Governance

CMS Executive Committee

The UBC Centre for Migration Studies is housed in the Faculty of Arts and is led by its Director, Dr. Antje Ellermann (Professor, Political Science) and a seventeen-member Executive Committee.

At present, the Executive Committee comprises fourteen faculty from across nine units at UBC, two graduate student representatives, and a community member representing community and settlement sector interests.

Director

Antje Ellermann

Community Liaison

Sean Lauer

Community Representative

Katie Crocker

Graduate Student Representatives

María Cervantes, Department of Geography
Rose Xueqing Zhang, Department of Sociology

Executive Committee

Efrat Arbel, Peter A. Allard School of Law
Alexia Bloch, Department of Anthropology
Amanda Cheong, Department of Sociology
Katie Crocker, Affiliation of Multicultural Societies and Service Agencies of BC (AMSSA)
Antje Ellermann, Department of Political Science
Suzanne Huot, Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy
Sean Lauer, Department of Sociology
Geraldine Pratt, Department of Geography
Pasang Sherpa, Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies; Asian Studies
Matthew Wright, Department of Political Science
Helena Zeweri, Department of Anthropology
Gaoheng Zhang, Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies
Antje Ziethen, Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies
Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam, Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies
Vince Hopkins, Department of Political Science
María Cervantes, Department of Geography
Rose Xueqing Zhang, Department of Sociology                                                                                               

Community Advisory Board

Jok Alier, UBC WUSC (World University Service of Canada) Local Committee 
Amanda Aziz, Migrant Workers Center
Antje Ellermann, Department of Political Science (UBC)
Huda Bolbolan, South Vancouver Neighborhood House
Arvinder Bubber, A.S. Bubber & Associates
Anastasia Chyz-Lesage, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (Western Region)
Katie Crocker, Affiliation of Multicultural Societies and Service Agencies of BC (AMSSA)
Carling Helander, Immigration Policy and Integration (BC)
Vandna Joshi, DIVERSEcity Community Resources Society
Norm Leech, Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House
Jing Liu, Chimo Community Services
Calisto Mudzingwa, S.U.C.C.E.S.S
Yusra Qadir, Mothers Matter Centre 
Kathy Sherrell, ISSofBC
Sean Lauer, Department of Sociology (UBC)
Suzanne Huot, Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy (UBC)
Olga Stachova, MOSAIC