Profs. Aryan Karimi and Rima Wilkes investigate how to assign social groups to ethnic and racial categories
Karimi and Wilkes analyze ethnic and racial models and whether they settle the questions of who is race and who is ethnicity.
Prof. Aryan Karimi’s new paper examines how refugee backgrounds impact transnationalism
Prof. Aryan Karimi’s new paper, “National Assimilation and/or Cosmopolitan Transnationalism? Impending Transnationalism among the Upwardly Mobile Children of Refugees,” examines how refugee background push transnationalism into the future for second-generation Somali-Canadians.
Prof. Aryan Karimi examines wartime (im)mobility for Ukranians in Canada and Germany in a new publication
In war times, what differentiates those who manage to flee from those who remain behind? Prof. Karimi examines effects of aspirations-capabilities on displaced Ukrainians in Canada and Germany.
Profs. Aryan Karimi and Rima Wilkes co-author paper delineating a transnational amendment to assimilation theory for Ethnic and Racial Studies
Profs. Karimi and Wilkes look at examples from European and non-European migrants’ assimilation trajectories to delineate a transnational approach to assimilation and inclusion as requiring similarity between the imagined racial status of origin and host country.
Prof. Aryan Karimi publishes op-ed “How equity, diversity, and inclusion policies are becoming are becoming a tool for capitalism” in The Conversation
Prof. Karimi’s piece discusses the use of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Educational Frameworks in recent years.
Aryan Karimi piece on feasibility of Canadian-style multiculturalism in Europe republished in UBC alumni Magazine
In this piece originally published in The Conversation, Prof. Karimi discusses the feasibility of transplanting Canadian-style multiculturalism to Europe as the continent faces a migration crisis.
Prof. Karimi to speak as part of the Center for Migration Studies New Voices Speaker Series on November 7th
In his lecture, Prof. Karimi aims to address the theoretical impasse faced by migration studies by examining existing assimilation theories against the Popperian scientific criteria.
Prof. Aryan Karimi to deliver talk “Reconsidering the Origins of Assimilation Theories” as part of the Center for Migration Studies New Voices Speaker Series
In his lecture, Prof. Karimi aims to address the theoretical impasse faced by migration studies by examining existing assimilation theories against the Popperian scientific criteria.
Prof. Aryan Karimi writes op-ed for The Conversation, discussing the failure of implementing multiculturalism techniques in Europe as compared to Canada
Prof. Karimi’s piece argues the transplantation of Canadian style multiculturalism is bound to fail in European countries characterized by monoculturalism, lest a a new form of multi-ethnicity make a comeback in the region.
Prof. Aryan Karimi’s new study examines assimilation theory among Somali-Canadians
The study argues that race is an attitudinal hurdle to navigate rather than a structural barrier against assimilation in the context of Canadian society.