Belinda Dodson

Associate Professor

Research Interests

I specialize in international development, with a regional focus on Southern Africa. I am also affiliated with Western's Centre for Migration and Ethnic Relations. My current research focuses on three themes: gender dimensions of cross-border migration, xenophobia in South Africa, and urban food security. I am interested in supervising graduate students on topics related to migration, gender, and food security, preferably in Southern Africa or, for migration, in countries of immigrant destination. Examples of my current graduate students' thesis topics are "Gender and remittances to Zimbabwe" and "Gender and food security in Blantyre, Malawi".

Publications (past 7 years)

Refereed Journals

Dodson, B.J. 2010 'Locating xenophobia: Debate, discourse and everyday experience in Cape Town, South Africa' Africa Today 56(3): 2-22

Goebel, A., Dodson, B.J. and Hill, T. 2010 'Urban advantage or urban penalty? A case study of female-headed households in a South African city' Health & Place 16(3): 573-580

Crush, J.S. and Dodson, B.J. 2007 'Another lost decade: The failures of South Africa's post-apartheid immigration policy' Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 98(4): 436-454

Dodson, B.J. 2005 'A Soil Conservation Safari: Hugh Bennett&'s 1944 Visit to South Africa' Environment and History 11(1): 35-53

Dodson, B.J. and Crush, J., 2004.'A Report on Gender Discrimination in South Africa's 2002 Immigration Act: Masculinizing the Migrant' Feminist Review 77: 96-119

Dodson, B.J. 2004 'Above Politics? Soil Conservation in 1940s South Africa' South African Historical Journal 50: 49-64

Chapters in Books

Huot, S. and Dodson, B.J. 2010 'Doing it for the children: Family factors in skilled migration from South Africa to Canada' in Family Geographies: The Spatiality of Families and Family Life ed B. Hallman (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 151-169

Dodson, B.J. 2008 'Gender, migration and livelihoods: migrant women in Southern Africa'. in New Perspectives on Gender and Migration: Livelihood, Rights and Entitlements ed N. Piper (Routledge: New York and London) 137-158

Dodson, B.J. 2004 'Natural disasters in Africa’ in International Perspectives on Natural Disasters: Occurrence, Mitigation, and Consequences ed J. Stoltman, J. Lidstone, and L. DiChano (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers)

Dodson, B.J. 2002 ‘Women in the brain drain: gender and skilled migration from South Africa’ in Destinations Unknown: Skilled Migration in Southern Africa ed D. McDonald and J. Crush (Pretoria: Africa Institute and Kingston, Ontario: Southern African Migration Project)

Dodson, B.J. and Oelofse, C.G. 2002 ‘Shades of xenophobia: in-migrants and immigrants in Mizamoyethu, Cape Town’  in Transnationalism and New African Immigration to South Africa ed J. Crush and D. McDonald (Kingston, Ontario: Southern African Migration Project and Canadian Association of African Studies)

Dodson, B.J. 2002 'Searching for a common agenda: ecofeminism and environmental justice' in Environmental Justice in South Africa ed D. McDonald (Athens: Ohio University Press and Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press)

Supervised Graduate Students and Theses Titles

PhD Students Year Title
R. Dillon Current Gender, Migration and Remittances in Botswana
E. Pratley Current Alternative food networks in Canada and Brazil
B. Punjabi Current Urban development and water resources management in Bombay, India
L. Riley Current Urban food security in Blantyre, Malawi
S. Huot

(co-supervised)

 2011 Critically exploring the challenges of successful integration for French-speaking newcomers within London Ontario’s Francophone minority community
A. Chikanda 2010 Emigration of Medical Doctors from Zimbabwe: Migrant Experiences, Transnational Linkages and Prospects for Diasporic Engagement
MA Students Year Title
T. Cater Current TBA
K. McMullen 2006 Msunduzi catchment management forum: A case study of local environmental governance in South Africa
J. Roukema 2006 Integrating the environment into local urban governance in South Africa
S. Huot 2005 Structural context and lived experiences of skilled international migration: A case study if South African professionals in London, Ontario
J. Silver 2004 Reactions of fishers to participation in fisheries research in the Turks and Caicos, BWI

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