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Peer-reviewed (double-anonymized) journal articles

2026

• Brunner, L. R., Streitwieser, B., & Bhandari, R. (2026). Classifications and clarifications: Rethinking international student mobility and the voluntariness of migration. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 24(2), 549–563.  https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2023.2261416 (download article here; originally published online in 2023)
• Marom, L., Fontaine, P., Brunner, L. R., & Chhina, G. (In press). Standing in the doorway: Representations and realities of Punjabi international students in Canada. Canadian Journal of Higher Education.

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)

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://doi.org/10.32674/jcihe.v13i5S.4061 (also available via https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/jcihe/vol13/iss5/4)
• 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

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.
• Marom, L., Brunner, L. R., Chhina, G., & Fontaine, P. (In press). Constructions of Punjabi international students in Canadian news media. In A. P. Kaur & I. S. Rajan (Eds.), Punjabi diaspora: Socio-cultural, political and economic engagements. Routledge.

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

Peer-reviewed policy and practice publications

• Brunner, L. R., & Mehta, D. (2026). Pathway promises and policy realities: Lessons from the international student reset of Canada. Migration Policy Practice, XV(1), 43-50.
• 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)

Reports and working papers

• 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., & 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., 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. (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).
• Brunner, L. R. (2010). Changing faces, changing neighbourhoods: Government assisted refugee settlement patterns in Metro Vancouver. Immigrant Services Society of British Columbia Special Report.

Immigration Policy Decoded explainers

• Brunner, L. R. (2026, April). How will Bill C-12 impact Canadian immigration and refugee protection? Immigration Policy Decoded (No. 2026-01).

 Affiliation of Multicultural Societies and Service Agencies of British Columbia (AMSSA) policy briefs

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

• 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.
• 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., & 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
• 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., & Unangst, L. (2023, February 14).  Can Canadian models help refugees in the United States? University World News.
• 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 non-fiction

• 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., 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.