Biography

As an immigrant to Canada, I am deeply interested in how a city’s public policies impact immigration resettlement. I also work with local communities to explore how settlement issues stemming from ethnic and religious diversity shape local public policy. I came to Canada in 2000, completing an MA in political science at Laval University and a PhD at the University of Montreal. I held SSHRC postdoctoral research positions at both Sciences Po Paris and MIT before joining SFU’s Department of Political Science in 2011. I currently hold a SSHRC grant to compare refugee resettlement in Canadian and French cities, and to discover how local governance determines resettlement outcomes. I am spending the 2019-2020 academic year in France on a Collegium Fellowship (Institute for Advanced Study) to complete my research.

Teaching Streams

• Diversity & Migration
• Public Policy & Democratic Governance
• Research Methods & Analysis

Research and Supervision Fields

• Immigration and Integration 
• Equity and Diversity in Cities
• Francophone Immigration and Francophone Minority Communities
• Citizenship
• Qualitative Methods

Publications

• 2020. The Reception of Exiles Outside Big Cities. Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, vol. 36 - n°2 et 3 (with Anouk Flamant, Aisling Healy and Camille Schmoll).
• 2019. Le Canada dans le monde. Acteurs, idées, gouvernance. Co-edited with R. Léger, J. Cornut, and N. Kenny. Montréal: Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal. 
• 2018. Citizenship as a Regime. Canadian and International Perspectives. Co-edited with M. Paquet and N. Nagels, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
• 2018. “Does the Scale of Funding Matter? Manitoba and British Columbia Before and After the Federal Repatriation of Settlement Services: The Case of Francophone Service Providers.” Journal of International Migration & Integration 19 (4): 865–881.
• 2015. “Bringing Cities ‘Back In’ to Canadian Political Science: Municipal Public Policy & Immigration.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 48 (2): 413-433.
• 2013. L’intégration des immigrants. Cinquante ans d’action publique locale. Montréal: Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal.