Ray Silvius is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Winnipeg. His research interests include Global Political Economy, non-Western political economies, community-based research, and the Political Economy of refugees, home, and migration. He is conducting Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funded research through the Manitoba Research Alliance into the housing situations of refugees that have resettled in Winnipeg.  He is lead in the Migration in Remote and Rural Areas network within the Rural Policy Learning Commons, a 7 year, SSHRC-funded Partnership Grant and involved in two additional SSHRC funded initiatives - Child and Youth Refugee Research Coalition (CYRRC) and the project ‘Finding Home: The Secondary Migration of Refugee Children, Youth and their Families in Canada.’ Dr. Silvius is the author of Culture, Political Economy and Civilisation in a Multipolar World Order: The Case of Russia (Routledge, 2016).