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Dr. Jenna Hennebry (PhD) is an internationally recognized scholar with expertise on migrant worker rights, health and social protection, labour migration governance, and gender and migration. She is a member of the Canadian Council for Refugees Subcommittee on Migrant Workers, the International Organization for Migration (IOM)’s Migration Research Leaders' Syndicate, the UN Expert Working Group on Women’s Human Rights in the Global Compact for Migration, and the UN Migration Network's Working Group on Bilateral Labour Migration Agreements. She is co-founder of the International Migration Research Centre, and co-founder of the Migrant Worker Health Project and the Migrant Worker Health Expert Working Group.
Hennebry has published work on a range of topics (e.g. access to health care for migrant workers, gender-responsiveness and the Global Compact for Migration, xenophobia and migrant workers during COVID-19 pandemic) in national and international journals such as International Migration and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and technical reports on migrant worker rights and health with UN Women the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and numerous other government and civil society organizations.
View Jenna Hennegry's Balsillie School of International Affairs profile.
Some recent projects led by Hennebry include "Mediating Mobility: Temporary Migration and Private Sector Influence in Canada's Immigration System," "Responding to Temporary Migration in Agriculture," and “Bilateral Labour Migration Agreements and Development.” Currently she is working with UN Women on “Promoting and Protecting Women Migrant Workers’ Labour and Human Rights,” an international comparative research and advocacy project focused on three case studies – Mexico, Moldova and the Philippines.
- Wilfrid Laurier University Merit Award 2013.
- Wilfrid Laurier University Merit Award 2009.
Hennebry would be interested in supervising any graduate level students interested in the following research areas: labour migration, gender and migration, migration and development, transnationalism and mobility. Students interested in this opportunity are encouraged to directly contact Hennebry via email at jhennebry@wlu.ca.
Selected Peer Reviewed Articles
- Trinidad, A., R.M. Soriano, J. Hennebry & K. Kopinak. “La economía global y sus prácticas transnacionales: el caso del norte de Marruecos.” Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas (October 2105).
- Hennebry, Jenna, Janet McLaughlin and Kerry Preibisch. “'Out of the Loop': (In)access to Health Care for Migrant Workers in Canada.” Journal of International Migration and Integration (January 2015).
- Hennebry, Jenna. “Falling Through the Cracks: Migrant Workers and the Global Social Protection Floor Initiative.” Global Social Policy (August 2014).
- Hennebry, Jenna. “Transnational Precarity: Women’s Migration Work and Mexican Seasonal Agricultural Migration to Canada.” Thematic Issue on ‘Gender and Migration in the Global Economy,’ International Journal of Sociology (Fall 2014).
- McLaughlin, Janet, Jenna Hennebry and Ted Haines. “Paper versus Practice: Occupational Health and Safety Protections and Realities for Temporary Foreign Agricultural Workers in Ontario.” Pistes: Interdisciplinary Journal of Work and Health (April 2014).
Selected Books
- Walton-Roberts, Margaret and Jenna Hennebry. Territoriality and Migration in the E.U. Neighbourhood: Spilling over the Wall. Springer Series: International Perspectives on Migration, Vol. 5, VI (2014).
- Hennebry, Jenna and Bessma Momani (eds). Targeted Transnationals: The State, The Media and Arab Canadians. UBC Press (2013).
Selected Chapters in Books
- J. Mclaughlin & J. Hennebry. “Managed into the Margins: Examining Citizenship and Human Rights of Migrant Workers in Canada.” In R. Howard Hassmann, & M. Walton-Roberts (eds.), The Human Right to Citizenship: A Slippery Concept. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2015.
- Hennebry, J.L. Kopinak, K., R. Soriano, P. Hondagneu-Sotelo. “From “Hedema” to “Zemegria” (from workers to migrants): Morocco’s Role as “Migration Hub” for the EU,” In M.Walton-Roberts and J.Hennebry (eds.), Territoriality and Migration in the E.U. Neighbourhood: Spilling over the Wall. Springer Series: International Perspectives on Migration, Vol. 5, VI. 2014.
- Hennebry, J. and M. Walton-Roberts. “The new realities of European migration management: What does it mean for insiders and outsiders?” in M.Walton-Roberts and J.Hennebry (eds.), Territoriality and Migration in the E.U. Neighbourhood: Spilling over the Wall. Springer Series: International Perspectives on Migration, Vol. 5, VI. 2014.
- Hennebry, J. and McLaughlin, J. “The Exception that Proves the Rule: Structural Vulnerability, Health Risks and Consequences for Temporary Migrant Farmworkers in Canada.” In Christine Straehle, and Patti Lenard (eds.), Legislating Inequality: Canada's Temporary Migrant Worker Program. McGill-Queen’s University Press. 2013.
- Preibisch, K. and J.Hennebry. “Buy Local, Hire Global: Temporary Migration in Canadian Agriculture.” In Christine Straehle and Patti Lenard (eds.), Legislating Inequality: Canada's Temporary Migrant Worker Program. McGill-Queen’s University Press. 2013.