RESEARCH

Refereed journal articles

Parent, Nicolas. 2023. “Imagining an agrarian future in rural Rwanda: Evidence from Congolese refugees at Mahama camp,” Journal of Rural Studies 100, art. 103014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2023.103014.

Parent, Nicolas, Wilson-Forsberg, Stacey, Beggar, Abderrahman. 2023. “The tightrope of transit and containment: A comparative scoping review of international migration to Chiapas and the Canary Islands (1991-2021),” REMHU Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana 31, no. 69. https://doi.org/10.1590/1980-85852503880006917.

Parent, Nicolas. 2022. “Commitments to refugees and displaced persons in African peace agreements, 1990-2018,” The International Journal of Human Rights 26, no. 8: 1333-1352. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2021.2007079

Parent, Nicolas. 2022. “Anti-sedentarism and the anthropology of forced migration,” Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 46, no. 2: 10-29. https://doi.org/10.30676/jfas.v46i2.110269

Parent, Nicolas, Freier, Luisa Feline, and Dawson, Walker. 2021. “Lost at sea, saved by Allah: Religious coping on a migrant journey from Cape Verde to Brazil,” Mental Health, Religion & Culture 24, no. 7: 659-669. https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2021.1919069

Parent, Nicolas. 2020. “From exile to homeland return: Ethnographic mapping to inform peacebuilding from afar,” Stability: International Journal of Security & Development 8, no. 1, art. 7: 1-23. http://doi.org/10.5334/sta.772

Freier, Luisa Feline and Parent, Nicolas. 2019. “The regional response to the Venezuelan exodus,” Current History: A Journal of Contemporary World Affairs 118, no. 805: 56-61. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2019.118.805.56

Parent, Nicolas. 2018. “Four voices of refugee solidarity along the Balkan Route: An exploratory pilot study on motivations for mobilization,” Migration Letters 15, no. 3: 423-436. https://doi.org/10.33182/ml.v15i3.363

Parent, Nicolas. 2018. “Turkish perception of risk vis-a-vis Syrian refugees: An exploratory study of cultural cognition in Izmir, Turkey,” Journal of Identity and Migration Studies 12, no. 1: 2-25.

Parent, Nicolas. 2017. “Blame avoidance and worldviews: Explaining the recurrence of socio-cultural disasters within Aboriginal communities in Canada,” Canadian Journal of Native Studies 37, no. 1: 117-135.

Book chapters

Freier, Luisa Feline, Parent, Nicolas, and Lui, Iris. Forthcoming. “Canada and its changing role in Latin American refugee protection.” In N. Benson, J. Milner, and D. Nakache, Canada and the Global Refugee Regime: Continuity, Change, Challenges and Critiques. Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Patel, Jugal and Parent, Nicolas. 2024. “Participatory mapping for public health.” In L. P. Cantwell-Jurkovic and T. E. Parece, Spatial Literacy in Public Health: Faculty-Librarian Teaching Collaborations. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries.

Parent, Nicolas. 2022. “Moving beyond borders: Anarchist political ecology and environmental displacement.” In J. Mateer, S. Springer, M. Locret-Collet, and M. Acker, Energies Beyond the State: Anarchist Political Ecology and the Liberation of Nature, 45-66. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.

Web-based publications

Parent, Nicolas. “Congolese refugees imagine a peaceful agrarian future with their Rwandan neighbors,” Peace News, September 09, 2024. [link]

Bohémier, Alexandria, Elahi, Mehjabeen, Parent, Nicolas. “Canada must act after 500 days of suffering in Sudan,” The Hill Times, August 28, 2024. [link]

Parent, Nicolas. “How religion helped African migrants during a risky Atlantic crossing,” The Conversation, November 4, 2021. [link]

Parent, Nicolas. “Mutual aid amongst refugees: Evidence from Turkey and Peru,” CARFMS blog, Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, October 26, 2021. [link]

Freier, Luisa Feline and Parent, Nicolas. 2019. “A Turning Tide? Venezuelan Displacement and Migration Governance in Peru,” Migration Policy Centre, European University Institute, December 11, 2019. [link]

Parent, Nicolas. 2019. “Creative methods of dissemination in forced migration research.” Discussion point. ESPMI Discussion Series. Emerging Scholars & Practitioners on Migration Issues. [link]

Parent, Nicolas and Freier, Luisa Feline. 2018. “The Venezuelan Exodus: Placing Latin America in the Global Conversation on Migration Management,” LSE Latin America and Caribbean blog, London School of Economics and Political Science, July 31, 2018. [link]

Freier, Luisa Feline and Parent, Nicolas. 2018. “A South American Migration Crisis: Venezuelan outflows test neighbors’ hospitality,” Migration Information Source, Migration Policy Institute, July 18, 2018. [link]

Mahlke, Helisane, Parent, Nicolas and Yamamoto, Lilian. 2017. “How Latin America is responding to Venezuelan refugees,” Refugees Deeply, November 28, 2017. [link]

Other publications

Parent, N., Rahyab, M. 2024. Struggle Across Borders: The Experience of Exiled Activists and Human Rights Defenders in Canada. Ottawa: Cooperation Canada; Resilient Societies.

Humanitarian Response Network. 2023. The Global Humanitarian Context: A Landscape Analysis, edited by S. Belliveau, P. Charpentier, K. Higgins, N. Parent. Ottawa: Humanitarian Response Network

Parent, Nicolas. 2021. “Hachures and hazards of origins,” Project Synergy no. 1 (Origins): 38-41.

Parent, Nicolas and Sarazin, François. 2020. “La liminalité et l’exil : Au-delà de l’étiquetage,” Perceptions no. 2 (Fall 2020): 25-29.

Parent, Nicolas. 2019. “Displacement, return and environmental peacebuilding: Congolese refugees and the potential of ethnographic research,” Tvergastein Interdisciplinary Journal of the Environment, no. 12: 30-37.

Observatory for Human Rights and Forced Migrants in Turkey. 2017. A Year of Impunity: A one year visual database of migration-related human rights abuses, edited by Nicolas Parent. Izmir: OHRFMT.

Parent, Nicolas. 2017. “Falling short of protection: Peru’s new migration scheme for Venezuelans,” Forced Migration Review 56 (October): 41-42.

Parent, Nicolas. 2016. “Refugees as Peons in Foreign Policy: Turkey, the EU and Reflections of Lasker and Nimzowitsch,” In/Words Magazine and Press 15, no. 3: 99-104.