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    Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

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  • The Injustice of Statelessness in Canada

    The Injustice of Statelessness in Canada

    • Analysis
    • March 29, 2022

    A young man named Deepan Budlakoti remains caught in a legal limbo created and perpetuated by the Canadian government’s refusal to acknowledge his citizenship. He was born in Ottawa in 1987, and until 2009, he assumed that meant he was …

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  • How Should Democracies Fight Terrorism?

    How Should Democracies Fight Terrorism?

    • Analysis
    • October 28, 2020


    One of the most important jobs that states have is to protect their citizens, from threats of all kinds, including terrorist threats.  States protect citizens from terrorism by adopting policies to prevent it and punish it.  In my book, How …

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  • Seeking Asylum During the Pandemic: On Why Borders Must Remain a Little Open

    Seeking Asylum During the Pandemic: On Why Borders Must Remain a Little Open

    • Analysis
    • April 22, 2020


    As states have increasingly hunkered down to stop the spread of COVID-19, they have imposed increasing restrictions on the movement of people across borders. Airlines began by cancelling flights from China; then, US President Donald Trump banned incoming flights from …

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  • Trump’s New, Undemocratic, Denaturalization Policy

    Trump’s New, Undemocratic, Denaturalization Policy

    • Analysis
    • February 27, 2020

    This week, the US Justice Department announced the creation of a “Denaturalization Section”, which will focus on stripping US citizenship status of those it believes had acquired it fraudulently.  However, this choice contributes to the undermining of the post-World War …

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  • “If you want to kill me, please kill me quick”

    “If you want to kill me, please kill me quick”

    • Analysis
    • April 12, 2019

    The images, and voices, from Libya’s migrant detention centres are sickening. An online blog posted a letter written by an anonymous refugee from Darfur, detained in Libya. “RS” writes of having left his village, destroyed by the Janjaweed, to find …

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  • Finding Asylum Just Got Harder

    Finding Asylum Just Got Harder

    • Analysis
    • April 12, 2019

    Refugee advocates in Canada breathed a sigh of relief in October of 2015. Immediately upon the election of the Liberals under the leadership of Justin Trudeau, the doors opened to thousands of Syrian refugees. Tens of thousands of Syrians have …

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  • Punishment or Banishment?

    Punishment or Banishment?

    • Analysis
    • February 22, 2019

    So-called jihadi brides are in the news, accused of supporting terrorism by having travelled to ISIS territory to marry ISIS fighters in support of the caliphate. Three Western states are implicated: the UK, the US, and Canada.

    UK citizen Shemima …

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  • Time to Make the Rainbow Refugee Assistance Plan Permanent

    Time to Make the Rainbow Refugee Assistance Plan Permanent

    • Analysis
    • March 21, 2018

    In too many countries around the world, LGBTQ persons are criminalized — singled out for who they love — with criminal penalties including prison time and death. Canada’s refugee admission system is not perfect, but one of its great strengths …

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  • Border Challenges Set to Test Canada’s Welcoming Self-Image

    Border Challenges Set to Test Canada’s Welcoming Self-Image

    • Analysis
    • February 15, 2017

    Canadians are on the brink of a difficult test: are we prepared to live up to our stated commitments to tolerance by welcoming immigrants and refugees who fear living in Trump’s America?

    Canadians often describe Canada as a welcoming country, …

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  • We Are All Responsible for the Safe Passage of Syrian Refugees

    We Are All Responsible for the Safe Passage of Syrian Refugees

    • Analysis
    • September 8, 2015

    Philosophers are fond of asking this question, to press peoples’ intuitions about the right thing to do: Imagine you are walking by a pond, in your fanciest suit on your way to an important meeting, and you notice a baby …

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  • Unlike Canadian Expats Living Abroad, Non-Citizen Residents Are Directly Impacted by our Laws, Yet Have No Say in Them

    Unlike Canadian Expats Living Abroad, Non-Citizen Residents Are Directly Impacted by our Laws, Yet Have No Say in Them

    • Analysis
    • August 13, 2015

    Published in the National Post, July 31, 2015

    Donald Sutherland is upset. He wants to vote in Canadian elections because he feels Canadian, because he has to restrain himself from saying “eh?” and because he’s a citizen. But he’s …

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  • Not for Sale: Protecting the Victims of Human Trafficking in Europe and Canada

    • Analysis
    • November 16, 2014

    The conference Not For Sale: Protecting the Victims of Human Trafficking in Europe and Canada, held on October 16, was organized jointly by the Embassies of Switzerland and Austria, in collaboration with the Centre for International Policy Studies at …

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  • A Failure to Protect: Canada’s Shameful Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis

    • Analysis
    • December 9, 2013

    By Emma Kenyon and Patti Tamara Lenard

    The Canadian government’s response to the Syria refugee crisis is pathetic. In the face of what some are calling the worst refugee crisis in a generation—in 2013 the number of registered Syrian refugees …

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  • Protecting Whom? Certainly Not Refugees or Canada’s Reputation for Justice

    • Analysis
    • October 31, 2013

    By Emma Kenyon and Patti Tamara Lenard

    The Throne Speech has come and gone, and buried in the hoopla surrounding the demise of cable television bundling were some terrifically misleading claims about “progress” towards meeting Canada’s immigration priorities.

    The government …

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  • Indecent Proposals: Why the Fraser Institute is Wrong on Immigration

    • Analysis
    • September 3, 2013

    Published September 9, 2013 on the Broadbent Blog

    My best guess is that the Fraser Institute expects no one to read the report behind their newest sensationalist press release, in which they claim that the cost of immigrants to Canada …

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  • Immigration Raids Are Not Entertainment

    • Analysis
    • March 18, 2013

    On Friday, the Globe and Mail reported that, accompanied by television crews to film their activities, the Canadian Services Border Agency (CSBA) raided construction sites in British Columbia believed to be staffed in part by irregular migrants, with the purpose …

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  • Canada Steps up Global Competition for ‘Brains’—At What Cost?

    • Analysis
    • September 16, 2012

    The global competition for talent—the ‘battle for the brains’—is fierce, and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney knows that Canada can no longer assume that it is uniquely attractive as a destination for high-skilled migrants. Along with many other states, we must …

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