Dr. Shauna Labman's Publications

BOOKS

Shauna Labman, Crossing Law’s Border: Canada’s Refugee Resettlement Program (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2019).

Shauna Labman & Geoffrey Cameron, eds, Strangers to Neighbours: Private Refugee Sponsorship (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020).

ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS

Adèle Garnier & Shauna Labman, The Successes and Challenges of Canada’s Welcome to Displaced Ukrainians (Policy Brief No 26, Toronto: Toronto Metropolitan University, 2025).

Shauna Labman & Rachel McNally, “Old Tensions and New Questions: The Expansion of Refugee Sponsorship” in Jane Freedman & Glenda Santana de Andrade, eds, Research Handbook on Asylum and Refugee Policy (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024) 95.

Shauna Labman, “Adding, Naming, Sustaining, and Spreading: Canada’s Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program” in Christina R Clark-Kazak, ed, Forced Migration in/to Canada: From Colonization to Refugee Resettlement (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024) 250.
An open access version is also available.

Geoffrey Cameron & Shauna Labman, “The Dynamics and Divergences of Executive Discretion in Refugee Resettlement” in Kiran Banerjee & Craig Damian Smith, eds, Migration Governance in North America: Policy, Politics, and Community (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024) 143.
An open access version is also available.

Anna Korteweg, Shauna Labman & Audrey Macklin, “Humanitarian Bargains: Private Refugee Sponsorship and the Limits of Humanitarian Reason” (2023) Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Shauna Labman, “Canada’s Resettlement Programs: Framework and Tensions” in E Martani & D Helly, eds, Asylum and Resettlement in Canada (Genova: Genova University Press, 2023) 141.

Shauna Labman & Sarah Zell, “The Shift Towards Increased Citizen-Driven Migration in Canada” in Catherine Dauvergne, ed, Research Handbook on the Law and Politics of Migration (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2021) 110.

Jerome Cranston, Shauna Labman & Stephanie Crook, “Reframing Parental Involvement as Social Engagement: A Study of Recently Arrived Arabic-Speaking Refugee Parents’ Understandings of Involvement in Their Children’s Education” (2021) 44:2 Canadian Journal of Education 371.

Shauna Labman, “Refugee Protection in Canada: Resettlement’s Role” (2020) 17:2 Canadian Diversity 7.

Geoffrey Cameron & Shauna Labman, “Private Refugee Sponsorship: An Evolving Framework for Refugee Resettlement” in Shauna Labman & Geoffrey Cameron, eds, Strangers to Neighbours: Private Refugee Sponsorship in Context (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020).

Shauna Labman, “Sponsorship’s Success and Sustainability?” in Shauna Labman & Geoffrey Cameron, eds, Strangers to Neighbours: Private Refugee Sponsorship in Context (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020).

Shauna Labman, “The Missed Bus: Intersecting Law, Motherhood, Advocacy and Privilege” in Karine Levasseur, Stephanie Paterson & Lorna Turnbull, eds, Thriving Mothers/Depriving Mothers: Mothering and Welfare (Bradford: Demeter Press, 2020).

Shauna Labman & Jamie Liew, “Law and Moral Licensing in Canada: The Making of Illegality and Illegitimacy Along the Border” (2019) 5:3 International Journal of Migration and Border Studies 188.

Shauna Labman, “Distance, Absence and Advocacy” (2019) 9:1 Dialogues in Human Geography 102.

Shauna Labman, “Review: Running on Empty: Canada and the Indochinese Refugees, 1975–1980” (2018) 53:3 Canadian Journal of History 612.

Audrey Macklin, Katherine Barber, Luin Goldring, Jennifer Hyndman, Shauna Labman & Jona Zyfi, “A Preliminary Investigation into Private Refugee Sponsors” (2018) 50:2 Canadian Ethnic Studies 35.

Shauna Labman & Madison Pearlman, “Blending, Bargaining, and Burden-Sharing: Canada’s Resettlement Programs” (2018) 9:2 Journal of International Migration & Integration 439.

Shauna Labman, “Private Sponsorship: Complementary or Conflicting Interests?” (2016) 32:2 Refuge 67.

Shauna Labman & Catherine Dauvergne, “Evaluating Canada’s Approach to Gender-Related Persecution – Revisiting and Re-Embracing ‘Refugee Women and the Imperative of Categories’” in Efrat Arbel, Catherine Dauvergne & Jenni Millbank, eds, Gender in Refugee Law: From the Margins to the Centre (London: Routledge, 2014) 264.

Shauna Labman, “Migration, Movement & Family: The Decline of Family in Canadian Immigration” (2014) 2 G20 Youth Forum Conference Proceedings 153.

Shauna Labman, “Queue the Rhetoric: Refugees, Resettlement and Reform” (2011) 62 University of New Brunswick Law Journal 55.

Shauna Labman, “Looking Back, Moving Forward: The History and Future of Refugee Protection” (2010) 10 Chicago-Kent Journal of International and Comparative Law 1.

Shauna Labman, “Globalizing Rights and Going Wrong: Finding the ‘Right’ Path to Refugee Protection” (2009) 5:2 Journal of International Law and International Relations 141.

Shauna Labman, “Resettlement’s Renaissance: A Cautionary Advocacy” (2007) 24:2 Refuge 35.

Shauna Labman, “Genetic Prophecies: The Future of the Canadian Workplace” (2004) 30:2 Manitoba Law Journal 227.

Shauna Labman, “An Experiment in Innovation: Nunavut’s Single-Level Trial Court” (2003) 28:1 LawNow 31.

Shauna Labman, “Left in Legal Limbo: Transsexual Identity and the Law” (2001) 7 Appeal: Review of Current Law and Law Reform 66.