Contact
Professor, Faculty of Arts - Political Science Dept
- yasmeen@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-2162
- Address
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11.29 Tory (H.M.) Building
11211 Saskatchewan Drive NWEdmonton ABT6G 2H4
Overview
About
Yasmeen Abu-Laban is Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in the Politics of Citizenship and Human Rights at the University of Alberta. She is also a Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Her published research addresses themes relating to: ethnic and gender politics; nationalism, globalization and processes of racialization; immigration policies and politics; surveillance and border control; and multiculturalism and anti-racism. She served as President of the Canadian Political Science Association, and in 2018 became Vice-President of the of the International Political Science Association.
Announcements
Are you interested in issues relating to citizenship and human rights, and considering doing a PhD in Political Science at the University of Alberta in the Fall of 2020?
Dr. Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Canada Research Chair in The Politics of Citizenship and Human Rights, can support your programme in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta through a multi-year Graduate Research Assistantship. Worth over 25,000$ a year in annual salary and benefits, this is available for up to four years (subject to annual review), and recipients would continue to be eligible for other available awards and scholarships.
The Graduate Research Assistant will work under Dr. Abu-Laban’s direct supervision and will support her research activities with a focus on Canada, the United States and Australia as well as the United Nations. This position brings with it opportunities for research and training in all areas of political science, with a focus on migration studies, citizenship studies and the UN and human rights. The recipient would also remain eligible for other available awards and scholarships offered at the University of Alberta
If you are interested, please get in touch with Dr. Abu-Laban directly at yasmeen@ualberta.ca. For information on the PhD programme and application process for Fall 2020, please see the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta website at: https://www.ualberta.ca/political-science/graduate-programs
Courses
POL S 442 - The Canadian State and Identity Politics
The relative power, impact and interconnections of both territorial (regional) divisions and other non-territorial divisions (e.g. gender, race, ethnicity, and class). Prerequisite: One of POL S 224, 225 (or 220) or Department consent.
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.
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.
POL S 542 - The Canadian State and Identity Politics
The relative power, impact and interconnections of both territorial (regional) divisions and other non-territorial divisions (e.g., gender, race, ethnicity, and class).
POL S 543 - Globalization, Ethnic Politics and the Nation-State
Theories of nationalism and the nation-state in an era of globalization.
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.
Featured Publications
Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Abigail B. Bakan
London: I.B. Tauris. 2020 January;
Yasmeen Abu-Laban
International Migration (International Organization for Migration). 2019 December;
Yasmeen Abu-Laban
Canadian Journal of Political Science (Presidential Address to the Canadian Political Science Association). 2017 January; 50 (4):895-919