Geoffrey Cameron
Assistant Professor
College of Social and Applied Human Sciences, Criminal Justice and Public Policy, Department of Political Science
Research Areas
- Canadian Politics
- Immigration Politics
- Immigration Policy
- Public Policy
About
Geoffrey Cameron is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph. His teaching and research interests include Canadian politics, public policy, immigration and refugee policy, and religion and politics. He is currently working on a project on Canada’s asylum policy and Canada-US asylum coordination.
His books include Send Them Here: Religion, Politics, and Refugee Resettlement in North America (MQUP, 2021) and Strangers to Neighbours: Refugee Sponsorship in Context (MQUP, 2020), co-edited with Shauna Labman, which both analyze the genesis and wider impact of refugee resettlement policy frameworks. His work on refugee and asylum policy has been published in the Canadian Journal of Political Science and the Journal of Refugee Studies.
He received a B.A. from Trent University, an M.Phil. from the University of Oxford (St. Antony’s College), and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto.
Select Publications
Books
Cameron, G. (2021). Send Them Here: Religion, politics, and refugee resettlement in North America. McGill-Queen's University Press.
Labman, S., & Cameron, G. (Eds.). (2020). Strangers to Neighbours: Refugee sponsorship in context. McGill-Queen's University Press.
Cameron, G., & Schewel, B. (Eds.). (2018). Religion and Public Discourse in an Age of Transition: Reflections on Bahá'í practice and thought. Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
Goldin, I., Cameron, G., & Balarajan, M. (2012). Exceptional People: How migration shaped our world and will define our future. Princeton University Press.
Articles and Book Chapters
Banerjee, K., & Cameron, G. (2025). Immigration bureaucrats and the development of the Canada–United States Safe Third Country Agreement. Canadian Journal of Political Science, 58 (4), 848–871.
Cameron, G. (2025). Private sponsorship prefigured: Religious groups and Canada's Cold War refugee policy. Journal of Refugee Studies, 38 (1), 151–164.
Cameron, G. (2024). Religious groups and refugees in Canada: Advocacy, partnership, and resistance. In C. Clark-Kazak (Ed.), Forced Migration in/to Canada: From colonization to resettlement. McGill-Queen's University Press.
Cameron, G., & Labman, S. (2024). The dynamics and divergences of executive discretion in refugee resettlement. In K. Banerjee & C. D. Smith (Eds.), Migration Governance in North America: Policy, politics, and community. McGill-Queen's University Press.
Cameron, G. (2020). Reluctant partnership: A political history of private sponsorship in Canada (1947–1980). In S. Labman & G. Cameron (Eds.), Strangers to Neighbours: Refugee sponsorship in context. McGill-Queen's University Press.