Jenna Hennebry is an Associate Professor at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Coordinator of the Women and Gender Studies Program, and Associate Dean of the School of International Policy and Governance at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is Co-Founder of the International Migration Research Centre and the Migration Worker Health Project, and Founder of the Gender+Migration Hub funded by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. Jenna is a member of the Canadian Council for Refugees Subcommittee on Migrant Workers and the UN Expert Working Group on Women’s Human Rights in the Global Compact for Migration. She is an Expert Advisor to the Auditor General of Canada, Performance Audit on Temporary Foreign Farm Workers – Covid-19, a member of the UN Network on Migration’s Thematic Working Group 4 on Bilateral Labour Agreements as well as the newly formed Thematic Priority Group 7 on Gender. She also sits on the Advisory Board of the Global Migration Data Centre (GMDC) and the Migration Research and Publishing High-Level Advisers, both of the IOM.
Jenna has carried out globally comparative research on labour migration governance, gender and migrant worker rights and health, for over 15 years. She has consulted for UN Women, IOM, UNODC, and multiple government agencies. Her work has been funded by national and international agencies and governments, and it has been published in English and Spanish in journals such as International Migration, the Journal on International Migration and Integration, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, among others. Her work has informed policy recommendations for gender-responsive and rights-based approaches to labour migration governance at local, provincial, national, regional and international levels.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 2521 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9543-3121 |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenna-hennebry-b2389231/ | |
| ResearchGate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jenna-Hennebry |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
- Gender relations
- Labour markets and employment
- Poverty and inequality
- Public infrastructure, services and provisions
- International relations and geopolitical transformations
- Civil and political rights
- Migration governance and infrastructure
- Migration policy and other public policies
- Health services and situation
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Migration forms
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Migration infrastructures
- Human smugglers
- International and intergovernmental organisations in travel & migration
- Governmental institutions in travel & migration
- Agents, brokers, and other businesses in travel & migration
- Economics facilitating travel & migration
- Civil society actors in travel & migration
- ICT facilitating travel & migration
- Routes, hubs, and sites in travel & migration
- Human traffickers
- Legal regulations and traveller & migrant protection
- Migrant & travellers' encounters with migration infrastructures
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Immigrant policy and law
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Migration policy and law
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Governance processes
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Migration research and theory
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Transversal themes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
Methods
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Other
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Qualitative research
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Quantitative research
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Types of study
Geographies
Roles
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International Migration Research Centre (IMRC)
Research Institute, Waterloo, Canada
Senior Researcher -
Balsillie School of International Affairs
University, Waterloo, Canada
Associate Professor
Research
One step forward, two steps back: pandemic policy responses and the gendered implications for women and LGBTQI+ migrants
| Authors | Jenna Hennebry, Hari KC |
| Year | 2024 |
| Book Title | Research Handbook on Migration, Gender, and COVID-19 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The ‘contract’ and its discontents: Can it address protection gaps for migrant agricultural workers in Canada?
| Authors | Tanya Basok, Tanya Basok, Eric M. Tucker, ... |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |
| Citations (WoS) | 1 |
Closing the Gap? Gender and the Global Compacts for Migration and Refugees
| Authors | Jenna L. Hennebry, Allison J. Petrozziello |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |
12. Bumpy Roads: Tracing Pathways into Practice for International Students in Nursing
| Authors | Margaret Walton-Roberts, Jenna Hennebry |
| Year | 2019 |
| Book Title | Outward and Upward Mobilities | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Gender, labour migration governance, and the SDGs
| Authors | KC Hari, Jenna L. Hennebry |
| Year | 2019 |
| Book Title | Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Rebalancing act: promoting an international research agenda on women migrant care workers’ health and rights
| Authors | Jenna Hennebry, Margaret Walton-Roberts |
| Year | 2019 |
| Book Title | A Research Agenda for Migration and Health | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The global compact for migration: From gender-rhetoric to gender-responsive?
| Authors | Jenna L Hennebry |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Global Social Policy |
Not without them: realising the sustainable development goals for women migrant workers
| Authors | Jenna Hennebry, Hari KC, Nicola Piper |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 2 |
Achieving the sustainable development goals: surfacing the role for a gender analytic of migration
| Authors | Jenna Holliday, Jenna Hennebry, Sarah Gammage |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 4 |
Canadian Arab Youth at the Border: Cultural Dissociation, Fear Management, and Disciplining Practices in Securitized Spaces
| Authors | Melissa Finn, Jenna Hennebry, Bessma Momani |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION |
Out of the Loop: (In)access to Health Care for Migrant Workers in Canada
| Authors | Jenna Hennebry, Janet McLaughlin, Kerry Preibisch |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Making vulnerability visible: medical repatriation and Canada’s migrant agricultural workers
| Authors | Jenna L. Hennebry, Gabriel Williams |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Canadian Medical Association Journal | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Chapter 11. Managed into the Margins: Examining Citizenship and Human Rights of Migrant Workers in Canada
| Authors | Janet McLaughlin, Jenna Hennebry |
| Year | 2015 |
| Book Title | The Human Right to Citizenship | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Falling through the cracks? Migrant workers and the Global Social Protection Floor
| Authors | Jenna Hennebry |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Global Social Policy | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Territoriality and Migration in the E.U. Neighbourhood
| Year | 2014 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
A Model for Managed Migration? Re‐Examining Best Practices in Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program
| Authors | Jenna L. Hennebry, Kerry Preibisch |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | International Migration | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Temporary migration, chronic effects: the health of international migrant workers in Canada: Table 1:
| Authors | Kerry Preibisch, Jenna Hennebry |
| Year | 2011 |
| Journal Name | Canadian Medical Association Journal | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Bienvenidos a Canadá? Globalization and the Migration Industry Surrounding Temporary Agricultural Migration in Canada
| Authors | Jenna L. Hennebry |
| Year | 2008 |
| Journal Name | Canadian Studies in Population |
Transnational identities and practices in Canada edited by V. Satzewich and L. Wong. Vancouver, UBCPress, 2006. No. of pages: 352. (paperback). ISBN 0 7748 1284 2
| Authors | Jenna L. Hennebry |
| Year | 2006 |
| Journal Name | Population, Space and Place | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
New religions and the internet: Recruiting in a new public space
| Authors | Lorne L. Dawson, Jenna Hennebry |
| Year | 1999 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Contemporary Religion |
Migrant Farmworkers Face Heightened Vulnerabilities During COVID-19
| Authors | Ella Haley, Susana Caxaj, Glynis George, ... |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development |
Precarious patients: health professionals’ perspectives on providing care to Mexican and Jamaican migrants in Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program
| Authors | Donald Cole, Janet McLaughlin, Jenna Hennebry, ... |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Rural and Remote Health | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
Wages, integration, migration motivation: cases of export industry employees in Tijuana and Tangiers-Tetouan
| Authors | Kathryn Kopinak, Jenna Hennebry, Rosa Maria Soriano-Miras, ... |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Comparative Migration Studies |