{"id":39631,"date":"2019-04-18T14:32:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T18:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carfms.org\/?page_id=39631"},"modified":"2019-05-14T12:08:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T16:08:29","slug":"participant-biographies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carfms.org\/fr\/conferences\/12th-annual-conference\/participant-biographies\/","title":{"rendered":"Presenter Biographies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(PDF Download<\/a>)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Kabir Abdulkareem<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kabir Abdulkareem is a Doctoral\nCandidate in History and Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal,\nSouth Africa. His area of interest include, African History, Refugee, Gender\nand Women Studies. Olayemi Bakre is a Doctoral student from the Durban\nUniversity of Technology who specializes in Poverty, rural development and\nmigrational studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Munira Abdulwasi<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

York University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tanya Aberman<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

York University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tanya Aberman has a Phd in Gender,\nFeminist and Women’s Studies from York University. Her research has focused of\nintersectional feminsit praxis and critical border studies. She has also worked\non the issue of access to education for precarious status students for several\nyears through grassroots projects, advocacy and within the university. She is\ncurrently the coordinator for the Centre for Refugee Studies Summer Course at\nYork University. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jean Roger Abessolo Nguema<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Enseignant \u00e0 l’Universit\u00e9 de Douala (Cameroun)\/Chercheur\ninvit\u00e9 \u00e0 l’Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al (Canada), Cameroun<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Titulaire d’un doctorat en science\npolitique, depuis le 18 d\u00e9cembre 2012, sur la gouvernance des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s au\nCameroun;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Enseignant-chercheur de science\npolitique \u00e0 l’Universit\u00e9 de Douala, \u00e0 compter du 02 juin 2010;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Auteur de plusieurs travaux\nscientifiques sur les r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s et les migrations forc\u00e9es;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Participant \u00e0 la conf\u00e9rence annuelle\n(ACERMIF 2018) via Skype; <\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Chercheur invit\u00e9 au Centre de\nrecherche sur les politiques et le d\u00e9veloppement social \u00e0 l’Universit\u00e9 de\nMontr\u00e9al (Canada), du 15 novembre 2018 au 15 octobre 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anisa Abeytia<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

East Los Angeles College\/Stanford University, United\nStates<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anisa Abeytia is a writer and researcher\nwith an interest in Syria, integration, Norway, identity and refugees. She\npresents her work internationally and writes regularly on the topics of Syrian\nrefugees, the Middle East and the integration of Muslims and Arabs in Europe.\nHer latest research focuses on real and digital social-spatiality as sites of\nsocial inclusion or exclusion and its impact on integration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Philip Ackerman<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Seneca College, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Philip Ackerman is the Program\nCoordinator, Social Service Worker Immigrant and Refugee Program at Seneca\nCollege. Philip has focused much of his efforts in working with newcomer youth\nat a Toronto-based, community organization. He also completed a Master’s degree\nin Adult Education and Community Development at the Ontario Institute for\nStudies in Education, and is also a graduate of the Seneca Immigrant and\nRefugee program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nafees Ahmad<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

South Asian University-New Delhi, India<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Nafees Ahmad is a Senior Assistant\nProfessor at the Faculty of Legal Studies, South Asian University (SAU), New\nDelhi. He holds a doctorate in international refugee law and human rights, his\nwork focuses on global forced displacement and migrations, climate refugees\n& climate change human displacement, policy, asylum, durable solutions and\nSAARC issues. He has introduced a new Program at the SAU called Comparative\nConstitutional Law of SAARC Nations for LLM along with international human\nrights and international refugee law. His publications include papers in the\nAsia-Pacific Journal of Human Rights and Law (Brill), Kings\u2019 Student Law Review\n(King\u2019s College London), Groningen Journal of International Law (University of\nGroningen-The Netherlands), ISIL Year Book on International Humanitarian Law and\nRefugee Law, and ELCOP Year Book of Human Rights-Dhaka etc. Dr. Ahmad has\nco-authored a book on Climate Refugees in South Asia published by Springer. His\nbook on international refugee law and human rights is in press.  Dr. Ahmad is also an active blogger, writer\nand Op-Ed contributor to many international sites in the fields of forced\nmigration, refugee research, human rights, international relations and\ndiplomacy etc. Dr. Ahmad has been a Resource Person and External Reviewer for\nthe Ministry of Law, Government of India sponsored Research Project on Judicial\nReforms since June 2016 at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kashipur.\nFurther, he has been a visiting professor at Indian Society of International\nLaw (ISIL), Jamia Milia Islamia-New Delhi and Judicial Academies of various\nstates of India for Sensitization Programmes on Justicing, Balancing Rules, and\nthe Principles on Gender Justice in the Context of Personal Laws in India. He\nserves on many committees and editorial boards of many international journals\nand magazines. Dr. Ahmad has been serving since 2010 as Senior Visiting Faculty\nto World Learning (WL)-India under the India-Health and Human Rights Program\norganized by the World Learning, 1 Kipling Road, Brattleboro VT-05302, USA for\nFall & Spring Semesters Batches of US Students by its School for\nInternational Training (SIT Study Abroad) in New Delhi-INDIA. Dr. Ahmad has\nalso been addressing the Armed Forces establishments\u2019 sensitization programmes\non international human rights law and international humanitarian law. He is\navailable #24X7 at nafeestarana@gmail.com, drnafeesahmad@sau.ac.in<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharry Aiken<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharry Aiken is an associate professor\nin the Faculty of Law at Queen\u2019s University where she teaches immigration law,\ninternational refugee law, international human rights law, and administrative\nlaw. Prior to her appointment at Queen\u2019s, Sharry practiced immigration and\nrefugee law with legal aid clinics in Toronto (South Etobicoke Community Legal\nServices and the Refugee Law Office) and in private practice. A past president\nof the Canadian Council for Refugees and former editor-in-chief of Refuge\n(2001-2011), Sharry continues to be actively engaged in research and advocacy\non immigration and refugee issues. She is co-author of Immigration and Refugee\nLaw: Cases, Materials and Commentary, Emond Montgomery, which is currently\nbeing revised for a 3rd edition as well as the monograph, \u201cMigration Law in\nCanada\u201d in International Encyclopedia of Laws, Wolters Kluwer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marshia Akbar<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

York University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a post-doctoral research fellow at\nYork University, Marshia Akbar provides research support for the SSHRC\npartnership titled \u2018Migration and Resilience in Urban Canada\u2019(SSHRC 2016-2021),\nwhich includes analyzing trends in migration and settlement in Ontario and\nQuebec metropolitan areas, engaging in knowledge mobilization activities, and\npublishing journal articles and research reports. She earned a doctorate degree\nin Geography from York University with a focus on migration and settlement in\nAugust 2016. Her research explores the ways in which intersections of race,\ngender, class and religion\/ethnicity influence the labour market integration\nand settlement process of South Asian immigrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gabrielle D\u00e9silets (PhD Australian\nNational University) is a post-doctorate fellow and Project Manager for the\nMontreal city network of the Building Migrant Resilience in Cities partnership\n(SSHRC 2016-2021). As an urban anthropologist, her research interest lies on\nthe impact of migration and mobility on identity, on intercultural cohabitation\nand place-making and belonging in urban areas. Her current research focuses on\na neighbourhood approach to foster welcoming communities, by identifying\nstrategies, networks and resources that help migrants in their settlement, but\nalso that equip stakeholders and communities to overcome the challenges of\nimmigration in cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bree Akesson<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bree Akesson is an Associate Professor\nof Social Work at the Faculty of Social Work and the Associate Director of the\nCentre for Security and Surveillance Research at Wilfrid Laurier University. Dr\nAkesson\u2019s research focuses broadly on international social issues, ranging from\nmicrolevel understandings of the experiences of war-affected families to\nmacrolevel initiatives to strengthen the global social service workforce. She\nis currently working on projects in Afghanistan, Ghana, and Lebanon. Her most\nrecent research project explores the experiences of Syrian families who have\nbeen displaced by the war in the Syrian Arab Republic and are currently living\nin Lebanon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Md Mohsin Ali<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

ICA Bangladesh, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Md Mohsin Ali is a graduate of the\nUniversity of Ottawa. He recently completed an MA in Education. During his MA\nin Globalization and International Development at the uOttawa, Mohsin explored\nthe role of BRAC in non-formal education in Bangladesh. He intends to further\nexplore how immigrant students in Ontario schools are structurally\nmarginalized. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mustafa Alio<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Refugee Career Jumpstart Project, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mustafa Alio is the co-founder of the\nRefugee Career Jumpstart Project in Toronto, a refugee led initiative to\nsupport employment pathways for refugees, and a member of the international\nNetwork for Refugee Voices, an organization that works to ensure refugee\nparticipation in policy making in the global refugee regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yukari Ando<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Osaka University, Japan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yukari ANDO is a Guest Associate\nProfessor at Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University in\nJapan. Her field of study is refugee law and international human rights law.\nRecently she focuses on the refugee status determination in Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sedef Arat-Koc<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ryerson University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sedef Arat-Ko\u00e7 is Associate Professor at\nRyerson University. She teaches in the Department of Politics and Public\nAdministration and in the graduate program in Immigration and Settlement\nStudies.  Sedef\u2019s research interests and\npublications focus on immigration policy and citizenship, especially as they\naffect immigrant women; politics of imperialism; racialization and the politics\nof racism; and reconfiguration of social and political identities in Turkey in\nthe context of neoliberalism and post-cold war geopolitics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayar Ata<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

London South Bank University, United Kindgom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps my own formal and most\ninformative steps towards active integration or active citizenship in London\nbegan when I completed my undergraduate degree at SOAS, University of London in\n1997. During the course of studying for a BA in Social Anthropology and\nDevelopment Studies, I learned more about forced migration and immigration –\nstories as well as theories. This helped to shape my initial academic interest\nin migration and citizenship in London. I further completed my postgraduate\nstudies in social policy at Middlesex University in 2000 and forced migration\nand international human rights studies at University of East London in 2009,\nand I completed my PhD study on refugee integration in London at London South\nBank University (LSBU) in April 2017.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Idil Atak<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ryerson University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Idil Atak is an Associate Professor and\nthe Graduate Program Director in the Department of Criminology of Ryerson\nUniversity. She is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal for Migration\nand Border Studies and a member of the International Association for the Study\nof Forced Migration\u2019s (IASFM) Executive Committee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dena Badawi<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dena Badawi is a Master\u2019s student at\nMcMaster University in Canada, where she studies global health. She recently\ncompleted her Honours Bachelor of Science at the University of Waterloo,\njointly studying Biomedical Science and Peace and Conflict Studies. She is\ncurrently working as a research assistant for Dr. Bree Akesson\u2019s research with\nwar-affected families.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kelsey Baird<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

