Public and International Affairs

Class identity and refugee selection in Canada

Christina Clark-Kazak Christina Clark-Kazak
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The Collaboratory on Forced Migration in Canada, led by uOttawa Professor Christina Clark-Kazak, has produced a series of videos for public education purposes. In this video on Class Identity and Refugee Selection in Canada, Amrita Hari & Romeo Joe Quintero show how refugee journeys are classed experiences. Filling a gap in academic and popular understandings, they explain how class intersects with other power relations to impact refugee selection and sponsorship in Canada.
calendar icon Feb 02, 2024 · Reading time
Christina Clark-Kazak

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.

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