Jana Walkowski

Brief Biography

Jana Walkowski is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Studies at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s 카지노게임사이트, specializing in international relations and comparative politics. Her research interests lie at the intersection of migration studies, global political economy, and urban geography to understand issues of global displacement occurring at local and global scales. Her PhD dissertation critically interrogates and compares the multi-scalar governance of the so-called 카지노 게임 컬렉션�refugee housing crisis카지노 게임 컬렉션� in Berlin, Germany and Toronto, Canada to highlight how corresponding tensions and power relations shapes access to adequate initial shelter accommodation for refugees upon arrival. Alongside her studies, Jana works as a teaching assistant and graduate research fellow, acts as the 2024-2025 Political Studies Graduate Student Association (PSGSA) co-chair, and volunteers with KEYS newcomer services. Jana holds a master카지노 게임 컬렉션�s degree in political science from McGill 카지노게임사이트 and a bachelor카지노 게임 컬렉션�s degree in Global Development Studies from Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s 카지노게임사이트. Outside her studies you can find her training for triathlons and local running events, walking by the waterfront or reading her favourite books in local coffee shops.

Selected Awards

• W.C. Good Memorial Fellowship, 2024-2025
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), 2021-2025
• Dean카지노 게임 컬렉션�s fieldwork Grant, 2023-2024
• Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF), 2022-2024
• SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship- Master카지노 게임 컬렉션�s (CGS M), 2020-2021
• 2021 Jean Monnet Award for Excellence in European Studies (Jean Monnet Centre Montréal)

Teaching Assistantships

• POLS 242- Comparative Politics: Contemporary regimes (Winter 2024)
• POLS 384- Strategies of Political Research (Fall 2023, Fall 2022)
• POLS 262- International Political Economy (Winter 2023)
• DEVS 101-Introduction to International Development (Fall 2022)
• POLS 110- Introduction to Politics and Government (Fall 2021, Winter 2021)

Selected Conference Contributions

• Exploring the Performative Borderwork of the European Union카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Bordering Practices through the method of Critical Visual Discourse Analysis카지노 게임 컬렉션�, Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada (June 12-24. 2024)
• Speaker, 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Understanding the Local Dimension of Global Displacements카지노 게임 컬렉션� presented at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Project in International Development (QPID) Youth Conference: Climate Justice is Social Justice: Exploring the Impacts of Climate Change on Displacement and Dispossession (March 27, 2024)
• Depoliticizing border externalization through development: An analysis of the EU카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Emergency Trust Fund for Africa Instrument카지노 게임 컬렉션�, International Studies Association, Montreal (held March 2023)
• 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Depoliticizing border externalization through development: An analysis of the EU카지노 게임 컬렉션�s mainstreaming of migration-development activities through the EU Trust Fund for Africa Instrument카지노 게임 컬렉션� The Welcoming of refugees and grassroots solidarity: state of research and best practices in Europe and Canada, held by the 카지노게임사이트 if Genoa and the Institut national de la recherche scientifique within the scope of the Refinteg project, Genoa, Italy (presented at the 카지노게임사이트 of Genoa on October 27, 2022)
• 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Contested Borders and Contested States: The Political and Human Rights Consequences resulting from the Regulation of Migrant Flows between Africa and Europe: An exploration of these impacts in Libya,카지노 게임 컬렉션� Public Issues and Public Reason: A Conference of Applied Ethics and Critical Social Sciences, Carleton 카지노게임사이트, Canada (October 20, 2020)