California State University San Marcos, United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kelsey Patricia Baird studies sociology\nat California State University San Marcos with a focus on medicine, public\npolicy, and inequality. She is a current Killam Fulbright Fellow and a Sally\nCasanova Pre-Doctoral Fellow. She is pursuing research around health and forced\nmigration. Her specific focus is on how diagnosis and treatment norms in the\nU.S. and Canada are experienced and understood by resettling refugees, their\nlarger communities of origin, and mental health professionals providing\nservices.  Her work explores how these\nexperiences shape and are shaped by dominant norms of diagnosis,\ncategorization, and treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olayemi Bakre<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Durban University of Technology, South Africa<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olayemi Bakre is a Doctoral student from\nthe Durban University of Technology who specializes in Poverty, rural\ndevelopment and migrational studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ranu Basu<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

York University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associate Professor, Department of\nGeography, York University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dani\u00e8le B\u00e9langer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Universit\u00e9 Laval, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dani\u00e8le B\u00e9langer is Professor of\nGeography at the Universit\u00e9 Laval in Qu\u00e9bec City and holder of the tier 1 Canada\nResearch Chair on Global Migration Processes. Her research examines migrants\nwith precarious status, including temporary migrant workers, trafficked\nindividuals, undocumented migrants, asylum seekers, care migrant workers and\nmarriage migrants. She conducts fieldwork in the Middle East, Asia, Latin\nAmerica and Canada to document the structural conditions of migrants\u2019\nprecariousness as well as their agency. Her most recent project examines Syrian\nrefugees in Turkey and analyses actors that manage refugees, the rise of\nxenophobia and refugees\u2019 mobility patterns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Galya Ben-Arieh<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Northwestern University, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Galya (Ruffer) Ben-Arieh J.D. ,Ph.D.,\nresearch centers on the rights and processes of refugee protection and the role\nof law in settlement and inclusion in host societies and comparative\nconstitutional theory and transformation. She is the founding director of the\nCenter for Forced Migration Studies (CFMS), housed at the Buffett Institute\nfrom 2011-2018. In 2015 she received funding to launch a research program on\nrefugee resettlement. She is now continuing this work through the development\nof a Refugee Knowledge Hub, a community-based partnership providing leadership,\nknowledge and support for refugees and asylees in our community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amar Bhatia <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

York University, Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bhatia’s research looks at issues of\nstatus and authority of migrant workers and Indigenous peoples under Canadian\nimmigration law, Aboriginal law, treaty relations, and Indigenous legal\ntraditions. He is interested in research on topics at the intersection of\nmigration, Aboriginal, and Indigenous law, Canadian immigration & refugee\nlaw, and the laws and policies of transnational migrant work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neil Bilotta<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

McGill University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neil Bilotta is a Ph.D. candidate in\nSocial Work at McGill University. He holds Masters Degrees in Social Work\n(Smith College School for Social Work, USA, 2011) and Public Health (Johns\nHopkins Bloomberg School for Public Health, 2014). During his MSW, Neil spent\neight months in post-conflict northern Uganda deconstructing and exploring the\nrealities of cross-cultural social work in a post-conflict setting. Prior to\ncommencing his PhD, Neil spent two years working as social worker with\nunaccompanied refugee young people, from sub-Saharan Africa, in San Jose,\nCalifornia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexandra Blanchard<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

York University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A sport fanatic, Alex embarked on her\nMaster\u2019s in Development studies at York University to explore the convergence\nof her two biggest interests: soccer and refugee\/settlement issues. She was\nfortunate enough to partake in 4 months of fieldwork in Glasgow, Scotland where\nshe spent the summer shadowing a grassroots, community football program geared\ntowards refugees and asylum-seekers in the city. Since completing her Master\u2019s\nshe is currently working on a journal article that will expand on her thesis\nand has recently become involved with one of Toronto\u2019s leading Sport for\nDevelopment programs the MLSE Launchpad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suzanne Bonfils<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

McGill University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suzanne Bonfils is a McGill University undergraduate student pursuing an Honours degree in Political Science with a Minor in Religious Studies. Her academic interests currently lie in the field of forced migration and Latin American politics. Her article, \u201cChina and the North Korean Refugee Crisis: State Sovereignty and the Dangers of \u2018Strategic Ambivalence\u2019\u201d, has been shortlisted for an Undergraduate Student Essay Award by the CARFMS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nimo Bokore<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Carleton University, School of Social Work, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a former refugee from Somalia, Dr.\nBokore is particularly interested in topics related to mental health and\nhealth,resettlement\/integration barriers and finding new ways for individuals,\nfamily or community healing. Dr. Bokore’s education is in research and practice\nbackground is in neuroscience and social work; migration and resettlement;\nforced migration, refugees, trauma and transference; equity and higher\neducation; poverty and social policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gianluca Bortoletto<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Birmingham, United Kingdom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My name is Gianluca Bortoletto and I am\nItalian. I studied my Bachelor and Master degrees in Economics at the\nUniversity of Padua, Italy. I graduated from the master program with the\nmaximum grade cum laud and I started a PhD program in Economics at the\nUniversity of Birmingham. My research focuses on the economic effects of\nimmigration and in particular of asylum seekers. I am now in my third year of\nEconomics PhD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Megan Bradley<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

McGill University, Political Science, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Megan Bradley is associate professor of\npolitical science and international development studies at McGill University,\nwhere her research focuses on refugees and forced migration, human rights,\nhumanitarianism, transitional justice, and natural disasters. She is the author\nof Refugee Repatriation: Justice, Responsibility and Redress (Cambridge\nUniversity Press, 2013), editor of Forced Migration, Reconciliation and Justice\n(McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015) and co-editor of Refugees’ Roles in Resolving\nDisplacement and Building Peace: Beyond Beneficiaries (Georgetown University\nPress, 2019).From 2012-2014, she was a Fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at\nthe Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, where she worked with the\nBrookings Project on Internal Displacement. She has also worked with UNHCR, and\nthe International Development Research Centre (IDRC), and served as the\nCadieux-L\u00e9ger Fellow in the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and\nInternational Trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Talatu Buba Bello<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Taraba State University, Jalingo, Nigeria<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Talatu Buba Bello has her doctorate in\npolitical science. she is a researcher in the area of conflict and forced\nmigration. She has attended and presented papers at both local and\ninternational conference. currently she is affiliated to Taraba State\nUniversity, Jalingo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geoffrey Cameron<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Baha’i Community of Canada, Office of Public Affairs, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Geoffrey Cameron completed his\ndoctorate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto\nas a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar. His dissertation was a comparative\nstudy of refugee policy in the United States and Canada, focusing on the role\nof religious groups in the evolution of institutions governing the resettlement\nof refugees in both countries. He also works as Director of the Office of\nPublic Affairs of the Baha’i Community of Canada, and has previously been a\nsenior policy advisor at Global Affairs Canada. He has degrees from Trent\nUniversity and the University of Oxford, and is the co-author (with Ian Goldin)\nof the book, \u00ab\u00a0Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will\nDefine Our Future\u00a0\u00bb (Princeton University Press, 2012).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giovanni Carranza<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

York University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PhD Student, Sociology, York University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luis Carrillos <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hispanic Development Council, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Youth Worker, Hispanic Development Council, Toronto<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in El Salvador, Luis Carrillos has worked with the Latin American community across Canada as an educator, community organizer, activist and volunteer in community, legal and health service agencies\u2019 governance since 1976. From 1994 to 2014 as Youth Program Manager, the thrust of his work has been counselling with youth and families addressing youth gangs, youth and the justice system, youth at risk, and youth mental health issues among others. With a Master\u2019s in Education and a Child and Youth Worker diploma, titles of his written work include Identity Politics Among Latino Youths in Toronto; Youth Gangs: To See Them Talk \u2013 Is To Hear Them Walk; and HOW TO\u2026 1 and 2 (handbooks to support families and youth). He has collaborated on research with Alan Simmons at York University, presented widely on youth gangs in Toronto, served on multiple community associations in Toronto, and has extensive media exposure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Carlaw<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Carlaw was project lead of York\nUniversity’s Syria Response and Refugee Initiative (2015-April 2018), a refugee\nresettlement and education project. He is also a doctoral candidate in\npolitical science, a graduate research fellow of the Centre for Refugee Studies\n(CRS), and a research associate at the Centre for Research on Latin America and\nthe Caribbean (CERLAC) at York University. His dissertation examines the politics\nand policies of citizenship, immigration, and multiculturalism under Canada’s\nformer Conservative government (2006-2015). His work has been published in the\nJournal of Canadian Studies (2017) and in the Canadian Centre for Policy\nAlternatives\u2019 The Harper Record 2008-2015 (2015).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roxane Caron<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Montreal, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roxane Caron is an associate professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Montreal. She has extensive fieldwork experience with refugees in camps, particularly in Lebanon. Her research interests focus on the transformations experienced by refugee women in exile, as well as the challenges, strengths, and strategies they put into place. She is also interested in the development of transnational social work practice. Her current work focuses on the migration trajectories of refugees from Syria in the Middle East and Canada (Quebec). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jessica Carter<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Northwestern University, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jessica Carter is an undergraduate student at Northwestern University majoring in Political Science and Psychology. She has spent the past year writing her Senior Honors Thesis on what led Kansas and three other states to withdraw from the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wendy Chan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Simon Fraser University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wendy Chan is Professor of Sociology in\nthe Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Simon Fraser University. Her\nresearch critically explores the racialized and gendered dimensions of violence\nagainst women, immigration enforcement and criminalization of marginalized\ngroups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emerimana Daniel Christian<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

