Faculty and staff

Tyler Correia's teaching and research specialization is interdisciplinary with a focus on the state regulation of and contemporary social trends pertaining to migration (specializing in refuge, globalization, the public sphere, and urban migrant-rights politics). He holds cognate competencies in sociological theories of institutions and institutionalization, social movements, and critical border and citizenship studies. More broadly, Correia's research engages theories of urbanism and marginalization respectively, cultures of hospitality, as well as genealogies of sovereignty and sanctuary. He is a PhD graduate of York University’s Social and Political Thought Program. His dissertation analyzes how the contributions made by migrant-rights movements can be understood in contestation with a tradition of political authority that seeks to regulate membership. He has taught classes on phenomenological and post-phenomenological thought, and is currently working on research that reinterprets the cosmopolitan tradition from Diogenes and Immanuel Kant in terms of grassroots urban political action today. Correia has also contributed research on Clarice Lispector’s literary oeuvre and Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction of ‘parliament’ for the international journal Angelaki, as well as work critically exploring border enforcement measures undertaken by Western states and the ways that contemporary sanctuary politics respond to them.

PhD. 2016-2022. Social and Political Thought, York University, Toronto, Canada. Dissertation: The Open City: Grammatology of the Logic of Sovereignty and Migrant-Rights Movements. http://hdl.handle.net/10315/41000

Graduate Diploma. 2019-2022. Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada.

MA 2015-2016. Social and Political Thought, York University, Toronto, Canada.

BA Hons. 2011-2015. Political Science, Western University, London, Canada. (Minor in Philosophy). Dean’s Honor Roll, 2011-2014.

BA Exchange. 2015. Political Science, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.

The state regulation of and contemporary social trends pertaining to migration (refuge, globalization and global cities, the public sphere, and urban migrant-rights politics), sociologies of institutions and institutionalization, social movements, and critical border and citizenship studies. Public sphere theories and the global public sphere in historical and contemporary perspective, theories of urbanism and marginalization, cultures of hospitality, genealogies of sovereignty and sanctuary. Theoretical traditions: continental philosophy, phenomenology, post-structuralism; Hannah Arendt, Jurgen Habermas, Seyla Benhabib, Sara Ahmed, Edmund Husserl, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Jacques Rancière, Georg Simmel, urban political sociologies from Weber to Isin.

Refereed Journal Articles

2025 (Forthcoming). “Theorizing Cosmopolitanism Through Urban Migrant Rights Movements: A Critical Synthesis.” In Solidarity City: International Perspectives of Migrant Inclusion & Refugee Protection, Harald Bauder and Mary Boatemaa Setrana eds. Springer, pp. 1-26.

2024. “Border Extraterritoriality or Cosmopolitan Responsibility? Conceptualizing the Possibility of Asylum Claims in absentia.” Studies in Social Justice: pp. 1-29. (Accepted).
2025. “Derrida and Parle-ment (Parliament).” Angelaki vol. 29, nos. 1-2: pp. 97-109. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.2024.2322264.
2026. With Benjamin P. Bruce and Gülce S. Özdemir. “Sanctuary.” In Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Mortimer Sellers and Stephan Kirste eds. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6730-0_1132-2.
2027. “In the Shadows of the Cosmos: Why does Clarice Lispector Focus on the Margins of Her Own Creative Worlds?” Angelaki vol. 28, no. 2: pp. 68-78. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.2023.2192066.
2028. “Disapparition I: The National Idiom and the Translatability of Culture.” Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics vol. 44, no. 4: pp. 29-42. https://jcla.in/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/JCLA-45.1-Spring-2022_Tyler-Correia.pdf.

Conference Proceedings

2020. “Disapparition II: Derrida’s (Impossible) Intercultural Dialogue in Japan.” Conference Proceedings, 33rd Annual Conference of the Japan Studies Association of Canada. http://www.jsac.ca/jsac2020_pub/jsac2020_correia.pdf.

Reviews

2023. “Review: Robin Cohen and Nicholas Van Hear’s Refugia: Radical Solutions to Mass Displacement.” Refuge vol. 39, no. 1: pp. 1-4. (Online). https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.41106.
2024. “Review: John E. Schmitz’s Enemies Among Us: The Relocation, Internment, and Repatriation of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans During the Second World War.” H-Socialisms. 19 June. (Online). https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=56962.
2025. “Review: Michael L. Morgan, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Levinas.” Phenomenological Reviews. 18 April. (Online). https://reviews.ophen.org/2021/04/18/michael-l-morgan-ed-the-oxford-handbook-of-levinas-2/.
2026. “Review: Benajmin Meiches’ The Politics of Annihilation: A Genealogy of Genocide.” H-Socialisms. 29 August. (Online). http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=55011.
2027. “Review: Emmanuel Renault’s The Experience of Injustice.” H-Socialisms. 3 November. (Online). http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=53866.
2028. “Review: Christophe Bident’s Maurice Blanchot: A Critical Biography.” Phenomenological Reviews. 28 August. (Online). https://reviews.ophen.org/2019/08/26/christophe-bident-maurice-blanchot-a-critical-biography/.