Jenna Hennebry
Associate Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University
Jenna Hennebry holds a Ph.D. in Sociology, is an Associate Professor affiliated with the Balsillie School of International Affairs, and was the previous Director of the International Migration Research Centre (IMRC) at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her research focuses on international migration and mobility, with a specialization in lower-skilled labour migration with regional expertise in Canada, Mexico, Morocco and Spain.
Dr. Hennebry’s research portfolio includes comparative studies of migration policy and foreign worker programs with an emphasis on migrant rights and health, migration industries, non-state migration mediation, transnational families, and the role of remittances in development. Recent work examines the role of bilateral labour mobility agreements in protecting migrant rights and social protections, non-state actors and an expanding migration industry in foreign worker programs, and shifting regimes of labour migration governance worldwide (e.g. www.mappingmigration.com and www.migrantworkerhealth.ca).
Dr. Hennebry is currently working with UN Women to provide key analytical and methodological support to the UN Women’s project on Promoting and Protecting Women Migrant Worker’s Labour and Human Rights. She is also working with the World Bank on the KNOMAD project, KNOMAD draws on experts from all parts of the world to synthesize existing knowledge and generate new knowledge for use by policy makers in sending and receiving countries.
Email: jhennebry@wlu.ca
Margaret Walton-Roberts
Professor in the Geography and Environmental studies department at Wilfrid Laurier University
Margaret Walton-Roberts is a professor in the Geography and Environmental studies department at Wilfrid Laurier University, and affiliated to the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo Ontario. Her research interests are in gender and migration, transnational networks in the Indian diaspora, and immigrant settlement in Canada.
Her current research project focuses on the international migration of health care professionals in the context of economic regionalisation, and Mutual Recognition Agreements within ASEAN. She has been awarded several external grants for her research, and has published 3 co-edited books, over 18 book chapters, and more than 20 journal articles on immigration and citizenship policy, settlement and integration and transnational community formation.
Her forthcoming edited collection is Global Migration, Gender and Health Professional Credentials: Transnational Value Transfers and Losses due to be published by University of Toronto Press in 2021. Dr Walton-Roberts has led projects, published outputs, mentored, engaged in knowledge transfer with policy makers and community organizations, and established an international network of scholars focused on the global migration of health care workers. From 2008-2012 Dr Walton-Roberts was the inaugural Director of the International Migration Research Centre (IMRC); a research centre whose mandate is to serve as a focal point for debate, research, policy analysis, and proposal development related to international migration and mobility at the global, national and regional scale.
Email: mwaltonroberts@wlu.ca
Michael Hann
Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Migration and Ethnic Relations at Western University
Michael Haan (PhD, University of Toronto, 2006) is an associate professor at Western University. From 2005 to 2010, Mr. Haan held an academic position at the University of Alberta, where he was a Winspear-Archer Scholar in Immigration and Social Policy. From 2010 to 2015, he held the Canada Research Chair in Population and Social Policy at the University of New Brunswick. He is also a research associate at the Prentice Institute for Global Population and Labor at the University of Lethbridge and at the McGill Center for Population Dynamics.
His research interests cut across the areas of demography, immigrant settlement, labor market integration and data development. Mr. Haan is widely consulted by provincial and federal governments for strategic advice in the areas of immigration, settlement services, the Canadian labor market and the aging population. Mr. Haan is currently a researcher or co-investigator on over ten million dollars in research focused on immigrant settlement, developing welcoming communities, and identifying factors that predict newcomer retention . Since receiving his doctorate in 2006, he has published more than 75 articles and reports on these topics.
Email: mhaan2@uwo.ca
Kira Williams
Postdoctoral research fellow in the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University
Email: kwilliams@wlu.ca
Mikal Skuterud
Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Waterloo
