Chedly Belkhodja
Professor and principal at the School of Community and Public Affairs
In 2014, Chedly Belkhodja joined the School of Community and Public Affairs as Professor and principal. Before that, he was teaching at the Department of Political Science at l’Université de Moncton, where he was also chair for two terms. From 2006 to 2012, He was the director of the Atlantic Metropolis Centre.
He holds a BA (1988) in Political Science from l’Université de Moncton and an MSc (1990) in Political Science from l’Université de Montréal. He completed his Diplôme d’études approfondies (1991) and his PhD (1996) in Political Science at l’Université de Montesquieu (Bordeaux, France). His research focuses on immigration policies and mobility of migrants in the case of less common destinations. He is also interested in the processes of integration and inclusion.
Email : chedly.belkhodja@concordia.ca
Antoine Bilodeau
Professor, Department of Political Science, Concordia University
Antoine Bilodeau is a full professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University. His research interests focus on the political integration of immigrants and the dynamics of openness to immigration and ethnocultural diversity in Quebec and elsewhere in the world. His research has been published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, the International Migration Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Nations and Nationalism, the International Political Science Review, Democratization, the Canadian Journal of Political Science and Politics and Religion. In recent years, A. Bilodeau has received a Concordia University Research Award (2016/2017) and the John McMenemy Prize twice (in 2020 and also 2011) for the best paper published in the Canadian Journal of Political Science.
Email : Antoine.Bilodeau@concordia.ca
Damaris Rose
Professor of Urban Studies at the at the Urbanisation Culture Société research centre of Université INRS
Damaris Rose is an Adjunct Professor of Urban Studies at the Urbanisation Culture Société research centre of the INRS – Institut national de la recherche scientifique, a research and graduate teaching institute, in Montréal. Since retiring from her Full Professor position in September 2017, she pursues academic activities part-time.
Email : damaris.rose@ucs.inrs.ca
Jill Hanley
Professor, McGill School of Social Work
Jill Hanley is Full Professor at the McGill School of Social Work, where she teaches social policy, migration and community organizing. Her research focuses on access to social rights (housing, health and labour) for precarious status migrants, as well as their individual, family and collective strategies to address these rights. She is Scientific Director of the SHERPA University Institute with the mandate to improve access and quality of public health and social services for immigrants and ethno-racial minority communities. She is also the co-founder of the Immigrant Workers Centre, where she has been actively involved for over 20 years.
Email : jill.hanley@mcgill.ca
Frédéric Dejean
Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Frédéric Dejean is a professor in the Department of Religious Sciences at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM). He received training in urban studies and cultural geography, supplemented by years of postdoctoral studies in sociology and philosophy in particular. He was a researcher for three years at the Institute for Research on The Professional Integration of Immigrants (IRIPI – Collège de Maisonneuve). Its two main areas of research are the place of the religious factor in intervention and the mutations of evangelical Protestantism.f public health and social services for immigrants and ethno-racial minority communities. She is also the co-founder of the Immigrant Workers Centre, where she has been actively involved for over 20 years.
Email : dejean.frederic@uqam.ca
Meghan Joy
Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University
Meghan Joy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University. Their research interests include the politics of population aging, theories and practice of progressive politics and policy in cities, and the political economy of the nonprofit sector. These topics are combined in Meghan’s ongoing research agenda, which examines the ways in which municipalities and nonprofit actors develop and implement age-friendly policies and programs in Canada’s largest urban centres. They also conduct research on the social innovation agenda and its impact on the nonprofit sector (with Dr. John Shields), ‘progressive’ urban politics and policy (with Dr. Ronald K. Vogel), and the design and implementation of sanctuary city policies (with Dr. Mireille Paquet, Dr. John Shields, Dr. Graham Hudson, and Dr. Adil Atak). Recent publications include her new book The Right to an Age Friendly City: Redistribution, Recognition, and Senior Citizen Rights in Urban Spaces (MQUP, 2020) and article “Beyond Neoliberalism: A Policy Agenda for a Progressive City” (with Dr. Ronald K. Vogel, Urban Affairs Review, 2021).
