Research

Projects

Uprooted Democracy: Displacement and the Politics of Recognition

  • Examines why states recognize some forms of displacement (climate-, development-, and persecution-led) while rendering others legally invisible, and what this reveals about democratic quality in Latin America

Publications

Sinotte, Étienne. (Under review; working paper available). “Making Collaborative Governance Work in Contexts of State Weakness and Disengagement: Peru’s Indigenous COVID-19 Commands.”

  • Explains subnational variation the effectiveness of Peru’s indigenous COVID Commands through pre-existing collaborative networks and NGO involvement
  • Shows how civil society can sustain coordination in medium-capacity states when the state disengages

Brouard, François, Natalya Brown, Manuel Litalien and Étienne Sinotte. 2025. “Definitions of northern/rural/remote/peripheric communities in Canada.” In Research Companion to the Periphery and Peripheral Regions: Concepts, Diagnosis, Dilemmas, edited by Jerzy Banski. Edward Elgar Publishing.

  • Reviews competing definitions of northern, rural, remote, and peripheric communities in Canada, mapping four key continua (northern/southern, rural/urban, remote/close, peripheric/core)
  • Argues that relying on any single classification risks oversimplifying the realities of smaller communities, with consequences for welfare programs and philanthropic efforts

Book Reviews

Sinotte, Étienne. 2025. “Climate Displacement By Jamie Draper Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2023. 272pp. £90.00/ US$115.00. ISBN 978 0192 870162.” Journal of Refugee Studies 38 (3): 813–15.

Sinotte, Étienne. 2024. “Recognition Politics: Indigenous Rights and Ethnic Conflict in the Andes: By Lorenza B. Fontana, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 250 Pp., US$99.99 (Hardcover), ISBN 9781009265515.” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue Canadienne Des Études Latino-Américaines et Caraïbes 49 (1): 117–19.

Sinotte, Étienne. 2023. “Voice and Inequality: Poverty and Political Participation in Latin American Democracies, de Carew Boulding et Claudio A. Holzner, New York, Oxford University Press, 2021, 244 p.” Politique et Sociétés 42 (3): 218.

Media

Sinotte, Étienne. 2026. “Ousting of Peru’s president points to a deeper crisis.” The Conversation Canada. March 5, 2026.

Grants and Fellowships

  • 2025-2026 Doctoral Research Fellowship from the Interuniversity Research Team on Governance and Inclusion in Latin America (ÉRIGAL)

  • 2024-2027 Canada Graduate Scholarship (Ph.D.; CGS-D) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

  • 2022-2023 Canada Graduate Scholarship (M.A.; CGS-M) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) 

  • 2022 Discovery Scholarship from the University of Montreal’s School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

Affiliations

  • Member (2025-), Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (CSDC)

  • Member (2025-), McGill Refugee Research Group (MRRG) 

  • Member (2021-), Interuniversity Research Team on Governance and Inclusion in Latin America (ÉRIGAL)

  • Visiting Scholar (2025), Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, Económicas, Políticas y Antropológicas at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP-CISEPA)

  • Member (2021-2023), Chaire de recherche du Canada Participation et citoyenneté(s)