Yasmeen Abu-Laban
Yasmeen Abu-Laban is Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Politics of Citizenship and Human Rights in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. She is also a Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
She has published widely on themes relating to immigration and border control policies, antiracism and multiculturalism, and citizenship theory. She is co-author (with Ethel Tungohan and Christina Gabriel) of Containing Diversity: Canada and the Politics of Immigration in the 21st Century (University of Toronto Press, 2023). She is also co-editor (with Alain-G. Gagnon and Arjun Tremblay) of Assessing Multiculturalism in Global Comparative Perspective: A New Politics of Diversity for the Twenty-First Century? (Routledge, 2023), as well as co-editor (with Michael Frishkopf, Reza Hasmath and Anna Kirova) of Resisting the Dehumanization of Refugees (Athabasca University Press, Forthcoming 2024).
She was elected President of the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association in 2022, and has also served as President of the Canadian Political Science Association and Vice President of the International Political Science Association.
Recent Publications
Abu-Laban, Y., Gagnon, A.-G., & Tremblay, A. (2022). Reflecting on Multiculturalism at Its Semicentennial (external link) . In Y. Abu-Laban, A.-G. Gagnon, & A. Tremblay, Assessing Multiculturalism in Global Comparative Perspective (1st ed., pp. 3–18). Routledge.
Abu-Laban, Y., Tungohan, E., & Gabriel, C. (2023). Symposium on Containing Diversity: Canada and the Politics of Immigration in the 21st Century (external link) . Toronto University Press.
Abu-Laban, Y., & Nath, N. (2020). Citizenship, Multiculturalism, and Immigration: Mapping the Complexities of Inclusion and Exclusion Through Intersectionality (external link) . In M. Tremblay & J. Everitt (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Gender, Sexuality, and Canadian Politics (pp. 507–527). Springer International Publishing.