Jonathan Crush
Areas of Expertise
- Community Health and Epidemiology
- Food Security
- Immigration, Migration and Refugees
- International Relations, Law and History
- Municipal and Urban Politics
Biography
Raised in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Swaziland, my first degree was from Cambridge University. I completed my MA at Wilfrid Laurier University and PhD at Queen's University. Before coming to Laurier and the Balsillie School, I was director of the Southern African Research Centre and the Southern African Migration Program (SAMP) at Queen's University. My scholarly contributions include 14 authored and co-edited books, over 100 journal articles and book chapters and numerous published reports for regional and international government and civil society organizations.
My research is focused on two major areas: (a) global migration and development, and (b) rapid urbanization and food security in the Global South.
My current research projects include: the Hungry Cities Partnership (which I direct at Laurier, with Edgar Pieterse at the University of Cape Town's African Centre for Cities); the African Food Security Urban Network; the Consuming Urban Poverty project, and SAMP's Growing Informal Cities Project. I also have close links with the International Migration Research Centre and Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at the Balsillie School and am a member of the 2030+ Group at BSIA, investigating relationships between health, poverty, climate change and development in the Global South.
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