MEET DR. STACEY
Stacey Wilson-Forsberg is an associate professor of Human Rights at Wilfrid Laurier University and Director of the Tshepo Institute for the Study of Contemporary Africa. Stacey brings extensive research and publishing experience in human rights and community engagement with a focus on Canada, Africa and Spanish-speaking Latin America.
Stacey Wilson-Forsberg is an associate professor of Human Rights at Wilfrid Laurier University and Director of the Tshepo Institute for the Study of Contemporary Africa. Stacey brings extensive research and publishing experience in human rights and community engagement with a focus on Canada, Africa and Spanish-speaking Latin America. She has been convening and advising policy makers since 1997, and undertaking community-based research with immigrants, refugees and minority populations since 2006. She is the author of two books on immigrant and refugee youth in Canada and a forthcoming third book on migration corridors in Africa and Latin America. She currently holds several prestigious research grants on school and labour market transitions of African youth with refugee backgrounds. She has also published numerous peer reviewed papers and book chapters, as well as working papers, reports, and opinion pieces for a general audience.
VALUES
Compassion
Curiosity
Empathy
Optimism
Energy
DR. STACEY WILSON-FORSBERG
RESEARCH REFLECTIONS
My approach to research is to visit partners and stakeholders, listen to their needs, identify the problem and attempt to come up with a solution. If I can use that solution to help others, then all the better.
As an exchange student in Mexico many years ago, I experienced the silence and isolation of living and studying in a new language, and I learned the meaning of identity and belonging.
That messy, ambiguous process of understanding a society unlike my own taught me not only to know myself and what I am capable of, but in the words of C. Wright Mills, gave me a “playfulness of mind” and a “truly fierce drive to make sense of the world.” The introduction to the World outside of my home province of New Brunswick at a young age led me to a career in foreign policy and eventually a turn to academia with a focus on the lived experiences of immigrant youth and migrants with precarious immigration status.
Through research and teaching in the field, and interacting with migrants around the world, I began to fully understand the impact that year in Mexico had on my life and how the experience ultimately affected my growth as an educator and researcher.
PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Witnesses to Inhumanity on Shifting Terrain:
Wilson-Forsberg, S., Monaghan, S. R. and Correa Corrales, D. (2022). Witnesses to Inhumanity on Shifting Terrain: Embracing an Ethic of Discomfort for Optimal Learning in an International Field Course. Education, Citizenship, and Social Justice. DOI 10.1177/17461979221097073
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17461979221097073
Hanging on to Hope in a Mexican Migrant Shelter:
Wilson-Forsberg, S. and Parra, C. (2021) “Hanging on to Hope in a Mexican Migrant Shelter: The Empowering Potential of Albergue Tochán/ Aferrándose a una esperanza en una casa de migrante mexicana: el potencial empoderador de Albergue Tochán.” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 47(1) https://doi.org/10.1080/08263663.2022.1996703
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08263663.2022.1996703?journalCode=rclc20
African Immigrant Students and Postsecondary Education in Canada:
Shizha, E., Abdi, A. A., Wilson-Forsberg, S., and Masakure, O. (2020). “African Immigrant Students and Postsecondary Education in Canada: High School Teachers and School Career Counsellors as Gatekeepers.” Canadian Ethnic Studies Special Issue Beyond Blackness: Sub Saharan Immigrant Knowledge and Agency in Canada 52(3), 67-86.
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/781091
Great Expectations:
Wilson-Forsberg, S., Masakure, O., Shizha, E., Lafrenière, G., and Mfoafo-M’Carthy, M. (2019). “Great Expectations: Perspectives of Young West African Immigrant Men Transitioning to the Labour Market without Postsecondary Education.” Journal of International Migration and Integration, DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-019-00718-4. Now in print 2020 Vol. 21, 1309–1328 (2020).
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12134-019-00718-4
Disrupting an Imposed Identity or Performing the Model Minority?
Wilson-Forsberg, S., Masakure, O., Shizha, E., Lafrenière, G., and Mfoafo-M’Carthy, M. (2018). “Disrupting an Imposed Identity or Performing the Model Minority? The Pursuit of Postsecondary Education by Young African Immigrant Men in Southern Ontario, Canada & Race, Ethnicity and Education, DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2018.1497965. In print 2020 Vol. 23(1), 693-711.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13613324.2018.1497965
From Class Assignment to Friendship:
Wilson-Forsberg, S., Power, P., Kilgour, V., and Darling, S. (2018). From Class Assignment to Friendship: Enhancing the Intercultural Competence of Domestic and International Students through Experiential Learning.” Comparative and International Education 47(1): 1-18.
https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/cie-eci/article/view/9322
The Experiences of Low German-Speaking Mennonite Men in Alternative Education Programs in Southwestern Ontario
Brubacher, C., and Wilson-Forsberg, S. (2017). The Experiences of Low German Speaking Mennonite Men in Alternative Education Programs in Southwestern Ontario; Journal of Teaching and Learning
11(1): 1-19 https://jtl.uwindsor.ca/index.php/jtl/article/view/4871
The Volunteering Dogma and Canadian Work Experience: Do Recent Immigrants Volunteer Voluntarily?
