Howard Adelman
Professor Emeritus, York University, Research Professor at the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance; founding director of the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University.
Research interests: forced migration; refugee protection; the rights of return; genocide; ethics of intervention
Uzo Anucha
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Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work, York University.
Research interests: Homelessness and Under-Housing; Immigration and Diversity; International Social Work; Positive Youth Development
Sasha Baglay
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Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Criminology, Justice and Policy Studies at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School.
Research interests: Canadian and comparative immigration; refugee law; human trafficking
Ranu Basu
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Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at York University.
Research interests: Geographies of education, diversity, and public space with a focus on immigrant and refugee communities
Pablo Bose
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Vermont and a Research Associate at the Centre for Refugee Studies, York University.
Research interests: Culture, space, power, diaspora and transnational relationships, social and ecological justice
B.S. Chimni
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Professor at the Centre for International Legal Studies; Internationally renowned legal scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Research interests: International law; international trade law; international refugee law
Alison Crosby
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Assistant Professor in Peace, Internationalism, Gender and Development in the School of Women’s Studies at York University.
Research interests: Gender Issues; Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Transitional Justice; Memory and memorialization
Catherine Dauvergne
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Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Migration Law at the University of British Columbia.
Research interests: Immigration law; Refugee Law; Legal Theory and Globalization
Amani El Jack
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Research interests: Socio-economic, political and cultural interrogation of the gendered fields of development studies; globalization; forced migration; militarization/war; post-conflict reconstruction processes; peace building and human security
Barbara Harrell-Bond
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OBE, Professor Emerita and Founding Director of the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, UK
Research interests: refugee studies; refugee law; rights in exile
Maja Korac
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Reader in the School of Social Sciences, Media, and Cultural Studies, at the University of East London, UK.
Research interests: gender; ethnicity; nationalism; conflict and post-conflict situations; forced migration; refugees and internally displaced people
Martha Kumsa
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Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University.
Research interests: bridging the micro-macro rift; liberatory practice; Participatory Action Research; transformative community practice; explorations of spirituality, issues of identity and cohesion, the paradox of nationalism and transnationalism, the flux of glocalization (global homogenization and local fragmentation), issues of home, homeland, and belonging among diasporic communities of refugees and immigrants
Gil Loescher
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Visiting PRofessor and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford, UK
Research interests: Refugee protection; human rights of protracted refugee situations; forced migration and conflict; internally displaced persons
Audrey Macklin
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Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto.
Research interests: Transnational migration; citizenship; forced migration; feminist and cultural analysis; and human rights
Kirsten Emiko McAllister
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Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University.
Research interests: Visual Culture; Political Violence; Cultural Memory; Photography, memorials, multi-media art, interviews, field work; Asylum and displaced populations; Japanese/Asian Canadian cultural studies
Alison Mountz
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Associate Professor of Geography and Canada Research Chair in Global Migration, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Research interests: Human migration; undocumented migration; border enforcement; human smuggling; political asylum; detention
Peter Nyers
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Assistant Professor of the Politics of Citizenship and Intercultural Relations in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University.
Research interests: Refugee and migrant politics; non-status refugees and migrants; critical citizenship studies
Obiora Okafor
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Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Research interests: International Law; Immigration/Refugee Law; International human rights law
Peter Penz
Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
Research interests: Global Environmental Politics; Global Justice; Humanitarian Crises; Ethics of displacement by development
Peter Showler
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Director of the Refugee Forum located at the Human Rights Research and Education Centre at the University of Ottawa
Research interests: Canada’s asylum system; immigration and refugee law
Anna Zalik
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Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University.
Research interests: Critical Development Studies/International Aid Industry; Critical Geopolitics of the oil industry focusing on the Americas and Sub-Saharan Africa; Political Economy; Comparative Historical Studies; Post-Coloniality