Media
Knowledge mobilization is a major driver of my research. My writing has appeared in the the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Los Angeles Times, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Policy Options, and The Conversation. In the last decade, I have authored over 60 op-eds and blogs and made 250+ public appearances on radio, television, print, lectures etc. My research has been covered by outlets such as The Guardian, CBC, CTV, and USA Today.
On Here and Now Toronto, talking about why disinformation thrived during the UK anti-immigrant Riots:
“I'm going to ask you to picture a refugee, picture an asylum seeker, picture a migrant. Most of them will come out as a non-white person. The media has forced this image of asylum seekers, migrants, and refugees as being people of colour, racialized people and unfortunately a lot of times undeserving of assistance. So when you have a situation where these people already painted so much with so much negativity, disinformation and misinformation thrives because there's already so much information that contributes to their confirmation bias. So this idea that migrants, asylum seekers or refugees cause crime, a lot of people, unfortunately will agree because of the rhetoric around it. So when you have somebody, you have a situation where that's taking place you don't stop to think ‘oh wait how do we know they're asylum seeker? Or how do we know they're Muslim or how do we know anything?’”
As an immigrant, whose father was a refugee, I care deeply about standing up for refugee and migrant rights. And I will advocate for them in the popular press and on the global stage - every. chance. I. get.
My Writing in the Popular Press
