Faculty Associate
yvonnesu[at]yorku.ca
Associate Professor
Department of Human Rights and Equity Studies, York University
Research Keywords:
Forced migration; climate change adaptation; climate (im)mobilities
Research Region(s):
Philippines
Research Diaspora(s):
Asian Diaspora
Dr. Yvonne Su is Associate Professor in the Department of Human Rights and Equity Studies at York University, a Visiting Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and a Research Fellow at Oxford’s Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS). Her interdisciplinary expertise spans forced migration, climate change adaptation and climate (im)mobilities. Her research adopts a policy-oriented and community-based approach with a focus on the Global South. Dr. Su has secured over $12 million in external research funding, including three multi-million-dollar climate grants examining climate adaptation in the Philippines, India, Ghana, Canada and the Arctic.
Dr. Su has published over 30 refereed journal articles in Q1 journals like the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Gender, Place & Culture, Journal of Gender Studies, Regional Environmental Change, International Journal for Disaster Risk Reduction, Geoforum, and Third World Quarterly. She has also written for Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, LA Times, Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Star. Her research has been cited by the IPCC, UNDP, ICRC and IOM, influencing global policy debates on climate adaptation and human rights. She was also one of 19 global experts responsible for drafting the UNHCR’s Global Recommendations on Nationality and Statelessness in the Context of Climate Change.
Publications on Asia:
1. Eadie, P., Pimentel-Simbulan, N., Su, Y., Yacub, C. (2025). COVID-19 and Urban Poor Communities in Metro Manila: Social Vulnerability and the ‘Pasaway’. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. (Open Access)
2. Thayaalan, S., Minville, G. & Su, Y. (2025). Gender, Disasters, and Vulnerability: The Material Impact of COVID-19 on Women Typhoon Haiyan Survivors in Tacloban North. Disaster Prevention and Management. (Open Access)
3. Cuaton, G., Su, Y., Katic, P., & Yarmine, M. (2024). Unpacking water governance dynamics and its implications for household water security in post-disaster resettlement communities. Geoforum.
4. Su, Y., & Thayaalan, S. (2024). Empty Pantries: The Death of Survival Myths Among Haiyan Survivors in Resettlement. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. (Open Access)
5. Cuaton, G., & Su, Y. (2023). Promises and pitfalls of social capital to climate change adaptation of an Indigenous Cultural Community in the Philippines. Third World Quarterly.
6. Pacoma, A. J., Su, Y., & Genotiva, A. (2022). Resilience Unfiltered: Local Understandings of Resilience after Typhoon Haiyan. Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 4(1), 14-24. (Open Access)
7. Su, Y. (2022). Networks of Recovery: Remittances, Social Capital and Post-Disaster Recovery in Tacloban, Philippines. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 67. (Open Access)
8. Su, Y., & Le De, L. (2021). Uneven Recovery: A Case Study of Factors Affecting Remittance-Receiving in Tacloban, Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan. Migration and Development.
9. Su, Y., & Le De, L. (2020). Whose views matter in post-disaster recovery? A case study of “build back better” in Tacloban City. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 51.
10. Cuaton, G., & Su, Y. (2020). Local-indigenous Knowledge and Practices on Disaster Risk Reduction: Insights from Post-Haiyan. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 48.
11. Su, Y., & Tanyag, M. (2019). Globalising Myths of Survival: Post-disaster Households after Typhoon Haiyan. Gender, Place & Culture, 26(3).
12. Eadie, P., & Su, Y. (2018). Post-Disaster Social Capital: Trust, Equity, Bayanihan and Typhoon Yolanda. Disaster Prevention and Management, 27(3), 334-345.