Migration Working Group

 National immigration ‘models,’ social welfare regimes, and Muslims’ economic incorporation in France and Canada

 Jeffrey Reitz, University of Toronto

Jeffrey G. Reitz (Ph.D., FRSC) is the R.F. Harney Professor and Director of the Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies Program at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, and Professor and former Chair in the University’s Department of Sociology. He has published extensively on immigration and inter-group relations in Canada from comparative perspectives, and has frequently contributed to discussions of policies on immigration, multiculturalism and immigrant employment in Canada. He is co-author of Multiculturalism and Social Cohesion: Potentials and Challenges of Diversity (2009); recent articles have appeared in the International Migration Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Social Science Research. During 2012-2014 he was Marie Curie International Fellow at l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, and in 2017-18 was a Visiting Fellow at the City University of New York Graduate Centre.

 Racism, Labor Migration and Unfree Labor: Towards an analytical framework

 Lisa Carstensen, University of Osnabrück

Lisa Carstensen is a post-doc researcher at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück.

She concluded her PhD in 2018 in sociology on the topic of “Modern Slave Labour in Brazil“. In this research, she analyzed labour struggles and workers agency within global production networks. From 2017 to 2019 she conducted a research project on the relationship between migrant organizations and trade unions in Western Germany in the 1970s and 80s, funded by the Hans-Böckler-Foundation. Currently she works as a student adviser and lecturer at IMIS.

Her research topics are: Labour studies, migration, trade unions and social movements, postcolonial and critical theory, discourse analysis, global production networks, qualitative methods.

 ‘Mapping Migrancies’: A Conceptual Framework for Analysing Infrastructural Encounters through Migration Trajectories

 Marina Khan, Western Sydney University

I am a Higher Degree Research candidate from the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. I completed my Master of Research in 2017 prior to which I graduated from a Bachelor of Social Science with majors in Urban Studies. My Masters’ research titled ‘’Contested Ground’: Network Governance in the Australian Migration Industry’ explored lived experiences of professionals working in the Australian migration industry and was recently published in International Migration. My PhD project titled ‘Mapping Migrancies’ is an exploration of skilled migrants encounters’ with migration processes, and how these interactions shape their migration experience. I use a mixed-methods approach, using a combination of big-data analysis and in-depth explorative interviews with skilled migrants in Australia and Canada. Apart from the PhD, I host a research podcast called Blabcoats at Western Sydney University. I am also a Postgraduate committee representative for The Australian Sociological Association (TASA).

 Planning for Diversity and Inclusion in Toronto’s Immigrant Suburbs

 Zhixi Zhuang, Ryerson University

Dr. Zhixi Zhuang is Associate Professor at the School of Urban and Regional Planning. Her research explores how immigrant settlement affects city landscapes and municipal policies and planning. She has been conducting mixed-method and arts-informed research to effectively engage immigrant community members, politicians, and city building professionals in order to gain a holistic perspective on immigrant integration, civic engagement, and inclusive policy-making. Her research aims to tackle how to ensure immigrant communities are properly and equitably engaged in decision-making, and how to help policymakers and planning practitioners be informed of community perspectives.