Neda Maghbouleh
Assistant Professor of Sociology +
Canada Research Chair in Migration, Race, and Identity
University of Toronto
My scholarship brings together the study of international migration and race/ethnicity to learn how refugees and immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) navigate new worlds in North America.
Beginning October 2019, I am a new 5-year chairholder in the federal Canada Research Chairs Program (Tier 2, for early-career faculty). As Canada Research Chair in Migration, Race, and Identity, I study the racialization of Iranian, Syrian and other MENA newcomers in the U.S. and Canada. My co-authors, research trainees and I use a variety of methods to discover the shifting, relational status of this migrant population in order to understand how borders, war, sanctions, and surveillance influence racial identity.
In 2018, I won the Province of Ontario's Early Researcher Award and secured a major SSHRC Insight Grant as Principal Investigator and lead researcher of the RISE (Refugee Integration, Stress, and Equity) Team, based at the University of Toronto. In 2017, I published my first book, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race (Stanford University Press).
I am passionate about the issue of refugee and immigrant wellbeing and I live in Toronto with my spouse, Clayton Childress (also a sociologist!), and our five year-old daughter.
Beginning October 2019, I am a new 5-year chairholder in the federal Canada Research Chairs Program (Tier 2, for early-career faculty). As Canada Research Chair in Migration, Race, and Identity, I study the racialization of Iranian, Syrian and other MENA newcomers in the U.S. and Canada. My co-authors, research trainees and I use a variety of methods to discover the shifting, relational status of this migrant population in order to understand how borders, war, sanctions, and surveillance influence racial identity.
In 2018, I won the Province of Ontario's Early Researcher Award and secured a major SSHRC Insight Grant as Principal Investigator and lead researcher of the RISE (Refugee Integration, Stress, and Equity) Team, based at the University of Toronto. In 2017, I published my first book, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race (Stanford University Press).
I am passionate about the issue of refugee and immigrant wellbeing and I live in Toronto with my spouse, Clayton Childress (also a sociologist!), and our five year-old daughter.
"Fighting Islamophobia through Arts, Advocacy, and Analysis" in Philadelphia, 2017
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Weekly RISE Team meetings in Toronto, 2019
"Congratulations" speaker, Canadian Citizenship Ceremony, 2019
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