Leah Montange is a human geographer.  She researches and writes about borders, detention, prisons, and the political, social, and economic relations that produce them. The relationship between immigration policies, their enforcement, and labor regimes is of particular interest to her. She also writes about and for people who resist carceral relations.  Her scholarly work is published in Citizenship Studies; Environment and Planning D: Society and Space; the Annals of the Association of American Geographers; Globalizations; ACME: An International Journal of Critical Geographies; Society and Space; Population, Space and Place; and Antipode.  She teaches courses on borders, cities, labour, migration, and transnational space.

Leah is currently a Research Associate with the Morgan Centre for Labour Research at Simon Fraser Univeristy and the progressive think tank BC Policy Solutions. Leah also recently held the Bissell-Heyd Lectureship in American Studies at the University of Toronto. She has taught with the Freedom Education Project Puget Sound and has long participated in abolition organizing in WA State in the US.