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
Contributors
Relevant Publications
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.