Wenona Giles is a professor of anthropology at York University, Toronto, Canada. She is the principal investigator of the GPRS project. She teaches and publishes in the areas of gender, migration, refugee issues, ethnicity, nationalism, work, globalization, and war. She coordinated the International Women in Conflict Zones Research Network and the project: A Comparative Study of the Issues Faced by Women as a Result of Armed Conflict: Sri Lanka and the Post-Yugoslav States, at York University.
Web page:
www.arts.yorku.ca/wmst/faculty/giles
Jennifer Hyndman is a professor in the Social Science Department and the Geography Department at York University, Toronto, Canada. She is the co-investigator of the GPRS project. Her research traverses political, economic, cultural and feminist geography, focusing on people’s mobility, economic and political security, and displacement. Her publications examine the political economy of aid and its influence on nationalism, as well as transnational gender relations in the context of critical development studies. She is also concerned with geographies of exclusion, containment, and the production of ‘securitized’ space both in the Global South and in North America. Jennifer Hyndman has carried out research on the UNHCR in Geneva and also on Somali refugees living refugee camps in Kenya and Somalia. She was also involved in the international Women in Conflict Zones Research Network project and the comparative project between Sri Lanka and the region of the former Yugoslavia.
Web page:
www.yorku.ca/jhyndman
Amani El Jack is an assistant professor in women's studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is a feminist and activist who has been engaged in the field of gender and development in Africa for 15 years, specializing in research on gender and forced migration, armed conflict, post-conflict reconstruction, and human security. Her publications include: Gendered Implications of Development-Induced Displacement, Gender and Armed Conflict, and Gender Perspectives on the Management of Small Arms and Light Weapons in the Sudan.
Amani is a research associate with the GPRS project. She has conducted interviews for the project in May 2006 with the UNHCR, various INGOs in Geneva and the World Food Program in Rome.
Shukria Dini is a refugee from Somalia who presently lives in Toronto, Canada. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Women’s Studies at York University (Toronto). She is currently writing her dissertation on the contributions of Somali-women’s organizations to peace-building and post-conflict reconstruction in war-torn Somalia.
Web page:
www.students.yorku.ca/~sdini/
Afsaneh Ashrafi is a social worker by profession and has worked with the United Nations High Commissioner (UNHC) for Refugees from 1987 to 2005. She has worked with Afghan and Iraqi refugee caseloads in Iran; namely with women and children in projects focusing on training, capacity building and self-reliance. She has participated as the team leader on the research project: diaspora, islam and gender; conducting the study on the afghan diaspora in Iran. She currently provides consultancy and develops training packages for NGOs.
Cindy Horst is an anthropologist and a senior researcher with a specialization in forced migration studies. She has extensive fieldwork experience amongst Somalis in Kenya and the wider diaspora. Her main research interests focus on refugee livelihoods, remittances, cultures of migration and the interactions between forced migrants and the refugee regime.
Web page:
www.prio.no/page/Staff_detail/Staff_alpha/9375/47852.html
Johanna Reynolds is a PhD candidate in the department of Geography at York University. Her current interests include border securitization and biometrics. Previous research examines citizenship, the social production of the 'refugee body' and national identity.
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