Suzan Ilcan

Experts Meeting: The Home and Displaced People
Working Paper | Reflecting on Displacement and Resettlement: Experiences of Leaving Syria, Memories of Home, and Remaking Home in Canada

SUZAN ILCAN is Professor & University Research Chair in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo and Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA). Her research focuses on critical migration and border studies, asylum and refugee policies, citizenship, and social justice. She is the author of Longing in Belonging: The Cultural Politics of Settlement (Praeger), Governing the Poor (McGill-Queen’s University Press [MQUP], with A. Lacey), The Precarious Lives of Syrians: Migration, Citizenship, and Temporary Protection in Turkey (MQUP, with F. Baban and K. Rygiel), and Issues in Social Justice: Citizenship and Transnational Struggles (Oxford University Press, with T. Basok). She is the editor of several special journal issues and books, including Mobilities, Knowledge, and Social Justice (MQUP). Her work has also been published in a wide range of journals including Antipode, Area, Canadian Review of Sociology, Citizenship Studies, Geopolitics, International Political Sociology, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Journal of Refugee Studies.