Kim Rygiel

Professor Rygiel’s past research projects include two SSHRC funded projects:

• The first “Living with others: Fostering cultural pluralism through citizenship politics,” investigates why, how and under what conditions some communities are more open to cultural difference than others; what types of projects facilitate openness to newcomers and how do citizens and non-citizens participate in these projects in ways that transform understandings of citizenship and belonging (conducted with Feyzi Baban, Trent University and collaborator Fuat Keyman, Sabanci University).
• The second project, “Humanitarian Aid, Citizenship Politics, and the Governance of Syrian Refugees in Turkey,” investigates the nature of humanitarian aid responses to emergencies involving Syrian refugees in Turkey (conducted with Susan Ilcan, University of Waterloo and Feyzi Baban, Trent University). She is also working on a co-authored book with S. Ilcan and F. Baban on this research (forthcoming, McGill-Queen’s University Press).

• Globalizing Citizenship (University of British Columbia, 2010) was co-winner of the ENMISA Distinguished Book Award for Globalizing Citizenship (awarded by the Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration section of the International Studies Association) and shortlisted for the Canadian Political Science Association Prize in International Relations (2011).
• Wilfrid Laurier University Award of Service Excellence and Community Engagement 2019.
• Merit Award, Wilfrid Laurier University (2023, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2011).

I am willing to supervise graduate students in the areas of international relations/global governance/international political sociology and with a particular interest in migrant/citizenship politics, migration and mobility; border security; asylum seekers and refugees; cultural pluralism.

Books

Single-authored:

• Rygiel, K. (2010) Globalizing Citizenship. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

Co-authored:

• Baban, F. and K. Rygiel (2024) Migration, Cosmpolitanism and Civil Society: Fostering Cultural Pluralism though Citizenship Politics. London:Routledge.

• Baban, F., Ilcan, S. and K. Rygiel (2021) The Precarious Lives of Syrians:Migration, Citizenship and Temporary Protection in Turkey. Montreal: McGill Queen's University Press.

Edited:

• Baban, F. and K. Rygiel Eds. (2020) Fostering Pluralism through Solidarity Activism in Europe: Everyday Encounters with Newcomers. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

• Nyers, P. and K. Rygiel, Eds. (2012) Citizenship, Migrant Activism, and the Politics of Movement. London: Routledge. Paperback edition released May 2014.
• Hunt, K. and K. Rygiel, Eds. (2006) (En)Gendering the War on Terror : War Stories and Camouflaged Politics. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate.

Selected Articles in Refereed Journals

Single-authored articles:

• Rygiel, K. (2023). “Capturing the Border in Refugee Solidarity Cam Visits and City Tours in Germany: Theorizing Relationality through the Border as Horizons in Refugee/Migrant Solidarity Activism as Citizenship Politics,” Journal of Refugee Studies. Published online July 2023.
• Rygiel, K.  (2016) “Dying to Live: Migrant Deaths and Citizenship Politics along the European Border.” Citizenship Studies 20 (10): 1-16.
• Rygiel, Kim (2012). ‘‘Politicizing camps: Forging transgressive citizenships in and through transit.” Citizenship Studies. 16 (5-6): 807-825.
• Rygiel, Kim (2012). “Governing mobility and rights to movement post 9/11: Managing irregular and refugee migration through detention.” Review of Constitutional Studies.16 (2): 2211-241.
• Rygiel, Kim (2011). "Bordering Solidarities: Migrant activism and the politics of movement and camps at Calais." Citizenship Studies.15 (1): 1-19.

Co-authored articles:

• Ataç, I., K. Rygiel, K. and M. Stierl (2021) “Building Transversal Solidarities in European Cities: Open Harbours, Safe Communities, Home”, Critical Sociology. September 47(6): 923-939  [ also re-published as chapter 13 “Migrant Solidarities and Spaces of Encounter in European Cities”, in Contending Global Apartheid: Transversal Solidarities and Politics of Possibility. Editors: Martin Bak Jørgensen and Carl-Ulrik Schierup. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2022, 294-323].
• Rygiel, K. and F. Baban (2019/2020) “Countering Right-Wing Populism: Transgressive Cosmopolitanism and Solidarity Movements in Europe”, American Quarterly 71 (4) December/January:1069-1076.
• Ilcan, S., K. Rygiel,  and F. Baban (2018). “The Ambiguous Architecture of Precarity: Temporary Protection, Everyday Living, and Migrant Journeys of Syrian Refugees.” International Journal of Migration and Border Studies. 4 (1-2): 51-70.
• Baban, F. & K.Rygiel (2017) “Living with others: fostering radical cosmopolitanism through citizenship politics in Berlin”, Ethics & Global Politics, 10:1, 98-116,
• Baban, F, S. Ilcan and K. Rygiel (2017) “Playing Border Politics with Urban Syrian Refugees: Legal Ambiguities, Insecurities, and Humanitarian Assistance”, Movements (Issue: Turkey’s Changing Migration Regime and its Global and Regional Dynamics), 3 (2): Online journal: http://movements-journal.org/issues/05.turkey/06.baban,ilcan,rygiel--playing-border-politics-with-urban-syrian-refugees.html
• Ataç, I., K. Rygiel and M. Stierl (2016) “Introduction: the contentious politics of refugee and migrant protest and solidarity movements: remaking citizenship from the margins”, Citizenship Studies 20 (10): 1-18. Ataç, I., K. Rygiel and M. Stierl  Eds. Special Issue:The contentious politics of refugee and migrant protest and solidarity movements: remaking citizenship from the margins.
• Rygiel, K, F. Baban and S. Ilcan. (2016). “The Syrian refugee crisis: The EU-Turkey ‘deal’ and temporary protection”. Global Social Policy 16 (3) 315–320
• Baban, F. S. Ilcan and K. Rygiel. (2016). “Syrian Refugees in Turkey: Pathways to Precarity, Differential Inclusion, and Negotiated Citizenship Rights”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 43 (1): 41-57.
• Ilcan, S. and K. Rygiel (2015) “ ‘Resiliency Humanitarianism’: Reconstituting Refugee Populations, Camp  Spaces, and Refugee Subjects.” International Political Sociology 9: 333-351.
• Baban, F. and K. Rygiel (2014). “Snapshots from the margins: Transgressive cosmopolitanisms in Europe.” European Journal of Social Theory 17 (4): 461-478.
• Kitchen, V. and K. Rygiel (2014) "Privatizing Security, Securitizing Policing: The Case of the G20 in Toronto, Canada." International Political Sociology 8 (2): 201-217, 2014.

