Office Location
MU 204N
Phone Number
416-978-4160
Fax Number
416-946-8915
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Area Group(s)
- International Relations
- Comparative Politics
Education
- MESc, University of British Columbia
- M.Phil., University of Oxford
- D. Phil., University of Oxford
Randall Hansen
Professor
Canada Research Chair in Immigration and Governance, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
Interim Director, Munk School for Global Affairs
Biography
Works on forced and voluntary migration, eugenics and population policy, and the effect of war on civilian populations. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Global Migration and directs the Munk School’s Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian studies. His current book project examines the effect of post-1970s global capitalism on low-skilled migration and refugees. He is author of Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance after Valkyrie (Oxford, 2014), Sterilized by the State: Eugenics, Race and the Population Scare in 20th Century North America (with Desmond King, Cambridge, 2013), Fire and Fury: the Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945 (Penguin, 2009), Citizenship and Immigration in Postwar Britain (Oxford, 2000), (with David Leal and Gary P. Freeman), Immigration and Public Opinion in Europe and North America (Routledge, 2012), (with Jobst Koehler and Jeannette Money) Immigration, Nation States, and International Cooperation (eds.) (Routledge, 2011) (with Matthew Gibney, eds.), Immigration and Asylum from 1900 to the present [Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2005), (with Patrick Weil, eds.), Dual Citizenship, Social Rights and Federal Citizenship in the US and Europe (Berghahn, 2002), and (with Patrick Weil, eds.), Towards a European Nationality: Citizenship, Immigration and Nationality Law in the EU (Palgrave, 2001), as well as articles in World Politics, Comparative Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, and the European Journal of Political Research.
Research Interests
- Eugenics and Forced Sterilization in North America and Europe
- Immigration and Migration
- Aerial Bombardment of Germany During World War II
Recent News
- SSHRC Insight Grant Awards
- Canada Research Chair in Global Migration
- Exploring Violence and Peace in Divided Societies
- Following Germany’s Lead
- The 2015 Greek Election and the Future of Europe
- Paris attack exposes old colonial wounds
- The massacres in Norway and their relation to Multiculturalism, examined by Professor Randall Hansen
- Professor Randall Hansen discusses immigration policy in Britain in the Economist