INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION RESEARCH CENTRE
Jenna L. Hennebry
Jenna Hennebry is a Professor at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Coordinator of the Women and Gender Studies Program, and Associate Dean of the School of International Policy and Governance at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is Co-Founder of the International Migration Research Centre and the Migration Worker Health Project, and Founder of the Gender+Migration Hub funded by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. Jenna is a member of the Canadian Council for Refugees Subcommittee on Migrant Workers and the UN Expert Working Group on Women’s Human Rights in the Global Compact for Migration. She is an Expert Advisor to the Auditor General of Canada, Performance Audit on Temporary Foreign Farm Workers – Covid-19, a member of the UN Network on Migration’s Thematic Working Group 4 on Bilateral Labour Agreements as well as the newly formed Thematic Priority Group 7 on Gender. She also sits on the Advisory Board of the Global Migration Data Centre (GMDC) and the Migration Research and Publishing High-Level Advisers, both of the IOM.
Margaret Walton-Roberts
Dr. Margaret Walton-Roberts is Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University and affiliated to the Balsillie School of International Affairs. She is widely published on migration related themes. Over her career her research has maintained a focus on South Asian migration, with a focus on gender and skilled migration, and she has maintained active supervision with students interested in South Asian immigrant settlement in Canada, global remittances, and the representation of diasporas. She has published over 40 book chapters, more than 50 journal articles, and five co-edited books including, Diasporas, Development and Governance with Springer Global Migration Series.
Lucy Luccisano
Lucy Luccisano teaches courses in the undergraduate program, including Introduction to Sociology, Gender and Development, Poverty and Social Inequality as well as courses in the sociology graduate program.
Jonathan Crush
Jonathan Crush was raised in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Swaziland. After obtaining his first degree at Cambridge University, he moved to Canada and completed his M.A. at Wilfrid Laurier University and Ph.D. at Queen’s University. Jonathan is a frequent commentator on issues of migration, food security and xenophobia in the Global South and has consulted for the IOM, ILO, UNDP, UNAIDS, UNESCO, CIDA-CIC, OECD and various African governments.