We are pleased to announce the publication of the new edited volume Canada in the Global Refugee Regime (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2026), to which Univ.-Prof. Dr. Luisa Feline Freier has contributed. The book offers a first comprehensive look at Canada’s involvement with the institutions and norms of the global refugee regime, as well as the politics shaping refugee protection worldwide. Bringing together leading experts from multiple disciplines, the volume explores how Canada has influenced global refugee responses and where its impact has been more limited.

In a context marked by increasingly restrictive and regressive asylum policies, as well as the shrinking of refugee protection spaces—particularly in the United States and Europe—this volume provides an important and timely contribution to ongoing academic and policy debates on global refugee governance and the diffusion of hostile and restrictive practices. It offers a nuanced account that moves beyond simplistic narratives on migration and rights.

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Luisa Feline Freier contributes to the volume with the chapter:

“Canada and its Changing Role in Latin American Refugee Protection”
(co-authored with Nicolas Parent, PhD, forced migration scholar and Part-Time Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa).

The chapter focuses on Latin America and examines Canada’s evolving engagement in regional refugee protection, highlighting key policy shifts and their implications for cooperation across the Americas. In doing so, it invites readers to rethink the refugee regime not as a fixed system, but as a contested space shaped by the interests and actions of states and other actors.

Further information about the book is available here: 

https://www.mqup.ca/fr/Books/C/Canada-in-the-Global-Refugee-Regime3