Associate Professor
Chair in Multiculturalism
Stephen Leacock Building, Room 825
855 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2T7
罢别濒.:听514-398-1579
贰尘补颈濒:听jennifer.elrick [at] mcgill.ca
Personal website:
Research Areas
Migration governance, diversity, and social stratification; immigration policymaking and implementation; social construction of legal and administrative categories (e.g., in censuses and immigration law); citizenship; multiculturalism; political communication (deliberation).
Biography
(PhD, University of Toronto,听Department of Sociology,听2017)
Jennifer Elrick joined the Department of Sociology in 2016. She studies connections between migration governance, diversity, and social stratification. Under this umbrella, her most recent work focuses on two complementary themes: 1) how actors inside states construct classifications of populations in terms of legal status, race/ethnicity, social class, morality, and other social distinctions; and 2) the material and symbolic effects of these institutionalized classifications. She is also interested in exploring people鈥檚 鈥渂ottom-up鈥� responses to the 鈥渢op-down鈥� classifications developed by states (e.g., ethnic categories in censuses and legal categories in immigration law). Her research draws on a range of qualitative methods, including interviews, focus groups, and content analysis, and is multi-national in scope, focusing on Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Since arriving at 91社区, Prof. Elrick鈥檚 research has received financial support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Fonds de recherche du Qu茅bec - Soci茅t茅 et culture (FRQSC), and an Internal 91社区 COVID-19 Rapid Response Social Sciences and Humanities Award & MI4 Emergency Covid-19 Research Funding (ECRF). The results of this research have been published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, International Migration, International Migration Review, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, the Journal of International Migration and Integration, Sociological Forum, and Sociology.
Her first book, 听, was published by University of Toronto Press in late 2021. It has since been shortlisted for the Canadian Political Science Association鈥檚 2022 Donald Smiley Prize for the best book in a field relating to the study of government and politics in Canada. It also received an official honourable mention in the American Political Science Association鈥檚 (Canadian Politics Section) 2022 Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award, which honours a significant contemporary contribution to scholarship on Canadian politics
Prof. Elrick plays an active role in international academic publishing and organizations. She is a member of the Editorial Board at Ethnic and Racial Studies. She has also been elected to serve on the Executive Committee at the Council for European Studies (CES) from 2022 to 2026, where she previously served as Co-Chair of the Immigration Research Network (2016-2020).
Publications
A full list of publications and a current CV are available on Prof. Elrick's .
Courses Taught
Graduate Courses
SOCI 595 Immigration Control and The State
Undergraduate Courses
SOCI 210 Sociological Perspectives
SOCI 330 Sociological Theory
SOCI 430 The Sociology of Citizenship