Heather Smith
Heather Smith
Professor
Geography and Earth Sciences
My research explores immigrant settlement, adjustment and receptivity in North American cities with a focus on vulnerable populations and neighborhoods. Through the lenses of Geography and community-engaged research, I have examined relations between concentrated poverty and an immigrant “underclass” in Canada’s largest cities and explored Latinx migration dynamics in Charlotte, NC and other 21st Century gateways. New research investigates the migration choices and experiences of Canadians settling and unsettling in the so-called New South.