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Refereed (double-anonymized) journal articles

2025

• 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
• Brunner, L. R., & McCartney, D. M. (2025). Colonial logics as public secrets of international student mobility. Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.7577/njcie.6047
• 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
  
• 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
• Stein, S., Andreotti, V., Restoule, J. P., Vukovic, R., McGregor, C., Pelton, L. F., Hundza, S., Milford, T., Seager, W., Randhawa, J., Brunner, L. R., & Mohajeri, A. (2025). Deepening relational capacity to confront the polycrisis in higher education and beyond. Higher Education Research & Development, 44(6), 1572–1587. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2525109 (download article here)

2024

• 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
• 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 (download article 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
• 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)
  

2023

• 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 (download article 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 (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 (download article here)

2022

• 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
• 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

2021 and earlier

• Brunner, L. R. (2021). ‘Edugration’ as a wicked problem: Higher education and three-step immigration. Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education, 13(5), 4. https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/jcihe/vol13/iss5/4 (download original article here)
• 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

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 – Volume II: Field practices. Springer.

Encyclopedia entries

• Brunner, L. R. (2026). Citizenship. In D. Stockemer, S. Sawyer, & A. Gagnon (Eds.), IPSA companion to political science. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-06918-4_23-1

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 (originally published in 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; also in Chinese: 国际学生流动、机会与迁移的自愿性：一种新的概念性方法.
• 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
• 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.
• Brunner, L. R., & Li, G. (2022, October). The conflicting aims of higher education admission and immigration selection criteria in Canadian ‘edugration.’ University of British Columbia Centre for Migration Studies Working Paper Series No. 2022/4.
• Brunner, L. R. (2017). Education quality assurance in British Columbia. Canadian Bureau for International Education PhD Research Series.
• Brunner, L. R., & Friesen, C. (2011). Changing faces, changing neighbourhoods: Government-Assisted Refugee settlement patterns in Metro Vancouver 2005–2009. Our Diverse Cities, 8, 93-100.
• Brunner, L. R., Hyndman, J., & Friesen, C. (2011). Post-IRPA GARs from Aceh: An analysis of refugee integration five years on. Our Diverse Cities, 8, 106-112.
• 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).

Reports and policy briefs

• Brunner, L. R. (2025). Canadian international student policy at a crossroads. Policy Brief No. 1, October 2025. Institute for Research on Public Policy; also in French: Le système d’éducation internationale canadien à la croisée des chemins.
• 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.

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

2025

• IRCC 2025-26 Departmental Plan
• Bill C-2 Strong Borders Act
• Carney’s mandate letter and Throne Speech
• Mark Carney’s new Liberal government
• Hate and far right extremism in Canada
• The Bloc Québécois, NDP, Greens, and People’s Party immigration rhetoric
• Pierre Poilievre’s immigration rhetoric
• What does Prime Minister Mark Carney think about immigration
• Migrants working in Canada’s construction industry

2024

• Justin Trudeau’s resignation and the prorogation of government
• Eby’s new BC New Democratic Party cabinet
• Impacts of a second Trump U.S. presidency
• Canada’s 2025-2027 Immigration Levels Plan
• Immigration in the BC provincial election campaign
• Rhetorical framing of immigration within U.S. and Canadian political discourse
• Public attitudes towards immigration
• Canada’s Safe Third Country Agreement
• Canada’s migrant worker program
• Rhetorical shifts in public policy discussions of migration
• International students in Canada
• European Parliament elections
• Canadian emigration
• Canada’s citizenship rate decline
• Canada’s 2024 federal budget
• Canada’s temporary resident reductions

Public commentary

• Coustere, C., & Brunner, L. R. (2024, December 12). The complex costs of Quebec’s international student policy reforms. University Affairs; also 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.
• 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. (download here)
• Brunner, L. R. (2024, May 30). International study cap: How some private companies are marketing tech and AI solutions. The Conversation.
• 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; also 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; also 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; also 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.

Creative publications

• Brunner, L. R., Larder, S., Jagdeo, A., Lockhart, C., & Sevick, K. (Eds.). (2022). Decolonization, SOGI, and teacher identity. (Based on a collaborative B.Ed. Self-Reflective Writing Project).
• Brunner, L. R. (2010, July 29). A kite that couldn’t be tied down. The New York Times. (download here).

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.