Martin Jones

Martin Jones (B.A., Queen’s; B.A. Hons., Queen’s; LL.B, UBC) practiced as an immigration and refugee lawyer for seven years. During that time he represented over one thousand immigrants and refugee claimants in all stages of the immigration and refugee protection process.

Martin is presently a doctoral candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and a recipient of a Canada Graduate Scholarship awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. He is also a research associate at York University's Centre for Refugee Studies and a guest lecturer for the Centre’s Summer Course on Refugee Issues. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University and at the Program in Refugee and Asylum Law at the University of Michigan. He has taught immigration and refugee law at Queen’s University (Canada) and the University of East London (UK).

Martin is the managing editor of Refuge, a scholarly periodical on refugee issues. He has widely presented and published on various topics in refugee and migration law.