Programs

Graduate Program in Immigration and Settlement Studies

Faculty

Program Director

Dr. Francis Hare
School of Child and Youth Care
Research Expertise: Evaluation research methods and experience of separated children

Program Faculty

Dr. Sandeep Agrawal
School of Urban and Regional Planning
Research Expertise: Planning in Multicultural Cities

Dr. Patrizia Albanese
Department of Sociology
Research Expertise: Family policies and policies affecting children

Dr. Mehrunnisa Ahmad Ali
School of Early Childhood Education
Research Expertise: Research methods, immigrant children, youth and families

Dr. Tariq Amin-Khan
Department of Politics and Public Administration
Research Expertise: security state and securitization, the post-colonial state, capitalist globalism and international development, political and militant Islam, comparative study of multiculturalism, nationalism, and issues of South Asian state and society

Dr. Sedef Arat-Koc
Department of Politics and Public Administration
Research Expertise: Immigration policy and immigrant women in Canada, racialization in Canada

Dr. Harald Bauder
Department of Geography
Research Expertise: Political economy of migration; labour market experiences of immigrants; immigration discourses, policies and nationhood; Canada and Germany

Dr. Morton Beiser
Department of Psychology
Research Expertise: mental health, culture and immigration, ethnicity and public health policy

Dr. Judith K. Bernhard
School of Early Childhood Education
Research Expertise: Immigrant children and schooling

Dr. Patricia Corson
School of Early Childhood Education
Research Expertise: Immigrant children and schooling

Dr. Marco A. Fiola
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Research Expertise: Language policies and language barriers in the public sector

Dr. Doreen Fumia
Department of Sociology
Research expertise: sexual citizenship, identities and migration, social equity movements in education

Dr. Grace-Edward Galabuzi
Department of Politics and Public Administration
Research Expertise: Racialization and Canadian labour markets; Immigrant integration; Social Exclusion/Inclusion; Poverty;Human Rights

Dr. Kiaras Gharabaghi
School of Child and Youth Care
Research Expertise: Educational support and advocacy for newcomer youth, newcomer communities and civic engagement.

Dr. Sutama Ghosh
Department of Geography
Research Expertise: Migration and settlement geographies, transnatiionalism, critical 'race' theories, regional geography of 'South Asia' with particular reference to India

Dr. Christopher Gore
Department of Politics and Public Administration
Research Expertise: environmental and natural resource policy; the politics of energy and climate change; comparative urban governance; privatization of environmental services; tensions between local, national, and global interests in urban and environmental management, service delivery, and public sector reform

Dr. Sepali Guruge
School of Nursing
Research Expertise: Immigrant women's health issues; violence againts women throughout the migration process

Dr. Francis Hare
School of Child and Youth Care
Research Expertise: Evaluation research methods and experience of separated children

Dr. Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar
Department of Sociology
Research Expertise: Caribbean studies; transnational and diasporic communities; second generation diasporic identities; racism in Canada.

Dr. Amina Jamal
Department of Sociology
Research Expertise: transnational feminist practices and as part of theoretical and political attempts to problematize new forms of citizen-subjects that emerge through changing global economic, political and cultural relations

Dr. Kathleen Kellett-Betsos
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Research Expertise: Minority literatures in Canada

Dr. Kenise Kilbride, Professor Emeritus
School of Early Childhood Education
Research Expertise: Research expertise: settlement issues of youth, women, and seniors; social capital of immigrants in large and small communities

Dr. Arne Kislenko
Department of History
Research Expertise: International relations and state security

Dr. Mustafa Koc
Department of Sociology
Research Expertise: Migration and globalization

Dr. Anne-Marie Lee-Loy
Department of English
Research Expertise: Immigrant literatures in Canada, postcolonial world literatures and cultural studies

Dr. Iara Lessa
School of Social Work
Research Expertise: Immigrant women; food security, social welfare and belonging; and processes of racialization and social policy

Dr. Janet Lum
Department of Politics and Public Administration
Research Expertise: Ageing and immigrants and equity policy

Dr. Agnes Meinhard
School of Business Management
Research Expertise: Voluntary sector leadership

Dr. Paul Missios
Department of Economics
Research Expertise: Regional government policy

Dr. Nima Naghibi
Department of English
Research Expertise: Postcolonial and Feminist Studies; Immigrant Literatures and Diasporic Studies

Dr. Alexandra V. Orlova
Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
Research Expertise: Transnational organized crime, Russian organized crime, international terrorism and crimes, international law and traditional and non-traditional security threats.

Dr. Ruth Panofsky
Department of English
Research Expertise: Literature of immigration

Dr. Henry Parada
School of Social Work
Research Expertise: Latin America social work, community Development, anti-oppression, institutional ethnography, child welfare (nationally and internationally)

Dr. Cecilia Rocha
School of Nutrition
Research Expertise: Immigrant settlement and food security

Dr. Arthur Ross
Department of Politics and Public Administration
Research Expertise: Immigration policy and community agency

Dr. Daniel Rubenson
Department of Politics and Public Administration
Research Expertise: Political behaviour, elections and campagins

Dr. Anver Saloojee
Department of Politics and Public Administration
Research Expertise: Immigration policy, social inclusion and immigrant political participation

Dr. Judith Sandys
School of Social Work
Research Expertise: Immigrants with disabilities

Dr. Carmen Schifellite
Department of Sociology
Research Expertise: Sociology in Education, Sociology of Science, Critiques of sociobiology and other theories that connect biology, culture and human behaviour

Dr. John Shields
Department of Politics and Public Administration
Research Expertise: Labour markets and immigrants

Dr. Myer Siemiatycki
Department of Politics and Public Administration
Research Expertise: Immigrant Political Participation; Transnationalism; Religious Minorities;
Cities and Diversity.

Dr. Hyacinth Simpson
Department of English
Research Expertise: Migrant writing and diasporic literature

Dr. Anne-Marie Singh
Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
Research Expertise: contemporary social theory, policing and governance; the role and interaction of various state and non-state actors in the field of security and the place of coercive practices in contemporary liberal democratic society

Dr. Joseph Springer
School of Urban and Regional Planning
Research Expertise: Immigrant housing and community capacity

Dr. Pamela Sugiman
Department of Sociology
Research Expertise: Gender studies, women's history in Canada, and the history of Japanese Canadians

Dr. Cheryl Teelucksingh
Department of Sociology
Research Expertise: Ethno-racial and immigrant settlement patterns in Toronto environmental justice, socio-spatial theory, and applied geographical information systems

Dr. Vappu Tyyska
Department of Sociology
Research Expertise: Immigrant families and youth

Dr. Mandana Vahabi
Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing
Research Expertise: Immigrant health, women's health, Health risk communication, literacy, and population health in general and health disparities by age, gender, SES, and immigration in particular.

Dr. Lu Wang
Department of Geography
Research Expertise: Immigration and Access to Health Care; Ethnicity, Culture and Consumption; Health Geomatics; Economic Geography

Dr. Shuguang Wang
Department of Geography
Research Expertise: Ethnic economy and immigrant business

Dr. June Yee
School of Social Work
Research Expertise: Immigrant settlement, and race and racism