URISE Initiative for Africa, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emerimana Daniel Christian moved to\nKakuma Refugee Camp from Burundi in 2009, and is a graduate from the Regis\nUniversity. He has vast experience in working with refugee youth, and is the\nco-founder of the URISE Initiative for Africa, a community organisation that\nworks in the field of youth empowerment. He has worked as the Assistant\nSupervisor with the Jesuit Refugee Service, and an interpreter with the UNHCR’s\nResettlement Unit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christina Clark-Kazak<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Ottawa, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christina Clark-Kazak is Associate\nProfessor, Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa and\nPresident, International Association for the Study of Forced Migration. Her\nresearch focuses on three areas: age discrimination in migration and\ndevelopment policy; political participation of young people in migration\nsituations; and, interdisciplinary methodology in forced migration, conflict\nand development.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gabriele Cloeters<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Istanbul Policy Center (Sabanci University-Mercator\nFoundation Initiative), Turkey<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gabriele Cloeters is a PhD student at the\nUniversity of Hamburg\/ Germany and a Research Fellow at the Istanbul Policy\nCenter (IPC)\/ Turkey. Her dissertation research is entitled \u201cThe Perception of\nGender-based Violence in Feminist Media Free Spaces in Turkey.\u201d Her research\nwas supported by the university\u2019s fund for gender equality at the University of\nHamburg, where Cloeters held a graduate scholarship in the Department of\nTurkology.  Cloeters is also interested\nin current issues of migration and asylum policies as well as minority policies\nin Turkey. As a Mercator-IPC Fellow she focusses on gendered aspects of Syrian\nmigration and prepared an IPC- Policy Brief analyzing the healthcare access for\nSyrian refugee women in Turkey (Co-authored with Souad Osseiran, In\npublication) .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kearney Coupland <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kearney Coupland is a second year PhD\nstudent in the Geography Department at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her research\ninterests are informed by her training as a landscape architect and explore how\npeople experience and adapt to changing environments in response to conflict\nand climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through her research, she hopes to\nemploy the skillsets she has gained in her previous education to recognize\nsupport communities mobilize existing adaptive capacities to adapt to the\nimpacts of climate change and facilitate meaningful engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yuriko Cowper-Smith <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Guelph, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yuriko is completing a PhD in Political\nScience at the University of Guelph. She received her Master of Public and\nInternational Affairs from Glendon College, and her Honours Bachelor of Social\nSciences from the University of Ottawa. She has extensive experience working in\nacademic and community-based research. For three years, she has worked at the\nCommunity Engaged Scholarship Institute at the University of Guelph in various\ncapacities, and has completed projects for five community partners. She has\nalso held various positions in governmental organizations, such as the Council\nof the Federation Secretariat in Ottawa, the UK Consulate in Toronto, and the\nEmbassy of Canada in Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jessica Darrow<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Chicago, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jessica Darrow, Ph.D. is a Lecturer and\nthe Director of Global Social Development Practice Programs at the School of\nSocial Service Administration. Her research focuses on refugee resettlement\npolicy, refugee integration, international social welfare, and implementation\nof social policies. She has published papers on refugee resettlement\norganizations in the United States, the State Department\u2019s role in\nresettlement, and related issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gabrielle D\u00e9silets<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Concordia University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dacia Douhaibi<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

York University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dacia Douhaibi is a third year doctoral\nstudent in the Geography Department at York University, studying the linkages\nbetween large scale development, land grabs, forced displacement and process of\nterritorialization. This year, Dacia will be in South Sudan on fieldwork for\nher dissertation. Her project will identify the current scale of land\nacquisitions in South Sudan and the nature of the impact of changing land\ncontrol arrangements on community land use systems. Dacia holds an MA in\nInternational Affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs\nat Carleton University and completed a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology at the\nUniversity of Victoria. Between these degrees, Dacia also worked on several\ncommunity development projects in Asia, Central America, and Africa. Currently,\nDacia sits on the board of the Canadian based charitable organization,\nVulnerable Children’s Society, which partners with Ethiopian NGOs to support\nchildren through health and educational challenges. Dacia is also the co-chair\nof the Cetnre for Refugee Studies Student Caucus, works as a research assistant\nfor the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) project, and\ncoordinates a mentorship program that links peer mentors across the world with\nstudents in the Dadaab refugee camps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mohamed Duale<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

York University, Borderless Higher Education for Refugees\n(BHER), Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mohamed Duale is a third year PhD\nstudent in the Faculty of Education, York University, and a member of the\nBorderless Higher Education Project in Dadaab Refugee Camp, Kenya. His work in\nDadaab allows him to bring in: Ahmed Abdi, Abdikadir Abikar, Abdullahi Yusuf\nAden, Arte Dagane, Fatuma Jama, Ochan Leomoi and Okello Oyat, who are all York\nUniversity Masters of Education students studying in Dadaab, Kenya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayanda Dube<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ayanda Dube came to Montreal as a youth\nrefugee from Zimbabwe as a result of state endorsed violence. His story YUL-MTL\n— speaks powerfully to his own personal experience of integration. Ayanda was\nan active participant of Mapping Memories and has spoken to classes and to\nyouth groups about refugee rights and tolerance. He worked for years as a camp\ncounselor at the YMCA and is currently a Master student of Political Science at\nConcordia University. Ihttp:\/\/www.mappingmemories.ca\/node\/198.html. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bruno Dupeyron<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bruno Dupeyron is an Associate Professor\nand Graduate Chair at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy,\nUniversity of Regina Campus. His major research interests are border and immigration\nissues, using political sociology and comparative perspectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gracia Dyer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gracia Dyer Jalea is an oral historian,\neducator, fundraiser and arts and culture professional. She worked for the\nMontreal Life Stories Project and co-authored Mapping Memories: Participatory\nMedia, Placed-Based Stories and Refugee Youth. In 2012 she produced the\nMontreal Life Stories Rencontres, a series of 48 events that took place\nthroughout the city to disseminate the life stories of newcomers and refugees to\nQuebec. The Rencontres included a year-long exhibit at the Centre d’histoire in\nMontreal. She is one of the Ward Museum’s six founders and the founding\nexecutive director of the organization. In less than two years she has built\npartnerships with community members and over 15 institutional partners across\nthe country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claire Ellis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ryerson University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claire Ellis is a doctoral student in Policy Studies (Migration Stream) at Ryerson University. She holds a B.A. in Sociology from the University of British Columbia and an M.A. in Immigration and Settlement Studies from Ryerson University. Claire serves on the Executive Committees of the Emerging Scholars and Practitioners on Migration Issues Network (ESPMI) and the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS). Her research interests include refugee and asylum policy, citizenship and political belonging, education and displacement, critical institutional theory, human rights, and state responses to irregular migration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thea Enns<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

York University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thea Enns holds a MSc in Migration\nStudies from the University of Oxford (2017), where she completed her\ndissertation on the complexities of Canada’s Refugee and Humanitarian\nResettlement Program, focusing specifically on the various degrees of\nresponsibility, authority and participation of multiple levels of governments,\nand community-based actors. She was a co-researcher on the SSHRC funded project\nentitled The Social Inclusion & Private Sponsorship of Refugees in Ontario;\nshe is currently a researcher at the Centre for Community Based Research, and\nis also actively involved in refugee resettlement initiatives in the region of\nWaterloo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Veronica Escobar <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ryerson University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MA student, Immigration and Settlement\nStudies, Ryerson University, Toronto<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mariam Eskander<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, Egypt<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Studied political science at the\nAmerican University in Cairo, then graduated to teach English in a refugee\nschool in Cairo for a year and a half. Worked afterwards for CARE International\nwith Syrian and African refugee SGBV survivors. After deciding that I want to\nwork in refugee assistance and have my own initiative, I went for my master’s\ndegree in International Development. Currently working at a local Egyptian NGO\nthat empowers youth and promotes better employment opportunities for Egyptians.\nHowever, my passion remain to work someday in empowering refugee and migrant\ncommunities through providing education opportunities and capacity building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adiba Fannana<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Adiba Fannana recently completed an MA\nin Sociology in the USA. She intends to explore the human rights violation\nagainst Rohingyas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maya Fennig<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

McGill University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Israeli social worker and human\nrights activist, Maya Fennig is dedicated to pursuing engaged scholarship that\nsupports the development of culturally responsive mental health services and\npolicies that advance the well-being of refugees and marginalized people. Maya\nis currently pursuing a PhD at McGill University\u2019s School of Social Work under\nthe supervision of Dr. Myriam Denov. Her doctoral research examines the effects\nof social and cultural factors on Eritrean refugees\u2019 mental health with the\ngoal of developing a novel, culturally sensitive adaptation framework in\npartnership with refugees themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erika Frydenlund<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Old Dominion University, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erika Frydenlund and Jose Padilla are\nResearch Assistant Professors at the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation\nCenter (VMASC) at Old Dominion University who specialize in modeling and\nsimulation. Their work has focused predominately on applications of M&S to\nunderstand forced migration issues. Michaela Hynie is a Professor at York\nUniversity. Susan McGrath is Professor Emerita at York University. They are\ncurrently advancing initiatives to bridge the divide between forced migration\nscholars and computational modelers including simulationists and big data\nscientists. This workshop represents a part of their initiative to increase the\nability of scholars to communicate across disciplines in order to co-create\nknowledge to advanced forced migration theory, policy, and practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

St\u00e9phanie Gasana <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

St\u00e9phanie Gasana is a Rwandan born, Ethiopian bred, Montrealer, based in Toronto. She has a background in communications and is currently working at a international non-profit. She is passionate about community engagement, education and migration issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorielle Giffin<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ryerson University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorielle Giffin is a research assistant\nin the Department of Criminology, Ryerson University. She holds an MA in\nCriminology and Social Justice from Ryerson University. She presented her\nresearch on detention of migrants and on Indigenous justice in Canada in\nvarious conferences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erin Goheen Glanville <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Simon Fraser University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erin Goheen Glanville, Ph.D. (McMaster\nUniversity) is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Communication and a\nResearch Associate at the Centre for Policy Studies on Culture and Communities\nat Simon Fraser University. Erin’s current research is a knowledge mobilization\nproject on the public discourse of contemporary forced migration dialogues in\nCanada and is done in partnership with Kinbrace Community Society. She runs\ncommunity workshops shaped by her doctoral research on refugee fiction as\npedagogy and has published chapters on cultural representations of refugees,\nrefugee literary narratives, and diaspora literature in the context of\nglobalization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luin Goldring<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

York University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luin Goldring is a Professor of\nSociology at York University.  Her\nresearch interests include non-citizenship, citizenship and belonging; social\ninequality; immigrants and precarious work; and critical migration\nstudies.  Her current research examines\nthe multi-level production and negotiations of precarious legal status, the\n\u201cchutes and ladders\u201d of legal status trajectories, and the long-term\nimplications of precarious legal status for im\/migrant incorporation and social\ninequality.  She is co-editor, with\nPatricia Landolt, of Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizen Precarious Legal\nStatus in Canada (University of Toronto Press). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paola Gomez<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

