Bio
Laura Connoy is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo. Her dissertation research focuses on mobility politics, asylum and social justice.
She has co-authored “Township Tourism and the Political Spaces of Katutura” in the Journal of Namibian Studies. She has co-authored a chapter (with Suzan Ilcan and Marcia Oliver) titled “Humanitarian Assistance, Refugee Management, and Self-Reliance Schemes: Nakivale Refugee Settlement” in Transnational Social Policy: Social Support in a World on the Move, edited by Luann Good-Gingrich and Stefan Köngeter (Routledge, 2017).