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Kim Rygiel is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University and the Balsillie School of International Affairs and is the Associate Director and research associate with Laurier’s International Migration Research Centre (IMRC). Her research focuses on border security, migration and citizenship politics within North America and in Europe. She received her PhD from York University in 2006; her MA from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University in 1996. Prior to joining Laurier, she completed a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow at the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition at McMaster University and was an assistant professor in the Department of Politics at Trent University.
She is the author of Globalizing Citizenship (UBC Press, 2010), co-winner of the 2011 ENMISA Distinguished Book Award of the International Studies Association and is co-editor, with Peter Nyers, of Citizenship, Migrant Activism and the Politics of Movement (Routledge 2012) and, with Krista Hunt, of (En)Gendering the War on Terror: War Stories and Camouflaged Politics (Ashgate, 2006). She is the author of several book chapters and journal articles, which are published in Citizenship Studies, Review of Constitutional Studies, European Journal of Social Theory and International Political Sociology. Professor Rygiel is Associate Editor of Citizenship Studies.
Other website: www.balsillieschool.ca/people/kim-rygiel.
Professor Rygiel’s current research projects include two SSHRC funded projects:
- The first “Living with others: Fostering cultural pluralism through citizenship politics,” investigates why, how and under what conditions some communities are more open to cultural difference than others; what types of projects facilitate openness to newcomers and how do citizens and non-citizens participate in these projects in ways that transform understandings of citizenship and belonging (conducted with Feyzi Baban, Trent University and collaborator Fuat Keyman, Sabanci University).
- The second project, “Humanitarian Aid, Citizenship Politics, and the Governance of Syrian Refugees in Turkey,” investigates the nature of humanitarian aid responses to emergencies involving Syrian refugees in Turkey (conducted with Susan Ilcan, University of Waterloo and Feyzi Baban, Trent University). She is also working on a co-authored book with S. Ilcan and F. Baban on this research (forthcoming, McGill-Queen’s University Press).
- Globalizing Citizenship (University of British Columbia, 2010) was co-winner of the ENMISA Distinguished Book Award for Globalizing Citizenship (awarded by the Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration section of the International Studies Association) and shortlisted for the Canadian Political Science Association Prize in International Relations (2011).
- Merit Award, Wilfrid Laurier University (2011, 2014, 2015).
I may have research assistantship opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students interested in migration, citizenship and border security. Opportunities for fieldwork may also be available in the summer. Contact me for more information.
I am willing to supervise graduate students in the areas of international relations/global governance/international political sociology and with a particular interest in migrant/citizenship politics, migration and mobility; border security; asylum seekers and refugees; cultural pluralism.
Books
Single-authored:
- Rygiel, Kim (2010) Globalizing Citizenship. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
Edited:
- Nyers, Peter and K. Rygiel, Eds. (2012) Citizenship, Migrant Activism, and the Politics of Movement. London: Routledge. Paperback edition released May 2014.
- Nyers, P. and K. Rygiel. “Citizenship, Migrant Activism and the Politics of Movement” (Intro pp. 1-19). Translated into German. “Citizenship, migrantischer Aktivismus und Politien der Bewegung” in Grenzregime II: Migration, kontrolle, Wissen; Transnationale Perspektiven. L.M. Heimeshoff, S. Hess, S. Kron, H. Schwenken and M. Trzeciak, Eds. Berlin and Hamburg: Assoziation A. 2014: 197-216.
- Hunt, Krista and Kim Rygiel, Eds. (2006) (En)Gendering the War on Terror : War Stories and Camouflaged Politics. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate.
Journal Articles
Single-authored articles:
- Rygiel, Kim (2012). ‘‘Politicizing camps: Forging transgressive citizenships in and through transit.” Citizenship Studies. 16 (5-6): 807-825.
- Rygiel, Kim (2012). “Governing mobility and rights to movement post 9/11: Managing irregular and refugee migration through detention.” Review of Constitutional Studies.16 (2): 2211-241.
- Rygiel, Kim (2011). "Bordering Solidarities: Migrant activism and the politics of movement and camps at Calais." Citizenship Studies.15 (1): 1-19.
