About
Yasmeen Abu-Laban is a political scientist whose published research comparatively addresses subjects 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.
Cutting across this work is a concern with how people are differentially accorded citizenship and human rights. Her current research projects address xenophobic populism and backlash against minorities, immigrants, refugees and democratic values. Abu-Laban regularly works and communicates with policy-makers and community groups, as well as academic audiences.
Awards
- Canada Research Chair in the Politics of Citizenship and Human Rights, 2018-
- Vice President, International Political Science Association 2018-
- President, Canadian Political Science Association 2016
- Killam Annual Professorship, University of Alberta, 2013-2014
- McCalla Research Professorship, University of Alberta, 2006-2007
- American Political Science Association, Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section, Best Paper Award, 2000
Relevant Publications
Abu-Laban Y. (2018) Recognition, re-distribution and solidarity: The case of multicultural Canada. In: Fossum J., Kastoryano R., Siim B. (eds), Diversity and contestations over nationalism in Europe and Canada. Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology (pp. 237-262). Palgrave Macmillan, London.
Abu-Laban, Y. (2016). Representing a diverse Canada in political science: Power, ideas and the emergent challenge of reconciliation. European Political Science, 15(4), 493-507. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-016-0072-9
Abu-Laban, Y. (2012). The politics of surveillance: Civil liberties, human rights and ethics. In K. Ball, K.D. Haggerty, & D. Lyon (eds.), Handbook of Surveillance Studies (pp. 420-427). London and New York: Routledge.
Abu-Laban, Y. & Garber, J. (2005). The construction of the geography of immigration as a policy problem: The United States and Canada compared. Urban Affairs Review, 40(4), 520-561.
Abu-Laban, Y. & Gabriel , C. (2002). Selling diversity: Immigration, multiculturalism, employment equity and globalization. Peterborough: Broadview/University of Toronto Press.