Faculty Associate
yvonnesu[at]yorku.ca
Assistant Professor
Department of Equity Studies, York University
Research Keywords:
Migration and development; refugee protection; disaster risk reduction
Research Region(s):
Philippines
Research Diaspora(s):
Asian Diaspora
Yvonne Su is an Assistant Professor in Department of Equity Studies in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. Yvonne is a specialist on forced migration, climate change-induced displacement, migrant remittances and post-disaster recovery. She holds a PhD in Political Science and International Development from the University of Guelph and a MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from the University of Oxford.
Broadly, her research interests focus on migration and development, refugee protection and disaster risk reduction. Her current research examines South-South humanitarian responses in the context of forced migration using the case study of Venezuelan LGBTQI+ asylum seekers in Brazil. Previously, Yvonne spent seven months in the Philippines researching the role of migrant remittances in post-disaster recovery after Typhoon Haiyan.
Yvonne’s work has been supported by grants and fellowships from SSHRC, IDRC, Canadian Heritage, the Government of Ontario and the Mackenzie King Scholarship Trust. She is also the recipient of over 25 national and international awards and scholarships including the Young Woman of Distinction Award and the University of Guelph’s Young Alumni Award.
Her publications have appeared in journals such as Critical Asian Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Gender, Place & Culture, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Disaster Prevention and Management, World Development Perspectives, and Philippines Political Science Journal.
Representative Publications:
–Su, Y., & Thalaalan, S. (2023). Forced Resiliency: Bayanihan Narrative Masks Insufficient Support for Typhoon Haiyan Survivors in Resettlement Sites during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Philippines Sociological Review, 71, 113-137.
–Cuaton, G., and Su, Y. (2023). Promises and pitfalls of social capital to climate change adaptation of an Indigenous Cultural Community in the Philippines. Third World Quarterly. 10.1080/01436597.2023.2197204
–Su, Y. (2022). Networks of Recovery: Remittances, Social Capital and Post-Disaster Recovery in Tacloban City, Philippines. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 67. (Open Access)
–Su, Y., & Tanyag, M. (2019). Globalising Myths of Survival: Post-disaster Households after Typhoon Haiyan. Gender, Place & Culture, 26(3).
–Eadie, P., & Su, Y. (2018). Post-Disaster Social Capital: Trust, Equity, Bayanihan and Typhoon Yolanda. Disaster Prevention and Management, 27(3), 334-345.