PhD Candidate, Geography, York University
Research Interests: Yolanda Weima is a doctoral student in the Department of Geography at York University. Her research interests include repatriation (to Burundi) and naturalization (in Tanzania) of former Burundian refugees; refugee and returnee transnationalisms; critical geographies of uneven development; social reproduction; geographies of peace and conflict; subaltern, post-colonial, and feminist geopolitics. Her dissertation is currently titled: From camps to villages and war to peace?: Former Burundian refugees experiences of (re)gaining citizenship in Burundi and Tanzania (Funded: SSHRC Scholarship to Honour Nelson Mandela)
Email: weima@yorku.ca