Tariq Amin-Khan

Tariq Amin-Khan serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Toronto Metropolitan University, with additional affiliations at the Yeates School of Graduate Studies and as an honorary member of Osgoode Hall Graduate Studies in Law (York University). He actively shapes institutional policy as Chair of the Toronto Met Faculty Association's Equity Issues Committee and founding member of the university's Anti-Racism Coalition, while frequently providing expert commentary on Canadian media regarding political and social issues.

His academic credentials include:

• PhD in Social and Political Thought, York University, Canada
• Master’s in South Asian Studies, University of Toronto
• Bachelor of Law, University of Karachi
• Bachelor of Science in Economics and General Business, California State University, Fresno

Amin-Khan's research critically examines the security state's impact on migrants and refugees, post-colonial state formation under globalization, and the political economy of race in Western discourse. His work interrogates how securitization narratives fuel Islamophobia while analyzing the historical roots of South Asian state-society dynamics through Marxist and post-colonial frameworks. He particularly investigates the weaponization of Orientalist tropes in media portrayals of Muslim communities and the erosion of multicultural policies in Western democracies.

His scholarly output from 2000-2012 reveals persistent thematic threads connecting Western security paradigms with racialized governance, demonstrating how counterterrorism frameworks exacerbate xenophobia while obscuring structural inequalities. Publications consistently challenge reductive analyses of political Islam by situating militant movements within colonial legacies and capitalist globalization, with South Asia serving as a critical case study for examining state formation and identity politics.

Tariq Amin-Khan mentors PhD candidates in Policy Studies, Communication and Culture, and Law programs while supervising MA theses in Immigration and Settlement Studies and Public Policy and Administration. His teaching portfolio includes graduate courses on Global Migration and The State and the Economy, alongside undergraduate instruction in Third World Politics and South Asian Studies, reflecting his commitment to training the next generation of critical policy analysts.