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. Neda Maghbouleh appointed as a new Canada Research Chair

Her work is among the first to identify and empirically study Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) communities in the U.S. and Canada.

Prof. Amanda Cheong offers a sociology of statelessness in a new open-access article

The article explores how conflicts over who counts as a stateless person play out below the formal letter of the law in Malaysia.

Prof. Neda Maghbouleh highlights how the absence of a MENA category in federal data has hidden disparities within the community

In a new editorial, Prof. Neda Maghbouleh highlights how the absence of a MENA category in federal data has hidden disparities within the community, making the collection of self-identified data key to addressing health & social inequalities.

MA students Daniel Hwang and Yifei Yu receive the BPOC Graduate Excellence Award

The award recognizes excellence in research and scholarly performance and addresses systemic barriers BPOC students experience in their training.

Research projects run by Profs. Emily Huddart and Qiang Fu awarded SSHRC Insight Grants

Prof. Huddart’s research project explores affective climate polarisation while Prof. Fu’s project focuses on socio-political realities of Chinese Canadians.

Get to know UBC Sociology Professor Irene Bloemraad

UBC Sociology welcomed Dr. Irene Bloemraad to UBC this summer as a Professor. We spoke to Dr. Bloemraad about her research and interdisciplinary work.

Welcome to our new graduate students for 2024W

UBC Sociology is excited to welcome our incoming 2024W graduate student cohort! We are excited for the new perspectives and research they bring to our community.

Prof. Amanda Cheong speaks with Contexts about her award-winning article about driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants

Prof. Amanda Cheong spoke with the Contexts Blog in celebration of her recent award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Public Sociology and Sociological Practice.

PhD candidate Tori Yang awarded Fox International Fellowship at Yale University for 2024-25

Tori will join Yale as a Visiting Assistant in Research at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.

UBC Sociology professor and graduate students receive 2024 awards from the Canadian Sociological Association

Professor Lindsey Richardson and graduate students Sonali Patel, Tori Yang and Manlin Cai were all honoured with awards for their research.