SickMuse, Director, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paola Gomez is a trained human rights\nlawyer, community organizer, public speaker, artist facilitator, writer and\ndreamer. A member of PEN Canada’s Writers in Exile and an advocate, Paola is\ninvolved in causes such as ending violence against women and forced migration.\nHer works integrate arts, community engagement and anti-oppressive frameworks.\nPaola is the co-founder and director of Sick Muse Art Projects. In this role,\nshe has developed an innovative way of integrating conversations about\nidentity, inclusion and community engagement into community art programs. Her\nwork with refugee and newcomer communities have been greatly recognize in\nCanada, where she arrived as a refugee in 2004. Paola is the recipient of 2008\nAmina Malko Award from the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture for her work\nwith refugee women, 2009 Vital People from Toronto Foundation for her community\nbuilding initiatives, the 2016 Constance E Hamilton, Human Rights Award from\nthe City of Toronto for her leadership in promoting the empowerment of women\nand the 2018 Champions of Change Award; excellence in the Arts from the Skills\nfor Change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Odessa Gonzalez Benson<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Odessa Gonzalez Benson is Assistant\nProfessor at the University of Michigan Detroit School of Urban Studies and\nSchool of Social Work. Her areas of research are: refugee resettlement,\nrefugee\/migrant-led organizations, participatory approaches to urban governance\nwith migrants, state-civil society relations, critical policy studies. Dr.\nGonzalez Benson pursues transdisciplinary work integrating social welfare and\ncommunity perspectives with refugee studies, particularly within the context of\n\u2018new resettlement destinations\u2019 and urban spaces. Her degrees are: MSW from\nArizona State University, BA from the University of the Philippines and PhD in\nSocial Welfare from the University of Washington in Seattle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annie Taccolini is MSW candidate at the\nUniversity of Michigan School of Social Work and Research Assistant with Just\nFutures: A Global and Transdiciplinary Research Team on Migration, Resettlement\nand Urban Studies. She is also policy analyst at a local resettlement agency in\nGrand Rapids, Michigan. Ms  Taccolini has\na BA from the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luann Good Gingrich<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

York University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luann Good Gingrich is an Associate\nProfessor in the School of Social Work and Scholar in Residence at the Centre\nfor Refugee Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada. Her research\ninvestigates the interface of social welfare and human services, inequality and\ndiversity, and migration studies. She applies her theoretical and empirical\nwork to the development of approaches to research, social policy and practice\nthat analyse and interrupt the processes and outcomes of social exclusion. She\nis the author of Out of Place: Social Exclusion and Mennonite Migrants in\nCanada (2016); and co-editor of Transnational Social Policy: Social Welfare in\na World on the Move (2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angelica Hasbon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

York University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First year PhD student in the department of Politics at York University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graham Hudson<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ryerson University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graham Hudson is an Associate Professor\nin the Department of Criminology at Ryerson University. He researches in the\nareas of national security, irregular migration, sanctuary city policies, and\nlegal pluralism.Graham is a member of several research teams, including the\nCanadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society\u2019s SSHRC\nPartnership Grant (Co-Applicant) and a SSHRC Insight Grant on the intersection\nof security, irregular migration and asylum (Co-Applicant; Prof. Idil Atak,\nPI). He is also conducting a legal and empirical study of \u201csanctuary city\u201d\npolicy in Toronto (funded by the RBC Immigrant, Diversity and Inclusion\nProject), in collaboration with Drs. Idil Atak, Michele Manocchi, and\nCharity-Ann Hannan. Finally, he is studying the use of secret evidence in\nCanadian courts with Dr. Daniel Alati (funded by the Foundation for Legal\nResearch). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ishrat Husain<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

National Law University, Assam, Guwahati, India<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2005, Dr.Ishrat Husain is engaged\nin teaching. He joined National Law University, Assam in 2015 as an Associate\nProfessor. Criminal Procedure Code, Civil Procedure Code, and Equity and Trusts\nLaw have been his subject of teaching. Dr. Husain is keenly interested in\nacademics. He has written 25 research papers and articles in different Law\njournals, magazines and National Daily and presented 20 papers in various\nInternational and National conferences and seminars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jennifer Hyndman<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

York University, Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS), Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jennifer Hyndman is Professor in the\nDepartments of Social Science and Geography, and is Director of the Centre for\nRefugee Studies at York. Her research focuses on conflict asylum and related\nhuman displacement, humanitarian emergencies, well as refugee resettlement in\nCanada. Current research projects probe identity and politics in the Toronto\nTamil diaspora after 2009; the conundrum of protracted displacement among\nSomali refugees in Kenya (with W. Giles); and refugee settlement among ‘new and\nfew’ groups in British Columbia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michaela Hynie<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

York University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michaela Hynie has a wide-ranging program of community engaged research \u2013 in Toronto, and around the world. Her work ranges from broader issues such as newcomers\u2019 access to care, the reintegration of prisoners into society, and access to health care for hospital patients without health insurance, to more specific issues such as understanding how to promote the well-being of nail salon workers. The common thread through Hynie\u2019s research is using social inclusion to make people\u2019s lives better in collaboration with community partners, policymakers, and activist groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jay Johnson<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Department of Sociology, UCLA, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jay is a PhD Candidate in Sociology from\nthe University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).  His dissertation looks at the relationship\nbetween urban politics and refugee law and policy in South African cities.  He is a fellow at the Academy for African\nUrban Diversity (AAUD), co-hosted by the Max Plank Institute for the Study of\nReligious and Ethnic Diversity (MPI-MMG), Germany and the African Centre for\nMigration and Society (ACMS), Johannesburg, South Africa. He has received an MA\nin Forced Migration Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand; an MSc in\nGlobal Politics from the London School of Economics; and a BA in Peace and\nConflict Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilfred Dominic Josue<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

FernUniversit\u00e4t in Hagen, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilfred Dominic Josue is a licensed\nIntegration Teacher by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bundesamt\nf\u00fcr Migration und Fl\u00fcchtlinge \/ BAMF) working in the city of Rathenow in the\nState of Brandenburg. He finished his MA in Politics and German Post War\nHistory from the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin. Prior to coming to Germany he was a\nGerman Language Instructor in the Philippines. He finished his Bachelor of Arts\nmajor in Political Science from the De La Salle University – Manila. His\nresearch interests include Migration, Integration, Civic Education and social\nengagement of Migrants, German and European Post War History, Politics &\nForeign Relations among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liliana Jubilut<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Universidade Catolica de Santos, Post-Graduate Program in\nLaw, Brazil<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liliana Lyra Jubilut has a PhD and a\nMaster in International Law by Universidade de S\u00e3o Paulo and an LLM in\nInternational Legal Studies by NYU School of Law. She was Visiting Scholar at\nColumbia Law School and Visiting Fellow at Refugee Law Initiative — University\nof London. She is a Professor at the Post-graduate Program in Law of\nUniversidade Cat\u00f3lica de Santos, where she coordinates the Research Group\n\u00ab\u00a0Direitos Humanos e Vulnerabilidades\u00a0\u00bb (Human Rights and\nVulnerabilities), and has been a part of the coordination of the UNHCR S\u00e9rgio\nVieira de Mello Chair since 2013. She is a Member of the IOM Migration Research\nLeaders’ Syndicate and has been working with refugee issues since 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isaac Kalule<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Kennedy House Youth Services, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isaac Kalule (he\/him) is a gay newcomer\nfrom Uganda. Soon after his arrival in Canada he lived in Kennedy House youth\nshelter for three months. Isaac utilizes his lived experiences of homelessness,\ntrauma and depression to be empathetic and to advocate for homeless youth. He\nis very creative; he has produced video clips and has presented at numerous\nforums. While still waiting for his refugee claim hearing, he is working as a\npeer group mentor at Kennedy Youth shelter in Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ay\u015fe Seyyide Kaptaner<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ay\u015fe Seyyide Kaptaner is a PhD student\nin the Department of Management at University of London, Birkbeck College. She\ndid her MSc in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management at Imperial College\nLondon. She holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in Industrial Engineering from Istanbul\nTechnical University. Her PhD research is about refugee entrepreneurship\nprogrammes in European capitals, namely in London, Berlin and Amsterdam. She\nhas volunteered in several refugee organisations in Istanbul and London. She is\npart of Schoolx, an education project for refugees and other disadvantaged\ncommunities, incubated by Imperial College Enterprise Lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aryan Karimi<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Alberta, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a qualitative researcher interested\nin studying the links between sexuality and gender; race and ethnicity; and\nrefugee and migration among ethnic minorities such as Iranians, Somalis, and\nSub-Saharans in Canada, Western Europe, and the Middle-East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kanwal Khokhar<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ryerson University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kanwal Khokhar is pursuing a Master\u2019s\ndegree in Criminal and Social Justice at Ryerson University. She graduated with\na bachelor\u2019s degree in Criminology, with distinction, from Ryerson University.\nKanwal\u2019s research interests include immigration and human rights related\ntopics. Specifically, she is interested in how changes in immigration policies\nin the United States influence Canada and immigration related discourse\nglobally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caroline Kihato<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Johannesburg, School of Architecture, South\nAfrica<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Caroline Wanjiku Kihato is the Urban\nPolicy Program Director for WIEGO, a Visiting Associate Professor at Graduate\nSchool of Architecture, University of Johannesburg, and a Global Scholar at the\nWoodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington DC. Her research\nand teaching interests are migration, gender, governance, and urbanization in\nthe global South. She has published widely on academic and popular platforms.\nShe is the author of Migrant Women of Johannesburg: Life in an in-between City\n(Palgrave Macmillan) and co-editor of Urban Diversity: Space, Culture and\nInclusive Pluralism in Cities Worldwide (Johns Hopkins).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ranjith Kulatilake<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

