Dr. Secil E. Ertorer works as an associate professor of sociology at Canisius University, Buffalo, NY. She received her Ph.D. in sociology with a specialization in migration and ethnic relations from the University of Western Ontario in Canada. She has experience teaching sociology and honors courses in Canadian and American higher education. Dr. Ertorer’s research interests are international migration, refugee studies, integration, racial/ethnic relations, and identity. She has conducted fieldwork in England, Canada, the United States, and Turkey, interviewing Kurdish, Karen, Burmese, and Syrian refugees and representatives of humanitarian agencies. She has published on the asylum-seeking, resettlement, and integration experiences of refugees and economic immigrants, as well as the effects of these processes on identity reconstruction. Her current research project examines AAPI racism in the United States amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which feeds her book project on xenophobia in the context of pandemics.