[1][2] His interests include issues of Central and Eastern Europe and Russia, multiculturalism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, ethnic conflicts, and response to refugee crisis and immigration in the receiving countries.
During the 2014–15 academic year Ray Taras was a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex.
In 2018-19 he is Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the Australian National University in Canberra.
[1] Raymond Taras was born in a Polish family in Montreal, Canada.
[2] Ray Taras is an author and editor of over 20 monographs and over 100 articles