John Carlaw

Research Affiliate

DepartmentAssistant Professor, Department of Criminology, 91福利

EducationPhD, York University

Areas of ExpertiseCanadian politics; citizenship, immigration and refugee policy; international relations; multiculturalism; neoconservatism; political economy

john.carlaw@torontomu.ca

John Carlaw is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology at 91福利, which he joined in July, 2024 after his rewarding roles as a Senior Research Associate (2023-2024) and Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2020-2023) at CERC Migration.

His research examines continuity and change in the politics of citizenship, immigration and multiculturalism, including the criminalization of migration and resistance.

John is currently the lead investigator on a SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2023-2025) funded project entitled Contemporary Paradoxes and Struggles of Migration and Belonging in Canada and a Member of the Citizenship and Participation Research Theme of the Migrant Integration in the Mid-21st Century: Bridging Divides research program.

From 2015 to 2019, John served as Project Lead of York University's Syria Response and Refugee Initiative, a refugee sponsorship and education initiative at York鈥檚 Centre for Refugee Studies. There he worked in close collaboration with our university鈥檚 Lifeline Syria Challenge and civil society actors to organize events, solidarity initiatives, workshops and conferences with youth and NGO collaborators, including Amnesty International Canada, the FCJ Refugee Centre, the Canadian Council for Refugees, and Toronto Refugee Rights Month Planning Committee.

John turned to migration and refugee studies after several years of studying, working and engaging in solidarity and education efforts in the areas of democracy, human rights and political economy in Latin America, including working with the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) and Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean, York University. He is affiliated with York鈥檚 Centre for Refugee.

He has also taught in the Social Science and Glendon College Political Science Departments at York University, as well as the Department of Politics at Trent University. John organized and led CERC鈥檚 mentorship program (2020-2023) for our stipend students and has delivered guest lectures in the Policy Studies PhD program.

Recent Publications

With Azadah, K. (2024). (PDF file) Pathways to Permanence and Immigration Levels: A Critical Policy Discourse Analysis (CPDA) of Struggles and Limits to Societal Membership for Migrants Amidst and Emerging from COVID-19 (2020-2022) in Canada. Toronto Metropolitan Centre for Immigration and Settlement (TMCIS) and the CERC in Migration and Integration Working Paper Series no. 2024/07.

(2024). European University Institute Migration Policy Centre Blog.

(2023). , Journal of Austrailian, Canadian and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies, 3, 161-163.

(2023). , The Conversation.

With Winter, E. (2022). . Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 1-21.

(2022). Studies in Political Economy, 102(3), 331-353.

(2021). (pp. 34-41) and (pp. 42-46), contribution to special issue of Canadian Diversity/Diversit茅 Canadienne on the theme of Multiculturalism @50: Promoting Inclusion and Eliminating Racism, Vol 18, No. 1. December.

(2021). (PDF file) Unity in Diversity? Neoconservative Multiculturalism and the Conservative Party of Canada.

(2020). , The Conversation.

(2018). . Journal of Canadian Studies 51:3 782鈥�816.