Migration, Mobilities & Social Politics

Nico Saunders

Nico Saunders

Nico Saunders is a Ph.D. Candidate and Doctoral Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, through the University of Waterloo. Her research explores the impact of UNESCO on urban security governance of World Heritage Cities, with particular focus on policy mainstreaming and urban militarization. This research also examines the aesthetic paradox of countering terrorism and

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Madeleine Pinard

Madeleine Pinard

Madeleine Pinard is a doctoral candidate at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the University of Waterloo. Her research focuses on creating environmental migration governance to mitigate human conflict. Madeleine Pinard completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto where she studied peace, conflict and justice studies. She then pursued a postgraduate certificate in

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warren dodd

Warren Dodd

Warren Dodd is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo. His research aims to understand and address the social and ecological determinants of global health and development. In particular, he is interested in how factors such as poverty, migration, food security, and climate change interact

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Ashley Lebner

Ashley Lebner

Ashley Lebner is Associate Professor of Religion and Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is currently completing a monograph, The Mystic of Friendship in Settler Amazonia, which explores the mystic relational dynamics that have animated the resettlement and politics of Southeast Amazonia since the late twentieth century. The book extends work that has appeared in venues including Current Anthropology (see especially

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Neil Arya

Neil Arya

Global Health Dr. Neil Arya is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo and in Health Sciences at Wilfrid Laurier University. He was the founding Director of the Global Health Office at Western University where he conducted research regarding the impact of international experiences on host communities

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Nelson Graham

Nelson Graham

Nelson Graham is a PhD candidate in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs through Wilfrid Laurier University. His research delves into the pivotal role higher education institutions are playing in providing academic and integration supports to international students. Additionally, he explores how international student’s temporary status hinders their access to federal and

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Lana Gonzalez Balyk

Lana Gonzalez Balyk

Lana Gonzalez Balyk is a Ph.D. Candidate in Global Governance with the Balsillie School of International Affairs at the University of Waterloo. Her research interests included critical migration and border studies, with a focus on gender. From an intersectional feminist framework, her dissertation examines how migration governance policies and practices shape the lived experiences and

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Aaron T. Francis

Aaron T. Francis

Aaron is s a PhD Candidate in the Global Governance program at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, who is pursuing a specialization in global political economy. Aaron’s research examines the political economy of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in the Caribbean with specific reference to extractive industry development in the aluminum and oil sectors of

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