Hilary Evans Cameron

Hilary Evans Cameron is an Assistant Professor at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law in Toronto, Canada. A former litigator, she represented refugee claimants for a decade and holds a doctorate in refugee law from the University of Toronto. Her research largely focuses on credibility assessment in the refugee law context. She is the author of numerous publications, including a book about the law of fact-finding in Canadian refugee status decision-making (Refugee Law’s Fact-finding Crisis: Truth, Risk, and the Wrong Mistake, Cambridge 2018). Her work has been influential internationally and has been included in a leading anthology of “the finest scholarship available” in refugee law from the 1930s to the present (Hathaway 2014).

Christina Clark-Kazak

Christina Clark-Kazak is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. She has previously served as President of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, Editor-in-chief of Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, and President of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies. Prior to joining the University of Ottawa, she worked for York University (2009-2017), Saint Paul University (2007-2008) and the Canadian government (1999-2007). Her research focuses on age discrimination in migration and development policy, young people’s political participation, and interdisciplinary methodologies in forced migration contexts. She holds a Doctorate from Oxford University, a Master’s from Cambridge University and a BA from the University of British Columbia.

Heba Gowayed

Heba Gowayed is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University. 

Her research, which is global and comparative, examines how low-income people traverse social services, immigration laws, and their associated bureaucracies, while grappling with gender and racial inequalities. Her writing has appeared in academic journals including Gender & Society, Ethnic & Racial Studies, American Behavioral Scientist and Sociological Forum, as well as in public outlets including Slate, Al Jazeera English, The New Humanitarian, and Teen Vogue.

She is author of Refuge, published with Princeton University Press, which explores how states shape the potential of people pursuing refuge within their borders. She is currently working on her second book, The Cost of Borders, which theorizes borders as a costly, and often deadly, transaction.

Jennifer Hyndman

Jennifer Hyndman is Associate Vice-President of Research at York University where she is Professor and former director of the Centre for Refugee Studies. Her research focuses on refugee resettlement in Canada, social inclusion and private sponsorship, as well as the geopolitics and management of displacement abroad, including the biopolitics of refugee camps and humanitarian responses to war and other disasters. Hyndman’s most recent book is Refugees in Extended Exile: Living on the Edge, with Wenona Giles (Routledge, 2017). Hyndman is author of Dual Disasters: Humanitarian Aid after the 2004 Tsunami (2011), Managing Displacement: Refugees and the Politics of Humanitarianism (2000), and co-editor with W. Giles of, Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones (2004).

Jennifer Hyndman is a Professor in Social Science and Geography at York University in Toronto. Her forthcoming book with Wenona Giles is Refugees in Extended Exile: Living on the Edge (Routledge). Among other published pieces and two films, Hyndman is author of Dual Disasters: Humanitarian Aid after the 2004 Tsunami (2011), Managing Displacement: Refugees and the Politics of Humanitarianism (University of Minnesota Press, 2000), and co-editor with Wenona Giles of, Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones (University of California Press, 2004).

Jennifer Hyndman is a Professor of Geography at York University in Toronto. Her research focuses on the geopolitics of forced migration, the biopolitics of humanitarian responses to displacement, and refugee resettlement. Her most recent book (with Giles) is Refugees in Extended Exile: Living on the Edge (Routledge).

Jennifer Hyndman is a Professor of Geography at York University in Toronto. Her research focuses on the geopolitics of forced migration, the biopolitics of humanitarian responses to displacement, and refugee resettlement. Her most recent book (with Giles) is Refugees in Extended Exile: Living on the Edge (Routledge).

Petra Molnar

Petra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist specializing in technology, migration, and human rights. She is the Associate Director of the Refugee Law Lab at York University and runs the Migration and Technology Monitor, a multilingual archive of work interrogating technological experiments on people crossing borders. Petra is currently working on her first book, Artificial Borders: AI, Surveillance, and Border Tech Experiments, and is a 2022-2023 Fellow at the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

Craig Damian Smith

Craig Damian Smith (he/him) earned his PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto. His research uses mixed methods to explore the global politics of irregular migration governance, refugee resettlement, and refugee integration. He was previously a Senior Research Associate at the CERC in Migration & Integration at TMU (2020-2022) and the Associate Director of the Global Migration Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy (2017-2020). He is a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Refugee Studies, where he has conducted SSHRC-funded projects on the drivers of irregular migration to Canada, and access to legal aid and access to justice for refugee claimants. His new SSHRC project, with partners in Tijuana, Mexico will explore relationships between global visa and asylum policies and intercontinental mixed migration to Latin America, the U.S., and Canada. Craig is also the Executive Director and Principal Investigator at Pairity (www.pairity.ca), which applies data-driven solutions to refugee resettlement and community sponsorship. 

Website: www.craigdamiansmith.com