Events at: Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room (302)

The Dangers of the Immigrant Integration Paradigm with Adrian Favell

Please join us for the second event of our 2023/24 CMS Speaker Series, Integration Reimagined. RSVP below for event, or event+lunch Abstract How does the dominant North Atlantic conception of “immigrant integration” work to reproduce colonial and Eurocentric ideas of multi-racial progress? Adrian Favell presents his recent work in critical migration studies, which underlines how […]

A Multi-Sector World Café to Promote the Mental Health of Refugees in BC

Please join us for a Multi-Sector World Café which seeks mobilize knowledge about integrated refugee mental health so that we can learn from each other. The purpose of the World Café is to convene and collaborate with service users, health practitioners, settlement service providers, and policy makers to gain your expertise and knowledge about what you […]

“Migration as Debt” – Talk by Willem Schinkel

Please join us for the third event of our 2023/24 CMS Speaker Series, Integration Reimagined. This is a hybrid event. Abstract In this talk, Willem Schinkel seeks to contribute to ongoing ways of rethinking what ‘migration’ is, and how ‘migration studies’ is implicated in it. The context of his topic is EU-ropean registration, problematization, and […]

Perspectives on Immigrant Employment and the Future of Work (Panel Discussion)

As part of the Bridging Divides Project, CMS is hosting a hybrid employment-focused panel addressing issues related to immigrants’ labour market integration, employment services and the future of work. This is a hybrid event. RSVP below to attend this event in-person or online.  Following brief presentations of current research conducted by the speakers, participants will […]

Speaker Series | “Migrant Occupations: Practices of Freedom?” with Miriam Ticktin

Please join us for the fourth and final event of our 2023/24 CMS Speaker Series, Integration Reimagined. Please RSVP below for talk or talk+lunch. Abstract In a global political context which favors practices of containment – from border walls to prisons –this talk traces a series of political experiments, or what Miriam Ticktin is calling […]

Shades of Perception: Non-White Refugee Arrivals and Migration Policy Restrictiveness in the Global North with Andrew S. Rosenberg

For our first Speaker Series event of the year, we are thrilled to welcome Andrew S. Rosenberg who will present his talk, “Shades of Perception: Non-White Refugee Arrivals and Migration Policy Restrictiveness in the Global North” on September 18, 2024.

Suspect Citizenship: Rethinking Belonging and Non-belonging in Plural Societies with Jean Beaman

Our second Speaker Series event of the year, themed Migration, Racialization, and Inequality, will feature Jean Beaman, who will present her talk, “Suspect Citizenship: Rethinking Belonging and Non-belonging in Plural Societies” on October 28, 2024.

“Otherness” and the Politics of Sanctuary: Exploring the History of Refuge Over the Long Twentieth Century with Laura Madokoro

Attend Laura Madokoro’s talk on March 3, 11:45 AM – 1:45 PM at Irving K. Barber Learning Centre or online, as she explores how anti-immigrant discourse shapes migration, race, and refuge through the politics of sanctuary and exclusion.