Anna Lise Purkey

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Dr. Anna Purkey is the Program director and an Associate Professor of Human Rights at United College at the University of Waterloo. As a lawyer and human rights scholar with a focus on refugee and forced migration studies, she received her Doctorate in Law from McGill University and is a member of the Quebec Bar Association and the executive of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS). She has previously held the position of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice (Canada) and has worked as an external consultant for the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.
Dr Purkey’s research focuses on international and Canadian refugee law and policy, with a special emphasis on protracted refugee situations and themes of human rights, human capability, and legal empowerment. Recent and current projects center on the concept of vulnerability in the Canadian refugee system, and the treatment of marginalized groups including refugee children and older refugees.

Experience

  • 2020–present
    Program director, Human Rights Program
  • 2020–present
    Associate Professor, United College at the University of Waterloo
  • 2019–2020
    Summer Course Director, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University
  • 2019–2020
    Senior research associate, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University
  • 2020–2020
    External Consultant , Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
  • 2016–2019
    Assistant Professor, St. Jerome's University, University of Waterloo
  • 2015–2016
    Postdoctoral fellow, Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa
  • 2006–2009
    Legal Counsel, Department of Justice, Canada

Education

  • 2015 
    McGill University, Doctorate of Civil Law
  • 2008 
    University of Toronto, Master of Laws
  • 2005 
    McGill University, BCL/LLB

Publications

  • 2024
    Accommodating Vulnerable Claimants in the Refugee Hearing: The Canadian Example, IMISCOE
  • 2022
    Vulnerability and the Quest for Protection: A Review of Canadian Migration Case Law, Laws
  • 2022
    Exclusion in the Time of COVID-19: Migrant rights in Canada during the pandemic, Canadian Yearbook of Human Rights
  • 2022
    Challenges of Canada's Contemporary Migration Policy, Genova University Press
  • 2021
    Sustaining the Private Sponsorship of Resettled Refugees in Canada, Frontiers in Human Dynamics
  • 2020
    From the European 'Migration Crisis' to the Global Compact for Migration: A political transition short on legal standards, McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law
  • 2019
    Refugee Dignity in Protracted Exile: Rights, Capabilities and Legal Empowerment, Routledge
  • 2016
    Justice, Reconciliation, and Ending Displacement: Legal Empowerment and Refugee Engagement in Transitional Processes, Refugee Survey Quarterly
  • 2014
    A Dignified Approach: Legal Empowerment and Human Rights in Protracted Refugee Situations, Journal of Refugee Studies
  • 2013
    Questioning Governance in Protracted Refugee Situations: The Fiduciary Nature of the State-Refugee Relationships, International Journal of Refugee Law
  • 2011
    Whose Right to What Justice? The Administration of Justice in Refugee Camps , New England Journal of International and Comparative Law

Grants and Contracts

  • 2016
    Michigan Grotius Research Fellowship
    Role:
    Principal
    Funding Source:
    University of Michigan Law School
  • 2015
    From Beneficiaries to Actors: Understanding displaced persons' roles in resolution processes
    Role:
    Collaborator
    Funding Source:
    Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • 2014
    Legal Empowerment for a Dignified Life: Fiduciary Duty and human rights-based capabilities in protracted refugee situations
    Role:
    Principal
    Funding Source:
    Fonds de Recherche Societe et Culture, Quebec
  • 2009
    Richard H. Tomlinson Doctoral Fellowship
    Role:
    Principal
    Funding Source:
    McGill University

Professional Memberships

  • Quebec Bar Association

Contact Anna for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision