Publications

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1765-4284

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Refereed (double-anonymized) journal articles

• • Brunner, L. R., Shokirova, T., Gamal, M., & Stein, S. (2025).  Higher education’s care/control of refugee and displaced students. Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, 12(2), 11–33. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejecs/2212 (open access; download PDF here)
    
  • Brunner, L. R., Trilokekar, R. D., Morris-Lange, S., Liu, H., Laufer, M., El Masri, A., & Joshi, A. (2025). Magnets, gatekeepers, surveillants, and refiners: The emergence of higher education institutions as migration governance actors in Australia, Canada, and Germany, 1990 to 2019. International Journal of Educational Research, 129, 102490. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2024.102490 (open access)
  • Brunner, L. R. (2025). International student mobility and the politics of distance education. British Journal of Educational Technology, 56(2), 870-889. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13543 (open access)
  • Brunner, L. R., & Tao, W. W. (2024). Artificial intelligence and automation in the migration governance of international students: An accidental ethnography. Journal of International Students, 14(1), 269-288. https://doi.org/10.32674/jis.v14i4.5762 (open access)
  • Brunner, L. R., Karki, K. K., & Valizadeh, N., Shokirova, T., & Coustere, C. (2024). Unfamiliarities, uncertainties, and ambivalent long-term intentions: Conceptualizing international student-migrant settlement and integration. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 25, 973–996. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-024-01116-1 (free eprint here)
  • Shokirova, T., & Brunner, L. R. (2024). Diminishing graduate student-teacher power dynamics through care and vulnerability. Feminist Pedagogy, 4(4), Article 10. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/feministpedagogy/vol4/iss4/10 (open access)
  • Coustere, C., Brunner, L. R., Shokirova, T., Karki, K., & Valizadeh, N. (2024). International graduate students as labour: Responding to the global imaginary. Higher Education, 88, 321–338. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-023-01118-5 (download article here)
    
  • Brunner, L. R., Streitwieser, B., & Bhandari, R. (2023). Classifications and clarifications: Rethinking international student mobility and the voluntariness of migration. Globalisation, Societies and Education.  https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2023.2261416 (free eprint here)
  • Brunner, L. R. (2023). Settler nation-building through immigration as a rationale for higher education: A critical discourse analysis. Higher Education Research & Development, 42(5), 1086-1102. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2193732 (free eprint here)
  • Brunner, L. R. (2023). Higher education institutions as eyes of the state: Canada’s international student compliance regime. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 21(2), 236-251. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2022.2037407 (free eprint here)
  • Shokirova, T., Brunner, L. R., Karki, K. K., Coustere, C., & Valizadeh, N. (2022). Confronting and reimagining the orientation of international graduate students: A collaborative autoethnography approach. Journal of Teaching and Learning, 16(2), 5-27. https://doi.org/10.22329/jtl.v16i2.7019 (open access)
  • Brunner, L. R. (2022). Towards a more just Canadian education-migration system: International student mobility in crisis. Studies in Social Justice, 16(1), 79-102. https://doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v16i1.2685 (open access)
  • Brunner, L. R. (2021). ‘Edugration’ as a wicked problem: Higher education and three-step immigration. Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education, 13(5S), 25-37. https://doi.org/10.32674/jcihe.v13i5S.4061 (open access)
  • Brunner, L. R. (2017). Higher educational institutions as emerging immigrant selection actors: A history of British Columbia’s retention of international graduates, 2001–2016. Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 1(1), 22-41. https://doi.org/10.1080/23322969.2016.1243016 (download article here)
  • Brunner, L. R., Hyndman, J., & Mountz, A. (2014). ‘Waiting for a wife’: Transnational marriages and the social dimensions of refugee ‘integration.’ Refuge, 30(1), 81-92. https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.38664 (open access)

Refereed book chapters

• • Brunner, L. R., & Shokirova, T. (In press.) Working with international students. In B. P. Vareed, H. Gateri, & P. B. Adjei (Eds.), Critical Multicultural Social Work in Canada.
  • Brunner, L. R. (2023). Feeling foreign. In L. A. Arasaratnam-Smith & D. K. Deardorff (Eds.), Developing Intercultural Competence in Higher Education: International Students’ Stories and Self-Reflection (pp. 94-96). Routledge.

