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Yasmeen Abu-Laban

Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in the Politics of Citizenship and Human Rights, University of Alberta

Yasmeen Abu-Laban is Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in the Politics of Citizenship and Human Rights at the University of Alberta. She is also a Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. She served as President of the Canadian Political Science Association, and Vice-President of the International Political Science Association. She has published widely on issues relating to immigration, racism and anti-racism, multiculturalism, as well as surveillance and border control. Her recent books include Containing Diversity:  Canada and the Politics of Immigration in the 21st Century (University of Toronto Press, 2023 with Ethel Tungohan and Christina Gabriel) and Assessing Multiculturalism in Global Comparative Perspective: A New Politics of Diversity for the 21st Century? (Routledge, 2023 co-edited with Alain-G. Gagnon and Arjun Tremblay).