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Migration Working Group: Year-end Symposium
- Date
- May 24, 2022
- Time
- 9:00 AM EDT - 3:00 PM EDT
- Location
- Hybrid (In person at CERC Migration office / online via Zoom)
The Migration Working Group is a series of monthly sessions to discuss innovative research being done on migration and integration by emerging and established scholars. The series gives researchers an opportunity to present their ongoing projects, learn about each other’s work and share feedback.
The May Migration Working Group addressed the themes of the stresses and legal violence of migration, precarity and immigration detention in Canada; perspectives on migration, refuge and sanctuary from below; and theories and experiences of entrepreneurship, employment mismatches, patriarchy and parental sponsorship.
9:00 - 9:30 AM EDT
Refreshments and Symposium Welcome (In Person Only; Online attendance begins at 9:30 AM EDT via Zoom)
Panel 1: The stresses and legal violence of migration, precarity and immigration detention in Canada
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
Chair: John Carlaw, Research Fellow, CERC Migration, Toronto Metropolitan University
Legal violence: A critical discourse analysis of race, gender, and status
Georgiana Mathurin, Early Childhood Studies, Master of Arts Program, Toronto Metropolitan University
Stories from the Hidden World of Immigration Detention in Canada
Julie Kim, Immigration and Settlement Studies, Master of Arts Program, Toronto Metropolitan University
‘How Much of a Queer Are You?’: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Policy within the Canadian Refugee System
Irmak Kurtulmus, Policy Studies, PhD Program, Toronto Metropolitan University
The Effects of Social Anxiety and Taijin Kyofusho on Acculturative Stress in Asian International Students
Da Ye Andrea Lee, Psychological Science, Master of Arts Program, Toronto Metropolitan University
Panel 2: Perspectives on migration, refuge and sanctuary from below
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM EDT
Chair: Amin Moghadam, Senior Research Associate, CERC Migration, Toronto Metropolitan University
Diaspora Artist Perspectives on Urban Sanctuary and Migrant Solidarity
Nick Dreher, Policy Studies, PhD Program, Toronto Metropolitan University
Cairo's Spaces of Refuge: A glimpse into the experiences of "being hosted" within its urban systems
Rasha Arous, Policy Studies, PhD Program, Toronto Metropolitan University
Contemporary international migration: A study of Bangladeshis in the north of Paraná, Brazil
Luiz Augusto Ventura do Nascimento, Socialogy, PhD Program, State University of Londrina
Panel 3: Theories and experiences of entrepreneurship, employment mismatches, patriarchy, and parental sponsorship
1:30 - 3:00 PM EDT
Chair: Irina Isaakyan, Senior Research Associate, CERC Migration, Toronto Metropolitan University
A new theory of immigrant entrepreneurship
Dike Ike, Management, PhD Program, Toronto Metropolitan University
Employment mismatch experiences of racialized, skilled immigrants during their first 15 years in Canada
Sjarif Jonathan Ismail, Immigration and Settlement Studies, Master of Arts Program, Toronto Metropolitan University
Immigrant experiences with changes to the parental sponsorship program in Canada
Souhail Boutmira, Policy Studies, PhD Program, Toronto Metropolitan University