Email : meghan.joy@concordia.ca
Mireille Paquet
Co-founder and co-director of the Centre for Immigration Policy Evaluation (CIPE)
I am a political scientist and I conduct research on immigration policy and politics in Canada, North America and Australia. I am interested in how political institutions and bureaucracies affect the content of immigration policy. My current projects focus on the new politics of immigration in Canada, the role of immigration departments in contemporary Quebec and Canada and new state responses to emerging immigration challenges.
With Concordia colleagues, I co-founded and co-direct the Centre for Immigration Policy Evaluation (CIPE). In 2017-2018, I am the William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow of the Canada Program at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. In 2016-2017, I was the recipient of the Concordia University Research Awards (“Person and Society”).
To learn more about my work, please visit my website: https://mireillepaquet.net
Email : mireille.paquet@concordia.ca
Annick Germain
Associate Professor at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Urbanisation Culture Société PhD in sociology at the University of Montréal
Annick Germain, Ph.D. Sociology (University of Montréal, 1981) is associate professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre Urbanisation Culture Société, where she teaches in Urban Studies. She completed her PhD in sociology at the University of Montréal and was professor at the Institut d’Urbanisme (Université de Montréal) for 12 years before joining the Institut national de la recherche Scientifique, Centre Urbanisation Culture Société. She was Director of the Metropolis Center of Quebec- Immigration et Métropoles, in 2008-2013. She published many volumes with colleagues on Montréal (Montréal. A Quest for a metropolis, London, John Wiley & Sons, 2000) and on immigration (Travailler et Cohabiter. Au-delà de l’immigration, PUL, 2015; Vivre ensemble à Montréal. Épreuves et convivialités. Atelier 10, 2017; L’immigration et l’ethnicité dans le Québec contemporain, PUM 2018). Her fieldwork cover Immigration in Montréal; neighbourhood life, public spaces, and urban policies concerning diversity, including worship places.
Email : annick.germain@ucs.inrs.ca
Gabrielle Désilets
Former Project Manager for the Montreal and Quebec networks of the CRSH partnership Immigration and Urban Resilience
Gabrielle Désilets is a postdoctoral fellow at Concordia University and project manager for the Montreal and Quebec networks of the SHRC Immigration and Urban Resilience Partnership (BMRC-IRMU, 2016-2021). She administers and coordinates cross-sector initiatives between the community, academic and government communities involved in the reception and settlement of refugees and immigrants in Quebec and Canada.
She has over 15 years of professional experience and research on issues of immigration, transnationalism, ethnocultural diversity management and intercultural relations in the context of globalization. Her work has focused on voluntary migration, for religious, educational and professional reasons, on issues of identity and sense of belonging in relation to space and place.
Her background in urban anthropology and human geography (B.A. Concordia University (2006); M.Sc. University of Montreal (2009); Ph.D. Australian National University (2015)) focuses on qualitative, ethnographic and comparative methodologies. She is an expert in the study of the link between mobility and urbanity in different parts of the world: Australia, Singapore and Canada.
She holds a postdoctoral degree from SSHRC completed at the National Institute of Scientific Research, Urbanization, Culture and Society (INRS-UCS), under the direction of Annick Germain (2015-2017) where she was interested in the mobility of international students Montreal and the temporary migration of skilled workers into the creative industries of Mile End in Montreal. Neighbourhood-wide revitalization and changes in the global labour organization are some of the themes addressed in this research.
Her work has been published in scientific journals and publishing houses such as Urban Diversity, Anthropological Forum, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Routeledge, and Palgrave Macmillan & Workshop 10.
Email : gabrielle.desilets@concordia.ca
Alexandra Charette
Former Postdoctoral Researcher and Project Manager for the Montreal BMRC-IRMU network
Alexandra Charette is a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Community and Public Affairs, Concordia University, in Montreal. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Ottawa. She is interested in citizenship issues and the governance of immigration at the city level. She is involved in a research project examining the interactions between government and civil society in the development and implementation of newcomer settlement and integration policies and programs in Quebec. She also conducts research on immigrants’ and refugees’ relationship to citizenship.
She has collaborated in various studies on immigrant settlement and access to housing for immigrants and other newcomers across Canada.
Email : alexandra.charette@gmail.com
Jean-Philippe Gauvin
Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Political Science at Concordia University
Michèle Vatz Laaroussi
Professor Emeritus, Social Work, University of Sherbrooke