Selected Book Chapters

Single-authored book chapters:

• Rygiel, K. (2014). “In Life Through Death: Transgressive Citizenship at the Border.” In E. Isin and P. Nyers, eds. Routledge Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies. New York and London: Routledge, 62-72.
• Rygiel, K. (2014). “Border Control Politics as Technologies of Citizenship in Europe and North America.” In H. Schwenken and S. Ruß-Sattar, eds. New Border and Citizenship Politics. New York: Palgrave, 141-155.
• Rygiel, K. (2013). “Mobile Citizens, Risky Subjects: Security Knowledge at the Border.” In S. Ilcan, ed. Mobilities, Knowledge, and Social Justice. Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 152-177.
• Rygiel, K. (2011). “Governing Borderzones of Mobility through Eborders: The  Politics of Embodied Mobility." In V. Squire, ed. The Contested Politics of Mobility: Borderzones and Irregularity. London: Routledge, 143-168.
• Rygiel, K. (2008). “The Securitized Citizen.” In E. Isin, ed. Recasting the Social in Citizenship. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 268-300.
• Rygiel, K. (2008) “Citizenship as Government: Disciplining Populations Post-9/11” in J. Leatherman, ed. Discipline and Punishment in Global Politics: Illusions of Control. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 85-110.

Co-authored book chapters:

• Rygiel, K. and Baban. F. (2024). “Transgressive Cosmopolitanism and The Politics of Everyday Citizenship: Solidarity Activism with Syrian Women in Turkey.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Citizenship - Intersectional and Transnational Perspectives, Editors: Birte Siim and Pauline Stoltz
• Kitchen, V. and K. Rygiel (2015). “Integrated security networks: Less not more Accountability.” The State on Trial: The Policing of Protests during the G20 Summit. M. Beare, N. Des Rosiers and A. Deshman, eds. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
• Rygiel, K. and M. Walton-Roberts (2015) “Multiple Citizenships and Slippery Statecraft.” The Human Right to Citizenship: A Slippery Concept, R. E. Howard-Hassmann and M. Walton-Roberts, eds., University of Pennsylvania Press.
• Isin, E. and Rygiel, K. (2007) “Abject Spaces: Frontiers, Zones and Camps”. The Logics of Biopower and the War on Terror: Living, Dying, Surviving. Dauphinee and C. Masters, eds. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 178-203.
• Isin, E. and Rygiel, K  (2007) “Of Other Global Cities: Frontiers, Zones, Camps”.  Cities of the South: Citizenship and Exclusion in the 21st Century. Drieskens, F. Mermier, H. Wimmen, eds. London: Saqi Books, 177-210.

• Laurier political scientist researching what makes communities embrace or reject newcomers

Selected Commentaries and Reports

• Baban, F. and K. Rygiel (2022). “On the painting, ‘düşe kalka’ (Up and Down)”, short excerpt for exhibit catalogue for the art exhibit, Öteki Hikayeler (Other Stories), Istanbul Bilgi University, Santral Istanbul Campus Energy Museum, Curated by Denizhan Özer, Dec. 16-Feb. 7, 2022.
• Rygiel, K. and F. Baban (2018) “Moving over. Moving in. Making room through the arts: A Case for Transgressive Cosmopolitanism”, GROUNDWORK text series on participation, urbanity, alternative economies. This text series is published in connection to the exhibition project Room for Improved Futures, rum46 2017 – 2018. Edited by Agnieszka Wolodzko and Grete Aagaard Aarhus, Denmark. https://improvedfutures.wixsite.com/rum46/publications-1
• Baban, F. and K. Rygiel (2018) Living Together: Fostering Cultural Pluralism through Culture and the Arts. Report commissioned for the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Cultural Policy Development projects. Istanbul: İstanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (iKSV). July 10, 127 pages. http://www.iksv.org/en/reports/living-together-fostering-cultural-pluralism-through-the-arts
• Baban, F. Keyman, F. Paker, H. and K. Rygiel. (2018). “Promises and Challenges of Diversity: The Role of Civil Society Initiatives in Fostering Pluralism.” IPC Istanbul Policy Center, Sabancı University. http://ipc.sabanciuniv.edu/publication/cesitliligin-imkanlari-ve-zorluklari-cogulculugun-tesvikinde-sivil-toplumun-rolu/?lang=en
• Baban, F. Keyman, F. Paker, H. and K. Rygiel (2018) “Welcoming Diversity: The Role of Local and Civil Society Initiatives in Integrating Newcomers.” Policy Points XIV. http://imrc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/IMRC-PolicyPoints-XIV-June-25-2018-Final.pdf.
• Rygiel, K. (2017) “Citizenship and Technologies of Bordering.” Bordering issue. Technosphere Magazine. 2017 https://technosphere-magazine.hkw.de/p/7ab8fa20-f519-11e7-81b4-f36ac13c475f