York University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ranjith Kulatilake (he\/him) is a gay\nimmigrant from Sri Lanka. He left a university teaching career in architecture\nbecause of his sexuality. A homophobic incident caused him to leave his\ndoctoral studies at a university in Toronto. While combating depression, he\nstudied counselling and reinvented himself to work with LGBTIQ+ newcomers at a\ncommunity health centre in Toronto. For this work, Ranjith received the 2014\nUnited Way Toronto Award for Innovation and Creativity. He is currently a\nstudent of social work, focusing on LGBTIQ+ newcomer resettlement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ben Kuo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Windsor, Psychology, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Ben C. H. Kuo is a Taiwanese-born\nand Canada\/U.S.-educated counseling psychologist. He is currently a Professor\nof Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of\nWindsor, Canada. He is a registered and practicing psychologist in Ontario and\nhas over 25 years of clinical experience working and treating diverse clients,\nincluding international students, immigrants, refugees, racial\/ethnic\nminorities and non-minority individuals in North America and Asia. Dr. Kuo’s\nresearch is in cross-cultural psychology and multicultural\ncounseling\/psychotherapy. He has published research on acculturation, cultural\nstress and coping, professional help-seeking attitude and behaviours, and\ncultural adjustment and mental health issues among immigrants, refugees, and\nculturally-diverse populations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irmak Kurtulmu\u015f<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Association for Solidarity with Asylum Seekers and\nMigrants, Turkey<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have majored in Political Science and\nInternational Relations in Bo\u011fazi\u00e7i University; and now, I am an M.A. candidate\nof Turkish Studies Program in Sabanc\u0131 University. My professional experience\nincludes as a reporter in NTV for 4 months; as a project assistant at Turkish Economic\nand Social Studies Foundation (TESEV) for 4 months; and as a media planner for\na year in Vivaki media agency; as a teaching assistant in Sabanc\u0131 University\nfor 2 years, as a research assistant in Okan University for 8 months.\nCurrently, I am working as ‘Protection Officer’ of UNHCR funded project in ASAM\nthat has been the largest civil society in Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shauna Labman<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Manitoba, Faculty of Law, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Shauna Labman is an Assistant\nProfessor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba. She writes and\nspeaks extensively on refugee law, resettlement and private sponsorship with a\nfocus on the intersection of international rights, responsibility and\nobligation in refugee protection. Professor Labman co-founded the Migration Law\nResearch Cluster housed at the University of Manitoba and previously worked as\na consultant for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in New\nDelhi, the Canadian Embassy in Beijing and the Law Commission of Canada.\nCurrent projects and collaborations focus on building relationships between indigenous\nand newcomer groups, refugee parent perspectives on Canadian education, impact\nof private refugee sponsorship on sponsors and the secondary migration of\nresettled refugees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laxman Lamichhane<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Advocate\/Researcher, Nepal<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laxman Lamichhane is an Advocate from\nNepal. He is interested in the field of forced migration, human rights, refugee\nrights, and peace building. He has been advocating for the just refugee regime\nin Nepal. He has attended many national, regional and international conferences\nrelating to human rights, refugee rights and forced migration. He is also\nkeenly interested in refugee politics and its impact on overall forced\nmigration regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patricia Landolt<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Toronto, Scarborough College, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patricia Landolt is Associate Professor\nof Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her work examines processes of\ndifferential inclusion associated with global migration.  She has conducted research on Salvadoran transnational\nmigration, Latin American refugee political incorporation, racialized workers\u2019\nexperiences of precarious work and income security, and the ways these\nintersect with precarious legal status. Her current research focuses on\npatchwork- access to schooling for precarious legal status students in two\nToronto neighbourhoods.  It is part of a\nbroader conceptual interest in probation and the conditionality of\nnoncitizenship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paulina Larreategui<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Regina, Canad\u00e1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paulina Larre\u00e1tegui is an Ecuadorian\nlawyer with an extensive working experience with refugees and forced migration\nin her country. Currently, she is a Ph.D. candidate from the University of\nRegina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Larruina<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Larruina is a PhD researcher and\nlecturer in the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He received a\nbachelor\u2019s degree in Social Communication Sciences from the Universidad de la\nRepublica, Montevideo, Uruguay, and a master\u2019s degree in Organizational\nAnthropology from VU Amsterdam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2011, he is  studying the refugee reception and\nintegration in the Netherlands and the role that civil society, governmental\norganizations and self-organized refugees play in these processes. So, which\nare each other\u2019s expectations and how they interact in the complex world of\npolicy making and migration. Currently, he focusing on the lessons learnt from\nthe 2015-2017 (refugee crisis) period & possible spaces for\nmulti-stakeholders\u2019 collaborative governance, as a resilient and sustainable\nmodel for migrant reception and integration. In these lines, he is doing\nresearch on the current Refugee Entrepreneurship Ecosystem (2018-2019) in the\nNetherlands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sangyoo Lee<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

York University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sangyoo Lee is a Ph.D. student in the School of Social Work at York University. Her research interests span critical multiculturalism, settler colonialism, and Indigenous-settler solidarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isabelle Lemay<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

McGill University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isabelle Lemay is currently completing\nher M.A. in Political Science (Development Studies Option) at McGill\nUniversity. Her thesis focuses on the role of representations of refugees in\ninfluencing policy-making towards openness. She also conducted research on\nforced migration issues as a research assistant to Professor Megan Bradley\nduring the year 2017-2018. Ms. Lemay was also a teaching assistant for a course\non the politics of the international refugee regime during the fall of 2018.\nShe holds a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (Master\u2019s\nProgram) for the year 2018-2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jaime Lenet<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

McGill University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jaime Lenet is a PhD candidate in the\nSchool of Social Work at McGill University, a hospital social worker in Ottawa,\nand a mother to two young children. Her doctoral research examines the\nexperiences of former refugee claimants who have been removed from Canada. She\nholds an MSW, an MA in International Affairs and a BA in Political Studies and\nHistory. Jaime has previously taught courses in the Schools of Social Work at\nMcGill and Carleton University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jamie Liew<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law (Common Law Section),\nCanada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jamie Chai Yun Liew is an associate\nprofessor at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa. She was called to the\nBar of Ontario in 2006 and has appeared at the Immigration and Refugee Board,\nthe Federal Court and the Supreme Court of Canada. She has also appeared in\nfront of the House of Commons and Senate Standing Committees on immigration and\nrefugee issues. Her research focuses on how the law marginalizes migrants and\nhas written about legal challenges and barriers for LGBTQ refugee claimants,\nwomen claiming refugee protection based on gender, migrants with mental illness\nand stateless persons. She is the co-author of \u00ab\u00a0Immigration Law\u00a0\u00bb\n(with Donald Galloway) published by Irwin Law. Her current research looks at\nlegal barriers for stateless persons to obtain citizenship in Canada and\nMalaysia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marilena Liguori<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1) Marilena Liguori is a graduate\nstudent in the School of Social Work at the University of Montreal. She has\nover ten years of research experience looking at the re-settlement and\nintegration experiences of refugees in Quebec. She is the coordinator of a research\nproject on the migration trajectories of refugees from Syria in the Middle East\nand Quebec. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anita Lumbus<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Curtin University, Australia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anita Lumbus is a PhD candidate,\nresearcher and sessional tutor at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. Her\nresearch interests include participatory research which seeks to address issues\nof social justice, including the rights of people seeking asylum and refugees\nin Australia. Anita also has a Master of Human Rights Practice degree, and Post\nGraduate Certificates in Social Research and Evaluation and in Professional\nWriting. She has worked extensively in the fields of policy, research and\nprogram evaluation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexandra Lund-Murray<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James (Thuch) Madhier <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James (Thuch) Madhier is originally from\nSouth Sudan, where he lived until age 15 before relocating to a Refugee Camp in\nnorthern Kenya during the Sudanese civil war. He then came to the University of\nToronto in 2014 through the World University Service of Canada’s Refugee Sponsorship\nProgram where he also founded Rainmaker Enterprise. James has been highly\ninvolved in international cooperation and transformative social justice work,\nnotably with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), United\nNations Alliance of Civilization (UNAOC), and European Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tina Magazzini <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Research, European\nUniversity Institute, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tina Magazzini is currently based at\nUNESCO\u2019s Regional Office for Southern Africa (Social and Human Science unit) in\nHarare, Zimbabwe, where she focuses on knowledge-production on migration and\ninclusion in the Southern African region. She holds a BA in Political Science\nand International Studies from the University of Florence, Italy, and a MA in\nInternational Relations from the City College of New York. She carried out her\nPhD as a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher at the University of Deusto, with a\nsecondment at the University of Sussex, in the framework of the INTEGRIM\nprogramme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jay Marlowe<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Auckland, New Zealand<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jay Marlowe is an associate professor of\nsocial work at the University of Auckland. \nHe is a Rutherford Discovery Fellow funded by the Royal Society New\nZealand and has more than 60 publications related to forced migration, refugee\nsettlement, transnational livelihoods and disaster risk reduction.  He has a book published with Routledge (2018)\nentitled: Belonging and Transnational Refugee Settlement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amna Masood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

York University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amna Masood, Vice Chair of the WUSC York\nUniversity Keele Campus Chapter. She is in her last year at York University,\nstudying Political Science with a specialization in Public Policy and\nAdministration. She has served for three years on the WUSC committee, including\nas an Administrative Officer and Student Refugee Coordinator (SRP). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joseph Mbalaka<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a student at the University of\nSouth Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Susan McGrath<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

York University, Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS), Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Susan McGrath C.M., is Professor Emerita\nat the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University and a Member of the Order\nof Canada. Professor McGrath is a co-PI of the SyRIA.lth study, and conducts\nresearch on refugee resettlement and community development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liz Miller<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Concordia University, Communication Studies, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth (Liz ) Miller is a documentary\nmaker and professor who uses collaboration and interactivity as a way to\nconnect personal stories to larger timely social issues. Her films\/educational\ncampaigns on timely issues such as refugee integration and rights (Mapping\nMemories), climate migration and adaptation (The Shore Line) gender rights (En\nla Casa), water privatization (The Water Front) & environmental justice\n(Hands On) have won international awards, been integrated into educational\ncurricula and influenced decision makers. Years of experience in community\nmedia and a background in political economics, electronic media art, and Latin\nAmerican studies fuel her ongoing explorations of new media as art, advocacy,\nand as a catalyst for critical pedagogies. Liz is a Full Professor in\nCommunications Studies at Concordia University in Montreal where she teaches\ncourses in media production and research-creation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Milner<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Carleton University, Political Science, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Milner has been a researcher,\npractitioner and policy advisor on issues relating to the global refugee\nregime, global refugee policy and the politics of asylum in the global South.\nIn recent years, he has undertaken field research in Burundi, Guinea, Kenya,\nIndia, Tanzania and Thailand, and has presented research findings to\nstakeholders in New York, Geneva, London, Ottawa, Bangkok, Nairobi, Dar es\nSalaam and elsewhere. He has worked as a Consultant for the United Nations High\nCommissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in India, Cameroon, Guinea and its Geneva\nHeadquarters. He is currently Project Director for LERRN: The Local Engagement\nRefugee Research Network, a SSHRC-funded 7-year collaboration between academic\nand NGO partners in Canada, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Tanzania and elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rodziana Mohamed Razali<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, McGill\nUniversity, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Rodziana Mohamed Razali is a senior\nlecturer at the Islamic Science University of Malaysia and an Advocate and\nSolicitor of the High Court of Malaya (Non-practicing).  She was previously in the Malaysian Judicial\nand Legal Service and later studied for her Masters of Laws at the University\nof Melbourne. She earned her PhD from the National University of Malaysia in\n2017. Her thesis is entitled \u201cProtection against Statelessness at Birth:\nInternational and Domestic Legal Frameworks of ASEAN Member States with a\nSpecial Case Study on Kota Kinabalu, Sabah\u201d. Currently she is attached to the\nCentre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, McGill University (Sep 2018-June\n2019) as a Steinberg Post-Doctoral Fellow in International Migration Law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morsaline Mojid<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Hawaii at Manoa, United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m a Ph.D student in the University of\nHawaii in the Department of Sociology. To pursue Ph.D degree, I\u2019m currently in\nthe study leave as an Assistant Professor in the Ahsanullah University of\nScience and Technology (AUST). I\u2019m developing my research project on Rohingya\nrefugee settlement and repatriation process in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Petra Molnar<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Petra Molnar is a lawyer in Toronto,\nCanada and an alumna of the IHRP (Juris Doctor 2016). She has worked on forced\nmigration and refugee issues since 2008 as a settlement worker, researcher, and\nlawyer. Petra regularly shares her work domestically and internationally and\nwrites about immigration detention, health and human rights, gender-based\nviolence, and the politics of refugee, immigration, and international law. She\nis currently exploring the impacts of automated-decision making and artificial\nintelligence in Canada’s immigration and refugee system on human rights, in a\njoint project with The Citizen Lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Travis Moore<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

