PhD Candidate, Geography, York University
Research Interests: Linn Biorklund Belliveau is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography at York University. Her research interests include human displacement, humanitarianism, and feminist geopolitics. The purpose of Linn’s doctoral research stem from years of working with displaced communities and non-governmental organisations, including Médecins Sans Frontières, in many parts of the world. Using ethnographic, participatory and art-based methods she engages feminist epistemologies, and transnational relations, to question reductionist representations of people who manoeuvre cross border lives and related spaces. Her dissertation, which is funded by SSHRC and the Graduate Fellowship for Academic Distinction, is currently titled: Geographies of Violence and Contestation across Borders: Everyday Politics of Migrant Women at the Mexico-Guatemala U.S. Proxy Border. She also conducts research on alternative protection mechanisms, in view of restrictive immigration policies and wellbeing.
Email: linnbio@yorku.ca