Dr. Michael Haan 

Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Population and Social Policy

BA (Dordt College); MA (University of Windsor); PhD (University of Toronto)

Michael Haan studies why immigrants make the location choices they do, and what impact these choices have on both their well-being and that of the communities they join. This research is critical to understanding the relationship between location choice and socio-economic well-being, and to preventing over-urbanization in some parts of Canada and population decline in others. Haan's earlier work focused on housing and immigration, although the focus on inequality and stratification was evident there as well.

Recent Publications

  • Haan, Michael. 2011. The Residential Crowding of Immigrants in Canada. Journal of Ethnic and Migrant Studies 37(3): 443-465. 
  • Haan, Michael. 2011. Does Residential Crowding Reflect Hidden Homelessness? Canadian Studies in Population 38(1-2): 42-58.
  • Haan, Michael. 2010. Is Recent Immigrant Clustering in Montréal, Toronto and Vancouver Part of the Reason Behind Declining Immigrant Neighbourhood Quality? in Demographic Aspects of Migration Edited by Barry Edmonston, Thomas Saltzmann, and James Raymer. Berlin: Springer Verlag.
  • Haan, Michael. 2009. An Introduction to Social Statistics for Canadian Social Science Students. An introductory statistics textbook for 2nd or 3rd year undergraduate students. Oxford University Press. 2nd Edition forthcoming in 2011.
  • Haan, Michael. 2010. “The Sources of Early Differentiation in the Immigrant Housing Market: Insights from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada.” Pp. 235-256 in Immigration: Economic Evidence for a Dynamic Policy Environment Edited by Ted McDonald, Arthur Sweetman, Liz Ruddock and Chris Worswick. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press 
  • Perks, Thomas and Michael Haan. 2010. “Declining levels of youth religious involvement and its consequences on adult community participation in Canada.” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 20:1-23.
  • Perks, Thomas, and Michael Haan. 2010. “What shapes the dwelling-type choices of older Canadians? An investigation using the Aging and Social Support Survey (GSS16).” Canadian Journal on Aging  29(3): 1-19.
  • Haan, Michael. 2010. “Residential Crowding in Canada” in Immigration, Housing and Homelessness. Invited submission by the Homelessness Partnering Secretariat and the Metropolis Project.
  • Krahn, Harvey, Trevor Harrison, Michael Haan, & William Johnston. 2009. “Social Capital and Political Engagement in Canada” International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 46(1): 29-54.
  • Haan, Michael. 2008. “The Place of Place: Location and Immigrant Economic Wellbeing in Canada.” Population Research and Policy Review, 27(6): 751-771.

Contact Information:

Dr Michael Haan

Associate Professor
Office: Carleton Hall, Room 135A (Sociology) Singer Hall, Room 454 (Economics)
Phone: (506) 447-3384
Fax: (506) 453-4659