Christina Gabriel

Christina Gabriel received her PhD from the Department of Political Science at York University in 1998. She held a Killam Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Alberta, 1998-1999. Before joining the Department of Political Science at Carleton she taught at York University, Toronto and Trent University, Peterborough.

Christina’s teaching interests are in gender and politics, Canadian politics and political economy. Her specific research interests focus on citizenship and migration, gender and politics, regional integration and globalization.

Christina has co-authored with Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Selling Diversity: Immigration, Multiculturalism, Employment Equity and Globalization (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2002) and is the co-editor with Hélène Pellerin of Governing International Labour Migration (UK: Routledge, 2008). She has contributed chapters to various edited collections focusing on issues such as gender and migration, border control and North American regional integration. She also holds a three-year grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for a joint study [with Laura Macdonald] “Social Citizenship in North America”.

Selected Significant Publications

Governing International Labour Migration. Current Issues, Challenges and Dilemmas. (UK: Routledge, 2008). 242 pages [Equal co-editor with Hélène Pellerin]

“Migration and Citizenship Rights in a New North American Space” Requiem or Revival: The Promise of North American Integration., eds. Isabel Studer and Carol Wise (Washington: Brookings Press, 2007) pp. 353-370 [equal co-author with Laura Macdonald] pp. 267-288.

“Managing Trade Engagements? Mapping the Contours of State Feminism and Women’s Political Activism in Canada”, Canadian Foreign Policy 12:1 Spring (2005) pp. 71-88 [equal co-author with Laura Macdonald].

Selling Diversity: Immigration, Multiculturalism, Employment Equity and Globalization (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2002).  [Equal co-author with Yasmeen Abu-Laban] 202 pages.

“NAFTA, Women and Organizing in Canada and Mexico: Forging a ‘Feminist Internationality’” Millennium: A Journal of International Studies 23:3 (Winter 1994) pp. 535-562 [Equal co-author with Laura Macdonald].

“A Question of Skills: Gender, Migration Policy and the Global Economy” Global Regulation: Managing Crisis after the Imperial Turn, eds., Libby Assassi, Kees van der Pijl, Duncan Wigan, eds., (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004) pp. 162-176.