious Work.
Dr. Mustafa Koc Professor Emeritus
Research Expertise: Migration and globalization
Dr. Naomi Lightman
Reserach Expertise: Migrant care work, intersectional labour market disparities, immigration policy
Dr. Christopher Powell
Research Expertise: Sociological theory; relational sociology; complex systems theory; social transformation; economic democracy; genocide.
Dr. Carmen Schifellite, Professor Emeritus
Research Expertise: Sociology in Education, Sociology of Science, Critiques of sociobiology and other theories that connect biology, culture and human behaviour
Dr. Pamela Sugiman
Research Expertise: Gender studies, women's history in Canada, and the history of Japanese Canadians
Dr. Cheryl Teelucksingh
Research Expertise: Ethno-racial and immigrant settlement patterns in Toronto environmental justice, socio-spatial theory, and applied geographical information systems
Dr. Vappu Tyyskä Professor Emerita
Research Expertise: Immigrant families and youth
Student Experience Centre
Dr. Reena Tandon
Interdisciplinary Studies
Research Expertise: Globalization, labour, immigrant women, violence against women, advocacy and services for immigrant populations, diaspora studies
Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing
Dr. Areej Al-Hamad
Research Expertise: refugee and immigrant health, women's health, food and housing insecurities, participatory action research, art-based research (photovoice, DYI and photo elicitation), intersectionality and social justice, international partnerships and collaborations, homelessness and marginalized populations, critical qualitative research methods, scoping and systematic reviews, ethnographic research, community-based research
Dr. Sepali Guruge
Research Expertise: Immigrant women's health issues; violence against women throughout the migration process
Dr. Joanna (Anneke) Rummens
Research Expertise (national and international): identity|diversity; social marginalization|inclusion; immigrant, refugee, migrant health, well-being, life outcomes; war-affected newcomer communities; child/youth success; global systems, international development; integrated knowledge exchange, transfer, uptake, implementation to inform policy, programming, practice
Dr. Mandana Vahabi
Research Expertise: Immigrant health, women's health, Health risk communication, literacy, and population health in general and health disparities by age, gender, SES, and immigration in particular
Dr. Josephine Wong
Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing
Research Expertise: Community-based action research, radicalized immigrants and refugees, gender identities, stigma of HIV and mental illness
Midwifery Education Program
Karline Wilson-Mitchell DNP, MSN, RM, RN, CNM
Research Expertise: Global health; immigrant women's health; midwifery, youth and reproductive health rights
School of Early Childhood Studies
Dr. Mehrunnisa Ahmad Ali
Research Expertise: Research methods, immigrant children, youth and families
Dr. Judith K. Bernhard
Research Expertise: Cultural influences on child development, refugee and undocumented children in childcare, identity texts and multilingual literacy, Aboriginal early childhood settings
School of Child and Youth Care
Dr. Tara Collins
Research Expertise: Children's rights; monitoring; child and youth participation
Dr. Kiaras Gharabaghi
Research Expertise: Educational support and advocacy for newcomer youth, newcomer communities and civic engagement.
Dr. Jennifer Martin
Research Expertise: Child sex tourism; child trafficking; sexual exploitation of undocumented minors
Dr. Monica Ruiz-Casares
Research Expertise: Child & youth protection and participation; program evaluation; access to health & social services by refugees & asylum seekers; parent-child separation; child mental health and wellbeing; low- and middle-income countries.
School of Nutrition
Dr. Cecilia Rocha
Research Expertise: Immigrant settlement and food security
School of Social Work
Dr. Dawn Onishenko
Research Expertise: Gender and Sexual minority refugees and Canadian social policy; Queer identified social service organizations and (barriers to) access for refugee/immigrant service users; Critical human rights; Diaspora Youth from Central America and the Caribbean and Discourses of Rights; Qualitative Social Policy research
Dr. Henry Parada
Research Expertise: Latin America social work, community Development, anti-oppression, institutional ethnography, child welfare (nationally and internationally)
School of Urban and Regional Planning
Dr. Zhixi C. Zhuang
Research Expertise: Immigration and cities; planning for diversity; ethnic retailing; place-making and community building; immigrant settlement and integration.
School of Professional Communication
Shana Almeida
Research Expertise: Politics, race and racism, political discourses, government policy and policymaking, political participation, political activism, democracy
School of Fashion
Osmud Rahman
Research Expertise: Consumer behaviour; fashion consumption; subculture; ethnic attire; cultural identity; multiculturalism
Dr. Idil Atak
Research expertise: irregular migration; asylum-seekers and refugee protection in Canada and Europe; securitization of migration; human rights
Dr. Graham Hudson
Research Expertise: Irregular migration, criminalization of migration, national security, human rights, legal theory
School of Accounting and Finance
Dr. Oliver Okafor
Research Expertise: Accounting standards, tax avoidance, and sustainable development focussing on immigrants, visible minorities and developing countries.
School of Business Management
Dr. Rupa Banerjee
Research Expertise: Labour market integration; workplace discrimination; immigrant employment
Dr. Kenneth Kalu
School of Business Management
Research Expertise: Immigration policy, immigrant entrepreneurship, Africa’s political economy, China-Africa relations.
Dr. Howard Lin
Research Expertise: Immigrant and transnational entrepreneurship
School of Hospitality and Tourism Management
Dr. Frederic Dimanche
Research Expertise: Hospitality and tourism; the impact of immigration on the hospitality and tourism sector in Canada
Dr. Anna Triandafyllidou
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration
Research Expertise: labour migration management, irregular migration, migrant smuggling, migrant integration, multiculturalism, nationalism, communication and discourses on migration and asylum, national and ethnic identities, governance of cultural and religious diversity, comparative studies of migration and asylum in Europe, global migration governance.