Skip to Main Content
You are now in the main content area

*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.*

Rupa Banerjee

Dr. Rupa Banerjee

Canada Research Chair in Economic inclusion, Employment and Entrepreneurship of Canada’s Immigrants and Professor of Human Resource Management
DepartmentHuman Resource Management & Organizational Behaviour, Ted Rogers School of Management
EducationBComm, BEd, MIRHR, PhD
Areas of ExpertiseEmployment integration of new immigrants to Canada; institutional barriers facing new immigrants in the Canadian labour market; workplace diversity and ethno-racial discrimination, particularly as it applies to second-generation immigrants

Dr. Rupa Banerjee is the Canada Research Chair in Economic inclusion, Employment and Entrepreneurship of Canada’s Immigrants and Professor of Human Resource Management.  Her primary research interest lies in the employment integration of new immigrants to Canada.  She is particularly interested in the institutional barriers facing new immigrants in the Canadian labour market.  In addition, she is interested in workplace diversity and ethno-racial discrimination, particularly as it applies to second-generation immigrants.  Dr. Banerjee’s research has appeared in such journals as International Migration Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies,Journal of International Migration and Integration, Journal of Labor Research and Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations.

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.