Jill
Hanley
Dr. Jill Hanley is Associate Professor at the McGill School of Social Work and Scientific Director of the SHERPA University Institute on Migration, Diversity and Health. Throughout the past 20 years, Dr. Hanley has researched access to health, housing and labour rights for precarious status migrants - temporary foreign workers, refugee claimants and undocumented migrants, in particular - exploring strategies for promoting access to social rights at the individual, family and community level. She is a co-founder of Montreal’s Immigrant Workers’ Centre, where she has been actively involved since 2000.