Race, Ethnicity & Migration

Scholars in this area study how racial, ethnic, and national identities are salient and stratifying forces in people’s lives and across societies. Processes of immigration, migration, and colonialism shape racial and ethnic diversity, inequality, and settlement in Canada and other nations. Studies by UBC faculty focus on experiences of migration, settlement, dispossession, and discrimination as well as the ways difference and hierarchy are politically constructed and historically produced. Studies focus on histories of colonial dispossession, the experiences of undocumented and stateless peoples, the lived experiences of racialized refugees settling in Canada, and attitudes toward immigration and political trust among different racial and ethnic groups.

Prof. Neil Guppy publishes research on Canadian intergenerational mobility over 20th century in Canadian Review of Sociology

Prof. Neil Guppy publishes research on Canadian intergenerational mobility over 20th century in Canadian Review of Sociology

Prof. Neil Guppy’s research examines Canadian intergenerational mobility over the 20th century in the context of growing rates of university attendance among young adults compared to older generations.

Prof. Kimberly Huyser speaks at CoVaRR-Net’s “Vaccines 101: The role of vaccines in the Covid-19 pandemic” webinar

Prof. Kimberly Huyser speaks at CoVaRR-Net’s “Vaccines 101: The role of vaccines in the Covid-19 pandemic” webinar

Prof. Kimberly Huyser was among four CoVaRR-Net researchers to participate in the latter’s “Vaccines 101: The role of vaccines in the Covid-19 pandemic” webinar, discussing Indigenous engagement within public health and vaccine science.

Professor Dr. Ethan Raker publishes research on ethnoracial low birth inequalities in the US in SSM Population Health

Professor Dr. Ethan Raker publishes research on ethnoracial low birth inequalities in the US in SSM Population Health

Through an examination of US births in the first decade of the 21st century, UBC Sociology Prof. Dr. Ethan Barker sets out to review the geography of ethnoracial inequalities in low birth weights in the US.

Professor Dr. Amanda Cheong publishes research modeling barriers to health care and birth registration in stateless and migrant populations in Malaysia in Genus Journal

Professor Dr. Amanda Cheong publishes research modeling barriers to health care and birth registration in stateless and migrant populations in Malaysia in Genus Journal

Extending Thaddeus and Maine’s 1994 “three delays” framework to maternal health care and birth registration processes among migrant and stateless populations in Malaysia, UBC Sociology Professor Dr. Amanda Cheong and UMS-UNicef fellow Mary Anne Baltazar find these processes to be cyclical and intergenerational.

Prof. Amanda Cheong publishes paper on how driver’s licenses impact undocumented US immigrants

Prof. Amanda Cheong publishes paper on how driver’s licenses impact undocumented US immigrants

Dr. Amanda Cheong’s new research with The Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund investigates how driver’s licenses make a difference in the lives of undocumented immigrants in the U.S.A.

Shared Language and Culture: Documenting and Creating Punjabi History in BC

Shared Language and Culture: Documenting and Creating Punjabi History in BC

UBC Sociology student Noor Sandhawalia is an undergraduate assistant on the Punjabi Oral History Project. It was founded to address the need for support for the Punjabi language in British Columbia, and further develop the Punjabi Studies program at UBC.

Kimberly Huyser’s research amplifies Indigenous voices during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kimberly Huyser’s research amplifies Indigenous voices during the COVID-19 Pandemic

A new interdisciplinary research network is announcing eight research projects investigating COVID-19 variants of concern (VOCs) and variants of interest (VOIs) in Canada. University of British Columbia Sociology Professor Kimberly Huyser is overseeing Pillar 7, which focuses on Indigenous Engagement, Development, and Research (CIEDAR).

Is B.M.I. a Scam? UBC Prof. Sabrina Strings weighs in

Is B.M.I. a Scam? UBC Prof. Sabrina Strings weighs in

Dr. Sabrina Strings talks to the New York Times about B.M.I., it’s problematic legacy as a universal standard of measurement, and the origins of fat phobia in the Western world.

Interview with UBC Sociology graduate student Patara McKeen

Interview with UBC Sociology graduate student Patara McKeen

Patara McKeen, a UBC Sociology student and Green College resident member, talks with the college about his research and work as a graduate student.

Prof. Amanda Cheong joins University of Ottawa Prof. Jamie Liew for project documenting experiences of racialized stateless persons

Prof. Amanda Cheong joins University of Ottawa Prof. Jamie Liew for project documenting experiences of racialized stateless persons

Cheong and Liew’s project received a SSHRC CRSH Insight Grant to further their research, which will be the first in-depth study of the historical and institutional roots of statelessness in Malaysia.