Discover some of the current research projects led by Centre for Migration Studies affiliates.
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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…
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Worn Words by Erin Goheen
An educational filmmaking project that re-narrates ordinary words in refugee discourse to support public dialogue and critical pedagogy.
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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…
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Immigration Detention during Covid-19 by Efrat Arbel & Molly Joeck
Our research project critically examines Canada’s response to COVID-19 in immigration detention.
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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…
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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”…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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THE NEW MEDIA AESTHETICS OF MIGRATION
THE NEW MEDIA AESTHETICS OF MIGRATION By analyzing the function of mobile devices and social media in the lives of migrants…