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Jonathan Crush

ResearcherBalsillie School of International AffairsWilfrid Laurier University

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Jonathan Crush

Researcher

Balsillie School of International Affairs

Health Sciences

Wilfrid Laurier University

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
2 publications in the last five years, latest in 2023.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 10 research grants (8 SSHRC, 2 CIHR), most recently in 2023.

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Publications

243

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Research

Cape Town Food Security Immigrants Kitchener-Waterloo Lmics Marginalized Population Quito Refugees

Latest papers

'A foreigner is not a person in this country': xenophobia and the informal sector in South Africa's secondary cities.
Urban transformations · 2023 · senior author
Pathways to food insecurity: Migration, hukou and COVID-19 in Nanjing, China.
Population, space and place · 2023
Preparing for COVID-19: Household food insecurity and vulnerability to shocks in Nairobi, Kenya.
PloS one · 2021

All 7 publications

Latest funding

The labour market inclusion of African Immigrants in Canada
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$118,749
Cities of Contagion: Urban Refugees, Food Insecurity, and COVID-19 in Comparative Perspective
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$48,277
Remitting for Resilience (R2): Enhancing Food Security and Climate Adaptation Through Gender-Inclusive Migrant Remittances
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$1,587,510

All 14 grants and awards

The labour market inclusion of African Immigrants in Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Chikanda, Abel

$118,749

Cities of Contagion: Urban Refugees, Food Insecurity, and COVID-19 in Comparative Perspective

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Crush, Jonathan S.

Keywords: cities; food security; refugees and asylum-seekers; forced migration; global south; global development; COVID-19; pandemic; inclusivity; poverty; nutrition; hunger; social protection; health; Asia; Africa; Latin America and Caribbean; Canada; governance

$48,277

Remitting for Resilience (R2): Enhancing Food Security and Climate Adaptation Through Gender-Inclusive Migrant Remittances

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023New Frontiers in Research Fund - International

Principal investigators: Crush, Jonathan

Keywords: climate change; adaptation; Africa; food security; migration; rural-urban links; mobility; poverty; remittances; resilience

$1,587,510

Women Feeding Cities Project: Building a Gender-Transformative, Resilient, and Sustainable Informal Food Sector for COVID-19 Recovery

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022New Frontiers in Research Fund - Special Calls

Principal investigators: Crush, Jonathan

Keywords: informal food sector; urban food security; gender equity; resilience; micro-enterprise; Jamaica; Mexico; Mozambique; Namibia

$250,000

Women Feeding Cities Project: Building a Gender-Transformative, Resilient, and Sustainable Informal Food Sector for COVID-19 Recovery

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022New Frontiers in Research Fund - Special Calls

Principal investigators: Crush, Jonathan

Keywords: informal food sector urban food security gender equity resilience micro-enterprise Jamaica Mexico Mozambique Namibia

$250,000

Assessing and Mitigating the Food Insecurity Consequences of COVID-19 Public Health Measures on Marginalized Refugees and Migrants in Canada, Latin America and Africa

Nominated PICIHR2021Op. Gr.: Addr. the Wider Impacts of COVID- Exacerb. of disp. among marg. pops.

Principal investigators: Crush, Jonathan; Arya, Akshaya N; Martens, Cheryl; Si, Zhenzhong; Tevera, Daniel

Keywords: Cape Town; Food Security; Immigrants; Kitchener-Waterloo; Lmics; Marginalized Population; Quito; Refugees

$499,967

Assessing and Mitigating the Food Security Consequences of COVID-19 in China

Nominated PICIHR2020Operating Grant: COVID-19 - Public health response and its impact

Principal investigators: Crush, Jonathan; Zhong, Taiyang

Keywords: Social, Cultural, Environmental And Population Health

Assessing and Mitigating the Food Security Consequences of COVID-19 in China

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019New Frontiers in Research Fund - Rapid Response

Principal investigators: Crush, Jonathan

$438,241

Transforming Urban Food Systems in Africa: Issues and Dynamics in Secondary Cities

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Crush, Jonathan S.

Keywords: urbanization; secondary cities; food security; Sub-Saharan Africa; global development; governance; poverty; environment; nutrition; inclusivity; informal economies; supermarketization

$25,000

Consuming urban poverty 2: secondary urbanization, food security, and local governance in Africa

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Crush, Jonathan S.

Keywords: food security; urban geography; secondary cities; local governance; food systems; global development; Africa; comparative urbanism

$291,734

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Jonathan Crush

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

'A foreigner is not a person in this country': xenophobia and the informal sector in South Africa's secondary cities.

Pathways to food insecurity: Migration, hukou and COVID-19 in Nanjing, China.

Preparing for COVID-19: Household food insecurity and vulnerability to shocks in Nairobi, Kenya.

Factors determining household-level food insecurity during COVID-19 epidemic: a case of Wuhan, China.

South-South cross-border patient travel to South Africa

Health worker migration from South Africa: causes, consequences and policy responses

South–South medical tourism and the quest for health in Southern Africa

The labour market inclusion of African Immigrants in Canada

Cities of Contagion: Urban Refugees, Food Insecurity, and COVID-19 in Comparative Perspective

Remitting for Resilience (R2): Enhancing Food Security and Climate Adaptation Through Gender-Inclusive Migrant Remittances

Women Feeding Cities Project: Building a Gender-Transformative, Resilient, and Sustainable Informal Food Sector for COVID-19 Recovery

Women Feeding Cities Project: Building a Gender-Transformative, Resilient, and Sustainable Informal Food Sector for COVID-19 Recovery

Assessing and Mitigating the Food Insecurity Consequences of COVID-19 Public Health Measures on Marginalized Refugees and Migrants in Canada, Latin America and Africa

Assessing and Mitigating the Food Security Consequences of COVID-19 in China

Assessing and Mitigating the Food Security Consequences of COVID-19 in China

Transforming Urban Food Systems in Africa: Issues and Dynamics in Secondary Cities

Consuming urban poverty 2: secondary urbanization, food security, and local governance in Africa

Frequent collaborators

Abel Chikanda

David Sanders

Ivy Bourgeault