{"id":17785,"date":"2016-04-18T13:24:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T17:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=17785"},"modified":"2025-11-05T11:28:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:28:13","slug":"gaucher-megan","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/gaucher-megan\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Gaucher"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Megan Gaucher is an Associate Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies. A political scientist by training, her interdisciplinary research focuses on the intersections between citizenship, family, and belonging in Canadian immigration and refugee law, policy, and politics. She is the author of <em>A Family Matter: Citizenship, Conjugal Relationships, and Canadian Immigration Policy <\/em>(UBC Press, 2018), which was shortlisted for the Canadian Political Science Association\u2019s 2019 Donald Smiley Prize and received Honorable Mention for the American Political Science Association\u2019s 2022 Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award. She is the recipient of the Faculty of Public Affairs Teaching Excellence Award (2020) and the Carleton Research Achievement Award (2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her current research projects include a SSHRC-funded project on the state of \u201cbirth tourism\u201d in Canada, an examination of spousal sponsorship during the COVID-19 border closure, and continued investigation into the implications current legislative frameworks have on migrant families seeking permanent reunification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She supervises graduate students in the areas of immigration and refugee law, critical citizenship studies, family law and politics, identity politics, and Canadian public policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"selected-publications\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Selected Publications:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Books:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Gaucher, Megan. 2018. <em>A Family Matter: Citizenship, Conjugal Relationships, and Canadian Immigration Policy <\/em>(UBC Press)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Book Chapters:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>DeGagn\u00e9, Alexa and Megan Gaucher. 2021. \u201cThe Thin Blue Line between Protection and Prosecution: Policing LGBTQ2S Refugees in Canada,\u201d in Chloe Taylor and Kelly Struthers-Monfort (eds.) <em>Building Abolition: Decarceration and Social Justice<\/em>. London: Routledge.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gaucher, Megan. 2018. \u201cWhen is a Citizen no Longer a Citizen? Analyzing Constructions of Citizenship in Canada\u2019s Judicial and Legislative Forums,\u201d in Emmett Macfarlane (ed.) <em>Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution<\/em>. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Journal Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Yalamarty, Harshita, Megan Gaucher, Ethel Tungohan, and Asma Atique. 2025. \u201c\u2019We all know the benefits of having our parents and grandparents here with us\u2019: super visas, temporary grand\/parent migration and Canadian nation building.\u201d <em>Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/1369183X.2025.2561206\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/1369183X.2025.2561206<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cheong, Amanda R., Megan Gaucher, Jing Li, Stephanie Nedoshytko, Jamie Chai Yun Liew, Angela M. Contreras-Chavez, Hilal Kina, Nikita McDavid, and David Brush. 2025. \u201cUnpacking \u2018Birth Tourism\u2019: Incidental Citizenship and the Diverse Migration and Reproduction Trajectories of Nonresident Mothers in Canada.\u201d <em>Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies <\/em>51(7): 4299-4319.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Atique, Asma, Ethel Tungohan, Megan Gaucher, and Harshita Yalamarty. 2025. \u201c\u2019Flying Grannies\u2019 and Human-Capital Citizenship: Migrant Grandparents and Care in Humanitarian and Compassionate Cases in Canada.\u201d <em>Social &amp; Legal Studies: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/09646639251360214\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/09646639251360214<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gaucher, Megan. 2020. \u201cKeeping Your Friends Close and Your Enemies Closer: Affective Constructions of \u201cGood\u201d and \u201cBad\u201d Immigrants in Canadian Conservative Discourse.\u201d <em>Canadian Ethnic Studies <\/em>52(2): 79-98.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nath, Nisha, Ethel Tungohan, and Megan Gaucher. 2018. \u201cThe Future of Canadian Political Science: Boundary Transgressions, Gender and Anti-Oppression Frameworks.\u201d <em>Canadian Journal of Political Science<\/em> 51(3): 619-42.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gaucher, Megan. 2016. \u201cMonogamous Canadian Citizenship, Constructing Foreignness, and the Limits of Harm Discourse.\u201d <em>Canadian Journal of Political Science<\/em>. 49(3): 519-538.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gaucher, Megan and Alexa DeGagn\u00e9. 2014. \u201cGuilty until Proven Prosecuted: The Canadian State\u2019s Assessment of Sexual Minority Refugee Claimants and the Invisibility of the non-Western Sexual non-Citizen.\u201d <em>Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State &amp; Society, <\/em>23(3): 459-81.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gaucher, Megan. 2014. \u201cAttack of the Marriage Fraudsters!: An Examination of the Harper Government\u2019s Anti-Marriage Fraud Campaign.\u201d <em>International Journal of Canadian Studies<\/em>, 50: 187-206<em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26950,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Megan","cu_people_last_name":"Gaucher","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[22],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-17785","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Associate Professor","cu_people_degree":"B.Soc.Sci. 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