Yasmeen Abu-Laban, PhD

About

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, and a Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.  The author or editor of nine scholarly books,  she has also published over 150 articles, chapters and reviews. Dr. Abu-Laban’s  research interests centre on the Canadian and comparative dimensions of diversity and representation;  immigration policies and politics; multiculturalism, human rights and anti-racism; as well as surveillance, advanced digital technologies and border control. She has served as President of the Canadian Political Science Association (2016-2017), Vice-President of the International Political Science Association (2018-2021), and President of the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association (2022-2024).  She is the recipient of the Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring, as well as the Faculty of Arts Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentorship.

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Research

RECENT BOOKS

Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Mireille Pacquet and Ethel Tungohan (eds.).  Knowledge, Power and Migration.  Montreal and Kingston:  McGill-Queen’s University Press (Forthcoming 2025).

 Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Michael Frishkopf, Reza Hasmath and Anna Kirova (eds.).  Resisting the Dehumanization of Refugees. Athabasca:  Athabasca University Press (2024). Open Access.

 Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Alain-G. Gagnon and Arjun Tremblay (eds.).  Assessing Multiculturalism in Global Comparative Perspective:  A New Politics of Diversity for the Twenty-First Century? .  London and New York:  Routledge, 2023.

Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Ethel Tungohan and Christina Gabriel.  Containing Diversity:  Canada and the Politics of Immigration in the Twenty-First Century.  Toronto:  University of Toronto Press, 2023 .

 Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Abigail B. Bakan.  Israel, Palestine and the Politics of Race:  Exploring Identity in a Global Context.  London:  I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury:  2020.

RECENT PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES

“Middle Class Nation-Building through a Tenacious Discourse on Skills: Immigration and Canada.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (Online open access February 26, 2024): 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2024.2315357

 “Antisemitism as Anti-Jewish Racism: Reflections on an Anti-racist Analytic” (with Abigail B. Bakan). Historical Materialism (accepted and forthcoming 2024), 30 pp. 

“Anti-Palestinian Racism, Antisemitism and Solidarity: Considerations towards an Analytic of Praxis” (with Abigail B. Bakan). Studies in Political Economy  105, 1 (2024): 107-122 

 “The Charter at 40:  An Overview” (with Catherine Kellogg).  Review of Constitutional Studies  (Special Double Issue:  The Charterat Forty). 26, 2 and 27 1 (2022): 1-14.

 “Anti-Palestinian Racism and Racial Gaslighting” (with Abigail B. Bakan).  Political Quarterly (July 2022).https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.13166

“Anti-Palestinian Racism:  Analyzing the Unnamed and Suppressed Reality”  (with Abigail B. Bakan).     POMEPS/Project on Middle East Political Science (Special Issue on Racial Formations in Africa and the Middle East) 44 (2021): 143-149

“The Israel/Palestine Conflict and the Challenge of Anti-Racism:  A Case Study of the United Nations World Conference Against Racism” (with Abigail B. Bakan).   Ethnic and Racial Studies  (Special Issue on Race and the Middle East) 44, 12 (2021): 2167-2189.

“Immigration and Settler-Colonies Post-UNDRIP:  Research and Policy Implications.”  International Migration 30, December 2020: 12-29  (First View: https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12685 )

POL S 443 - Globalization, Ethnic Politics and the Nation-State

Theories of nationalism and the nation-state in an era of globalization. Prerequisite: One of POL S 235 (or 230 or 240) or Department consent.

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POL S 456 - The Politics of International Migration

Examines the causes and responses to international migration, and probes the ethical questions raised by borders and surveillance, who gets in, and how newcomers are treated. Restricted to students with 60 units of course weight completed or consent of the department.

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POL S 543 - Globalization, Ethnic Politics and the Nation-State

Theories of nationalism and the nation-state in an era of globalization.

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POL S 556 - The Politics of International Migration

Examines the causes of and responses to international migration, and probes the ethical questions raised by borders and surveillance, who gets in, and how newcomers are treated.

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Browse more courses taught by Yasmeen Abu-Laban

Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Michael Frishkopf, Reza Hasmath and Anna Kirova (eds.)

Athabasca: Athabasca University Press (Open Access). 2024 June;

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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 2024 February; 50 (7):1803-1821 10.1080/1369183X.2024.2315357

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Abigail B. Bakan and Yasmeen Abu-Laban

Studies in Political Economy. 2024 February; 105 (1):107-122 10.1080/07078552.2024.2325300

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Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Alain-G. Gagnon and Arjun Tremblay (eds.)

London and New York: Routledge. 2023 January; 10.4324/9781003197485

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Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Ethel Tungohan and Christina Gabriel

Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2023 January;

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Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Abigail B. Bakan

Political Quarterly. 2022 July; 93 (3 (July/September)):508-516 10.1111/1467-923X.13166

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International Migration (International Organization for Migration). 2020 December; 58 (6):12-28

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Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Abigail B. Bakan

London: IB Tauris/Bloomsbury. 2020 January;

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Canadian Journal of Political Science (Presidential Address to the Canadian Political Science Association). 2017 December; 50 (4):895-919