Rupaleem Bhuyan

Rupaleem Bhuyan joined the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work in 2008 as an Assistant Professor. She is currently an Associate Professor and an affiliate of the Women and Gender Studies Institute and a Fellow with the Centre for Critical Qualitative Research at the University of Toronto.

Her interdisciplinary background in International Studies, Cultural Anthropology and Social Welfare allows her to integrate interpretive policy analysis and community-based participatory action research to address the socio-cultural and political context of migration, social rights, and gender-based violence. Dr. Bhuyan explores how temporary and precarious immigration impacts immigrants’ access to social and health care services, including immigrants’ response to gender-based violence.

In 2011, Dr. Bhuyan co-created the Migrant Mothers Project in collaboration with a network of community-based organizations, women’s rights and immigrant rights groups, and grassroots activists to document how immigration policies contribute to gendered inequality and different forms of gender-based violence.

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