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: “Woman, Life, Freedom”: Utopia or Reality?
Project: Multisited Feminist Activism and Its Meanings
Project: Writing PolyQueer Worlds: Controlling Images, Material Practices, and Intimacies of Citizenship
Current Masters Students
Project: Newcomer Youth and Land-Based Expressions of Anti-Racism
Souzan Korsha, M.S. Engineering. (Co-supervising with Dr. Laleh Behjat)
Project: Use of drones in delivering essentials to displaced people in areas of humanitarian crisis.
Project: Exploring Pandemic Impacts on Canadians’ Public Discourse about Refugee Individuals: A Mixed Methods Study using Twitter Data
Current Undergraduate Honours Students
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Affiliated Researchers
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)
Santanu Dutta: Ph.D. Student, Learning Sciences, Werklund School of Education.
Research Assistant on YARI-Collective Project
Basak Helvaci Özacar: Ph.D. Student, Learning Sciences, Werklund School of Education.
Research Assistant on YARI-Collective Project
Megha Sanyal, Ph.D. Student, 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
Sophia Thraya, M.A. Student, Learning Sciences, Werklund School of Education
Research Assistant on Refugee Resettlement and Intersectionality Project
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
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 Associate YARI-Collective, University of Calgary
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Chetna Khandelwal, M.A. (Graduated 2022)
Project: Technological Influences upon immigration social movements in India and the USA
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Melanie Jong, M.A. (Graduated 2022)
Project: Race Talk in a Multicultural Canada: How Canadian Children are being Racially Socialized
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Isabel Fandino, M.A. (Graduated 2021)
Project: Lost in Translation: The (Unseen) Experiences of International Graduate Students and Families
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Negin Saheb Javaher, M.A. (Graduated 2021)
Project: Under the Neoliberal Blanket: Maternal Strategies in the Resettlement of Yazidi Refugees in Calgary
Undergraduate Honours Students Alumni
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