Social and Cultural Geography

B.A. Honours, University of Winnipeg; M.A., Ph.D. (1987), University of Toronto

"I conduct research on migration as a form of contemporary globalization. At the broadest scale, this includes an interest on how migration is controlled by nation states through policy and regulatory systems, and also how people become mobile, with or without the consent of states. I try to understand Canadian immigration policy within this wider context, and consider it in relation to the policies of other countries, especially in Europe and Australasia. At the local scale I study the consequences of immigration in Canadian cities, highlighting Vancouvers situation (over 830,000 foreign-born in a population of 2.1 million people). More specifically, I look at the integration of newcomers in the labour and housing markets of cities, and how this changes their residential structure and social relations."

Website: blogs.ubc.ca/dhiebert/

Email Contact: dan.hiebert@ubc.ca

Office Phone: 604-822-4500

Room Number: GEOG 140E

B.A. Honours, Oxford (1968); M.S., Ph.D. (1972), Pennsylvania State University

"I have undertaken a number of (sometimes comparative) projects on immigration to Canadian cities. Topics have included: immigration and housing and labour markets; offsetting immigration and domestic migration in world cities; immigration and poverty; immigrant churches as service hubs; multiculturalism and the governance of diversity. An abiding focus has been the experience of wealthy business migrants. This work is drawn together in a forthcoming book: Millionaire Migrants: Trans-Pacific Life Lines. I have always been concerned with processes of social and spatial change in older inner city neighbourhoods. A principle focus has been gentrification, processes of urban reinvestment leading to housing renovation or redevelopment and the replacement and displacement of poorer households by the middle-class. Currently, I am begining a project that extends the field site from Canadian Cities to the different economic and political contexts of Hong Kong."

Dr. Ley was Department Head (2009-2012). He was the UBC Director of the Metropolis Project, examining issues of immigration and integration in Greater Vancouver and beyond, from 1996-2003, and was appointed a Trudeau Fellow from 2003-2006. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Geography.

Honours: Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada

Website: www.geog.ubc.ca/~dley

Website: riim.metropolis.net/

Email Contact: david.ley@geog.ubc.ca

Office Phone: 604-822-3268

Room Number: GEOG 208

B.Sc. Honours, University of Toronto; M.A., Ph.D. (1984), UBC

"I am completing a 15 year research collaboration with the Philippine Women Centre of BC that has moved from looking at the circumstances of Filipino women working in Canada as domestic workers on temporary work visas, to the issue of family separation and the long term marginalization of families sponsored by domestic workers after they gain permanent resident status in Canada. This feeds into a larger debate about the growing number of temporary work visa and bridging immigration programs. We are experimenting with novel ways of bringing our research to a wider public, most notably through testimonial theatre. Our play, Nanay was performed in Vancouver in February 2009 and at the Hebbel Theatre in Berlin in June 2009. I have been preoccupied with how to put stories of family separation into circulation, with the politics of testimony and witnessing, and the obligations of witnessing beyond national boundaries."

Associate Dean - Faculty, Faculty of Arts July 2010 - June 2011

Website: www.geog.ubc.ca/~gpratt

Email Contact: gerry.pratt@geog.ubc.ca

Office Phone: 604-822-5875

Room Number: GEOG 140D