Kim Rygiel

Co-Director, International Migration Research Centre   Professor, Political Science  

Kim Rygiel
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Kim Rygiel

Co-Director, International Migration Research Centre

Professor, Political Science

(519) 884-0710 | Ext. 2032 (Laurier)

krygiel@wlu.ca

 

Kim Rygiel is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University and the Balsillie School of International Affairs, 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 is author of Globalizing Citizenship (UBC Press, 2010) and co-author (with F. Baban and S. Ilcan) of The Precarious Lives of Syrians: Migration, Citizenship, and Temporary Protection in Turkey (MQUP 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,  European Journal of Social Theory, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, International Political Sociology and Ethics and Global Politics.

Awards

  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Awards:
    • SSHRC Insight Grant (2015-2020, PI): Living with others: Fostering cultural pluralism through citizenship politics.”
    • SSHRC Insight Grant (2015-2019, CI): “Humanitarian Aid, Citizenship Politics, and the Governance of Syrian Refugees in Turkey”
    • “Standard Research Grant (2011-2014, PI): “Geographies of Exclusion: Re-thinking Citizenship from the Margins”
  • Wilfrid Laurier University Merit Awards (2023, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2011)
  • Wilfrid Laurier University Award of Service Excellence and Community Engagement 2019
  • ENMISA Distinguished Book Award of the International Studies Association in 2011 for Globalizing Citizenship (UBC 2010). Awarded by the Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration section of the International Studies Association.

Select Publications

  • Rygiel, K. 2023. “Capturing the Border in Refugee Solidarity Cam Visits and City Tours in Germany: Theorizing Relationality through the Border as Horizons in Refugee/Migrant Solidarity Activism as Citizenship Politics,” Journal of Refugee Studies.
  • Baban, F., Ilcan, S and K. Rygiel. 2021. The Precarious Lives of Syrians: Migration, Citizenship, and Temporary Protection in Turkey. Montreal and London: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
  • Ataç, I., Rygiel, K. and M. Stierl. 2021. “Building Transversal Solidarities in European Cities: Open Harbours, Safe Communities, Home”, Critical Sociology. September 47(6): 923-939.
  • Baban, F. & K. Rygiel Eds. 2020. Fostering Pluralism through Solidarity Activism in Europe: Everyday Encounters with Newcomers. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Rygiel, K. and F. Baban. 2019/2020. “Countering Right-Wing Populism: Transgressive Cosmopolitanism and Solidarity Movements in Europe”, American Quarterly 71 (4) December/January:1069-1076.
  • Baban, F. & . Rygiel. 2017. “Living with others: fostering radical cosmopolitanism through citizenship politics in Berlin”, Ethics & Global Politics, 10:1, 98-116,
  • Ataç, I., Rygiel, K. and M. Stierl. 2016. “Introduction: the contentious politics of refugee and migrant protest and solidarity movements: remaking citizenship from the margins”, Citizenship Studies 20 (10): 1-18.
  • Rygiel, K. 2016. “Dying to Live: Migrant Deaths and Citizenship Politics along the European Border.” Citizenship Studies 20 (10): 1-16.
  • Baban, F. Ilcan, S. and K. Rygiel. 2016. “Syrian Refugees in Turkey: Pathways to Precarity, Differential Inclusion, and Negotiated Citizenship Rights”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 43 (1): 41-57. Published online 8 June.
  • Ataç, I., Rygiel, K. and M. Stierl. 2016. Guest editors. Citizenship Studies 20 (10) Special issue: The contentious politics of refugee and migrant protest and solidarity movements: remaking citizenship from the margins.
  • Kitchen, V and Rygiel, K. 2015. “Integrated security networks: Less not more Accountability.” The State on Trial: The Policing of Protests during the G20 Summit. M. Beare, N. Des Rosiers and A. Deshman, eds. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
  • Rygiel, K. and M. Walton-Roberts. 2015. “Multiple Citizenships and Slippery Statecraft.” The Human Right to Citizenship: A Slippery Concept, R. E. Howard-Hassmann and M. Walton-Roberts, eds., Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • Rygiel, K. 2014. “In Life Through Death: Transgressive Citizenship at the Border” in E. Isin and P. Nyers, eds. Routledge Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies. New York and London: Routledge. pp. 62-72.
  • Nyers, P. and K. Rygiel Eds. 2012. Citizenship, Migrant Activism, and the Politics of Movement. Routledge.
  • Rygiel, K. 2010. Globalizing Citizenship. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. 257 pp.

Education

  • PhD., York University, 2006
  • M.A., Carleton University, 1996
  • B.A., McGill University, 1992
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