When Refugee Exposure Increases Incumbent Support through Development: Evidence from Uganda by Yang-Yang Zhou
How does exposure to refugees affect politics, development, and citizen support for migration within the Global South? In the context of wealthy consolidated democracies, recent studies have found that when voters are more exposed to refugees, they punish incumbents and turn to far-right parties
Dignity and the Decision to Migrate, Where to Move, and When to Return by Yang-Yang Zhou
Worldwide, large-scale conflicts and other situations of economic and environmental insecurity have led to unprecedented numbers of people migrating across international borders.
Rejecting Coethnicity: the Politics of Migrant Exclusion by Minoritized Citizens by Yang-Yang Zhou
How does the presence of large migrant communities affect processes of national identity formation for nearby host citizens? If these host citizens share ethnic and cultural ties with the migrants, are they more accepting and inclusive of migrants, or do they seek to differentiate themselves by excluding or “”othering”” the migrants?
Graphic Narratives of Migration by Antje Ellermann
This project brings together an interdisciplinary team of UBC and Concordia migration scholars with Vancouver-based graphic artists to collaborate in the creation of a collection of migration narratives in comics form.
Immigration Bureaucracies in an Era of Anti-Immigration Populism by Antje Ellermann
Over the past two decades, populism has swept across the Global North, questioning the legitimacy of policymaking by established elites and framing immigrants as a threat to national identity and economic welfare.
Fostering cohesion within diversifying communities: Immigration to Francophone minority communities from coast to coast by Suzanne Huot
This three year, SSHRC funded study responds to an urgent need to understand the implications of the increasing arrival, settlement and integration of racialized French-speaking immigrants and refugees for community cohesion in Canadian Francophone minority communities.
Access to Justice for Migrant Workers: Evaluating Legislative Effectiveness in Canada by Bethany Hastie
This report analyzes, compares and contrasts the growing number of provincial legislative schemes aimed at addressing known recruitment and employment abuses of temporary foreign workers through registration and licensing schemes, with a view to identifying best practices and recommendations for further improvement that will enable the effective operationalization of these statutes and the realization of their core goals to protect temporary foreign workers in Canada.
Migration of Europeans and North Americans to Thailand for Dementia Care by Geraldine Pratt
This study examines the migration of Europeans and North Americans to Thailand for eldercare, and specifically dementia care.
Early Childhood Language Socialization among Tibetans in British Columbia by Shannon Ward
In 2010, former Prime Minister Harper finalized an agreement with the 14th Dalai Lama to settle 1000 Tibetan refugees in Canada. Resettlement took place from 2013 to 2017 at sites across Canada including greater Vancouver and the Sunshine Coast.
Migration and Material Culture: Mobility Between China and Italy via America, 1980s-2010s by Gaoheng Zhang
The book offers an innovative critical framework to examine cultural dynamics pertaining to migrations between China and Italy, as well as their intersections in or through American culture. The book deploys the Chinese concept of 衣食住行 (clothing, food, residence, mobility) in structuring discussions about Italian and Chinese material cultures and their representations in primary sources culled from diverse media and archives. Ultimately, the book aims to refine theorizing concerning the relationships between migration and material culture.