Co-authored articles:
- Ilcan, Suzan and Kim Rygiel. “ ‘Resiliency Humanitarianism’: Reconstituting Refugee Populations, Camp Spaces, and Refugee Subjects.” International Political Sociology (forthcoming).
- Baban, Feyzi and Kim Rygiel (2014). “Snapshots from the margins: Transgressive cosmopolitanisms in Europe.” European Journal of Social Theory 17 (4): 461-478.
- Kitchen, Veronica and Kim Rygiel (2014). "Privatizing Security, Securitizing Policing: The Case of the G20 in Toronto, Canada." International Political Sociology 8 (2): 201-217, 2014.
Selected papers in refereed journals:
- Baban, F. and K. Rygiel. “Living with others: Fostering radical cosmopolitanism through citizenship politics in Berlin,” Ethics & Global Politics. (forthcoming).
- Ilcan, S., Rygiel, K. and F. Baban. “The Ambiguous Architecture of Precarity: Temporary Protection, Everyday Living, and Migrant Journeys of Syrian Refugees.” International Journal of Migration and Border Studies. (forthcoming).
- Ataç, I., Rygiel, K. and M. Stierl. 2016. “Introduction: the contentious politics of refugee and migrant protest and solidarity movements: remaking citizenship from the margins,” Citizenship Studies 20 (10): 1-18.
- Rygiel, K. 2016. “Dying to Live: Migrant Deaths and Citizenship Politics along the European Border.” Citizenship Studies 20 (10): 1-16.
- Baban, F. Ilcan, S. and K. Rygiel. 2016. “Syrian Refugees in Turkey: Pathways to Precarity, Differential Inclusion, and Negotiated Citizenship Rights,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Published online 8 June.
- Baban, F. and K. Rygiel. “Snapshots from the margins: Transgressive cosmopolitanisms in Europe.” European Journal of Social Theory. November 17: 461-478, 2014
Book Chapters
Single-authored book chapters:
- Rygiel, Kim (2014). “In Life Through Death: Transgressive Citizenship at the Border.” In E. Isin and P. Nyers, eds. Routledge Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies. New York and London: Routledge, 62-72.
- Rygiel, Kim (2014). “Border Control Politics as Technologies of Citizenship in Europe and North America.” In H. Schwenken and S. Ruß-Sattar, eds. New Border and Citizenship Politics. New York: Palgrave, 141-155.
- Rygiel, Kim (2013). “Mobile Citizens, Risky Subjects: Security Knowledge at the Border.” In S. Ilcan, ed. Mobilities, Knowledge, and Social Justice. Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 152-177.
- Rygiel, Kim (2011). “Governing Borderzones of Mobility through Eborders: The Politics of Embodied Mobility." In V. Squire, ed. The Contested Politics of Mobility: Borderzones and Irregularity. London: Routledge,143-168.
- Rygiel, Kim (2008). “The Securitized Citizen.” In E. Isin, ed. Recasting the Social in Citizenship. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 268-300.
Co-authored book chapters:
- Kitchen, Veronica and Kim Rygiel (2015). “Integrated security networks: Less not more Accountability.” The State on Trial: The Policing of Protests during the G20 Summit. M. Beare, N. Des Rosiers and A. Deshman, eds. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
- Rygiel, Kim and Margaret Walton-Roberts (2015) “Multiple Citizenships and Slippery Statecraft.” The Human Right to Citizenship: A Slippery Concept, R. E. Howard-Hassmann and M. Walton-Roberts, eds., University of Pennsylvania Press.
- Rygiel, K. “In Life Through Death: Transgressive Citizenship at the Border” in E. Isin and P. Nyers, eds. Routledge Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies (New York and London: Routledge, 2014) pp. 62-72.
Contact Info:
F: 519.746.3655
Office location: DAWB 4-126
Office hours: Wednesdays, 10:30 to 11:20 a.m. (or by appointment)
Languages spoken: English
Living with Others: Fostering Cultural Pluralism Through Citizenship Politics