Director
Dr. Pallavi Banerjee, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Calgary
Doctoral Students
Project: Painted Faces: A Study of Gendered and Racialized Beauty Service Work
Project: Writing PolyQueer Worlds: Controlling Images, Material Practices, and Intimacies of Citizenship
Project: Technologies of Surveillance: An Intersectional Analysis of Undocumented Caribbean Women Careworkers in the Labour Markets in Canada and the U.S.
Masters Students
Project: Technological Influences upon immigration social movements in India and the USA
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
Affiliated Researchers
Dr. Soulit Chacko, Postdoctoral Fellow with the Religion and Urban Culture 2.0 Project, Indiana University Purdue University (IUPUI), U.S.A.
Research Coordinator and collaborator for CGIM Research Group, Rohingya Resettlement and Intersectionality Project, U.S.A.
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
Sophia Thraya, M.A. Student, Learning Sciences, Werklund School of Education
Research Assistant on Refugee Resettlement and Intersectionality Project
Marilu Lam Herrera, Ph.D. Student, Learning Sciences, Werklund School of Education.
Research Assistant on Refugee Resettlement and Intersectionality 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 will be working 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.
Alumni
Graduate Students
Isabel Fandino, M.A.
Project: Lost in Translation: The (Unseen) Experiences of International Graduate Students and Families
Melanie Jong, M.A.
Project: Race Talk in a Multicultural Canada: How Canadian Children are being Racially Socialized
Negin Saheb Javaher, M.A.
Project: Under the Neoliberal Blanket: Maternal Strategies in the Resettlement of Yazidi Refugees in Calgary
Undergraduate Honours Students
Project: Representation of South Asians in North American Media in 2017
Project: The Intersectional Inequalities Faced by South Asian Women in Canada: A Study on the Work and Home Lives of South Asian Immigrant Women
Project: The Poverty Industry and its Impact on Refugees in Canada: A Study on Syrian and Yazidi Refugees
Project: Facebook, News, and You: A Study of Online News Content