Geoffrey Cameron
Assistant Professor
College of Social and Applied Human Sciences, Criminal Justice and Public Policy, Political Science
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, digital policy, and religion and politics. Prior to joining the University of Guelph, he taught undergraduate, graduate, and MPP courses at McMaster University. He has previously worked as Director of Public Affairs for the Bahá’í Community of Canada and as a senior policy advisor in the federal government.
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. He is currently working on a project on Canada’s asylum policy and Canada-US cooperation, and a SSHRC-funded project on interest groups and digital safety policy in three countries.
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
Geoffrey Cameron, Send Them Here: Religion, Politics, and Refugee Resettlement in North America (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021).
Shauna Labman and Geoffrey Cameron, eds., Strangers to Neighbours: Refugee Sponsorship in Context (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020).
Geoffrey Cameron and Benjamin Schewel, eds., Religion and Public Discourse in an Age of Transition: Reflections on Bahá’í Practice and Thought (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2018).
Ian Goldin, Geoffrey Cameron and Meera Balarajan, Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped our World and Will Define our Future (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012).
Articles and Book Chapters
Geoffrey Cameron, “Private sponsorship prefigured: Religious groups and Canada’s Cold War refugee policy,” Journal of Refugee Studies (2024): https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feae051
Geoffrey Cameron, “Religious Groups and Refugees in Canada: Advocacy, partnership, and resistance,” in Forced Migration in/to Canada: From Colonization to Resettlement, ed. Christina Clark-Kazak (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024)
Geoffrey Cameron and Shauna Labman, “The Dynamics and Divergences of Executive Discretion in Refugee Resettlement,” in Migration Governance in North America: Policy, Politics, and Community, eds. Kiran Banerjee and Craig Damian Smith (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024)
Geoffrey Cameron and Shauna Labman, “Private Refugee Sponsorship: An Evolving Framework for Refugee Resettlement,” in Strangers to Neighbours: Refugee Sponsorship in Context, eds. Shauna Labman and Geoffrey Cameron (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020), 3-15.
Geoffrey Cameron, “Reluctant Partnership: A Political History of Private Sponsorship in Canada (1947-1980),” in Strangers to Neighbours: Refugee Sponsorship in Context, eds. Shauna Labman and Geoffrey Cameron (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020), 19-41.
Geoffrey Cameron with Nazila Ghanea, “Bahá’ís in the Middle East,” in Routledge Handbook of Minorities in the Middle East, ed. Paul S. Rowe (London: Routledge, 2018), 170-184.
Other writing
“Voluntary Groups and Cold War Refugee Policy,” Refugees, Relief, and Resettlement: The Early Cold War and Decolonization, Selected Records of the American Council of Voluntary Agencies for Foreign Service (Rutgers University), Gale, 2024.
“Advocating for Online Safety Regulation in Canada: Lessons from Australia and the United Kingdom,” Expert brief written for the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (August 2024), co-authored with Caleb Duffield (PhD student, McMaster University).
“Advocacy for Bahá’í Rights: Opportunities, Practices, Lessons Learned and the Way Forward,” Expert brief invited by the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Dr. Ahmed Shaheed (December 10, 2021), co-authored with Nazila Ghanea.