--- title: "Author Highlight: Christina Clark-Kazak and Forced Migration" description: "In this blog post we take a look at Christina Clark-Kazak and his appearances on media on the topic of the forced migration and other immigration topics #migration #refugees #international" image: https://collabzium.com/hubfs/image%20%283%29.png --- [![FAC_SOCIAL_SCIENCE_HEADER_BAR](https://collabzium.com/hubfs/FAC_SOCIAL_SCIENCE_HEADER_BAR.svg "FAC_SOCIAL_SCIENCE_HEADER_BAR")](https://www.uottawa.ca/faculty-social-sciences/) [![Collabzium](https://collabzium.com/hubfs/CollabziumLogoEnglish(Name)-COLOUR.svg "Collabzium")](https://collabzium.com/) - Articles - [Collabzium Guide](https://collabzium.com/en/articles/author/collabzium-guide) - [All articles](https://collabzium.com/en/articles) - Research - [Chairs and Labs](https://collabzium.com/en/chair-and-labs) - [About](https://collabzium.com/collabcrew) [Subscribe](https://20500402.hubspotpagebuilder.com/subscribe-now) [Subscribe](https://20500402.hubspotpagebuilder.com/subscribe-now) [Public and International Affairs](https://collabzium.com/en/articles/tag/public-and-international-affairs),[Author Highlight](https://collabzium.com/en/articles/tag/author-highlight) # Author Highlight: Christina Clark-Kazak and Forced Migration [![Christina Clark-Kazak](https://collabzium.com/hubfs/CClarkKazak.jfif) Christina Clark-Kazak](https://collabzium.com/en/articles/author/christina-clark-kazak) calendar icon Mar 08, 2023 · Reading time 1 min read [mailto:?subject=Check%20out%20https://collabzium.com/en/articles/author-highlight-christina-clark-kazak-and-forced-migration&utm_medium=social&utm_source=email%20&body=Check%20out%20https://collabzium.com/en/articles/author-highlight-christina-clark-kazak-and-forced-migration&utm_medium=social&utm_source=email](mailto:?subject=Check%20out%20https://collabzium.com/en/articles/author-highlight-christina-clark-kazak-and-forced-migration&utm_medium=social&utm_source=email%20&body=Check%20out%20https://collabzium.com/en/articles/author-highlight-christina-clark-kazak-and-forced-migration&utm_medium=social&utm_source=email) Christina Clark-Kazak researches forced migration policy in Canada and globally. She has served as President of both the Canadian and international scholarly associations on refugees and forced migration and is past Editor-in-chief of Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees. In the past year, she has commented in English and French language media on Ukrainian displacement, public opinion on migration, and refugee claimants crossing at Roxham Road and other points on the Canada-US border.   ![Pr. Christina Clark Kazak](https://collabzium.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image%20(2).png?width=1918&height=1280&name=image%20(2).png) Professor Christina Clark-Kazak Christina Clark-Kazak in the Media  Videos [Guest on Toronto Star Podcast, April 2023](https://www.thestar.com/podcasts/thismatters/2023/04/04/closing-roxham-road-what-migrants-face-at-the-border.html?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMedia&utm_campaign=Podcast&utm_content=closing-roxham-road) [Interviewed on As It Happens, CBC Radio, March 2023](https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-2-as-it-happens/clip/15975874-troubled-water) [Interviewed on CBC News - The National, March 2023](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=M9CwDPzGPNY) [Guest on Canada Tonight - CBC, March 2023](https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2186035779982) [Interviewed on Global News, December 2022](https://globalnews.ca/video/9376713/russias-war-in-ukraine-results-in-biggest-european-refugee-crisis-since-second-world-war/) [Interviewed on CTV News, April 2022](https://barrie.ctvnews.ca/simcoe-county-families-open-doors-to-ukrainian-refugees-1.5864365) [Interviewed on CTV news, April 2022](https://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2415422) Audio [“Ride-along expert” on Cross-Country Check-up, CBC, February 2023](https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-13-cross-country-checkup/clip/15968706-full-episode-are-migrants-crossing-u.s.-border-treated) Articles [Op Ed in *The Globe and Mail,* April 2023](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-deaths-in-the-st-lawrence-river-show-that-border-control-is-a/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter) [Quoted in The Globe and Mail, March 2023](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-roxham-road-trudeau-biden-reaction/) [Quoted in The Hill Times, February 2023 ](https://www.hilltimes.com/ht_author/stuart-benson/) [Quoted in *The Globe and Mail,* February 2023](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-ottawa-working-toward-roxham-road-solution-through-talks-with-us/) [Quoted in *Le Devoir*, December 2022](https://www.ledevoir.com/monde/775811/retrospective-ukraine-immigration) [Quoted in *La Presse, *December 2022](https://www.lapresse.ca/international/europe/2022-12-20/royaume-uni/la-cour-autorise-l-expulsion-de-migrants-au-rwanda.php) [Op Ed in