York University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A graduate student of York Development Studies, Travis’ current research concerns the emergence of Naples, Italy as a sanctuary city for unauthorized migrants. He is interested in exploring the political inclusion of migrants as irregular citizens in the context of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stefanie Morris<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Ottawa, Graduate School of Public and\nInternational Affairs, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

St\u00e9fanie Morris is a masters candidate\nat the Universitiy of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International\nAffairs. Her research interests include immigration, refugee and asylum law,\npolicy and programs. She received her Bachelor’s in Sociocultural Anthropology\nat Brigham Young University in 2016. She will be copresenting with Patti\nLenard. Patti Tamara Lenard is Associate Professor of Ethics in the Graduate\nSchool of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa. She is the\nauthor of Trust, Democracy and Multicultural Challenges (Penn State, 2012). Her\ncurrent research focuses on the moral questions raised by migration across\nborders in an era of terrorism, especially as it pertains to refugees and\nirregularly present migrants, trust and social cohesion, and democratic theory\nmore generally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delphine Nakache<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Ottawa, School of International Development\nand Global Studies (SIDGS), Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delphine Nakache is an Associate\nProfessor at the University of Ottawa (Canada). She teaches courses in the\nareas of public international law, immigration and refugee law and human rights\nlaw. She has researched and published on issues related to the human rights and\nsecurity-based implications of migration, citizenship and refugee laws and\npolicies, both in Europe and Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anh Ngo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anh Ngo’s main areas of scholarship and research focus on the experiences of immigrants and refugees in Canada, at both the individual and community level; social policy as knowledge production and its effects on the lived experiences of individuals and groups; critical multiculturalism and critical refugee studies; and, social change through community action and engaged scholarship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keith Nicholson<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mount Allison University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keith Nicholson is a 2019 graduate of Mount Allison University, with an B.A. Honours degree in International Relations, with minors in French and Anthropology. He is from Florida, in the United States. He intends to continue his studies in graduate school after a year of interning in the area of social justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maissam Nimer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sabanci University, Turkey<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maissam Nimer is a sociologist working\nin the fields of migration, education, language, and social and gender\ninequalities. She obtained a PhD in sociology at Paris Saclay University in\nJuly 2016. In her thesis, she looked at the mechanisms of social and cultural\nselection that explain the inequality of access to higher education in Lebanon.\nNimer\u2019s current work at Ko\u00e7 University, Istanbul, deals with the integration of\nSyrian refugee youth in Turkey. She is the recipient of a one-year Ko\u00e7\nUniversity Seed Grant. She is also a committee member of the \u201cAxe Migrations et\nMobilit\u00e9s\u201d at the French Institute for Anatolian Studies, Istanbul (AMiMo,\nIFEA). Nimer teaches courses on the sociology of education and sociology of\nfamily at Galatasaray University in Turkey. Maissam holds an MSc from the\nLondon School of Economics and BS from the American University of Beirut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denis Njoki<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Canadian Countil for Refugees, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dennis Njoki is a member of the FCJ Youth Network–a group of newcomer youth based here in Toronto. Since arriving in Canada, Dennis has been advocating for the rights of newcomer youth from a youth engagement perspective. In 2017, he had the opportunity to attend the Equitas training on Human Rights education and leading community Action projects. Dennis is currently one of the youth leaders for the Newcomer Youth Civic Engagement Project lead by the Canadian Council for Refugees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chizuru Nobe-Ghelani<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

York University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chizuru Nobe-Ghelani is a PhD student at\nthe School of Social Work, York University.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anna Oda<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Refugee Integration and Long-Term Health Outcomes in\nCanada, York University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anna Oda is Project Coordinator of\nRefugee Integration and Long-Term Health Outcomes in Canada based at York\nUniversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosemary Okoth<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosemary Okoth (she\/her) is an out and\nproud lesbian woman from Kenya and now a refugee claimant living in Toronto.\nShe is interested in social anthropology. She has worked in organizations\ndealing with HIV\/AIDS, women and girls in Kenya and has presented at different\nvenues. Rosemary is currently pursuing postgraduate studies in Development\nAnthropology. She aspires to be a human rights advocate. Rosemary likes reading\nand travelling, and enjoys baking pastries. She is a big soccer fan who\nsupports Manchester City FC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naima Osman<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Simon Fraser University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naima Osman is a MSc candidate in the\nFaculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. Her graduate work is in\nmedical anthropology. Naima seeks to understand how social, cultural, political\nand economic factors influence health and well-being. Her current thesis\nresearch follows Somali refugees with chronic illness as they move from a\nprotracted refugee camp in Kenya to resettlement in Canada. Her familiarity\nwith the language, culture and many years working in Canada with refugees\nenable a particularly fine-grained analysis of refugee health. She recently\nreturned from Kenya after having completed 4 months of fieldwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Myriam Ouellet<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

York University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Myriam Ouellet est candidate au doctorat\nen sciences g\u00e9ographiques au d\u00e9partement de g\u00e9ographie de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 York.\nElle travaille actuellement sur l’influence de la classe sociale sur les\ntrajectoires migratoires de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s syriens au Moyen-Orient.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday Israel Oyebamiji<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oyebamiji, S.I. is a researcher and\nteacher; holds B.A. [Hons.] and M.A. degrees in History and Strategic Studies\nfrom the University of Lagos in 2006 and 2009 respectively. Currently, his\nthesis is under examination, Ph.D. in International Relations at the University\nof KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Member of the Midwest Political Science\nAssociation (MPSA). His intellectual horizon has been broadened by his flair\nfor writing and publication, in addition to participation in a number of\noutstanding conferences and workshops. His lecturing experience at the\nUniversity of Lagos, Nigeria and University of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa has\nfurther enhanced his scholarly qualities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gbadebo Gbemisola Oyewo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Redeemers University\/Independent Researcher, Nigeria<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Umoh Samuel Uwem is a PhD scholar,\nlecturer, Department of History, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa .He\nis also a tutor at the Department of cultural heritage. He is also a field\nresearcher for Tourism Kwazulu-Natal. His areas of interest oral history,\nculture, tourism, migration and higher education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adetola Elizabeth Oyewo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of KwaZulu-Ntal, South Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zehra Melike Palta<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Toronto, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a PhD student at Ontario Institute\nfor Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. I aim to understand how\nnon-sponsored refugees perceive, live and resist integration to Canada through\nusing participatory action research methods. My main focus is to explore how they\nreflect on their lived experiences, in particular their language learning\njourney, to identify the challenges and areas of need. I do also volunteer at\nvarious community organizations to provide advice and carry out workshops to\nfacilitate the transition of refugees to a new life in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Madeleine Pattis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Northwestern University, USA <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anke Patzelt<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Ottawa, Sociology and Anthropology, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elke Winter is Associate Professor of\nSociology at the University of Ottawa, a Fellow at the University of Konstanz’\nInstitute for Advanced Study \u00ab\u00a0The Cultural Foundations of\nIntegration\u00a0\u00bb (in 2017-2019), and the research director of the thematic\nfocus Migration, Ethnic Pluralism and Citizenship at the Centre for<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interdisciplinary Research on Citizenship\nand Minorities (CIRCEM). Anke is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the\nUniversity of Ottawa. Anke\u2019s dissertation research focuses on the mobility,\nintegration and settlement patterns of highly-skilled migrants and the \u201cmobile\nelites\u201d. Previously, Anke graduated from Malm\u00f6 University with an MA in\nInternational Migration and Ethnic Relations. Her master thesis was awarded the\nGerman-Canadian Studies Master\u2019s Thesis Prize of the University of Winnipeg in\n2014. She obtained her BA in Cultural and Social Anthropology and Scandinavian\nStudies from the University of M\u00fcnster. Anke has researched and published on\nGerman immigrants in Canada, concepts of identity construction, home and\nbelonging, citizenship in Germany and Canada, the media discourses in Germany\nand Canada surrounding the recent \u00ab\u00a0refugee crisis\u00a0\u00bb, as well as the\nvulnerabilities of aging migrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kerith Paul<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ryerson University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kerith Paul has worked in the non-profit\nand settlement sector for over 10 years. Prior to her involvement with RULSC,\nKerith worked in a hospitality skills training program at the YMCA GTA,\ncoordinated an Ontario program supporting Government-Assisted Refugees at the\nYMCA GTA, and then supported law school graduates, many internationally\ntrained, in an innovative job placement program at Ryerson University. Kerith\nholds a Masters in Immigration & Settlement Studies from Ryerson University\n(’09) and in 2017 was awarded the Ryerson Make Your Mark Award for her work\nwith the RULSC pan-university private sponsorship initiative. Kerith is also\npassionate about the outdoors and indigenous issues in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Madison Pearlman<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Manitoba, Faculty of Law, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Madison Pearlman highlights the\ngrassroots, multi-faith efforts to create and maintain a fit-for-Winnipeg\nPrivate Sponsorship Model called ‘Operation Ezra.’ As a law student, she\npreviously worked with the organizers and wrote an Op-Ed in the Winnipeg Free\nPress on the importance of private sponsorship and Operation Ezra, Madison has\nbecome familiar with the work of this group. She spent the summer after her\nfirst year in law school working with Dr. Shauna Labman on various private\nsponsorship research projects, co-authoring a journal article comparing and\nanalyzing Canadian private sponsorship models, including the recent Blended\nVisa Officer Referred program. Madison holds a masters in refugee studies,\nwhich has provided her with a multidisciplinary background in refugee and\nimmigration law and policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vince Pietropaolo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