Wilson-Forsberg, S. and Sethi, B. (2015). “The Volunteering Dogma and Canadian Work Experience: Do Recent Immigrants Volunteer Voluntarily?” Canadian Ethnic Studies 47(3): 91-121.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283240824_The_Volunteering_Dogma_and_Canadian_Work
_Experience_Do_Recent_Immigrants_Volunteer_Voluntarily
We Don’t Integrate; We Adapt:
Wilson-Forsberg, S. (2015). “We Don’t Integrate; We Adapt: Latin American Immigrants Interpret Their Canadian Employment Experiences in Southwestern Ontario.” Journal of International Migration and Integration 16(3): 469-489.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12134-014-0349-1
The Adaptation of Rural Communities to Socio Economic Change:
Wilson-Forsberg, S. (2013). “The Adaptation of Rural Communities to Socio Economic Change: Theoretical insights from Atlantic Canada.” Journal of Rural and Community Development 8(1): 160-177.
https://journals.brandonu.ca/jrcd/article/view/620
Budding Multiculturalism or Veiled Indifference?
Wilson-Forsberg, S. (2013). “Budding Multiculturalism or Veiled Indifference? Inter-Group Contact Among Immigrant and Native-Born Adolescents in Small Town Canada.” Journal of Intercultural Communication 31 (March).
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287439656_Budding_multiculturalism_or_veiled_indifferenc
e_Inter-group_contact_among_immigrant_and_native-born_adolescents_in_small-town_Canada
“My research focuses on youth unemployment (refugee youth in Canada, displaced youth in Africa and Latin America) and preparing youth for the future.”
Rosemary Dupuis
Rosemary Dupuis is a human rights advocate and feminist pursuing her Ph.D. in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University/University of Waterloo. Her expertise is in global health policy, violence and trauma, immigration, human rights, and refugee protection. She is passionate about local and global initiatives on the health of women with refugee experiences. Her current research nexus is violence against women and girls, human rights, and trauma/resilience-informed global health governance policy. Rosemary is affiliated with the Laurier International Migration Research Centre (IMRC); The Gender + Migration Hub, team member; Tshepo Institute for the Study of Contemporary Africa (TISCA), junior research fellow; and the UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab, research member.
Dr. Ardavan Eizadirad
Dr. Ardavan Eizadirad is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Wilfrid Laurier University. His research interests include equity, standardized testing, oral culture, community engagement, youth violence, anti-oppressive practices, critical pedagogy, social justice education, resistance, and decolonization. Ardavan is the founder and Director of EDIcation Consulting (www.edication.org) offering equity, diversity, and inclusion training to organizations. He is also a community activist with non-profit organizations Youth Association for Academics, Athletics, and Character Education (YAAACE) in the Jane and Finch community in Toronto and a member of the Race and Identity-Based Data Collection Community Advisory Panel with the Toronto Police Services.
Dr. Oliver Masakure
Dr. Oliver Masakure is an Associate Professor in Business Technology Management, and holds a joint appointment in the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics and the Human Rights and Human Diversity program at Wilfrid Laurier University. Facilitating partnered research is central to his consultant role at Voces 360, where he excels at identifying opportunities for research and collaboration with business and not-for-profit communities. With Dr. Wilson-Forsberg, Oliver has expanded research networks with academics in different disciplines across Canada and internationally. He has also fostered partnerships with community organizations that work with low-income and African families with refugee backgrounds, including Adventure4Change (Waterloo), Hunger Brant (Brantford), and Empowerment Squared (Hamilton). These relationships have deepened his understanding of the real issues facing immigrant African and marginalized communities in Ontario.
Nicolas Parent
Nicolas Parent is a cultural geographer at McGill University, where he examines how socio-spatial attributes of present day refugeehood have a mediating effect between pre-displacement oral histories and future aspirations of refugees. At the intersection of refugee and peace & conflict studies, his most recent project examines the corollary links between camp-based peacebuilding practices in Rwanda and refugees’ sense of futurity. His work has been published by The International Journal of Human Rights, Stability, and Current History, amongst others.
PUBLICATIONS
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press (2012)
Getting Used to the Quiet: Immigrant Adolescents’ Journey to Belonging in New Brunswick, Canada
Stacey Wilson-Forsberg looks at the integration experiences of immigrant adolescents in one small city and one rural town in New Brunswick’s St John River Valley where the youths find no earlier immigrant communities with shared cultural backgrounds.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (2018)
Immigrant Youth in Canada: Theoretical Approaches, Practical Issues, and Professional Perspectives
Immigrant Youth in Canada is designed to help students gain a better understanding of the complexities, challenges, and opportunities of the immigrant and second generation youth experience in Canada. Thirty-five Canadian researchers and practitioners offer strategies to respond to the challenges immigrant youth face, and explore ways to recognize the assets these youth bring to Canadian society.