John Carlaw is a Senior Research Associate at the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration Program, Toronto Metropolitian University. His research examines continuity and change in the politics of citizenship, immigration and multiculturalism. He seeks to identify and comparatively analyze the evolving and competing political-economic projects and narratives that play an important part in framing and shaping Canada’s (im)migration present and future.
Amongst John’s current projects are CONTESTATIONS of Migration and Belonging in Canada amidst COVID-19, and a book manuscript entitled Neoconservative Multiculturalism: The Conservative Party of Canada and the Politics of Citizenship, Migration and Multiculturalism in Settler Colonial Canada. He is 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.
Within the Bridging Divides Program, he is a member of the Citizenship and Participation Theme, working on projects 1.1.1 Citizenship and Belonging in a Globalized and Digitalized World and 3.1.2 Narratives of Racism and Anti-Racism Mobilization.