Intersectionality and Diversity Working Group
The Intersectionality and Diversity working group examines how various refugee groups encounter global refugee policy, and analyzes power relations across axes of difference such as gender, race, class, age, nationality and sexual orientation. Building on a long tradition in refugee studies of understanding the bureaucratic implications of labels and categories, such as the fraught ‘global South/global North’ binary (; ), this working group also explores how politics, policy, and practices condition the refugee-migrant experience, and how they are social constructions embedded in power relations (; ). An intersectional approach allows for more critical understandings of human displacement and a focus on the categories that can both empower and disempower individual refugee-migrants (; ; ).
Leads
Christopher Kyriakides
- Canada Research Chair in Citizenship, Social Justice and Ethno-Racialization
Jennifer Hyndman
- Professor, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University.
Contributors
Hayley Britton
- Communications/Knowledge Mobilization Officer
Relevant Publications
Analyzing Vulnerability in Canadian Refugee Resettlement
Working Paper 30 By Zahra Moshref Javadi, York University Jennifer Hyndman, York University Executive Summary This paper seeks to address how states use ‘vulnerability’ to …
Dina Taha’s doctoral work examining the diversity of refugee experiences, and involvement with LERRN
Dina Taha’s work has taken her from Egypt to Canada and back again on a journey of research and discovery about the lives and …
Intersectionality and Other Critical Approaches in Refugee Research: An Annotated Bibliography
Working Paper 3 Dina Taha, York University Executive Summary This literature review highlights migration and refugee research engaged with intersectionality as a critical framework that …
Relevant Media
Jennifer Hyndman, LERRN Partner
Gender empowerment among refugees
Dina Taha’s working paper on intersectionality
Christopher Kyriakides, LERRN Partner
Christopher Kyriakides on Persons of Self Rescue
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Giles, W., & Hyndman, J. (Eds.). (2004). . University of California Press.
Kyriakides, C. (2017). Current Sociology 65, no. 7: 933-952.
Kyriakides, C., Bajjali, L., McLuhan, A. & Anderson, K. (2018). Canadian Ethnic Studies 50, no. 2: 59-78.
Hyndman, J. (2019). . Gender, Place and Culture, 26:1, 3-29.
Kyriakides, C., McLuhan, A., Anderson, K. & Bajjali, L. (2019). Social Forces 98, no. 1: 279–302.
Kyriakides, C., McLuhan, A., Bajjali, L., Anderson, K. & Elgendy, N., (2019) Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, 35(2), 24-35.
Kyriakides, C., Taha, D, Handy Charles, C., Torres, R. (2019) Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees. Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 3-7.
Kyriakides, C., Anderson, K., Bajjali & L., McLuhan, A. (2020) . In L. Hamilton, L. Veronis, M Walton-Roberts (Eds) A National Project: Canada’s Syrian Refugee Resettlement Experience. McGill-Queens Press.
Kyriakides, C., McLuhan, A., Anderson, K. & Bajjali, L. (Forthcoming, 2020). . In S, Labman & G. Cameron (Eds) Strangers to Neighbours: Refugee Sponsorship in Context. McGill-Queens Press.