Joseph Mensah is a Professor of Geography at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, and a former Associate Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migration of African Peoples at York University. His research focuses on African population and health; African immigrants in Canada; and Race, gender, and employment. He has written several journal articles and contributed chapters to numerous books and encyclopedias. Best known among his publications is his Black Canadians: History, Experience, and Social Conditions (Fernwood, 2002, with second edition in 2010). His latest book (co-authored with Chris Williams) is Boomerang Ethics: How Racism Affects Us All (Fernwood, 2017).
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Global health; African immigrants in Canada; Gender and development in Africa
Themes | Global Health & Humanitarianism |
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