Yasmeen Abu-Laban

Yasmeen Abu-Laban is Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Politics of Citizenship and Human Rights in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. Her recent books include (with Ethel Tungohan and Christina Gabriel) Containing Diversity: Canada and the Politics of Immigration in the 21st Century (University of Toronto Press, 2023), and (with Abigail B. Bakan) Israel, Palestine and the Politics of Race (Bloomsbury/IB Tauris, 2020). She is also co-editor (with Alain-G. Gagnon and Arjun Tremblay) of Assessing Multiculturalism in Global Comparative Perspective: A New Politics of Diversity for the Twenty-First Century? (Routledge, 2023). She was elected President of the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association in 2022.