Publications

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

Refereed (dual-anonymous) journal articles

• • 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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-024-01116-1 (free eprint here)
  • Coustere, C., Brunner, L. R., Shokirova, T., Karki, K., & Valizadeh, N. (2023). International graduate students as labour: Responding to the global imaginary. Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-023-01118-5
    
  • Brunner, L. R., Streitwieser, B., & Bhandari, R. (2023). Classifications and clarifications: Rethinking international student mobility and the voluntariness of migration. Globalisation, Societies and Education. Advance online publication. 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 (open access version 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)

Other academic publications

• • Brunner, L. R., & Cervantes-Macías, M. E. (in press). Reflections on Canada’s first international student cap. Critical Internationalization Studies Review.
  • 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. https://doi.org/10.36197/IHE.2024.118.13
  • 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 university 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., Hyndman, J., & Friesen, C. (2010). Aceh-Malaysia-Vancouver: Settlement among Acehnese refugees five years on. Metropolis British Columbia Working Paper, 10(12).
  • Brunner, L. R. (2010). Changing faces, changing neighbourhoods: Government assisted refugee settlement patterns in Metro Vancouver. Immigrant Services Society of British Columbia Special Report.

Essays and op-eds

• • Brunner, L. R., Streitwieser, B., & Bhandari, R. (2024, April 13). A new ‘edugration’ approach to international student mobility. 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.
  • 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? The 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.
  • Shokirova, T., Brunner, L. R., Karki, K. K., Coustere, C., & Valizadeh, N. (2023, August 14). Reimagining international graduate student orientation. University Affairs.
  • 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.

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.

Media coverage

• • Featured in La Source: En quoi la réduction du nombre d’étudiants étrangers admis au Canada constitue un revirement historique? (March 5, 2024)
  • Interviewed in The Toronto Star’s It’s Political podcast episode: Is Canada’s consensus on immigration fracturing? (February 9, 2024)
  • Q&A feature in UBC News: How the international student cap affects immigration to Canada (February 1, 2024)
  • Quoted in The Toronto Star: How Canada can fix its ‘predatory’ relationship with international students (December 4, 2022)

And a little non-academic writing…

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