Mireille Paquet

Co-founder and co-director of the Centre for Immigration Policy Evaluation (CIPE)

I am a political scientist and I conduct research on immigration policy and politics in Canada, North America and Australia. I am interested in how political institutions and bureaucracies affect the content of immigration policy. My current projects focus on the new politics of immigration in Canada, the role of immigration departments in contemporary Quebec and Canada and new state responses to emerging immigration challenges.

With Concordia colleagues, I co-founded and co-direct the Centre for Immigration Policy Evaluation (CIPE). In 2017-2018, I am the William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow of the Canada Program at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. In 2016-2017, I was the recipient of the Concordia University Research Awards ("Person and Society").

To learn more about my work, please visit my website: https://mireillepaquet.net

Contact

Phone: (514) 848-2424 ext. 2111

Email: mireille.paquet@concordia.ca

Public policy and public administration, immigration and integration (policies and processes), federalism as well as Canadian and Québec Politics.

Conferences

  • Paquet, M. and Joy, M. “Localist Access Policies: Canadian Municipalities and Sanctuary”, Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference, Vancouver, June 5, 2019.