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Canada
2026

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Political Science

D-Index
51
Citations
10702
World Ranking
220
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Jonathan Crush is affiliated with the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Canada. Their research spans several interconnected fields including social sciences, agricultural and biological sciences, and economics, econometrics, and finance. This multidisciplinary approach positions them at the intersection of key global issues related to food security, urban sustainability, and economic dynamics.

Their work extensively covers topics such as urban agriculture and sustainability, migration and labor dynamics, impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, food security and health in diverse populations, organic food and agriculture, food waste reduction, and the relationships between migration, ethnicity, and the economy.

Jonathan Crush has published in a variety of academic venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • AFRICAN HUMAN MOBILITY REVIEW
  • Global Food Security
  • Land
  • Urban Transformations
  • Development Southern Africa

Recent papers by Jonathan Crush or those closely related to their research focus include:

  • "Revisiting the African supermarket revolution: The case of Windhoek, Namibia" (2020) in Development Southern Africa
  • "COVID-19 Containment and Food Security in the Global South" (2020) in Journal of Agriculture Food Systems and Community Development
  • "Preparing for COVID-19: Household food insecurity and vulnerability to shocks in Nairobi, Kenya" (2021) in PLoS ONE
  • "Emergency food supplies and food security in Wuhan and Nanjing, China, during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a field survey" (2021) in Development Policy Review
  • "Factors determining household-level food insecurity during COVID-19 epidemic: a case of Wuhan, China" (2021) in Food & Nutrition Research

Jonathan Crush frequently collaborates with a consistent group of co-authors, contributing to the richness of their research outputs. Notable frequent co-authors include:

  • Taiyang Zhong
  • Zhenzhong Si
  • Godfrey Tawodzera
  • Elizabeth Opiyo Onyango
  • Sujata Ramachandran

Their subfield expertise reflects a broad and interdisciplinary focus, combining:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Plant Science
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • General Health Professions
  • Food Science

Best Publications

  • Power of Development

    Jonathan Crush

  • The Dark Side of Democracy: Migration, Xenophobia and Human Rights in South Africa

    Jonathan Crush

  • The Perfect Storm: The Realities of Xenophobia in Contemporary South Africa

    Jonathan Crush

  • Food security in Southern African cities: The place of urban agriculture

    Jonathan Crush;Alice Hovorka;Daniel Tevera

  • Supermarket Expansion and the Informal Food Economy in Southern African Cities: Implications for Urban Food Security

    Jonathan Crush;Bruce Frayne

  • Xenophobia, International Migration and Development

    Jonathan Crush;Sujata Ramachandran

  • ‘A NEW DEAL IN EMOTIONS’: Theory and practice and the crisis of development

    Jonathan Crush

  • Urban food insecurity and the new international food security agenda

    Jonathan S Crush;G Bruce Frayne

  • Personal Narratives as Interactive Texts: Collecting and Interpreting Migrant Life-Histories∗

    Miranda C. Miles;Jonathan S. Crush

  • Zimbabwe's Exodus: Crisis, Migration, Survival

    Jonathan Crush;Daniel Tevera

  • Medical Xenophobia and Zimbabwean Migrant Access to Public Health Services in South Africa

    Jonathan Crush;Godfrey Tawodzera

  • THE STATE OF URBAN FOOD INSECURITY IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

    Bruce Frayne;Wade Pendleton;Jonathan Crush;Ben Acquah

  • No. 01: The Invisible Crisis: Urban Food Security in Southern Africa

    Jonathan Crush;Bruce Frayne

  • The relative deprivation-gratification continuum and the attitudes of South Africans toward immigrants: a test of the V-curve hypothesis.

    Michaël Dambrun;Donald M. Taylor;David A. McDonald;Jonathan Crush

  • The Crisis of Food Insecurity in African Cities

    Jonathan Crush;Bruce Frayne;Wade Pendleton

  • Introduction to Special Issue: Evaluating South African Immigration Policy after Apartheid

    Jonathan Crush;David A. McDonald

  • South-South medical tourism and the quest for health in Southern Africa.

    Jonathan Crush;Jonathan Crush;Abel Chikanda

  • Africa’s Urban Food Deserts

    Jane Battersby;Jonathan Crush;Jonathan Crush

  • Health worker migration from South Africa: Causes, consequences and policy responses

    Ronald Labonté;David Sanders;Thubelihle Mathole;Jonathan Crush;Jonathan Crush

  • Scripting the Compound: Power and Space in the South African Mining Industry

    Jonathan Crush

  • REGIONALIZING XENOPHOBIA? CITIZEN ATTITUDES TO IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE POLICY IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

    Jonathan Crush;Wade Pendleton

  • Linking Food Security, Migration and Development

    Jonathan Crush

  • Contra Free Movement: South Africa and the SADC Migration Protocols

    John O. Oucho;Jonathan S. Crush

  • Crossing Boundaries: Mine Migrancy in a Democratic South Africa

    J. S. Crush;Wilmot Godfrey James

  • Revisiting the African supermarket revolution: The case of Windhoek, Namibia

    Ndeyapo Nickanor;Lawrence N. Kazembe;Jonathan Crush;Jonathan Crush;Jeremy Wagner

  • Mean Streets: Migration, Xenophobia and Informality in South Africa

    Jonathan Crush;Abel Chikanda;Caroline Skinner

  • Informal Migrant Entrepreneurship and Inclusive Growth in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique

    Jonathan Crush;Caroline Skinner;Abel Chikanda

  • Undermining Labour: The Rise of Sub-contracting in South African Gold Mines

    Jonathan Crush;Theresa Ulicki;Teke Tseane;Elizabeth Jansen van Veuren

  • No. 24: Spaces of Vulnerability: Migration and HIV/AIDS in South Africa

    Brian Williams;Eleanor Gouws;Mark Lurie;Jonathan Crush

  • Surviving on the Move: Migration, Poverty and Development in Southern Africa

    Jonathan Crush;Bruce Frayne

  • COVID-19 containment and food security in the Global South

    Jonathan Crush;Zhenzhong Si

  • Achieving urban food security through a hybrid public-private food provisioning system: the case of Nanjing, China

    Taiyang Zhong;Zhenzhong Si;Jonathan Crush;Steffanie Scott

  • Handbook on Urban Food Security in the Global South

    Jonathan Crush;Bruce Frayne;Gareth Haysom

  • Urbanization, nutrition and development in Southern African cities

    Bruce Frayne;Jonathan Crush;Milla McLachlan

  • Migrant Windhoek: Rural–Urban Migration and Food Security in Namibia

    Wade Pendleton;Jonathan Crush;Jonathan Crush;Ndeyapo Nickanor

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald M. Taylor
Donald M. Taylor McGill University
Ronald Labonté
Ronald Labonté University of Ottawa
Christian M. Rogerson
Christian M. Rogerson University of Johannesburg
Xianjin Huang
Xianjin Huang Nanjing University
Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
Ivy Lynn Bourgeault University of Ottawa
David Sanders
David Sanders University of the Western Cape
Mark N. Lurie
Mark N. Lurie Brown University
Robert Mattes
Robert Mattes University of Strathclyde
Richard Black
Richard Black University of Birmingham

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