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Overview

Alison Mountz is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and works primarily within the social sciences. Their research focuses on issues related to migration, refugees, integration, and related social dynamics. The main fields of study include sociology and political science, geography, planning and development, demography, clinical psychology, and urban studies.

Their scholarly output spans numerous topics, with key areas being:

  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Historical Geography and Geographical Thought
  • Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
  • Canadian Identity and History
  • Island Studies and Pacific Affairs

Alison Mountz has contributed to multiple publications and has collaborated frequently with other researchers. Notable co-authors include:

  • Shiva S. Mohan
  • Kira Williams
  • Ana Visan
  • Pablo Martín Méndez
  • Loretta Lees

Their research appears in several academic venues, with a repeated presence in the following:

  • Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes
  • Geopolitics
  • Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)
  • Global Social Challenges Journal
  • Annals of the American Association of Geographers

Some recent papers authored by Alison Mountz include:

  • Introducing island detentions: the placement of asylum seekers and migrants on islands, 2024, Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)
  • Human migration in a new era of mobility: intersectional and transnational approaches, 2022, Global Social Challenges Journal
  • Let Geography Die: The Rise, Fall, and "Unfinished Business" of Geography at Harvard, 2023, Annals of the American Association of Geographers

Among their academic contributions, Alison Mountz has published books through a variety of publishers:

  • The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago, 2020, Johns Hopkins University
  • Writing Together, 2023, Transcript Verlag
  • Let Geography Die, 2025, The MIT Press

Their research engages interdisciplinarily, touching on historical geography, urban geography, and the enforcement of migration policies, often through socially and politically sensitive lenses. This body of work reflects a sustained focus on the complexities of human mobility, spatial politics, and related social phenomena.

Best Publications

  • For Slow Scholarship: A Feminist Politics of Resistance through Collective Action in the Neoliberal University

    Alison Mountz;Anne Bonds;Becky Mansfield;Jenna Loyd

  • Seeking Asylum: Human Smuggling and Bureaucracy at the Border

    Alison Mountz

  • Interventions on rethinking 'the border' in border studies

    Corey Johnson;Reece Jones;Anssi Paasi;Louise Amoore

  • The enforcement archipelago: Detention, haunting, and asylum on islands

    Alison Mountz

  • Another Brick in the Wall? Neo-Refoulement and the Externalization of Asylum by Australia and Europe†

    Jennifer Hyndman;Alison Mountz

  • Where asylum-seekers wait: feminist counter-topographies of sites between states

    Alison Mountz

  • Embodying the nation-state:Canada's response to human smuggling

    Alison Mountz

  • Feminist Approaches to the Global Intimate

    Alison Hyndman;Alison Mountz

  • Conceptualizing detention Mobility, containment, bordering, and exclusion

    Alison Mountz;Kate Coddington;R. Tina Catania;Jenna M. Loyd

  • Re)producing Salvadoran Transnational Geographies

    Adrian J. Bailey;Richard A. Wright;Alison Mountz;Ines M. Miyares

  • Lives in limbo: Temporary Protected Status and immigrant identities

    Alison Mountz;Richard Wright;Ines Miyares;Adrian J. Bailey

  • Migration management for the benefit of whom? Interrogating the work of the International Organization for Migration

    Ishan Ashutosh;Alison Mountz

  • Human Smuggling, the Transnational Imaginary, and Everyday Geographies of the Nation-State

    Alison Mountz

  • For institutional ethnography: Geographical approaches to institutions and the everyday

    Emily Billo;Alison Mountz

  • Chaos and Crisis: Dissecting the Spatiotemporal Logics of Contemporary Migrations and State Practices

    Alison Mountz;Nancy Hiemstra

  • Daily Life in the Transnational Migrant Community of San Agustín, Oaxaca, and Poughkeepsie, New York

    Alison Mountz;Richard A. Wright

  • Key Concepts in Political Geography

    C. Gallaher;M. Gillmartin;J. Danemann;Peter Shirlow

  • Political geography I Reconfiguring geographies of sovereignty

    Alison Mountz

  • Refuge or Refusal

    Jennifer Hyndman;Alison Mountz

  • Boats, Borders, and Bases

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  • Interventions on the state of sovereignty at the border

    Reece Jones;Corey Johnson;Wendy Brown;Gabriel Popescu

  • Methodologically Becoming: Power, knowledge and team research

    Alison Mountz;Ines M. Miyares;Richard Wright;Adrian J. Bailey

  • Boats, Borders, and Bases: Race, the Cold War, and the Rise of Migration Detention in the United States

    Jenna M. Loyd;Alison Mountz

Frequent Co-Authors

Jennifer Hyndman
Jennifer Hyndman York University
Eugene McCann
Eugene McCann Simon Fraser University
Michael S. Smith
Michael S. Smith Mount Sinai Hospital
Louise Amoore
Louise Amoore Durham University
Anssi Paasi
Anssi Paasi University of Oulu
Jamie Peck
Jamie Peck University of British Columbia
David Ley
David Ley University of British Columbia
Nik Theodore
Nik Theodore University of Illinois at Chicago
Loretta Lees
Loretta Lees University of Leicester
Mark B. Salter
Mark B. Salter University of Ottawa

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