Ali Bhagat

Ali Bhagat is Assistant Professor and Director of the Minor in Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University’s Vancouver Campus.

His research investigates refugee/migration policy and racial equity in Europe, Africa, and North America. His recent book Governing the Displaced: Race and Ambivalence in Global Capitalism (Cornell University Press, 2024) examines urban refugee survival in Paris, France and Nairobi, Kenya. As an international political economist, he is interested in the intersections of race, class, and sexuality and has worked on issues pertaining to LGBTQ+ refugees in particular. His work is based in qualitative methods drawing from interviews, policy analysis, and other ethnographic techniques. He has authored several journal articles in top-ranking journals such as Review of International Political Economy, New Political Economy, Antipode, and Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space.