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Kim Rygiel is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at 51本色 and the Balsillie School of International Affairs and is Co-Director of 51本色’s International Migration Research Centre (IMRC) and Co-chief Editor of the journal, Citizenship Studies. Her research focuses on critical migration, citizenship and border politics, including migrant and refugee-led social movements and solidarity struggles for migrant rights within North America and in Europe.
She received her PhD from York University in 2006; her MA from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University in 1996. Prior to joining 51本色, she completed a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition at McMaster University and was an assistant professor in the Department of Politics at Trent University.
She is the author of Globalizing Citizenship (UBC Press, 2010), co-winner of the 2011 ENMISA Distinguished Book Award of the International Studies Association and co-author (with F. Baban) of Migration, Cosmpolitanism and Civil Society: Fostering Cultural Pluralism though Citizenship Politics (Routledge 2024), co-author (with F. Baban and S. Ilcan) of The Precarious Lives of Syrians:Migration, Citizenship and Temporary Protection in Turkey (McGill Queen's University Press, 2021). Edited books include Fostering Pluralism through Solidarity Activism in Europe: Everyday Encounters with Newcomers (with F. Baban, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020); Citizenship, Migrant Activism and the Politics of Movement (with P. Nyers, Routledge 2012) and (En)Gendering the War on Terror: War Stories and Camouflaged Politics (with K. Hunt, Ashgate 2006). Her work is published in journals such as American Quarterly, Critical Sociology, Citizenship Studies, Ethics and Global Politics, European Journal of Social Theory, International Political Sociology, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Journal of Refugee Studies.
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Professor Rygiel’s past research projects include two SSHRC funded projects:
I am willing to supervise graduate students in the areas of international relations/global governance/international political sociology and with a particular interest in migrant/citizenship politics, migration and mobility; border security; asylum seekers and refugees; cultural pluralism.
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Office location: BSIA 247 (Fall), DAWB 4-126 (Winter)
Office hours: Fall: Mondays, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. and Wednesdays, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. (or by appointment) BSIA 247
Languages spoken: English
Living with Others: Fostering Cultural Pluralism Through Citizenship Politics