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Nisha Toomey, PhD

Published Work

Single-authored articles and book chapters

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Cover of Mobilities journal

Cover of Upping the Anti journal

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Researcher’s refusals: Ethical Dilemmas, Ethical Practices in Qualitative Research: Interviews on the Thailand–Myanmar Border. SAGE Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research, 2024

The Perverse Logics of Care in the Afterlife of Slavery: Reading Humanitarian Borders in Society and Space Magazine, 2023

“Auf ein Wort/On a word: Allyship. A first step but not sufficient.” in frauen*solidarität magazine, 2022.

“Researcher's refusals: Ethical dilemmas, ethical practices in cross-cultural qualitative research interviews.” In Liamputtong, P. (Ed.) Handbook of Qualitative Cross-Cultural Research: A Social Science Perspective. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022.

The nexus of (im)mobilities: hyper, compelled, and forced mobile subjects in Mobilities Special Issue: Mobilizing Indigeneity and race within and against settler colonialism, 2021

Holograms, or, Learning from 70 Years of Resistance in Myanmar in Upping the Anti: A journal of theory and action, 2019

Humanitarians of Tinder: Constructing Whiteness and Consuming the Other in Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, 2017

Roots of Myanmar Rohingya crisis lie in global economy in The Hill Times, 2017.

Co-authored articles and book chapters

Understanding Temporary Labour Migration through a Settler Colonial Lens: A Critical Analysis of Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program and International Education Strategy, with C. Spring, L. Vosko & A. Noack, A, 2025.

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Cover of International Migration and Border Studies journal

A Paradigm Shift is Needed on Canada's Approach to Humanitarian Aid, with I. Aung, M. Berry & S. Gavin, 2024

Mobilities and Ethnic Studies: A Roundtable Discussion in Ethnic Studies Review, with Vasquez Ruiz, M., Katz, I, Fraga, S., Carpio, G., Barraclough, L., & Barnd, N., 2023

An Infrastructure of Grief: Border Imaginaries and Perspectives Gathered from a Journey Along the Route of the Real and Imagined Texas-Mexico Wall, in International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, with D. Del Vecchio, 2019.

Photography research and refusal: A participatory action research project with migrant youth in the Mid-Hudson Valley, in Critical Questions in Education Journal, with D. Del Vecchio & E. Tuck, 2017.

Reconciliation through Kits and Tests? Reconsidering Newcomer Responsibilities on Indigenous Land, In Datta, R. (Ed.) Indigenous Reconciliation and Decolonization: Narratives of Social Justice and Community Engagement. New York: Routledge, with Y. Ho & D. Del Vecchio, 2020.

"Families Belong. That’s All," in Rabble.ca, with S. Khan, 2018.

Chapter 9: Pedagogical Applications of Toward What Justice. In Tuck, E. & Yang, K. W. (Eds.) Toward What Justice. New York: Routledge, with D. Del Vecchio & S. Spady, 2018.

June 10, 2028

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