Biography
Associate 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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Migration of Nigerians to Canada for undergraduate education: Implications of the brain drain for development
- Africa Now!, 2018
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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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"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
Current Scholars in Sociology and Anthropology
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