*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.*
Dr. John Mackie Shields
Dr. John Shields is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of British Columbia in 1989. He has published extensively in the broad areas of immigration and settlement, labour market policy, social policy, and the political economy of the non-profit sector. His last three books are The Canadian Non-profit Sector: Neoliberalism and the Assault on Community (with Ted Richmond, September 2024), Precarious Employment: Causes, Consequences and Remedies (edited with Stephanie Procyk and Wayne Lewchuk, 2017), and Immigrant Experiences in North America: Understanding Settlement and Integration (edited with Harald Bauder, 2015). He is a past-Director of CERIS - The Ontario Metropolis Centre (Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement) and a previous interim Director of the Toronto Metropolitan Centre for Immigration and Settlement (TMCIS). In 2016, he received the National Metropolis Researcher Award. From 2009 to 2012, he served as Managing Editor of the Journal of International Migration and Integration (JIMI) and continues to sit on its editorial board. In 2016 he received the Dean of Arts’ Excellence Award for Research Impact, and in 2022 the TMU Faculty Associations Career Achievement Award.
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.