- Left out of the Levels Plan: A Call for Accessible Statistics for the Joint Assistance Sponsorship Program to Facilitate Research and Evaluation
- CARFMS2025: Canadian, Regional, and International Responses to Forced Migration
- LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE INDOCHINESE REFUGEE MOVEMENT IN CANADA IN THE 1970s AND 1980s
- 2024 Winners of CARFMS/LERRN Lived Experiences of Displacement Essay Award
- The Most Fundamental Human Right to Peace and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) the Forcibly Displaced
CALACS/CARFMS Bridging Day
Bridging the Gaps: Understanding Current Mobilities in the Caribbean and Latin America and their Policy Implications
Monday May 13, 2019
Accolades West 205
Abstracts (PDF)
8:30 – 9:00am – Registration and coffee
9:00 – 10:15 – Introduction – Keynote: Liliana Jubilut The Cartagena Declaration at 35 and protection of refugees in Latin America
10:15 – 10:30 – Break
10:30 – 12:00 – Panel 1: Political Dimensions of Migration
| Chair: | Robert Larruina |
| Speaker 1: | Angel Alvarez, Unintended effects of forced displacement on political stability |
| Speaker 2: | Enrique Coraza de los Santos, Movilidades forzadas en perspectiva Comparada en América Latina |
| Speaker 3: | Bruno Dupeyron, “Protecting” without a Protection Mandate: The International Organization for Migration’s Business with Refugees and Forced Migrants in South America |
12:00 – 1:00 – Lunch
1:00 – 3:00 – Panel 2: Settlement Experiences
| Chair: | Kristin Cuipa |
| Speaker 1: | Martha Luz Rojas-Wiesner, Deportabilidad y vida cotidiana de mujeres guatemaltecas immigrantes en Mexico |
| Speaker 2: | Sandra Trebunia, Getting settled and negotiating identities: refugee women’s experiences in Sao Paulo |
| Speaker 3: | Luin Goldring, Histories, mobilities and differential inclusion |
| Speaker 4: | Paulina Larreategui, The role of the Andean Community of Nations and MERCOSUR in the management of the Venezuelan migratory crisis |
3:00 – 3:15 – Break
3:15 – 4:45 – Panel 3: Mobilities
| Chair: | Sunday Israel Oyebamiji |
| Speaker 1: | Victoria Simmons, At a crossroads: Migrant caravans and viapolitics of protection, protest and pilgrimage |
| Speaker 2: | Josefina Barojas Sanchez, Infancias en tránsito: niñas y niños centroamericanos migrantes que recorren la frontera sur de México |
| Speaker 3: | Ailsa Winton, Methods that move? Experiences of mobility research in Central America and Mexico |
4:45 – Reception (will be held in the Private Dining Room of the Schulich Executive Learning Centre (building #42 on the campus map)
Download the program as a PDF
