Isabelle Côté

Isabelle Côté is a Professor of Political Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador (MUNL), in St John’s, Canada. Her work examines the role of population dynamics –especially internal migration- on contentious politics and ‘Sons of the Soil’ conflict in Asia and beyond. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto and has held various guest researcher positions in China, Indonesia, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands. She has published dozens of articles on migration and conflict in scholarly journals and edited volumes, and has co-edited two books, People Changing Places: New Perspectives on Demography, Migration, Conflict and the State (Routledge 2019, with Matthew I. Mitchell and Monica Duffy Toft), and Resettlement: Uprooting and Rebuilding Communities in Newfoundland and Labrador and Beyond (ISER Books, 2020, with Yolande Pottie-Sherman). She was the recipient of numerous awards and grants, most notably the 2020 Canadian Political Science Association Teaching Award.