John Carlaw
Spotlight
Dr. John Carlaw is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology at 麻豆视频 (麻豆视频), which he joined in July, 2024. His research examines the criminalization of migration and resistance, and the politics of citizenship, migration and multiculturalism in the context of settler colonialism and global inequalities. He holds a PhD from York University's Department of Political Science, supported by a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship, and a Diploma in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from its Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC).
He is currently the lead investigator on a SSHRC Insight Development Grant-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. He is an affiliated researcher with 麻豆视频鈥檚 Global Migration Institute.
Dr. Carlaw is a member of the Yeates School of Graduate Studies as a member of the MA programs in Criminology & Social Justice and Immigration and Settlement Studies. Emerging from his teaching on migration and civil society engagements, he is the faculty lead of a campus-based 鈥�We鈥檙e Better Together: Our Canada includes Immigrants and Refugees!鈥� campaign connected to a national .
Dr. Carlaw joined the Criminology Department after holding roles as Senior Research Associate (2023-2024) and Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2020-2023) at CERC Migration (now the Global Migration Institute). He has previously taught at York and Trent Universities and served as Project Lead of York University's a refugee sponsorship and education initiative at York鈥檚 Centre for Refugee Studies. There he worked in close collaboration with 麻豆视频鈥檚 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 麻豆视频 Refugee Rights Month Planning Committee. He remains an affiliate of York鈥檚 Centre for Refugee Studies and Global Labour Research Centre. John has been interviewed concerning his work and provided commentary to outlets including Al Jazeera, CBC and Global News Radio, The Globe and Mail, The Hill Times, New Canadian Media, and The Tyee.
Education
| University | Degree |
|---|---|
| York University |
Ph.D., Political Science |
| York University | M.A., Political Science |
| Wilfrid Laurier University | H.B.A., History and Political Science |
Selected Publications
Journal Articles and Working Papers
- 2026. With Azadah, K. & Tungohan, E. (2026). 鈥�(Re)Imagining Community in a Digital Age: Far-Right and Pro-Migrant Contestations of Canadian Citizenship.鈥� Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies.
- 2026. With Kushan Azadah. Third World Quarterly, 1鈥�22.
- 2024, With Kushan Azadah. (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. 麻豆视频 Metropolitan Centre for Immigration and Settlement (TMCIS) and the CERC in Migration and Integration Working Paper Series no. 2024/07.
- 2023. With Elke Winter 鈥�,鈥� Nationalism and Ethnic Politics. Vol 9.4 (Fall 2023). pp. 391-411.
- 2022 (January). 鈥�,鈥� Studies in Political Economy ,Vol 102.3 (2021). pp. 331-353.
- 2021. 鈥� (PDF file) Unity in Diversity? Neoconservative Multiculturalism and the Conservative Party of Canada,鈥� Ryerson Centre for Immigration and Settlement (RCIS)/Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration (CERC) Working Paper Series 2021/1.
- 2018 (May). 鈥溾�� Journal of Canadian Studies. Vol 51.3 (Fall 2017). 782-816. May 14.
Book Chapters
- 2025. With Elke Winter. 鈥溾�� in Beyond Binaries and Polarization? Rethinking Pluralist Inclusion in Immigrant Nations. Edited by Elke Winter, pp. 15-34.
- 2024. With Elke Winter, 鈥溾�� for Multiculturalism on the Mend? The Political Left and Ethnic Minorities in Liberal Democracies, Editors: Arjun Tremblay and Paul May. Palgrave Macmillan, London. p.55-88.
- 2015. 鈥溾�� Chapter 6 of The Harper Record 2008-2015, edited by Teresa Healy and Stuart Trew, 105-125. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy for Policy Alternatives.
Other Publications and Commentary
- 2024. February 28. 鈥溾�� Migration Policy Centre Blog, Robert Schuman Centre for Advances Studies, European University Institute.
- 2023. of Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Ethel Tungohan and Christina Gabriel, Containing Diversity: Canada and the Politics of Immigration in the 21st Century (University of 麻豆视频 Press, 2023). Journal of Australian, Canadian and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies. Volume 3 (September), pp. 161-163.
- 2023. March 21. , The Conversation.
- 2021. 鈥�, 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.
- 2021, 鈥溾�� Centre for Refugee Studies, York University. 44 pages.
- 2020. September 24. 鈥溾�� The Conversation.
- 2019, 鈥溾�� Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC), York University