Recent Projects

Here are a few additional things I am working on:

Talks:

• • On March 7, 2024, I co-presented the paper “Classifications and clarifications: Rethinking international student mobility and the voluntariness of migration” at the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) annual conference with Bernhard Streitwieser. Our presentation was part of the panel ‘Contesting borders and centering learners: Global migration across four continents.’
  • On March 15, 2024, I was invited to speak at the Canadian Bar Association BC Immigration Law conference on the topic of “Immigration Issues for International Students” alongside Katie Lay (MKS Immigration Lawyers) and  Will Tao (Heron Law Offices).
  • In August 2024, I will be presenting at the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) annual conference in Dublin, Ireland. The paper is part of the panel ‘Unpacking the migration-higher education nexus: Actors, policies, and power’ for the section on Knowledge Politics and Policies.
  • I will also be presenting at:
    • the Metropolis Identities Summit in Vancouver (October 2024)
    • the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association biennial conference in Edmonton (November 2024)

Knowledge translation:

• • On April 29, 2024, I joined a UBC delegation to promote the Centre for Migration Studies’ research in Ottawa. We presented our research to policymakers and legislators.

Collaborative research:

• • From Feb. 2022 to Jan. 2023, I was a York University research assistant for the SSHRC-funded project International Students are “Ideal” Immigrants: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Study-Migration Pathways in Canada, Australia and Germany (PI: Roopa Trilokekar Desai). As a team, we are preparing publications based on the data collected. I co-presented research from this project at:
    • the 2022 International Metropolis Conference in Berlin
    • the 2022 Association for the Study of Higher Education Conference in Las Vegas
    • a 2023 DAAD Science Workshop (Wissenschaftswerkstatt)
  • I am a member of the Canadian migration and collaborative autoethnography research (CAMCAR) group which explores the use of collaborative autoethnography in migration research. We have published three papers together so far, and a fourth is in preparation.
  • I supported an amazing group of Bachelor of Education students with their Decolonization, SOGI, and Teacher Identity: B.Ed. Self-Reflective Writing Project, which received a 2021-2022 UBC Faculty of Education Student Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization (EDID) Funding Grant. Check out the zine they created!