Our Experts

Dr. Will Kymlicka is the author of seven books published by Oxford University Press: Liberalism, Community, and Culture (1989), Contemporary Political Philosophy (1990; second edition 2002), Multicultural Citizenship (1995), which was awarded the Macpherson Prize by the Canadian Political Science Association, and the Bunche Award by the American Political Science Association, Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada (1998), Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, Citizenship (2001), Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity (2007), and Zoopolis: […]

Dr. Melissa Siegel is a Professor of Migration Studies and Head of Migration Studies at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance and UNU-MERIT where she manages several migration research projects, coordinates the Migration Studies Specialization as part of the Master’s Program in Public Policy and Human Development and heads the Migration Management Diploma Program. She is Co-Director and heads the Migration and Development research theme of the Maastricht Center for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE). She currently holds the Chair […]

Dr. Pieter Bevelander’s main research field is international migration and different aspects of immigrant integration as well the reactions of natives towards immigrants and minorities. A number of his publications include the labour market situation of immigrants in a regional setting and the effects of labour market policy measures directed towards immigrants in Sweden. His research topics include also the labour market integration of men and women in the Netherlands, the ascension to citizenship of immigrants in the Netherlands and […]

Dr. Anna Kirova’s  appointment at the University of Alberta marked the beginning of a long-term research program that focuses on various aspects of the relationship between young immigrant children’s social competence and their social adjustment to school. To understand fully the culturally and linguistically diverse children’s experiences in school, her research examined the nature and experience of childhood that has been interrupted by immigration as well as the lived experiences of immigrant children in their day-to-day living between languages and […]

Saime Özçürümez (Ph.D., McGill) is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Başkent University. She conducts research and publishes on migration policy and politics in the European Union, Turkey, and Canada, health and immigration, gender and immigration, irregular immigration, integration and citizenship, media representation of migrants, comparative politics of deliberative democracy, and Europeanization research agenda. She has articles published in Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Turkish Studies, Comparative European Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies, Uluslararasi Iliskiler-International Relations, Women’s Studies International Forum, European Political […]

Dr. Agnieszka Weinar is a Adjunct Research Professor at the Institute for European and Russian Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa. She is also a Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, and Metropolis International, Center for European Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa. Her research focuses on the international dimension of migration policy and more specifically on the Europeanization of migration policies in the EU. Dr. Weinar has over 15 years of […]

Dr. Kelly Sundberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Calgary in the Faculty of Environmental Design. In addition to his ongoing teaching and scholarship, Dr. Sundberg served as Chair for the Department of Justice Studies (2011 – 2013) and as the alternate Non-Government Organization (NGO) representative to the United Nations for the Academy of Criminal Justice Science (2010 – 2012). Prior to commencing his academic career, Dr. Sundberg […]

Dr. Randy William Widdis is professor of the Department of Geography at the University of Regina. Dr. Widdis has written and taught extensively on the Canadian-American Borderlands and on Canadian migration to the United States and American migration to the Canadian Prairies. He is currently working on a book titled Neighbours in Paradox: The Evolution of the Canadian-American Borderlands, 1784-2017. In two volumes he describes, first, the beginnings from frontiers to borderlands, and second, the transformations, configurations and reconfigurations during […]

Alexander Norfolk is a Performance Management Analyst for the Government of British Columbia. He wrote his MA thesis on the topic of the Canadian private sponsorship of refugees program and worked for the Borders in Globalization (BIG) project at the Centre for Global Studies. His previous work has focused on human trafficking, poverty alleviation, preclearance policy, and program evaluation. Research Interests: Human trafficking, Poverty alleviation, Refugee sponsorship, Preclearance policy, and Program evaluation

Dr. Margaret Walton-Roberts is a human geographer trained in the UK and Canada who focuses on international migration. She is a professor at Wilfrid Laurier University and the Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA), Waterloo Canada. Her research interests are in gender and migration, transnational networks, and immigrant settlement. Her current research focuses on gender and the international migration of health care professionals. She has been awarded several external grants for her research, and has published over 43 book chapters, and […]

In 1990, Victor Konrad accepted the position as founding Executive Director of the Fulbright Program between Canada and the United States. Dr. Konrad has devoted his career to higher education advancement and development between these neighbouring countries. His research is centred on the transfer of culture across borders, and he has published extensively about Native American encounters with Europeans, cultural landscape transitions, and Canada-U.S. borderlands. Professor Konrad has taught at universities in the United States and Canada, and from 1980 […]

Dr. Can E. Mutlu is an Associate Professor of Global Politics at Acadia University. His published research deals with borders and mobility, critical approaches to security, exceptionalism, race and ethnicity. He has carried out extensive research on issues such as the Europeanization of migration and asylum policy in Turkey, migrations from Syria to Turkey, the governance of refugee crises, and the externalization of border controls. Research Interests: Borders and mobility, Critical approaches to security studies, International political sociology, Exceptionalism, Race, and […]

Dr. Axel Kreienbrink is Head of Unit “International Migration and Migration Management” in the Research Centre of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees in Nuremberg (Germany). He entered the Federal Office in 2005 and became Head of Unit in 2007. His research topics cover international migration, irregular migration, return migration, migration and development, Muslims in Germany, demographic aspects of migration, and research for the European Migration Network EMN. Dr Kreienbrink has several publications on migration history and migration policy in […]

Dr. Laurie Trautman is the Director of the Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington University, where she engages in a range of research activities focused on the U.S. – Canada border, and the Washington – B.C. region. In addition to working with faculty and students, she collaborates with the private sector and government agencies to inform policy solutions and advance cross-border collaboration. Laurie participates in a number of working groups that are actively engaged in the U.S. – Canada […]

Dr. Benjamin Muller is Associate Professor with the Departments of Political Science at King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario. His research and publications reflect his interdisciplinary background in international relations theory and contemporary social and political thought, covering issues from contemporary aviation security and trusted traveler programs, to the increasing reliance on biometric technology and risk management in contemporary border security, to a critical security studies analysis of Hizballah. In general, Dr. Muller is interested in the […]

Simon Dalby is a Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. His published research deals with climate change, environmental security and geopolitics. He is co-editor of Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals(Routledge 2019), Rethinking Geopolitics (Routledge 1998), The Geopolitics Reader (Routledge 1998, 2006), Reframing Climate Change (Routledge 2016) and author of Creating the Second Cold War (Pinter and Guilford, 1990/Bloomsbury 2016), Environmental Security (University of Minnesota Press, 2002) , Security and Environmental Change (Polity, 2009) and Anthropocene Geopolitics: Globalization, Security, Sustainability (University of Ottawa Press 2020). Simon Dalby was educated at Trinity College […]