Yasmeen Abu-Laban

Yasmeen Abu-Laban

Professor and Associate Chair (Research) in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta

Contributor Biography

Yasmeen Abu-Laban is Professor and Associate Chair (Research) in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta.

Her research interests centre on the Canadian and comparative dimensions of gender, racialization, migration, citizenship and rights. She has published a large number of book chapters as well as articles in both national and international journals such as International Political Science Review, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Canadian Public Policy, International Politics, Review of Constitutional Studies, and Race and Class.

Additionally, she is the co-author (with Christina Gabriel) of Selling Diversity: Immigration, Multiculturalism, Employment Equity and Globalization (2002), co-editor (with Radha Jhappan and François Rocher) of Politics in North America: Redefining Continental Relations (2008) and editor of Gendering the Nation-State: Canadian and Comparative Perspectives (2008). Surveillance and Control in Israel/Palestine: Population, Territory and Power (co-edited with Elia Zureik and David Lyon) will be published by Routledge in December 2010.

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