*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. Andrew Burridge
Andrew Burridge (external link) is a political geographer, based in the Discipline of Geography and Planning, School of Communications, Society, and Culture at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Previously he was lead researcher on an ESRC-funded project at Exeter University regarding asylum appeals hearings, research associate at the International Boundaries Research Unit, Department of Geography, Durham University, and lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Melbourne. His work has focused primarily on undocumented migration, the effects of border securitization and immigration detention, as well as asylum and refugee reception and settlement. He is co-editor of Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders and Global Crises (University of Georgia Press, 2012).
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.