Other refereed publications

• • Brunner, L. R., & Cervantes-Macías, M. E. (2025). Reflections on Canada’s first international student cap. Critical Internationalization Studies Review, 4(1), article 2. https://doi.org/10.70531/2832-3211.1043 (open access; originally published February 23, 2024 on the Critical Internationalization Studies Network website)
  • Brunner, L. R., Streitwieser, B., & Bhandari, R. (2024). International student mobility, opportunity, and the voluntariness of migration: A new conceptual approach. International Higher Education, 118, p. 26-28. (open access)
    • Republished in Chinese here: 国际学生流动、机会与迁移的自愿性：一种新的概念性方法.
    • Republished as A new ‘edugration’ approach to international student mobility in University World News.
  • Brunner, L. R., & Tao, W. W. (2024, January 10). Artificial intelligence and the governance of international migration. Mobile People & Diverse Societies (Eurac Research Science Blog). https://doi.org/10.57708/BFZLXO9QXRQWGQXNVDBZMKG (open access)
  • Brunner, L. R., & Li, G. (2022, October). The conflicting aims of university admission and immigration selection criteria in Canadian ‘edugration.’ University of British Columbia Centre for Migration Studies Working Paper Series No. 2022/4. (open access)
  • Brunner, L. R. (2017). Education quality assurance in British Columbia. Canadian Bureau for International Education PhD Research Series. (open access)
  • Brunner, L. R., Hyndman, J., & Friesen, C. (2010). Aceh-Malaysia-Vancouver: Settlement among Acehnese refugees five years on. Metropolis British Columbia Working Paper, 10(12). (open access)

Reports

• • Brunner, L. R., Khajeh, M., & Silva, C. (2021). Understanding Canadian resettlement pathways to assist Afghan scholars, researchers, advocates, and civil society actors. Scholars at Risk Canada Section Emergency Report.
  • Brunner, L. R. (2010). Changing faces, changing neighbourhoods: Government assisted refugee settlement patterns in Metro Vancouver. Immigrant Services Society of British Columbia Special Report.

Public commentary

• • Coustere, C., & Brunner, L. R. (2024, December 12). The complex costs of Quebec’s international student policy reforms. University Affairs.
    • Republished in French: Les coûts complexes des réformes des politiques migratoires sur les étudiantes et étudiants internationaux au Québec
  • Brunner, L. R., & Coustere, C. (2024, November 24). Migration experts scrutinize Justin Trudeau’s explanation for immigration cuts. The Conversation.
    • Republished as Immigration cuts are coming. What do they mean? in The Tyee.
    • Republished as Migration experts analyze Trudeau’s explanation for immigration cuts in The UBC Magazine.
  • Brunner, L. R. (2024, October 23). Canada should be opening more doors to gifted Afghan students, not closing them. Policy Options.
  • Brunner, L. R., & Pratt, G. (2024, June 13). Canada has finally started upending this two-step approach to immigration. We have questions. Toronto Star. (PDF available here)
  • Brunner, L. R. (2024, May 30). International study cap: How some private companies are marketing tech and AI solutions. The Conversation.
    • Republished as Admissions: The growing impact of immigration issues in University World News.
  • Brunner, L. R., & Trilokekar, R. D. (2024, February 1). International students as problems and solutions: Shifting narratives in Canada’s international education and immigration landscape. University Affairs.
    • Republished in French: Quand les étudiant.e.s de l’étranger représentent à la fois problèmes et solutions
  • Trilokekar, R. D., El Masri, A., & Brunner, L. R. (2024, January 31). The good, the bad and the ugly: Who is to blame when policy lacks clarity, coordination and is contradictory? PIE News.
  • Brunner, L. R., & Unangst, L. (2023, February 14).  Can Canadian models help refugees in the United States? University World News.
  • Shokirova, T., Brunner, L. R., & Coustere, C. (2023, October 5). How to handle the transition to parenthood as an international student. University Affairs.
    • Republished in French: Devenir parent quand on est étudiant.e international.e : conseils pour une transition réussie
  • Shokirova, T., Brunner, L. R., Karki, K. K., Coustere, C., & Valizadeh, N. (2023, August 14). Reimagining international graduate student orientation. University Affairs.
    • Republished in French: Réinventer l’accueil des étudiant.e.s de l’étranger aux cycles supérieurs
  • Brunner, L. R. (2022, October 25). The ethical complexities of Canada’s dependence on edugration. University Affairs.
  • Sabzalieva, E., Moscovitz, H., & Brunner, L. R. (2021, June 26). The new geopolitics of international higher education. University World News.

