David Ley is Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and UBC Director of the Vancouver Centre for Research on Immigration and Integration in the Metropolis (RIIM). Current research is analysing business immigration, relations between immigration and the housing market, and the settlement role of immigrant churches. Recent publications have examined immigrant poverty in Canadian cities (in Urban Studies), intellectual and popular representations of immigration (in The Canadian
Geographer) and the 'monster house' land use conflict (in Ecumene). He co-edited a forthcoming issue of Progress in Planning consisting of comparative studies of immigration in Vancouver and Sydney. Dr. Ley is presently Christensen Fellow at Oxford University.
