Books By Jennifer (York University, Canada) Hyndman, Wenona (York University, Canada) Giles - Author

Jennifer Hyndman is a Professor in Social Science and Geography at York University in Toronto, where she is also Director of the Centre for Refugee Studies. Her research focuses on the geopolitics of forced migration, the biopolitics of refugee camps, humanitarian responses to war and displacement, and resettlement policy and outcomes in North America. Hyndman is author of Dual Disasters: Humanitarian Aid after the 2004 Tsunami (2011), Managing Displacement: Refugees and the Politics of Humanitarianism (University of Minnesota Press, 2000), and co-editor with Wenona Giles of, Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones (University of California Press, 2004). Before taking an academic path, Hyndman worked briefly for the NGO CARE in Kenya and UNHCR in Somalia where she developed an intense affinity for the politics of displacement. Wenona Giles is a Resident Research Associate of the Centre for Refugee Studies and Professor, Anthropology Department, York University, where she teaches and publishes in the ar