Delphine Nakache is Associate Professor in International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa. Her research focuses on refugee and immigration law, human rights, protection of migrant workers, asylum seekers and non-status migrants.   Dr. Nakache was interviewed by Zainab Abu Alrob, a first-year PhD candidate in Policy Studies at Ryerson University who focuses her research on asylum policy, resettlement and refugee integration.  In an intriguing and wide-ranging interview, Dr. Nakache unveiled meaningful and thought-provoking insight into resettlement, the treatment of refugees in Canada, human rights and policy implementation as well as the role of advocacy in academia. Nakache is a spark of inspiration for aspiring academics in the field of migration! In the face of simplistic narratives that states need strict border policies and that asylum seekers are to be feared, Nakache nuances the explanations for spontaneous border arrivals by underlining the importance of resettlement. “Many of the asylum seekers who come spontaneously to our border, they come because resettlement is not what it should be abroad.” Nakache acknowledges both the positive contributions in Canadian refugee resettlement initiatives, and that 86% of refugees remain in the Global South. Nakache emphasizes that “resettlement is really one of the most viable options” for lifting the burden off of neighboring countries and for also reducing spontaneous border arrivals. Nakache researches the significance of the differential treatment of asylum seekers. She refers to the “Designated Countries of Origin” and “Designated Foreign National” as measures that are “unfair” and create unnecessary hurdles for asylum seekers. “My priority for asylum seekers would be to stop having different categories of asylum seekers with different rights.” She notes that resettled refugees are deemed as legitimate while spontaneous arrivals are not. According to Nakache, the reality is much more complex than these simplistic discourses. She puts forth a compelling counter-narrative by outlining that a “small percentage of refugees are being resettled, if we were doing our job properly, we would probably have less spontaneous arrivals.”  Nakache’s interest in the gap between human rights and their implementation has led her to explore the voting rights and an “organization” of migrants. “The problem is that migrants don’t vote, so they are not politically interesting. They become an easy target because they polarize many views.” Nakache believes that after three years, every migrant should have the right to vote....