Graduate Student Scholar, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change
Graduate Student Scholar
Linn Biorklund Belliveau is a PhD candidate in geography at York University’s Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change. Her dissertation titled: Geographies of violence and contestation across borders: Everyday politics of migrant women at the Mexico-Guatemala U.S. proxy border, is under the supervision of Professor Jennifer Hyndman and funded by SSHRC and York’s Graduate Fellowship for Academic Distinction. Linn is a research fellow at DIGHR and research associate at the centres for Refugee Studies (CRS) and Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC). She has extensive experience working with NGOs, the UN and social justice movements centering human displacement, violence and humanitarianism in different parts of the world. At DIGHR she specifically focuses on migration and health, and related inadequacies of global migration response systems.
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