John Carlaw is a Senior Research Associate under the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration Program at Toronto Metropolitan University, where he co-leads the Politics and Narratives of Migration research theme.
His work explores the politics and social relations of citizenship, immigration and multiculturalism.
His work appears in Canadian Diversity, the CERC/RCIS Working Paper Series, the Conversation, the Journal of Canadian Studies, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ The Harper Record 2008-2015, Nationalism and Ethnic Studies, and Studies in Political Economy.
John holds a PhD from the Department of Political Science, York University. From 2015 to 2019, he served as Project Lead of York University's Syria Response and Refugee Initiative, a refugee sponsorship and education initiative at York’s Centre for Refugee Studies.
He has taught in the politics/political science departments at Trent University and the Glendon Campus of York University.
Experience
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2021–presentAffiliated Researcher, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York University
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2020–presentAdjunct professor, Glendon College Political Science Department
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2014–presentAffiliated Researcher, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University
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2023–presentSenior Research Associate, Toronto Metropolitan University
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2020–presentAffiliated Researcher, Global Labour Research Centre, York University
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2020–presentPostdoctoral Research Fellow under the Canada Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration Program, Toronto Metropolitan University
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2015–2019Project Lead, Syria Response and Refugee Initiative, York University Centre for Refugee Studies, York University
Education
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2020York University, PhD, Political Science
Publications
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2022Blunt talk or faux outrage? The politics of expanding migrant worker programs under Canada’s former Conservative government (2006–2015), 102(3), 331-353., Studies in Political Economy
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2022(with Elke Winter) Conservatism and the Re-Communitarianization of Citizenship in Canada, Nationalism and Ethnic Studies
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2021Multiculturalism and its Adjectives: Situating Neoconservative Multiculturalism (pp. 34-41) and Le multiculturalisme et ses adjectifs: Situer le multiculturalisme néoconservateur (pp. 42-46). Vol 18, No. 1. December., Canadian Diversity/Diversité Canadienne
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2017Authoritarian Populism and Canada's Conservative Decade (2006–2015) in Citizenship and Immigration: The Politics and Practices of Kenneyism and Neo-conservative Multiculturalism, Journal of Canadian Studies
Professional Memberships
- Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS)
- Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA)
- International Political Science Association (IPSA)
- Toronto, Canada
- Website
- @john_carlaw
- Article Feed
- ORCID
- Joined
