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Research Interests\/Expertise<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  • Globalization, migration and mobility<\/li>
  • Transnational families and intimacies<\/li>
  • North-South families: identity, belonging and citizenship<\/li>
  • Immigration bureaucracies and documents<\/li>
  • Gender and sexuality in sub-Saharan Africa<\/li>
  • West Africa<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    About<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Karine Geoffrion holds a PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Montreal (2017). Her main research focuses on binational couples\u2019 transnational relationship and their lived experience of the spousal reunification process in Canada. Karine was also a professor at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana for 3 years prior to coming back to Canada to pursue her research endeavors. In Ghana, she conducted research on gender diversity and youth sexuality. She continues her various collaborations with colleagues in Ghana. Her most recent project explores identity, belonging and transnational networks in binational mixed-race families living in Ghana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Current Research Initiatives<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Mixed(race) Ghanaians: Identity, belonging and transnational mobility (<\/em>Oduro, Prah, Geoffrion, <\/em><\/strong>MRI\/CTR7\/2018-2019)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Recent Publications<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Geoffrion, Karine. (Soumis). La r\u00e9unification conjugale sur Facebook : \u00e9motions et solidarit\u00e9s f\u00e9minines. In Elaine Costa Fernandez, Fatima Moussa et Claire Scopsi (eds.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Geoffrion, Karine, Cretton, Viviane. (Accepted). Introduction. The bureaucratic routes to migration: migrants’ lived experience of paperwork, clerks and other immigration intermediaries. Anthropologica<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Geoffrion, Karine. (Submitted) Bureaucratic emotionalities: Managing files, documents and delays in the Canadian spousal reunification process. Anthropologica<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Geoffrion, Karine. (2018). \u00ab Mariage non-authentique \u00bb: Femmes canadiennes en couple binational face \u00e0 la discrimination administrative. Cahiers du genre<\/em>, (64), p. 67-83.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Geoffrion, Karine. (2018). Homosexuality and religious fundamentalism in the Ghanaian mediascape: Clashes between an \u2018unGodly\u2019 concept and lived practices. In F. Sow (ed.) Genre et fondamentalismes<\/em>. Dakar: Conseil pour le d\u00e9veloppement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique (CODESRIA), 269-288.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Geoffrion, Karine. (2017). R\u00e9unification conjugale au Canada: L\u2019exp\u00e9rience des femmes parrains. Diversit\u00e9 canadienne\/ Canadian diversity<\/em>, 14(2), <\/em>13-17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Geoffrion, Karine. (2016). Femmes blanches en Afrique sub-saharienne: De la coop\u00e9ration internationale \u00e0 la mixit\u00e9 conjugale. Cahiers d’\u00e9tudes africaines<\/em>, 1<\/em>(221), 127- 152.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Geoffrion, Karine. (2016). Re-chercher l\u2019amour transnational: Le couple ensemble, le couple \u00e9loign\u00e9 et le projet d\u2019immigration du conjoint. \u00c9mulation<\/em>s, (18), 12 pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Geoffrion, Karine. (2013). Ghanaian youth and festive transvestism. Culture, Health & Sexuality: An International Journal for Research, Intervention and Care<\/em>, 15<\/em>(sup1), 48-61.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Publication in Progress<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Le Gall, J., Therrien, C., et Geoffrion, K. (eds.) Identities and (trans)nationalisms in mixed families: transmission, agency and social constraints.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Courses Taught<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
    • Ethnography of contemporary Ghana<\/li>
    • Anthropology and Gender<\/li>
    • Mobilities, Migrations and Transnational Lives<\/li>
    • Introduction to Issues in Anthropology : Globalization, Culture and Ethnography<\/li>
    • Gender and Society<\/li>
    • Globalisation, soci\u00e9t\u00e9, culture (Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al)<\/li>
    • Anthropologie urbaine (Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9809,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Karine","cu_people_last_name":"Geoffrion","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[40],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-9802","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-adjunct-research-professors"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Adjunct Research Professor","cu_people_degree":"Ph.D. Anthropology (Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"karine.geoffrion@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/9802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/9802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19693,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/9802\/revisions\/19693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=9802"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=9802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}