COSTI Immigrant Services, Family and Mental Health\nServices, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vince Pietropaolo, M.A. is the General\nManager of Family and Mental Health Services at COSTI Immigrant Services, and\nalso oversees the Refugee Mental Health Services. Vince works in program\ndevelopment and implementation in the areas of mental health, domestic\nviolence, and problem gambling as well as provides culturally responsive\ncounselling to individual clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geraldine Polanco<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

McMaster University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geraldina Polanco is an Assistant\nProfessor of Labour Studies and Sociology at McMaster University. Prior to\njoining McMaster, she was an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies\nat the University of Waterloo, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at\nCalifornia State University, Northridge, and a Social Sciences and Humanities\nResearch Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at York University\u2019s Centre for\nResearch on Latin America and the Caribbean. An expert in the fields of\nmigration and work, her scholarship has contributed to knowledge in the areas\nof citizenship studies, work and employment, globalization, and gender and\nethnic relations. She has published in venues like Third World Quarterly\n(2016), Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (2017), and Journal of\nInternational Migration and Integration (2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brenda Polar<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

York University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brenda Polar is a PhD student at the\nSchool of Social Work, York University.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morgan Poteet<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

York University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morgan Poteet\u2019s primary research focuses on belonging for Central American origin youth in Toronto. This work is published in the Journal of International Migration and Integration (JIMI) and Canadian Ethnic Studies (CES). His current research, funded by a SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant, is a retrospective study of the subjective experiences of integration, belonging and exclusion of the 1.5 and 2nd generation (children of) Central American immigrants and refugees in Toronto. Poteet is Associate Professor in Sociology at Mt. Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, where he teaches courses on global migration, critical border studies, human rights, refugee studies, youth criminalization, and citizenship. He is past president of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS), currently Director at Large on the CARFMS Executive, a Research Associate at the Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS), and an Adjunct Faculty in the Sociology Graduate Program at York University in Toronto<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fabio Martinez Serrano Pucci<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Federal University of S\u00e3o Carlos, Brasil<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have both a Degree and Master\u2019s Degree\nin Social Science from Pontifical Catholic University of S\u00e3o Paulo (PUC-SP),\ngranted by S\u00e3o Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). From 2010 to 2013, I carried\nout a research project into xenophobia and prejudice against Bolivians in S\u00e3o\nPaulo. From 2014 to 2016 I did some research on housing conditions and access\nto social policies of Bolivians in S\u00e3o Paulo. Nowadays, I am doing a Ph.D.\nCourse in Sociology, at Federal University of S\u00e3o Carlos (UFSCar), granted by\nFAPESP. In this project, I am researching the resettlement of Syrian refugees\nin S\u00e3o Paulo (Brazil).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kashmala Qasim<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

York University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kashmala Qasim completed her\nundergraduate studies in Psychology from the University of Toronto and\ncompleted a Masters in Neuroscience from McMaster University. Kashmala has been\na lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the Islamic Online University,\nand has also received Level 1 Pastoral Counselling training from the University\nof Toronto. She is now pursuing a Ph.D. at York University in Social\nPsychology. Kashmala’s research interests include Socio-cultural challenges\nfaced by the Muslim community in accessing mental health care, coping\nmechanisms used by Syrian refugees and developing an Islamic model of\npsychotherapy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mohammad Azizur Rahman<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Manitoba, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aziz Rahman is a PhD candidate in the\nDepartment of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manitoba. His\nprofessional background includes research, consulting and community work. His\ndissertation thesis intends to explore refugees\u2019 labor market outcomes and the\nfactors associated with the economic integration of refugees in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anna Rannou<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Covenant College \/ University of Kentucky, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a professor in the Departments of\nPolitical Science, Economics and Community Development at Covenant\nCollege.  My research focuses on the\npoliticization of refugee issues in both developing and developed host\nstates.  I have particular interest in\nexamining hate crimes and discourses of exclusion in relation to refugees and\nasylum seekers across diverse political and settlement contexts.  I have completed fellowships at the University\nof Oxford\u2019s Refugee Studies Centre and the Institute for Security Studies in\nAddis Ababa Ethiopia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexander Ray<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lex is a PhD candidate in International\nDevelopment at SOAS, University of London, funded through a studentship from\nthe Economic and Social Research Council. He holds an MPhil in International\nRelations and Politics from the University of Cambridge and a BA (Hons) in\nPolitics with International Relations from the University of York, where he graduated\nwith a starred first. His research interests focus on the aidnography of\nrefugee protection and assistance, the governance of forced migration, the\ninteraction between political scales, and the role of everyday practices in\nconstructing and operating governance systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sean Rehaag<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sean Rehaag is an Associate Professor at\nOsgoode Hall Law School, where he specializes in immigration and refugee law,\nhuman rights and legal process. He frequently contributes to public debates\nabout immigration and refugee law, and he engages in law reform efforts in\nthese areas. His academic research focuses on empirical studies of immigration\nand refugee law decision-making processes. He currently holds an SSHRC grant involving\nquantitative research using large data-sets to study extra-legal factors that\ninfluence outcomes in Canadian refugee adjudication. He is also pursuing\nresearch using experiments to help better understand how refugee adjudications\nmake credibility assessments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kristen Lloyd is a JD student at Osgoode\nHall Law School. During her legal studies, she was a caseworker in the\nImmigration Division at Parkdale Community Legal Services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monica Reyes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Old Dominion University, United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monica Reyes is a wife, mother,\neducator, and scholar. She lectures in the Writing & Language Studies\ndepartment at The University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley. She is also a PhD\ncandidate with Old Dominion University\u2019s English Studies program where her\ndissertation focuses on how people seeking asylum compose their narratives\nwithin liminal spaces on the U.S.\/ Mexico border. Her research interests\ninclude: literary and cultural rhetorics of travel narratives; postcolonialism;\ndisplacement studies; and rhetorical ecology research methods. Her work on\ntravel writing has been featured in Watchung Review (2017), Coldnoon: Travel\nPoetics (2015), and is forthcoming in the anthology, Travelln\u2019 Mama: Mothers,\nMothering and Travel (2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Myriam Richard<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

School of social work-Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Myriam Richard is a M.S.W candidate at\nthe School of Social Work at Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al. She is involved in the\nfield of immigration, refuge and intercultural relations as a research agent,\ntrainer and community social worker in academia and community-based\norganizations. She is interested in refugee people\u2019s pathways in Canada and\ninternationally from a transnational feminist perspective, and she is also\ndevoted to participatory action research methods as well as inclusive social\nintervention practices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roxane Caron is an Assistant Professor\nat the School of Social Work at Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al. She is interested in\nrefugee experiences, especially the realities of women. She is currently the\nprincipal investigator of two research projects aimed at better understanding\nthe migratory journey of Syrian refugees from Syria to Canada in a\ntransnational and intersectional perspective. Her work is anchored in a\nqualitative approach, especially in ethnographic approaches as well as in\npostcolonial and intersectional realities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joseph Rikhof<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Ottawa, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Joseph Rikhof is an Adjunct\nProfessor in the Faculty of Law (Common Law), University of Ottawa. He is\nrecently retired from Justice Canada’s Crime Against Humanity and War Crimes\nUnit. He is one of the foremost authorities in the area of exclusion under\nArticle 1F of the 1951 Convention and he has published extensively in the field\nof international refugee law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Genevieve Ritchie<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Toronto, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Genevieve Ritchie has worked as a\ncommunity educator and campaign organizer in both Australia and Canada. She is\ncurrently working toward a PhD in Adult Education and Community Development at\nOISE\/the University of Toronto. Her research investigates the relations that\ninform and constitute migration, race, gender, the politics of youth, community\nresistance, and education for activism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glenda Santana de Andrade<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

CRESPPA-GTM (Universit\u00e9 Paris 8)\/ IC Migrations, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glenda Santana de Andrade is a PhD candidate\nin Sociology, attached to the Sociological and Political Research Center of\nParis (Universit\u00e9 Paris 8). Her research focuses on refugees, migration,\ncitizenship, collective action and survival strategies, with a geographical\nfocus on Middle East. In addition, she holds a master’s degree in Political\nScience from the Panth\u00e9on-Sorbonne University (Universit\u00e9 Paris 1) and a\nmaster’s degree in International Politics – IPE from the University of\nManchester. She is the author of What kind of citizenship in refugee camps?\nPalestinians in Lebanon (Quelle citoyennet\u00e9 dans les camps de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s ? Les\nPalestiniens au Liban, Paris, l\u2019Harmattan, 2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary Rose Geraldine Sarausad<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am based in Thailand and work as a\nlecturer at the Asian Institute of Technology for more than 10 years.   My research experience has evolved from\nseveral years of teaching and postgraduate research training in two of the most\nrenowned institutes in Southeast Asia, focusing mainly on investigating trends\nin international migration within the Southeast Asian region and analyzing the\nexperiences of migrants, particularly on Filipinos and Myanmar migrants in\nThailand. My research areas of interest are international migration, labour\nmarket, population mobility, human rights and gender issues, and social\nprotection.  My doctoral research on\ncontemporary Filipino migration in Thailand is a pioneering work, which\nhighlighted the less-explored Philippines-Thailand migration system that has\nevolved for several decades and the persistence of unauthorized migration\nwithin the cities and at the borders of Thailand.  My research activities and participation in\ninternational conferences and summer programs have provided me with a deeper\nknowledge of various issues, current discourses and analytical approaches.  Moreover, I have presented research papers at\nseveral international conferences in Europe and Asia with funding support.  My recent paper on irregular migrant workers\nin Thailand was presented in Geneva, Switzerland in July, 2015, and I was\nawarded the RDW Prize 2015 for Best Paper by a junior researcher.  I have several publications online and in\npeer-reviewed journals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Shields<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ryerson University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Department of Politics and\nPublic Administration, Ryerson University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amanda Siino<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

York University (Alumni), Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amanda recently completed her MA in\nDevelopment Studies at York University, with a diploma in Refugee Studies. Her\nSSHRC-funded research is based in her fieldwork with displaced independent Eritrean\nyouth in Cairo from May to August 2017, focusing on their livelihood strategies\nand agentic capabilities amidst their vulnerable situation. Prior to her MA,\nshe worked as a Volunteer Legal Advisor, and in the Unaccompanied Youth\nBridging Program, at Saint Andrew\u2019s Refugee Services from February to July\n2016. Since completing her MA in June 2018, she has been an International Youth\nFellow with the Aga Khan Foundation, based in Cairo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephanie Silverman<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Ottawa, Graduate School of Public and\nInternational Affairs, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephanie Silverman is a migration\nresearcher and educator working at the intersections of law, society, ethics,\nand policy. She has experience working for and with governments, universities,\nfront-line workers, and migrant community groups. Stephanie Silverman’s\nsociolegal research on immigration enforcement focuses on detention practices\nin Canada, the US, and the UK. She holds a DPhil from Oxford, and two SSHRC\ngrants and is also a partner at Thinking Forward: https:\/\/www.thinkingforwardnetwork.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Simeon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

