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Unpacking the knowledge-practices of the “collective self”: The Rohingya social movement in Canada

Posted on Friday September 18th, 2020Sunday September 20th, 2020 by Bruno Dupeyron

by Yuriko Cowper-Smith, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, University of Guelph. Yuriko Cowper-Smith is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science and International Development (with a major in Comparative Politics and a minor in Public Policy) at the University of Guelph. Her main research interests lie in migration, statelessness, and social movements, and her dissertation research investigates the migrant-led Rohingya social movement in Canada. For three years, she has worked with this diaspora community by volunteering,…

15 Ways to Evaluate the Success of Community Sponsorship Programs, by Rachel McNally

Posted on Wednesday January 22nd, 2020Tuesday January 28th, 2020 by Bruno Dupeyron

Last year marked 40 years since the signing of the first agreement for private sponsorship in Canada. The government credits the program for “thousands upon thousands of new Canadian success stories.”[i] But what does the government mean by “success”? How can we determine if a sponsorship program is “successful”? New research reflects on these questions, including the Refuge journal’s new Special Issue on Private Sponsorship in Canada, the forthcoming book by McGill-Queen’s University Press Strangers…

Notes from the Field: Unraveling the Intricacies of Migration with Dr. Nakache

Posted on Friday May 3rd, 2019Thursday June 25th, 2020 by Petra Molnar

Delphine Nakache is Associate Professor in International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa. Her research focuses on refugee and immigration law, human rights, protection of migrant workers, asylum seekers and non-status migrants. Dr. Nakache was interviewed by Zainab Abu Alrob, a first-year PhD candidate in Policy Studies at Ryerson University who focuses her research on asylum policy, resettlement and refugee integration. In an intriguing and wide-ranging interview, Dr. Nakache unveiled meaningful and…

Notes from the Field: Immigration Policies: Canada vs. The United States?

Posted on Friday May 3rd, 2019Thursday June 25th, 2020 by Petra Molnar

Notes from the Field Julia Gelatt, PhD, is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) in Washington, DC. Her work focuses on the US immigration system, demographic trends and policy implications. Julia was interviewed by Kanwal Khokhar, who is an MA candidate in Criminal and Social Justice Studies at Ryerson University. Kanwal is passionate about ensuring that Canadian immigration policy-makers avoid the US mistakes in crafting immigration and asylum legislation. Executive Summary:…

Canada Needs to End the ‘Indefinite Detention’ of Migrants: And, the Supreme Court Should Make it So

Posted on Wednesday March 27th, 2019Thursday March 28th, 2019 by Petra Molnar

Professor James C. Simeon, Head of McLaughlin College School of Public Policy and Administration, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada jcsimeon@yorku.ca Why is Canada one of the few countries in the world that still practices “indefinite detention”? The deplorable practice of holding migrants for indefinite periods of time who are unable to establish their identity or who are unable to obtain the documentation required to be returned to their…

Notes from the Field: Irregular Citizenship and Citizenship in a No-Borders World – Prof. Peter Nyers interviewed by Julia Wong

Posted on Wednesday November 21st, 2018Thursday June 25th, 2020 by Petra Molnar

Peter Nyers is Associate Professor of the Politics of Citizenship and Intercultural Relations in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University. He is the author of Irregular Citizenship, Immigration, and Deportation(Routledge 2019). Professor Nyers was interviewed by Julia Wong, a third year Philosophy student at the University of Toronto. In an extensive interview, Professor Nyers explained his concept of irregular citizenship and what citizenship might be in a borderless world. With our current…

Methodology, Reflexivity and Decolonizing Refugee Research: Reflections from the Field, by Dina Taha

Posted on Wednesday November 14th, 2018Thursday June 25th, 2020 by Bruno Dupeyron

During the summer of 2017, I was conducting fieldwork for my doctoral dissertation in Egypt. I interviewed thirty-five Syrian refugee women who, after escaping the conflict in Syria, settled in Egypt and then married Egyptian men. Initially my aim was to compare Syrian refugee women’s narratives with the pervasive, and often unquestioned discourses in social media and humanitarian blogs which “explained away” these women’s marriages to Egyptian nationals as coercion, exploitation, and at times…

Legal Nuance and the Need for Empathy: Interview with Jamie Chai Yun Liew

Posted on Monday September 24th, 2018Tuesday November 3rd, 2020 by Bruno Dupeyron

Jamie Chai Yun Liew is an associate professor at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law and a practicing refugee and immigration lawyer. Professor Liew advocates for migrants who are continually marginalized by legal barriers to citizenship and equality in Canada, with a specific focus on gendered issues in immigration and refugee law. Professor Liew was interviewed by Teodora Pasca, who holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Toronto and is now a…

The UN Refugee Agency’s report shows that Canada should welcome more refugees, by Didem Dogar

Posted on Wednesday September 19th, 2018 by Bruno Dupeyron

In June 2018, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) published its annual Global Trends report on forced displacement in 2017. According to the Global Trends report, how well did Canada do in welcoming refugees compared to other countries in the world? Actions speak louder than words First of all, despite their limited economic resources developing countries mostly and by far welcomed the greatest number of refugees. According to the report, the…

Losing the War in order to Win the Battle? Unravelling scholarship’s approach to the ‘Windrush scandal’ and immigration detention in the United Kingdom, by Stephanie J. Silverman

Posted on Friday August 31st, 2018 by Bruno Dupeyron

The ‘Windrush generation’ scandal is wracking the United Kingdom: the Home Secretary was forced to resigned, a Parliamentary Committee was struck to examine what went wrong, thousands of files were poured over for wrongful deportations to Jamaica, and reparations were paid to the unlawfully detained. UK Prime Minister Theresa May promised in April 2018 that “the UK will do whatever it takes including, where appropriate, payment of compensation, to resolve the anxieties and problems that…

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