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Ivy obtained her Ph.D. in Sociology and Legal Studies from the University of Waterloo in 2024. Ivy’s research mainly focuses on migration policies, immigrants & refugees, ageing and social change, public policy and governance, mobility politics, and social justice. Ivy has been a licensed immigration consultant and paralegal since 2009. Before being appointed by Queen’s University in February 2022 to teach this graduate diploma program, Ivy had taught the similar Immigration Practitioner Program (IPP) at CDI College-Scarborough Campus.
As a previous lawyer in China, Ivy has dedicated to and continued her legal services career in Canada after immigration. She was first employed as a legal assistant from 2006 to 2008 and then established her own immigration consulting and legal services business in 2009 after garnering her paralegal and immigration consultant licences. Ivy obtained her Immigration Consultant Program diploma at Humber College with high honours in 2007. She also garnered her Master’s degree in Immigration and Settlement Studies at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University) and her Bachelor’s degree in legal studies at UOIT (now Ontario Tech) with the highest distinction.
Ivy is actively involved in social justice and equity advocacy and in promoting better settlement for immigrants and refugees by presenting her research at academic conferences worldwide, publishing journal articles, attending community activities and providing immigration and legal services to the Chinese community and other ethnic communities.