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Université de Moncton
experiences of international students in the four Atlantic Provinces
when it comes time for them to consider immigration. On the local front,
he co-chairs the Greater Moncton Immigration Board.
In addition to his teaching career, he has also produced two
documentaries for the National Film Board’s Studio Acadie.
Dr. Belkhodja is also an associate researcher at the Chaire de recherche
en immigration, ethnicité et citoyenneté at the Université du Québec à
Montréal.Throughout his career, he has also been a visiting researcher at
the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Citizenship and Minorities
at the University of Ottawa and, more recently, at the
Centro de Estudos
Geographico
at the Universidade de Lisboa in Portugal.
StephenWyatt
Professor StephenWyatt, a specialist in community forests and forest
policy on the Edmundston Campus believes New Brunswick’s forest
policy needs to be updated in order to better reflect the interests of
the province.
“Elsewhere in the country, forestry management methods have been up-
dated and refined. I believe it is now New Brunswick’s turn to modernize
its forest policy, which dates back to 1982,” the professor says. “University
researchers can support the government in this undertaking by advising
officials on what works and what doesn’t.”
Faculty profiles
Chedly Belkhodja
A professor in the Université de Moncton’s political science department
on the Moncton Campus since 1992, Chedly Belkhodja is a specialist in
comparative political sociology, Canadian politics, immigration and cultural
diversity. A native of Tunisia, he has lived in Moncton since childhood.
He studied for his master’s degree in arts at the Université de Montréal and
received a D.E.A. and Ph.D. from the Université Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV.
His current research work focuses on questions of immigration in medium-
size cities and in areas with low immigration, as well as discourse on – and
representations of – cultural, religious and ethnic diversity.
In 2003, Prof. Belkhodja became involved with the Atlantic Metropolis
Centre as a researcher. He became director of the Centre in 2006.
The Atlantic Metropolis Centre is a network of university researchers, as
well as government and non-government representatives whose mandate
is to develop and conduct research on matters of immigration and cultural
diversity in order to improve public policy in these areas.
Dr. Belkhodja has received several Metropolis grants, most recently
partnering with Pauline Barber-Gairdner of Dalhousie University’s
Department of Anthropology and Sociology to look at the directions and
“It’s time to
take a look at
NewBrunswick’s
forest policy.”
Specialist in
immigration
and cultural
diversity