*In April 2022, the university announced our new name of Toronto Metropolitan University, which will be implemented in a phased approach. Learn more about our next chapter.*
Bridget Collrin
Bridget Collrin is a PhD Candidate at Toronto Metropolitan University in the Policy Studies program and Project Coordinator for the partnership project, Soli*City (Urban Sanctuary, Migrant Solidarity, and Hospitality in Global Perspective). Bridget holds a Dual MA in Political Science from the University of Lucerne (Switzerland) and Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada). Her SSHRC-funded doctoral research comparatively examines community-based policies and programs that support the housing of precarious migrants in Toronto, Canada and Berlin, Germany. With Soli*City, Bridget helps to coordinate research activities and outputs on themes of migrant solidarity and urban sanctuary across four global hubs in South America, Africa, Europe, and North America.
TMCIS occupies space in the traditional and unceded territory of nations including the Anishnaabeg, the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples, and territory which is also now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. This territory is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit, as well as the Williams Treaties signed with multiple Mississaugas.