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Dr. John Carlaw
Dr. John Carlaw is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology at Toronto Metropolitan University, which he joined in July, 2024.
He was previously a Senior Research Associate (2023-2024) and Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2020-2023) at TMU’s Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration Program. There he organized and led CERC’s mentorship program (2020-2023) for its stipend students and co-led the Politics and Narratives and Politics of Migration research theme.
His research examines continuity and change in the politics of citizenship, immigration and multiculturalism, including the criminalization of migration and resistance. John is currently the lead investigator on a SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2023-2025) funded project entitled Contemporary Paradoxes and Struggles of Migration and Belonging in Canada and a Member of the Citizenship and Participation Research Theme of the Migrant Integration in the Mid-21st Century: Bridging Divides research program.
From 2015 to 2019, John served as Project Lead of York University's Syria Response and Refugee Initiative, a refugee sponsorship and education initiative at York’s Centre for Refugee Studies. There he worked in close collaboration with TMU’s Lifeline Syria Challenge and civil society actors to organize events, solidarity initiatives, workshops and conferences with youth and NGO collaborators, including Amnesty International Canada, the FCJ Refugee Centre, the Canadian Council for Refugees, and Toronto Refugee Rights Month Planning Committee.
He holds a PhD in Political Science and Diploma in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from York University, which were supported by a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship. He remains affiliated with TMU’s CERC in Migration and Integration Program and York University’s Centre for Refugee Studies and Global Labour Research Centre (GLRC).
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.