Updates

Editors’ Introduction: Detention, Prison, and Knowledge Translation in Canada and Beyond by Stephanie J. Silverman and Sharry Aiken   Immigration detention refers to the law, policy, and practice of incarcerating asylum seekers and other migrants to wait for a resolution in an irregularity of their immigration status. The medical literature is conclusive that even short periods of detention cause irreparable damage to the health of men, women, and children in Canada and abroad. Sometimes referred…

 Locked Up in a Liberal State: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Parliamentary Debates on the Detention of Asylum-Seeking Children in the United Kingdom (PDF) Naomi C Whitbourn, a graduate in Migration Studies from the University of Oxford, is a consultant with research interests in governmental policy. Listing of all the Working Papers published in the Series

Date: Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018 Time: 7:00–9:00PM Venue: Eckhardt Gramatté Hall, University of Winnipeg Panelists: Mike Molloy | former Ambassador to Jordan & Coordinator of Indochinese Refugee Resettlement Program, co-author of Running on Empty: Canada and the Indochinese Refugees, 1975-1980 Peter Duschinsky | former Canadian Foreign Service Officer & Coordinator of Ethiopian Refugee Resettlement Program, co-author of Running on Empty: Canada and the Indochinese Refugees, 1975-1980 Tom Denton | Executive Director of Hospitality House Refugee…

OPEN CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST TO HOST A FUTURE CARFMS ANNUAL CONFERENCE The CARFMS Executive is inviting all those who may be interested in hosting a CARFMS Annual Conference to submit an email outlining the following: What year you would be open to doing so? Please note that CARFMS Annual Conferences are being scheduled for the following years and venues: 2018   Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, from May 21-25, 2018 CARFMS Annual Conferences are held…

Update on Exclusion and Inadmissibility Jurisprudence: New Developments Since the Decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada in Ezokola and Febles  (PDF) Joseph Rikhof, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, University of Ottawa and Former Senior Counsel, Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes Section, Government of Canada. Listing of all the Working Papers published in the Series

John Laman, “Revisiting the Sanctuary City: Citizenship or Abjection? Spotlighting the Case of Toronto” (PDF) Hillary Geneau, “The Anonymous: An Examination of Statelessness in the Dominican Republic” (PDF) Richard Boli, “Refugee Settlement Services in Winnipeg: Approaches, Programs and Organizations” (PDF)