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Re-settler society: Refugee sponsorship as Canadian narra tive
An online talk by:
Audrey Macklin
Professor & Rebecca Cook Chair in Human Rights Law
Unive
rsity of Toronto
Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
Monday\, March 8\, 2021
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM (PST)
[ Abst
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In late 2015\, Canada launched its most ambitious refu
gee resettlement program since the Indochinese Resettlement of 1979-80. By
late 2020\, over 45\,000 Syrian refugees were resettled to Canada. About h
alf were sponsored by groups of Canadians who pooled their own financial re
sources\, and undertook responsibility for material\, moral and social supp
ort in the first year. My research focuses on sponsors: who sponsors and w
hy\, their perception and experience of sponsorship\, and the impact of spo
nsorship on them and their communities. I ask the question: how does the
project of making refugees into citizens remake the citizenship of sponsors
? I am interested in how the quotidian practices of sponsorship embody or
challenge models of privatisation\, inequality\, humanitarianism and hospit
ality\, and citizenship. My presentation will present preliminary findings
from research that involved over 500 online surveys and 85 in-person inter
views with sponsors.