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Shauna Labman
She/Her
Associate Professor
Dr. Shauna Labman is an associate professor of Human Rights and Executive Director at the Global College, University of Winnipeg. She is a legal scholar who writes and speaks extensively on refugee law, resettlement, and private refugee sponsorship within a broader context of human rights and public international law. She focuses on the layered influences of law on public policy and government positioning.
Publications/Papers
Korteweg, Anna, Shauna Labman, and Audrey Macklin. 2023. “Humanitarian Bargains: Private Refugee Sponsorship and the Limits of Humanitarian Reason.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1–18.,
Cranston, Jerome, Shauna Labman, and Stephanie Crook. 2021. “Reframing Parental Involvement as Social Engagement: A Study of Recently Arrived Arabic-Speaking Refugee Parents’ Understandings of Involvement in Their Children’s Education.” Canadian Journal of Education 44 (2): 371–404.
Liew, Jamie, and Shauna Labman. 2019. “‘A Refugee Is a Refugee’: Asylum Changes Threaten Canada’s ‘gold Standard’ System.” CBC News, April 20, 2019. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/opinion-canada-refugees-1.5103772.
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