Pandemic borders webinar: Pandemic vulnerabilities
- Date
- June 24, 2020
- Time
- 12:00 PM EDT - 1:00 PM EDT
- Location
- Register to receive a link to the webinar
A webinar to investigate the pandemic's impact on non-status migrants and asylum seekers
On June 24, CERC Migration hosted a webinar to investigate the extraordinary challenges that migrant populations faced as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This panel of international experts discussed the conditions facing non-status migrants and asylum seekers, who are not only under increasing security controls, but also, in reality, extremely vulnerable. From the dire conditions surrounding detainees to the particular challenges facing non-status migrant women, we looked at the populations who are being unreasonably targeted for the “safety of the others”, and the technologies that are being used to do so.
Featuring short talks by:
- Dr. Margarita Pintin-Perez, OCASI - Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants READ ARTICLE (external link, opens in new window)
- Dr. Michael Flynn, Global Detention Project READ ARTICLE (opens in new window)
- Ms. Petra Molnar, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto READ ARTICLE (external link, opens in new window)
Discussion will be moderated by Dr. Anna Triandafyllidou, the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration at Ryerson University.
International experts join Dr. Anna Triandafyilidou, the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, to share perspectives on the rapidly unfolding conditions facing vulnerable residents and workers at and within national borders.