Foreign Aid

Aid and Immigrant Remittances

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My latest article, with Heather Dicks and Lisa Kaida, is out now in the Canadian Journal of Development Studies. This research stems from mine and Lisa’s recent SSHRC Insight Development Grant on aid and remittances. Check it out here: Swiss, L., Dicks, H., & Kaida, L. (2026). Immigrant remittances and foreign aid: working together in … Read more

Securitization and Violence Against Aid Workers

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Dr. Heather Dicks and I have a new article available via open access in STABILITY: International Journal of Security and Development. The article is “Aid Securitization and Violence Against Aid Workers”. Here’s the abstract: Abstract: Recent decades have witnessed a shift in development practice whereby donors increasingly provide aid to support security-related programming in the … Read more

USAID?

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The targeting of USAID by the Trump/Musk Administration has been garnering a lot of attention (rightly so) and I have been sharing my thoughts on it with a number of media outlets. Here are a few stories that include some of my thoughts on the tragedy that is unfolding. The Hill Times (2025/02/12): The Kyiv … Read more

Violence Against Aid Workers

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Heather Dicks (PhD Candidate, Memorial Sociology) and I have contributed a post on our ongoing research on the relationship of aid securitization and violence against aid and humanitarian workers to the new MUN-based academic blog Population and Security. Read the original post here: The post has also been translated and re-published on the UQAM-based Institut … Read more