Policy briefs

Internal policy analysis distributed to member organizations of the Affiliation of Multicultural Societies and Service Agencies of British Columbia (AMSSA):

• • Canada’s temporary resident reductions (April 12, 2024)
  • Canada’s 2024 federal budget (April 26, 2024)
  • Canada’s citizenship rate decline (May 12, 2024)
  • Canadian emigration (May 31, 2024)
  • European Parliament elections (July 4, 2024)
  • International students in Canada (July 16, 2024)
  • Rhetorical shifts in public policy discussions of migration (July 29, 2024)
  • Canada’s migrant worker program (August 9, 2024)
  • Canada’s Safe Third Country Agreement (August 24, 2024)
  • Public attitudes towards immigration (September 20, 2024)
  • Rhetorical framing of immigration within U.S. and Canadian political discourse (October 4, 2024)
  • Immigration in the BC provincial election campaign (October 17, 2024)
  • Canada’s 2025-2027 Immigration Levels Plan (October 29, 2024)
  • Impacts of a second Trump U.S. presidency (November 29, 2024)
  • Eby’s new BC New Democratic Party cabinet (December 19, 2024)
  • Justin Trudeau’s resignation and the prorogation of government (January 16, 2024)
  • Migrants working in Canada’s construction industry (March 9, 2025)
  • What does Prime Minister Mark Carney think about immigration? (March 25, 2025)
  • Pierre Poilievre’s immigration rhetoric (March 29, 2025)
  • The Bloc Québécois, NDP, Greens, and People’s Party immigration rhetoric (April 4, 2025)

Book reviews

• • Brunner, L. R., & Metcalfe, A. (2017). Book Review of “The Aims of Higher Education: Problems of Morality and Justice” (2015) by Harry Brighouse and Michael McPherson (eds.). Teachers College Record, ID Number: 21934
  • Brunner, L. R. (2010). Book Review of “Handbook of Tourist Behavior” (2009) by Metin Kozak and Alain Decrop (eds.). The Canadian Geographer, 54(3), 383-384.
  • Brunner, L. R. (2010). Book Review of “Everyday Urban Public Space: Turkish Immigrant Women’s Perspective” (2007) by Eda Ünlü Yücesoy. Social & Cultural Geography, 11(1), 96-98.
  • Brunner, L. R. (2010). Book Review of “Itineraries in Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Political Lives of Tourism” (2008) by Rebecca L. Stein. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 27(4), 759-760.
  • Brunner, L. R. (2009). Book Review of “Telling Young Lives: Portraits of Global Youth” (2008) by Craig Jeffrey and Jane Dyson (eds.). Cultural Geography, 26(2), 246-248.

Creative nonfiction

• • Brunner, L. R. (2010, July 29). A kite that couldn’t be tied down. The New York Times.