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Director
Dr. Pallavi Banerjee, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Calgary
Co-Investigator (YARI-Collective)
Dr. Pratim Sengupta, Professor of Learning Sciences and STEM Education at the University of Calgary's Werklund School of Education
Current Doctoral Students
Project: Diasporic Revolutions: The Making of People through Revolutions in Iran
Project: Envisioning Climate Futures - Intersection of Migration and Environmental Justice
Ruqayyah Baderinwa
Project: Decolonial Feminist Analysis of BlackMuslim Women’s Workplace Experiences
Riann Lognon
Project: Tastes of Home: Making Homelands Through Food in Migration
Anuneet Chatterjee (Co-Supervisor along with Dr. Ariel Ducey)
Project: Challenging Digital Disembodiments: A Study of Embodied Experiences of Youth of Color Across Borders and Digital Spaces
Rineem Saleh
Project: Sonic Ethnographies: Sounds of Care Among Palestinian Women in Diaspora
Benedicta Asante
Project: Cancer and Mental Health among Black Immigrant Women
Isabel Fandino (Incoming)
Project: International Students and the Procedurality of Migration Bureaucracy
Shihab Uddin (Committee Member)
Project: Hidden Labour in Running Artificial Intelligence Data Centers
Current Master's Students
Afrida Faiza, (Co-Supervisor), M.A. in Anthropology
Project: Gender in Families of Garment Factory Workers in Bangladesh
Current Undergraduate Honours Students
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Affiliated Researchers
Santanu Dutta: Ph.D. Candidate, Learning Sciences, Werklund School of Education.
Research Assistant on YARI-Collective Project
Basak Helvaci Özacar: Ph.D. Candidate, Learning Sciences, Werklund School of Education.
Research Assistant on YARI-Collective Project
Megha Sanyal, Ph.D. Candidate, Learning Sciences, Werklund School of Education.
Research Assistant and Co-author on papers on Southern Orientations in Gender and Migration Research
Research Assistant on YARI-Collective Project
Tania Lujan Villalobos, Ph.D.Candidate, Computational Media Design, University of Calgary
Research Assistant on YARI-Collective Project
Sophia Thraya, Ph.D. Candidate, Learning Sciences, Werklund School of Education
Research Assistant on Refugee Resettlement and Intersectionality Project
Research Assistant on YARI-Collective Project
Dr. Durga Kale, Ph.D in Religious Studies.
Research Assistant on YARI-Collective Project
Community Partners
Calgary Catholic Immigration Society (CCIS)
Dr. Banerjee and members of CGIM Research Group have been working with CCIS in the Refugee Resettlement and Intersectionality Project and on the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada’s (IRCC) Service Delivery Improvements 2020 Grant, Reaffirming Social Justice, Equity, Anti-Racist Research: Impact on BIPOC Youth from 2021-2024/YARI-Collective Project.
Partners on Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada’s (IRCC) Service Delivery Improvements 2020 Grant, Reaffirming Social Justice, Equity, Anti-Racist Research: Impact on BIPOC Youth from 2021-2024/YARI-Collective Project.
Calgary Immigrant Women's Association (CIWA)
Calgary Bridge Foundation for Youth (CBFY)
Alumni / Former Students
Graduate Students
Pedrom Nasiri Ph.D. (Graduated, 2025)
Project: Writing PolyQueer Worlds: Controlling Images, Material Practices, and Intimacies of Citizenship
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Carieta Thomas Ph.D. (Graduated, 2023)
Project: Technologies of Surveillance: An Intersectional Analysis of Undocumented Caribbean Women Careworkers in the Labour Markets in Canada and the U.S.
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Sociology, Carleton University.
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Sepideh Borzoo, Ph.D. (Graduated, 2023)
Project: Painted Faces: A Study of Gendered and Racialized Beauty Service Work
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Riann Lognon, M.A. Sociology (Graduated 2024)
Project: Newcomer Youth and Land-Based Expressions of Anti-Racism
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Tanner Short, M.A. Sociology (Graduated 2023)
Project: Exploring Pandemic Impacts on Canadians’ Public Discourse about Refugee Individuals: A Mixed Methods Study using Twitter Data
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Chetna Khandelwal, M.A. Sociology, (Graduated 2022)
Project: Technological Influences upon immigration social movements in India and the USA
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Melanie Jong, M.A. Sociology (Graduated 2022)
Project: Race Talk in a Multicultural Canada: How Canadian Children are being Racially Socialized
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Project: An Intersectional Analysis of the Refugee Assistance Program (RAP) Policy and its effectiveness for the resettlement of Yazidi Refugees in Calgary
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Isabel Fandino, M.A., Sociology (Graduated 2021)
Project: Lost in Translation: The (Unseen) Experiences of International Graduate Students and Families
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Negin Saheb Javaher, M.A. Sociology (Graduated 2021)
Project: Under the Neoliberal Blanket: Maternal Strategies in the Resettlement of Yazidi Refugees in Calgary
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Souzan Korsha, M.S. Engineering. (Co-supervising with Dr. Laleh Behjat) - terminated
Project: Use of drones in delivering essentials to displaced people in areas of humanitarian crisis.
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Dr. Soulit Chacko, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boise State University, U.S.A.
Past Research Coordinator and collaborator for CGIM Research Group, Rohingya Resettlement and Intersectionality Project, U.S.A. (2019-2021)
Undergraduate Sociology/Law and Society Honours Students Alumni
Mercy Moro (Graduated 2025)
Project: Immigrant Youth and Islamophobia
Sheema Ahmed (Graduated 2023)
Project: Immigrant Youth and Islamophobia
Rupinder Brar (Graduated 2021)
Project: The Intersectional Inequalities Faced by South Asian Women in Canada: A Study on the Work and Home Lives of South Asian Immigrant Women
Juliana Castillo (Graduated 2020)
Project: The Poverty Industry and its Impact on Refugees in Canada: A Study on Syrian and Yazidi Refugees
Kennedy Novak (Graduated 2019)
Project: Facebook, News, and You: A Study of Online News Content
Auska Adhikari (Graduated 2018)
Project: Representation of South Asians in North American Media in 2017
Isabel Fandino, (Graduated 2018)
Experiences of International Graduate Students' Families
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