Kushan Azadah is a research assistant at CERC Migration who is currently working on the project, CONTESTATIONS of Migration and Belonging in Canada. He uses NVivo software to code and analyze government and civil society materials, and track the qualitative shifts in Canadian migration policy and discourse. Kushan is also a PhD candidate in Political Science at York University. His dissertation project explores the politics of Afghan resettlement in the context of Canadian settler-colonialism. Prior to this, he earned an MA in Social Justice & Equity Studies from Brock University where he first became interested in cross-disciplinary research on migrant, settler, and Indigenous solidarities. These interests developed over years of study, work and engagement in social justice and community efforts in the Niagara and Toronto region. From 2016 to 2018, he also worked at Brock’s Social Justice Research Institute (SJRI) where he assisted in their work on global movements.
Recent Publications
(2022). (PDF file) The Necropolitics of Canada’s Afghan Resettlement Programmes. Refugee Watch, 60, 45–61.