John Carlaw is an Assistant Professor in the Criminology department at Toronto Metropolitan University.

He was formerly a Senior Research Associate under the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration Program at Toronto Metropolitan University, where he co-led the Politics and Narratives of Migration research theme. His work explores the politics and social relations of citizenship, immigration and multiculturalism.

His work has appeared in Canadian Diversity, the CERC/RCIS Working Paper Series, the Conversation, the Journal of Canadian Studies, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ The Harper Record 2008-2015, Nationalism and Ethnic Studies, and Studies in Political Economy.

John holds a PhD from the Department of Political Science, York University. From 2015 to 2019, he served as Project Lead of York University's Syria Response and Refugee Initiative, a refugee sponsorship and education initiative at York’s Centre for Refugee Studies. He has previously taught in the politics/political science departments at Trent University and the Glendon Campus of York University.

Experience

  • 2014–present
    Affiliated Researcher, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University
  • 2024–present
    Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology, Toronto Metropolitan University
  • 2020–present
    Affiliated Researcher, Global Labour Research Centre, York University
  • 2024–present
    Affiliated Researcher, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Immigration and Settlement (TMCIS), Toronto Metropolitan University
  • 2024–present
    Affiliated Researcher, Canada Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration Program, Toronto Metropolitan University
  • 2023–2024
    Senior Research Associate under the Canada Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration Program, Toronto Metropolitan University
  • 2021–2024
    Faculty Associate, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York University
  • 2020–2024
    Contract Faculty, Glendon College Political Science Department, York University
  • 2020–2023
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow under the Canada Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration Program, Toronto Metropolitan University
  • 2015–2019
    Project Lead, Syria Response and Refugee Initiative, York University Centre for Refugee Studies, York University

Education

  • 2020 
    York University, PhD, Political Science

Publications

  • 2022
    Blunt talk or faux outrage? The politics of expanding migrant worker programs under Canada’s former Conservative government (2006–2015), 102(3), 331-353.,  Studies in Political Economy
  • 2022
    (with Elke Winter) Conservatism and the Re-Communitarianization of Citizenship in Canada, Nationalism and Ethnic Studies
  • 2021
    Multiculturalism and its Adjectives: Situating Neoconservative Multiculturalism (pp. 34-41) and Le multiculturalisme et ses adjectifs: Situer le multiculturalisme néoconservateur (pp. 42-46). Vol 18, No. 1. December., Canadian Diversity/Diversité Canadienne
  • 2017
    Authoritarian Populism and Canada's Conservative Decade (2006–2015) in Citizenship and Immigration: The Politics and Practices of Kenneyism and Neo-conservative Multiculturalism, Journal of Canadian Studies

Grants and Contracts

  • 2023
    Contemporary Paradoxes and Struggles of Migration and Belonging in Canada
    Role:
    Principal Applicant
    Funding Source:
    Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Professional Memberships

  • Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS)
  • Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA)
  • International Political Science Association (IPSA)

Contact John for

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