Margaret Walton-Roberts

Margaret Walton-Roberts is a professor at Wilfrid Laurier University and associate dean of the School of International Policy and Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. She is a human geographer with research interests in gender and the international migration of health-care professionals in the context of India. Her latest co-edited book, The Human Right to Citizenship: A Slippery Concept, is published by University of Pennsylvania Press (2016). 

Expertise
Transnational Migrant Networks Gender and Ethnicity
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Bio

Margaret Walton-Roberts is a human geographer trained in the United Kingdom and Canada who focuses on international migration. Her research has operated on two broad tracks: Indian emigration and transnational migrant networks; and immigration to second- and third-tier cities in Canada.

Her recent work focuses on a number of projects, including:

  • analysis and exploration of the links between trade and immigration using a comparative framework examining the Canada-India and Australia-India contexts;
  • the education and international migration of nurses from India;
  • immigrant attraction, retention and settlement in second-tier cities; and
  • comparative analysis of emigration circuits from Punjab and Kerala in India.

Margaret has published a number of journal articles and book chapters relating to immigration, gender and cultural dimensions of the economy. She is currently the director of Laurier’s International Migration Research Centre.

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