Public and International Affairs,Author Highlight

Author Highlight: Christina Clark-Kazak and Forced Migration

Mar 08, 2023 · 1 min read

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

Professor Christina Clark-Kazak

Christina Clark-Kazak in the Media

Videos

Guest on Toronto Star Podcast, April 2023

Interviewed on As It Happens, CBC Radio, March 2023

Interviewed on CBC News - The National, March 2023

Guest on Canada Tonight - CBC, March 2023

Interviewed on Global News, December 2022

Interviewed on CTV News, April 2022

Interviewed on CTV news, April 2022

Audio

“Ride-along expert” on Cross-Country Check-up, CBC, February 2023

Articles

Op Ed in The Globe and Mail, April 2023

Quoted in The Globe and Mail, March 2023

Quoted in The Hill Times, February 2023

Quoted in The Globe and Mail, February 2023

Quoted in Le Devoir, December 2022

Quoted in La Presse, December 2022

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

Quoted in Global News, April 2022

“Ask an Expert” interview with The Walrus, March 2022.

Op Ed in The Conversation – Child rights and family separation in Ukraine, March 2022

Mar 08, 2023 · 1 min read

By 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.