PhD Candidate, Geography, York University
Research Interests: Biftu Yousuf is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography at York University. She received her BA in Criminology and holds a double Master’s in Criminology and Health from Simon Fraser University. Her dissertation explores how racialized sponsors – with refugee histories – negotiate power relations to self-authorize the security and protection of refugee compatriots. This SSHRC-funded project probes Canada’s private sponsorship of refugees program and is currently entitled ‘Invisibilized Providers: The Role of Racialized Diasporas in Refugee Protection and Resettlement’. Her other research interests include feminist geopolitics; critical geographies of race and migration; African diaspora studies; feminist methodologies and NVivo.
Email: bmyousuf@yorku.ca