Belonging in Unceded Territory Project
Project Overview Vancouver is situated on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Coast Salish peoples have belonged on these lands since times immemorial. Yet, narratives of belonging rarely grapple with the fact that belonging is negotiated on stolen land. The Belonging in Unceded Territory project brings settler colonialism […]
Language Attitudes and Social Consequences in Diverse Contexts
We are thrilled to share that our faculty affiliates Amanda Cardoso (Principal Investigator) and Marie-Eve Bouchard (Co-Investigator) have been awarded a SSHRC Connection Grant for outreach, engagement and public dissemination activities for their research project Language Attitudes and Social Consequences in Diverse Contexts. The UBC Centre for Migration Studies is excited to be the administrator of this grant, […]
Migration as Core Narrative of Plural Societies: Towards an Aesthetics of Postmigrant Literature by Markus Hallensleben
My research project, situated within the wider context of the global mobility turn and critical European Culture Studies, investigates narratives of forced migration in contemporary German-language literature.
Hostile Environments: Policies, Stories, Responses by Erin Goheen Glanville
Hostile Environments: Policies, Stories, Responses is a comparative international research project funded by the British Academy on the structures and effects of hostile environments on displaced people and people seeking asylum.
Immigration Detention during Covid-19 by Efrat Arbel & Molly Joeck
Our research project critically examines Canada’s response to COVID-19 in immigration detention.
Punjabi in BC by Anne Murphy
Over the course of 2019-21, the UBC Punjabi Studies Oral History project is documenting the history of the Punjabi language in BC, and the lives and activities of the people who made it happen, focusing on teachers and institutions where Punjabi has been taught, and on writers who have written in the language and built institutions to support Punjabi language and literature.
Caste in Canada: The Unheard Stories of Dalit Canadians by Anne Murphy
This project inaugurates a new oral history research program among university and community partners that investigates Dalit (those deemed “untouchables” in the caste system of South Asia) individual and community histories within Canada’s past and present.
Prejudice towards Migrants during COVID-19: Evidence from a Panel Survey in Colombia by Yang-Yang Zhou
How has exposure to COVID-19 affected prejudice and discrimination towards refugees and migrants? While there have been several early studies of individual attitudes and behaviors in response to the pandemic, this research has almost all been limited to advanced economies in the Global North.
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.