Christina Clark-Kazak Biography

Christina Clark-Kazak is an Associate Professor at uOttawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, Past President of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration and immediate past Editor-in-chief of Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees. She has previously worked for York University, Saint Paul University, the Canadian government and the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers. Christina has also served as President of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, Acting Director of York University’s Centre for Refugee Studies and Associate Principal (Research and Graduate Studies) at York’s bilingual Glendon campus. Her research focuses on age discrimination in migration and development policy; political participation of young people; and inter-disciplinary methodologies. Christina holds a doctorate from Oxford University, a master’s from Cambridge University and a BA from the University of British Columbia.