The Conversation (with Yvonne Su), Canadians support accepting more newcomers but we need a more equitable, rights-based approach, July 2022; reprinted in *The National Post, Toronto Star* and other newspapers across Canada, July 2022](https://theconversation.com/canadians-support-accepting-more-newcomers-but-we-need-a-more-equitable-rights-based-approach-185348) [Quoted in Global News, April 2022](https://globalnews.ca/news/8757704/afghanistan-journalist-refugee-canada-family/) [“Ask an Expert” interview with The Walrus, March 2022.](https://thewalrus.ca/ukraine-refugees/) [Op Ed in The Conversation – Child rights and family separation in Ukraine, March 2022](https://theconversation.com/family-separations-in-ukraine-highlight-the-importance-of-childrens-rights-179131) calendar icon Mar 08, 2023 · Reading time 1 min read [mailto:?subject=Check%20out%20https://collabzium.com/en/articles/author-highlight-christina-clark-kazak-and-forced-migration&utm_medium=social&utm_source=email%20&body=Check%20out%20https://collabzium.com/en/articles/author-highlight-christina-clark-kazak-and-forced-migration&utm_medium=social&utm_source=email](mailto:?subject=Check%20out%20https://collabzium.com/en/articles/author-highlight-christina-clark-kazak-and-forced-migration&utm_medium=social&utm_source=email%20&body=Check%20out%20https://collabzium.com/en/articles/author-highlight-christina-clark-kazak-and-forced-migration&utm_medium=social&utm_source=email) --- [![Christina Clark-Kazak](https://collabzium.com/hubfs/CClarkKazak.jfif)](https://collabzium.com/en/articles/author/christina-clark-kazak) ### [By Christina Clark-Kazak](https://collabzium.com/en/articles/author/christina-clark-kazak) Christina Clark-Kazak works as a Full Professor at University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. She served as the President for the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration and worked as the Editor-In-Chief for Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees. In the past she has worked for Saint Paul University, York University, the Canadian Government as well as the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers. She held the position of president for the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies. She worked as Director of York University’s Centre for Refugee Studies and Associate Principal at the University’s bilingual Glendon Campus. She focuses her research on age discrimination in migration and development policy, political participation of young people, and inter-disciplinary methodologies. Professor Clark-Kazak holds a doctorate from Oxford, a master’s from Cambridge, and a BA from the University of British Columbia. ## Also Read - [PPRNet Clinical summary: Long-Term Effects of Psychotherapies for Depression](https://collabzium.com/en/articles/pprnet-clinical-summary-long-term-effects-of-psychotherapies-for-depression) - [PPRNet Clinical summary: Self-Compassion as a Protective Factor Against Burnout in Psychologists](https://collabzium.com/en/articles/pprnet-clinical-summary-self-compassion-as-a-protective-factor-against-burnout-in-psychologists) - [PPRNet Clinical summary: The Therapeutic Alliance in Internet-Based Interventions](https://collabzium.com/en/articles/pprnet-clinical-summary-1.-the-therapeutic-alliance-in-internet-based-interventions) - [PPRNet Clinical summary: What Do Individuals With Borderline Personalities Want From Treatment?](https://collabzium.com/en/articles/pprnet-clinical-summary-what-do-individuals-with-borderline-personalities-want-from-treatment) #### RELATED NEWS ![Climate Migration Within Canada: Challenges and Solutions](https://collabzium.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2017_Quebec_Floods_-_Montreal_%2834416133911%29.jpg?width=600&name=2017_Quebec_Floods_-_Montreal_%2834416133911%29.jpg) [Public and International Affairs](https://collabzium.com/en/articles/tag/public-and-international-affairs) ## [Climate Migration Within Canada: Challenges and Solutions](https://collabzium.com/en/articles/climate-migration-within-canada-challenges-and-solutions) Feb 09, 2024Reading time ![Racism in forced migration](https://collabzium.com/hs-fs/hubfs/37262960626_c6a3b04087_o.jpg?width=600&name=37262960626_c6a3b04087_o.jpg) [Public and International Affairs](https://collabzium.com/en/articles/tag/public-and-international-affairs) ## [Racism in forced migration](https://collabzium.com/en/articles/racism-in-forced-migration) Feb 09, 2024Reading time ![Introduction to Forced Migration by Christina Clark-Kazak part 6: Migrants' rights](https://collabzium.com/hs-fs/hubfs/indir%20%282%29.png?width=600&name=indir%20%282%29.png) [Public and International Affairs](https://collabzium.com/en/articles/tag/public-and-international-affairs) ## [Introduction to Forced Migration by Christina Clark-Kazak part 6: Migrants' rights](https://collabzium.com/en/articles/introduction-to-forced-migration-by-christina-clark-kazak-part-6-migrants-rights) All human beings have human rights. 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