York University, Toronto, Canada, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. James C. Simeon is an Associate\nProfessor in the School of Public Policy and Administration and the Head of McLaughlin\nCollege, York University. He is a member of the Executive of CARFMS. His\nresearch is on international refugee law and practice and he has published\nwidely on this topic. His latest co-edited book is \u00ab\u00a0The Criminalization of\nMigration: Context and Consequences\u00a0\u00bb (MQUP, 2018)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gustavo Sim\u00f5es<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

UFRR – Universidade Federal de Roraima, Brasil<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor of the Federal University of\nRoraima (UFRR) in International Relations and Refugee Studies. PhD in Social\nSciences from the University of Bras\u00edlia. Master in International Relations\nfrom the University of Bras\u00edlia. Bachelor at \nLaw from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro – PUC-Rio.\nCoordinator of the S\u00e9rgio Vieira de Mello Chair at the Federal University of\nRoraima. Member of the Editorial Board of the Cosmopolitan Law Journal (UERJ)\nand the Journal of International Studies (UEPB). Professor in the areas of\nPublic International Law, Human Rights and International Relations\n(Contemporary International Relations and History of International Relations).\nHas experience in issues related to refuge and international migration, and has\npublished articles, books, chapters of books and other works on this\nsubject.Coordinates and participates in research and study groups related to\ninternational migration, particularly on the processes of integrating refugees\ninto urban centers. Former Consultant of IPEA and the UNDP in the subject of\nMigration and Refuge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amy Soberano<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Access Alliance, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amy Soberano is a Counsellor Therapist\nat Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services. Amy has a\nMaster’s of Social Work from the University of Toronto. Stemming from her\neducation she developed a passion for working with newcomer populations,\nparticularly youth and has worked on several research projects in this area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosa Solorzano<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Canadian Council for Refugees, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CCR Youth Network Core Group Co-chair<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew Stevens<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Lessons Learned Simulations and Training, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew Stevens has worked with refugees\nand migrants in the Middle East, South America, and North America since 2008.\nMost recently, he served as a Project Director of the JRS Higher Education\nProject in Amman, Jordan, the Country Director of JRS Jordan, and as a\nconsultant on Higher Education Programming with JRS MENA. Matthew\u2019s academic\ninterests focus on engagement with multiple perspectives in situations of\ndisplacement, communication between humanitarian organizations and refugee\ngroups, and recognizing agency of people who are refugees. Since returning to\nCanada and establishing Lessons Learned, Matthew has become an expert in\nsimulation-based learning methodologies to promote empathy and refine\nparticipants\u2019 conceptualizations of complex systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lessons Learned is currently exploring\nthe possibility of co-facilitation of this and other training events with\nindividuals who have come to Canada via WUSC or other resettlement programs.\nHowever, the availability of a co-facilitator has not yet been confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephanie Stobbe<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Menno Simons College (a College of CMU), located at the\nUniversity of Winnipeg, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephanie Stobbe, an Associate Professor\nin Conflict Resolution Studies at Menno Simons College (a College of CMU) at\nthe University of Winnipeg, is a leading expert on Southeast Asian processes of\ndispute resolution. As an active educator, trainer, and ADR practitioner, she\nhas worked and conducted research in Canada, United States, South America,\nEurope, India, Asia, and Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her recent books include, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in\nLaos: Perspective for Today\u2019s World<\/strong> (2015) and Conflict Resolution in Asia: Mediation and Other Cultural Models<\/strong>\n(2018). In 2016, Stephanie chaired CARFMS 9th Annual Conference on Freedom of\nMovement of refugees and forced migrants that brought over 350 participants\nfrom over 20 countries. Currently, she serves as Lexington Publishing Series\nBook Editor for Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annie Taccolini Panaggio<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The University of Michigan, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annie Taccolini Panaggio works within\nboth refugee and Unaccompanied Children systems as a policy officer and critic.\nShe currently works for Bethany Christian Services’ Refugee and Immigrant\nfoster care program, as well as alongside Dr. Gonzalez Benson on research\nthrough the University of Michigan’s School of Social work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dina Taha<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

York University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dina Taha is a doctoral student in the\nDepartment of Sociology at York University. Her research interests include\nCritical Forced Migration and Refugee discourses, Postcolonial Feminism, Gender\nin the Middle East, Victimhood and victimization, Refugee agency and survival\nstrategies. Her dissertation explores Female Syrian Refugees survival\nmechanisms in Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diana Thomaz<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diana Thomazis a PhD candidate (ABD) at\nthe Basillie School of International Affairs. Her research focuses on the\npresence of international migrants and asylum-seekers in squatted abandoned\nbuildings in downtown S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil, and in their participation in the\ncity\u2019s housing social movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sandra Trebunia<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Lincoln, United Kingdom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sandra Trebunia is a final-year PhD\nSocial Work student at the University of Lincoln, United Kingdom. Sandra\u2019s\nresearch examines refugee women\u2019s experiences of settlement in Sao Paulo. She\nis particularly interested in exploring the potential of social work and social\nmovements to support women during settlement in urban areas in a way that is\nsensitive to gender and culture and promotes their agency. Her research\ninterests include: integration theories, feminist theories, agency,\nempowerment, postcoloniality and human rights. Before studying at Lincoln,\nSandra worked as social worker in refugee camps in Poland and Belgium and\nvolunteered in humanitarian project in Palestine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeanique Tucker<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Alberta, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a PhD in the Department of Political\nScience at the University of Alberta and my primary areas of study are\nPolitical Theory and Comparative Politics. In 2017 I completed my Master of\nArts in Political Science at the University of Victoria. My thesis, \u201cMoralizing\nViolence\u201d focused on institutional violence trained on black and brown bodies.\nI was able to consider the accounts of refugees confined to camps and the kinds\nof structures facilitating, even encouraging, human suffering. My PhD research\nbuilds on this work but focuses on the structures and processes capable of\nrelieving some of this suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Samuel Umoh<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Samuel Uwem Umoh is a lecturer,\nDepartment of History, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. He is also a\ntutor at the Department of cultural heritage and a field researcher for Tourism\nKwazulu-Natal. He is PhD Scholar at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. His areas\nof interest are oral history, political elites, culture, tourism, migration and\nhigher education. Samuel has published numerous articles, chapters and\nco-authored books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luna Vives<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luna Vives is an assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Montreal. Her research focuses on the reinforcement of the Southern European border and the migration of unaccompanied migrant children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorne Waldman <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Lorne Waldman (OC) is one of Canada’s\nmost influential legal counsel and an expert in immigration and refugee. He was\nthe founding President of the Canadian Association Refugee Lawyers (CARL) and\nhas represented clients at all instances of the refugee determination system including\nthe Supreme Court of Canada. He has been the counsel of record on many famous\nCanadian court cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nancy Weisman<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nancy Weisman is a Senior Legal Counsel\nat the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. She has taught refugee law in\nvarious forums including at York University, where she earned her LLB at\nOsgoode Hall Law School. She has a number legal scholarly articles and book\nchapters on Canadian refugee law to her credit and has presented at CARFMS\nAnnual Conferences on many occasions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kira Williams<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Wilfrid Laurier University, Geography and Environmental\nStudies, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kira Williams is a research associate at\nUniversity of Waterloo, instructor and researcher in the Department of\nGeography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, lecturer at\nthe Balsillie School of International Affairs and employee for the\nInternational Migration Research Centre. Their research focuses on\ninternational migration, global governance, and analytical methodology. Kira\nrecently completed and defended their PhD dissertation, which explored how\nstates reconfigured spaces at sea to manage the movement of people and shift\nborders in the Central Mediterranean Sea. Their supervisor was Dr. Alison\nMountz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katya Yefimova<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Washington, United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katya is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington Information School. Her research interests lie at the intersection of technology, social inclusion and design. She works with organizations to develop better programs for immigrant and refugee communities in Seattle, WA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Julie Young<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Lethbridge, Geography, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Julie E.E. Young is Canada Research\nChair (Tier 2) in Critical Border Studies and Assistant Professor in Geography\nat the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. She holds a doctorate in\nGeography and a Graduate Diploma in Refugee and Migration Studies from York University.\nHer research program aims to<\/p>\n\n\n\n

better understand North America’s\nborders in the context of broader global processes as well as what local\npractices tell us about where, how, and for whom borders work. Much of Julie’s\nresearch to date has focused on how migrants and advocates in communities\naround the Canada-US and Mexico-Guatemala borders interact with and challenge\nthose borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russel Zinn<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Federal Court (Canada)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This panel will be chaired by Justice\nRussel W. Zinn of the Federal Court (Canada). Justice Zinn has been a member of\nthe Federal Court (Canada) since 2008. Justice Zinn is the author of \u00ab\u00a0The\nLaw of Human Rights in Canada: Practice and Procedures.\u00a0\u00bb He is a member of\nthe Immigration and Refugee Law Bench and Bar Liaison Committee and serves on\nthe Governing Council of the International Association of Refugee and Migration\nJudges (IARMJ).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jona Zyfi<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Toronto, Centre for Criminology and\nSociolegal Studies, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jona Zyfi is a doctoral student at the\nCentre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto\nworking under the supervision of Professor Audrey Macklin. She holds an Honours\nBA in Criminology with Minors in Ethics and Psychology from Ryerson University\nand an MA in Criminology from the University of Toronto. Jona’s MA thesis\nexplored the Safe Country of Origin provisions in the EU, and the counterpart\nDesignated Countries of Origin regime in Canada. Her research interests include\nforced and irregular migration, the criminalization and securitization of asylum\nseekers, refugee protection and status determination, and the intersections of\ncitizenship, belonging, state sovereignty\/power and human rights. She is\ncurrently a research assistant for a project examining private refugee\nsponsorship from sponsor’s perspectives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(PDF Download) Kabir Abdulkareem University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa Kabir Abdulkareem is a Doctoral Candidate in History and Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. His area of interest include, African History, Refugee, Gender and Women Studies. Olayemi Bakre is a Doctoral student from the Durban University of Technology who specializes in Poverty, rural development and migrational studies. Munira Abdulwasi York University, Canada Tanya Aberman York University, Canada Tanya Aberman has a Phd in Gender,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":39406,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-39631","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carfms.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carfms.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carfms.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carfms.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carfms.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carfms.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39631\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carfms.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carfms.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}