Yasmeen Abu-Laban is Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Politics of Citizenship and Human Rights in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. She is also a Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. She has published widely on themes relating to immigration and border control policies, antiracism and multiculturalism, as well as citizenship theory. She was elected President of the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association in 2022, and has also served as President of the Canadian Political Science Association and Vice President of the International Political Science Association. She is co-author of Containing Diversity: Canada and the Politics of Immigration in the 21st Century (University of Toronto Press, 2023). She is also co-editor of Assessing Multiculturalism in Global Comparative Perspective: A New Politics of Diversity for the Twenty-First Century? (Routledge, 2023), as well as co-editor of Resisting the Dehumanization of Refugees (Athabasca University Press, Forthcoming 2024).

BD Funded Projects

• Citizenship and Belonging in a Globalised and Digitalised World (TRS4 1.1)
• ADT in Immigration Governance - Advanced Digital Technologies and Immigration Governance in Comparative Perspectives (TRS4 2.1.4)
• Observatory on Immigration and Immigration Discourse (acronym: IDIO) (TRS4 4.1)
• Training in software Voyant (TRS4 4.2)