Biography
Assistant Professor
BA (York); MA (Guelph); PhD (McMaster)
Dr. Charles Adeyanju has employed qualitative research methods to study a range of social issues that include: media representation of race; racism; transnational practices of Nigerians in Canada; and taser use by the Canadian police. He is currently adopting the phenomenological approach in sociology to study how Nigerian immigrants in Canada influence their peers and social groups in Nigeria to migrate.
Recent Publications
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“The West of Their Imagination”: Transnational impression management and Canadian migration in the Nigerian youth imaginary
- African Studies Review, 2017
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‘They should have just taken a gun and shot my son’
- Social Identities, 2012
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Colonialism and contemporary African migration
- Journal of Black Studies, 2011
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"Don’t tase me, bro"
- The Journal of Social Criminology, 2010
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"Not in Canada: The Non-Ebola Panic and Media Misrepresentation of the Black Community"
- African Journal of Criminology & Justice Studies, 2010
Research Classification
- No classification given
Research Interests
- Race and Ethnicity
- Transnational Migration
- Media and Society
- Media representations of race and ethnicity
- Social inequality
- Work and society
- Canadian society
- Minority/ethnic groups and multiculturalism.
Current Scholars in Sociology and Anthropology
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