Kim Rygiel, Wilfrid Laurier University
Co-chief Editor, Citizenship Studies Co-Director, International Migration Research Centre Professor Professor, Balsillie School of International Affairs Waterloo, Ontario krygiel@wlu.ca
Bio/Research
Kim Rygiel is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University and the Balsillie School of International Affairs and is Co-Director of Laurier’s International Migration Research Centre (IMRC) and Co-chief Editor of the journal, Citizenship Studies. Her research foc...
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Bio/Research
Kim Rygiel is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University and the Balsillie School of International Affairs and is Co-Director of Laurier’s International Migration Research Centre (IMRC) and Co-chief Editor of the journal, Citizenship Studies. Her research focuses on critical migration, citizenship and border politics, including migrant and refugee-led social movements and solidarity struggles for migrant rights within North America and in Europe.
She received her PhD from York University in 2006; her MA from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University in 1996. Prior to joining Laurier, she completed a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition at McMaster University and was an assistant professor in the Department of Politics at Trent University.
She is the author of Globalizing Citizenship (UBC Press, 2010), co-winner of the 2011 ENMISA Distinguished Book Award of the International Studies Association and co-author (with F. Baban) of Migration, Cosmpolitanism and Civil Society: Fostering Cultural Pluralism though Citizenship Politics (Routledge 2024), co-author (with F. Baban and S. Ilcan) of The Precarious Lives of Syrians:Migration, Citizenship and Temporary Protection in Turkey (McGill Queen's University Press, 2021). Edited books include Fostering Pluralism through Solidarity Activism in Europe: Everyday Encounters with Newcomers (with F. Baban, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020); Citizenship, Migrant Activism and the Politics of Movement (with P. Nyers, Routledge 2012) and (En)Gendering the War on Terror: War Stories and Camouflaged Politics (with K. Hunt, Ashgate 2006). Her work is published in journals such as American Quarterly, Critical Sociology, Citizenship Studies, Ethics and Global Politics, European Journal of Social Theory, International Political Sociology, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Journal of Refugee Studies.
Professor Rygiel’s past research projects include two SSHRC funded projects:
- The first “Living with others: Fostering cultural pluralism through citizenship politics,” investigates why, how and under what conditions some communities are more open to cultural difference than others; what types of projects facilitate openness to newcomers and how do citizens and non-citizens participate in these projects in ways that transform understandings of citizenship and belonging (conducted with Feyzi Baban, Trent University and collaborator Fuat Keyman, Sabanci University).
- The second project, “Humanitarian Aid, Citizenship Politics, and the Governance of Syrian Refugees in Turkey,” investigates the nature of humanitarian aid responses to emergencies involving Syrian refugees in Turkey (conducted with Susan Ilcan, University of Waterloo and Feyzi Baban, Trent University). She is also working on a co-authored book with S. Ilcan and F. Baban on this research (forthcoming, McGill-Queen’s University Press).
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She received her PhD from York University in 2006; her MA from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University in 1996. Prior to joining Laurier, she completed a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition at McMaster University and was an assistant professor in the Department of Politics at Trent University.
She is the author of Globalizing Citizenship (UBC Press, 2010), co-winner of the 2011 ENMISA Distinguished Book Award of the International Studies Association and co-author (with F. Baban) of Migration, Cosmpolitanism and Civil Society: Fostering Cultural Pluralism though Citizenship Politics (Routledge 2024), co-author (with F. Baban and S. Ilcan) of The Precarious Lives of Syrians:Migration, Citizenship and Temporary Protection in Turkey (McGill Queen's University Press, 2021). Edited books include Fostering Pluralism through Solidarity Activism in Europe: Everyday Encounters with Newcomers (with F. Baban, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020); Citizenship, Migrant Activism and the Politics of Movement (with P. Nyers, Routledge 2012) and (En)Gendering the War on Terror: War Stories and Camouflaged Politics (with K. Hunt, Ashgate 2006). Her work is published in journals such as American Quarterly, Critical Sociology, Citizenship Studies, Ethics and Global Politics, European Journal of Social Theory, International Political Sociology, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Journal of Refugee Studies.
Professor Rygiel’s past research projects include two SSHRC funded projects:
- The first “Living with others: Fostering cultural pluralism through citizenship politics,” investigates why, how and under what conditions some communities are more open to cultural difference than others; what types of projects facilitate openness to newcomers and how do citizens and non-citizens participate in these projects in ways that transform understandings of citizenship and belonging (conducted with Feyzi Baban, Trent University and collaborator Fuat Keyman, Sabanci University).
- The second project, “Humanitarian Aid, Citizenship Politics, and the Governance of Syrian Refugees in Turkey,” investigates the nature of humanitarian aid responses to emergencies involving Syrian refugees in Turkey (conducted with Susan Ilcan, University of Waterloo and Feyzi Baban, Trent University). She is also working on a co-authored book with S. Ilcan and F. Baban on this research (forthcoming, McGill-Queen’s University Press).
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