CMS affiliates engage in a wide variety of research projects. The faculty affiliates at the Center for Migration Studies are conducting research that delves into various aspects of migration.
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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…
Collective/ collaborative
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…
Public Views of Immigration and Diversity: Causes and Consequences for Policy
For elected officials, the making of immigration policy can be a politically risky undertaking. Questions about immigration – how many…
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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…
Collective/ collaborative
Immigration Detention during Covid-19 by Efrat Arbel & Molly Joeck
Our research project critically examines Canada’s response to COVID-19 in immigration detention.
Collective/ collaborative
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…
Collective/ collaborative
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”…
Individual
Uniting voices: An examination of racially minoritized French speakers of Vancouver by Marie-Eve Bouchard
Since the early 2000s, Canadian federal policies have encouraged Francophone immigration from around the world in order to support the…
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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…
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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…
Collective/ collaborative
Belonging in Unceded Territory by Antje Ellermann
Vancouver is situated on the traditional and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Indigenous peoples have belonged…
Collective/ collaborative
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…
Individual
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…
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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.
Collective/ collaborative
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…
Individual
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…
A Solution to the Problems of the Racial Binary
This project examines how and what it means to take responsibility for various "isms", analyzes the significance of the responsibilities,…
Individual
The New Media Aesthetics of Migration
By analyzing the function of mobile devices and social media in the lives of migrants and connecting it to the…
Narratives
Migration As Core Narrative Of Plural Societies Towards: An Aesthetics Of Postmigrant Literature (SSHRC Insight Development Grant)
This collaborative research project, together with collaborator Moritz Schramm from South Denmark University, focuses on refugees and immigrants being explicitly seen as…
