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 (Zetter 1991; Crawley and Skleparis 2017), 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 (Hancock 2013; Behrman 2016). 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 (Clark-Kazak 2014; Crenshaw 1991; Hancock 2013).
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, Research Associate at The Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS), York University Jennifer Hyndman, Professor at the Centre for Refugee Studies …
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, PhD Candidate, York University Executive Summary This literature review highlights migration and refugee research engaged with intersectionality as a critical …
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). Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones. University of California Press.
Kyriakides, C. (2017). Words Don’t Come Easy: Al Jazeera’s Migrant-Refugee Distinction and the European Culture of (Mis)Trust. Current Sociology 65, no. 7: 933-952.
Kyriakides, C., Bajjali, L., McLuhan, A. & Anderson, K. (2018). Beyond Refuge: Contested Orientalism and Persons of Self-Rescue. Canadian Ethnic Studies 50, no. 2: 59-78.
Hyndman, J. (2019). Unsettling Feminist Geopolitics: Forging Feminist Political Geographies of Violence. Gender, Place and Culture, 26:1, 3-29.
Kyriakides, C., McLuhan, A., Anderson, K. & Bajjali, L. (2019). Status Eligibilities: The Eligibility to Exist and Authority to Act in Refugee–Host Relations. Social Forces 98, no. 1: 279–302.
Kyriakides, C., McLuhan, A., Bajjali, L., Anderson, K. & Elgendy, N., (2019) (Mis)Trusted Contact: Resettlement Knowledge Assets and the Third Space of Refugee Reception. Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, 35(2), 24-35.
Kyriakides, C., Taha, D, Handy Charles, C., Torres, R. (2019) Introduction: The Racialized Refugee Regime. Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees. Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 3-7.
Kyriakides, C., Anderson, K., Bajjali & L., McLuhan, A. (2020) Splits in the Neighbourhood?: Negotiating Visibility in a Rural Reception Context. 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). Transactions of Worth in Refugee-Host Relations. In S, Labman & G. Cameron (Eds) Strangers to Neighbours: Refugee Sponsorship in Context. McGill-Queens Press.