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Language Attitudes and Social Consequences in Diverse Contexts
We are thrilled to share that our faculty affiliates Amanda Cardoso (Principal Investigator) and Marie-Eve Bouchard (Co-Investigator) have been awarded a SSHRC Connection Grant for outreach, engagement and public dissemination activities for their research project Language Attitudes and Social Consequences in Diverse Contexts. The UBC Centre for Migration Studies is excited to be the administrator of this grant, and will provide matching funds towards the project to support a research workshop. The project has received other contributions from UBC Language Sciences, UBC Public Humanities Hub and the Canadian Linguistic Association.
The project centres on three areas of interest in language attitudes research: 1) social consequences (e.g.. unequal outcomes in employment opportunities), 2) multilingualism (e.g., impact of language attitudes on learning or retaining a variety), and 3) public voices (e.g., unequal representation of voices in the public spheres through media and speech technology). The project will connect a diverse network of scholars interested language attitudes and social contexts, disseminate research to the general public and specific language communities to promote multilingualism and marginalized languages, celebrate the intersection of language and culture, highlight the benefits of linguistic diversity and combatting language-based discrimination, and initiate discussions in academic and non-academic circles to foreground the social consequences of language attitudes.
Additional researchers involved in the project are Dr Molly Babel (Associate Professor, Linguistics, UBC), Professor Erez Levon (University of Bern, Centre for the Study of Language and Society), Suyuan Li (PhD Candidate, Linguistics, UBC), Angelina Lloy (Graduate, Linguistics, UBC) and Mackenzie Dixon (Undergraduate, FHIS, UBC).
Public Views of Immigration and Diversity: Causes and Consequences for Policy
For elected officials, the making of immigration policy can be a politically risky undertaking. Questions about immigration – how many should be allowed to come, who should be allowed to come, and on what terms – cut to the core of what political communities are about. In democratic societies, political elites mobilize public sentiment to gain office, and they depend on public support to stay there and, ultimately, make policy.
This project will bring together leading scholars of public opinion with policy practitioners to share and discuss cutting-edge work analyzing what people in modern, immigrant-receiving countries think about immigrants and immigration, why they think it, and how knowing the answers to these questions shapes the policy-making process. Research presentations will focus on immigration attitudes in Canada, Europe, and the United states. In addition to discussing latest research, participants will reflect on how their work sheds light on broader relationships between researchers, media, the punditocracy, and the political class.
Public Views of Immigration and Diversity Workshop
Organized in cooperation with the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Ottawa Office
Location: Centre for Migration Studies (CMS), University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
The workshop will be held in the Place of Many Trees (formerly Liu Multipurpose Room) at The Liu Institute for Global Issues: 6476 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, BC V6T1Z2
This event is invitation only and closed to the public. However, the afternoon component from 2:30 – 4:30 pm is open to the public by RSVP.
Date: 9 am – 4:30 pm PDT, May 18, 2022
Event Schedule
Tuesday, May 17 |
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| 6:00 p.m. | Dinner
Sage (6331 Crescent Rd) |
Wednesday, May 18All workshop events on May 18, excluding dinner, will be located at the Place of Many Trees (formerly Multipurpose Room) at the Liu Institute for Global Issues (6476 NW Marine Drive). |
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| 8:30 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 9:00 a.m. | Welcome and Land Acknowledgement
Antje Ellermann (University of British Columbia) Matthew Wright (University of British Columbia) |
| 9:15 a.m. | Workshop Part I (closed to public) |
| 10:45 a.m. | Workshop Part II (closed to public) |
| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch and Video Recording (closed to public) |
| 1:30 p.m. | Walk and Video Recording |
| 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. | Workshop Part III (open to public, RSVP here): “Public Opinion Research Meets the Public” |
| 5:45 p.m. | Taxi or ride share from Gage Suites (5959 Student Union Blvd) to Dinner |
| 6:00 p.m. | Dinner
La Buca (4025 Macdonald Street) |
Organizers
Antje Ellermann, University of British Columbia
Matthew Wright, University of British Columbia
Participants
Keith Banting, Queen’s University
Anastasia Chyz-LeSage, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
Michael Donnelly, University of Toronto
Marc Helbling, Universität Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung
Dan Hiebert, University of British Columbia
Andrea Lawlor, Western University
Greg Lyle, Innovative Research
Angela Ocampo, University of Michigan
Mireille Paquet, Concordia University
Margaret Peters, UCLA
Conrad Ziller, Universität Duisburg-Essen
Call for applications for Graduate Student Affiliate Conference Travel Support – DUE May 15
EOI for CMS Graduate Student Affiliate conference travel support: deadline May 15, 2022
The Centre for Migration Studies (CMS) is committed to supporting the ongoing professional development of, and networking opportunities for its members. We currently have funding to support a limited number of graduate student affiliates to attend a migration conference or deliver a migration-related paper at another conference being held in the 2022 calendar year. If you are interested in obtaining financial support to attend one of these conferences, please submit your (maximum 1 page) Expression of Interest (EOI), along with your CV to admin.migration@ubc.ca by May 15, 2022. Please write “EOI – CMS Grad Student Travel – [Surname, First Name]” in the subject heading.
