Aziz Rahman has long been engaged in interdisciplinary research, teaching and community development work. He earned his doctoral degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Manitoba (UM), a master’s degree in Criminology from the University of Toronto, a master’s degree in Regional Development Planning jointly from the University of Dortmund, Germany, and the University of the Philippines Diliman, and a master’s degree and an undergraduate honours degree in Sociology from the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh. Aziz has taught sociology, criminology, and migration and displacement courses at the Universities of Winnipeg and Manitoba. He has taught as a faculty member in Bangladeshi universities for over ten years. Aziz is the recipient of a number of scholarships including the SSHRC Joseph Bombardier Doctoral Scholarship. His PhD thesis explored refugee economic integration in Canada. Aziz’s SSHRC-funded postdoctoral research focus is on refugee entrepreneurship in Canada, with the goal to identify to policymakers the factors affecting the successful labor market integration of resettled refugees in Canada. Aziz has published books, peer reviewed articles and presented research papers at conferences on various topics including refugee integration issues, public views of crime and policing, Islamist terrorism, ethnic violence, colonialism, hate crime and gig workers’ experiences. Aziz established two non-profit organizations based in Bangladesh to improve the quality of life of underprivileged population groups through community development projects, training, research, and advocacy. Aziz is an alumnus of the inaugural cohort of the President Student Leadership Program (PSLP) at UM. He is currently serving on the Board of Winnipeg Immigrant Partnership advisory table on Immigration and Indigenous Peoples, the Canadian Association of Refugees and Forced Migration Studies, the Institute of Cultural Affairs Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Criminological Association
Recent Publications
With Khondaker, M. I., Kashem, M. B., (2019). Bangladesh: Issues and Introspections on Crime and Criminal Justice. (external link) In Routledge Handbook of South Asian Criminology (pp. 21-29). Routledge.
With Ali, M. (2019). (PDF file) Transforming Ethnic Conflict and Building Peace in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh. Traditional Systems and Practices of Conflict Resolution, (external link) 6(1), 110-132.