Marjorie Rugunda is a PhD student in the Department of Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. She holds a BA from Rhodes University in South Africa and a Master’s degree from the University of Calgary. Her research explores how institutions within Africa reflect and reproduce entrenched colonial legacies, particularly in the context of labor and education.

Her work engages with migration by examining how international and Western institutions based in Africa cater primarily to expatriates and transnational elites, reinforcing patterns of exclusivity and mobility shaped by colonialism and imperialism. She is particularly interested in how institutional practices around hiring, governance, and access contribute to the marginalisation of local populations. This research situates institutional spaces as key sites through which migration and inequality intersect in (post)colonial contexts.