Antje Ellermann

Dr. Antje Ellermann is a Professor of Political Science and co-founder of the Centre for Migration Studies at the University of British Columbia. She is an expert in migration politics and citizenship studies in the global North, with a focus on Canada, Europe, and the United States. Her research integrates comparative politics and public policy analysis with colonial/post-colonial theory.

• Current affiliations: UBC Faculty of Arts, Centre for Migration Studies
• Key research areas: Migration policy, citizenship, settler colonialism, qualitative methods

Her recent work examines community-engaged research collaborations in Metro Vancouver and comparative immigration bureaucracies across Canada, Australia, and the UK. She has authored two major monographs: States Against Migrants (2009) and The Comparative Politics of Immigration (2021), the latter winning the Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize. Her 15 most recent publications explore topics spanning comparative immigration policy, probationary immigration status, deportation politics, and decolonizing citizenship narratives.

• 2022 Charles H. Levine Book Prize
• 2014 APSA Best Article Award
• 2006 UBC Early Career Scholar

As a graduate supervisor, she mentors over 20 PhD and MA students in topics ranging from high-skilled immigration policy to Indigenous sovereignty and radical right politics. Her research is supported by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund, SSHRC, and DAAD.