Yolande Pottie-Sherman

Dr. Yolande Pottie-Sherman is an Assistant Professor in Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland and co-lead of the Adaptive Cities & Engagement (ACE) Space; a research lab promoting social justice and inclusivity in small cities. She is an urban and political geographer who writes primarily about human migration. Her research interests include the political economy of migration, urban change, and local immigration activism – particularly in the American Rust Belt and Atlantic Canada. Currently, Pottie-Sherman is working on a SSHRC funded project entitled, “Immigration, urban change, the contemporary Rust Belt,” and researching present-day community-relocation movements in Newfoundland and Labrador and beyond for a project on “Resettlement in Global Context” with Dr. Isabelle Côté. She is particularly interested in supervising students working in the areas of human migration, especially on the topics of community relocation and population resettlement; local immigration policies and practices; and anti-immigrant attitudes. Current advisees are studying immigrant entrepreneurship and regional governance in Newfoundland and Labrador.