Shirin Shahrokni

Shirin Shahrokni is an associate professor of sociology at the Glendon Campus, York University and a faculty member at the Centre for Feminist Research, the York Centre for Asian Research, and the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies. Her research is at the intersection of race and migration politics across various geopolitical locales, specifically in France and Canada. She is the author of Higher Education and Social Mobility: Challenges and Possibilities among Descendants of North African Immigrants in France (Routledge 2021). Her current research is a multi-sited project on francophone migration in Canada outside of Quebec. She is one the co-investigators of the higher education trajectories and experiences of Asian international students — the Racialization of Asian International Students (RAIS) project. She is also engaged in a participatory action project with students with precarious migration status in Canada.

Shirin is a member of The Racialization of Asian International Students Collective.

• Ontario Canada
• Race & Anti-Racism