Ibukun Kayode is a doctoral candidate in the Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Her research examines the structural, sociocultural, and institutional factors shaping Black African immigrant women’s access to primary healthcare in British Columbia, using an intersectional and critical ethnographic approach. Ibukun has extensive experience in community-based participatory research, mixed-methods health research, and project coordination. Her scholarship bridges critical migration studies, health equity, and intersectionality to illuminate how power, race, gender, and immigration status impact health access and outcomes.

Her research examines how the process of resettlement interacts with race, gender, and socioeconomic status to shape Black African immigrant women’s access to primary healthcare in Canada. By centering immigrant women’s lived experiences, her work highlights how migration-related challenges – such as language barriers, credential devaluation, precarious employment, and unfamiliarity with Canadian health systems – intersect with systemic racism to produce unequal health access. Ultimately, her research contributes to migration scholarship by demonstrating how health inequities are produced through the everyday encounters immigrant women have with institutions, policies, and broader societal structures.