Your EOI should include:
- The name of the conference you are planning to attend and if applicable, confirmation that your proposal has been accepted (note: prior acceptance is not required in order to apply for funding–see below for further details)
- 3-4 sentences describing the focus of your presentation (or alternatively, you may include your paper abstract)
- the names and affiliations of any co-authors (if applicable)
- approximate amount of funds requested with a breakdown of how the funds will be spent.
Eligible expenses include airfare, hotel accommodation, or conference registration fees required for your participation in the event. The value of the award will depend on demand and availability of funds. In-person presenters are eligible for up to $800 per award. Virtual presenters are eligible for up to $250 per award, but the funds can only be used for registration fees.
Funding is contingent on being a primary author on an accepted presentation. For those planning to attend other conferences at a later date in 2022, expressions of interest should still be submitted by the deadline, with confirmation to follow closer to the conference date. If funds are still available, a second call for applications will be circulated in late 2022 for those conferences occurring in late 2022 or early 2023. If demand exceeds funds, priority will be given to applicants who have not received CMS travel support in the past.
Any further inquiries can be submitted to admin.migration@ubc.ca.
Migration as Core Narrative of Plural Societies: Towards an Aesthetics of Postmigrant Literature by Markus Hallensleben
Migration as Core Narrative of Plural Societies: Towards an Aesthetics of Postmigrant Literature (Principal Investigator, SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2019-2023)
Website: https://cenes.ubc.ca/news/dr-hallensleben-is-awarded-a-sshrc-insight-development-grant/
“My research project, situated within the wider context of the global mobility turn and critical European Culture Studies, investigates narratives of forced migration in contemporary German-language literature. Since the recent surge of asylum seekers into Europe, German-language literatures and cultural practices have changed dramatically and can thus be seen as exemplary in representing the transition of Germany towards a post-migration society of multeity (Terkessidis). The purpose of my research project is to utilize the sociological concepts of post-migration and superdiverse societies for an analysis of literary narratives as counter-narratives to Eurocentric, ethnically and nationally centred models of belonging. How do they perform transcultural and transnational identities, including memories of colonial history, genocides and wars that go across borders? My goal is to demonstrate how a trans-civic desire manifests itself in German-language literature and what its performative effects might be in understanding culture as an open transitional space, which allows for practicing civic diversity, gender and racial equality.
Methodologically, I have taken a turn to Indigenous centred research methods, such as storytelling (Archibald; Christensen; Kovach). By taking my positionality as privileged migrant and white settler who lives on unceded (stolen) territories into account, I am intrigued to find a relational approach in investigating literary narratives. My aim is to disrupt a colonial knowledge transfer that comes with literature and text as systemic ways of continuing hegemonic structures. ”
Research Partners
Markus Hallensleben, UBC
Moritz Schramm, SDU
I am also collaborating in the SSHRC funded research project on “Belonging in Unceded Territories.”
Hostile Environments: Policies, Stories, Responses by Erin Goheen Glanville
Hostile Environments: Policies, Stories, Responses is a comparative international research project funded by the British Academy on the structures and effects of hostile environments on displaced people and people seeking asylum. It brings together researchers from the UK, Germany, Italy, Canada, and the US to determine “the degree to which hostile environments constitute a continuous international space” and the ways in which various narratives contribute to or challenge the hostile environment. I contribute to the project as one of three Canadian participants. More info is available at the website for the associated Refugee Tales project.
Research Partners
PI: David Herd
Stephen Collis
Ayendri Ridell
Maurizio Veglio
Matthew Wittle
Lytton Smith
Lidia de Michelis
Lindsay Stonebridge
Nando Sigona
Claudia Gualtieri
Anna Pincus
Lucy Williams
Erol Balkan
Gareth Evans
Ra Page
Immigration Detention during Covid-19 by Efrat Arbel & Molly Joeck
Our research project critically examines Canada’s response to COVID-19 in immigration detention. Through an analysis of legal decisions and interview data, we analyze what can be learned from the legal response to COVID-19 in immigration detention. Our work advocates for a more meaningful recognition of, and respect for, detainee rights, and challenge Canadian law not to indulge in in fear and restriction but rather, to live up to the progressive possibilities that COVID-19 has revealed.
Research Partners
Efrat Arbel
Molley Joeck
We are grateful for invaluable research support from JD students Simran Hothi and Karen Jantzen.
Punjabi in BC by Anne Murphy
Over the course of 2019-21, the UBC Punjabi Studies Oral History project is documenting the history of the Punjabi language in BC, and the lives and activities of the people who made it happen, focusing on teachers and institutions where Punjabi has been taught, and on writers who have written in the language and built institutions to support Punjabi language and literature. The project is linked to Dr. Anne Murphy’s ongoing research on modern Punjabi language and literature and involves undergraduate students as interviewers and filmmakers. It is made possible by the Punjabi Studies Oral History Research and Program Development Project, 2019-2021, funded by UBC’s Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, through their Program for Undergraduate Research Experience.
Research Partners
Sukhwant Hundal, Retired Lecturer in Punjabi, UBC
Lovneet Aujla, Student, Allard School of Law
Caste in Canada: The Unheard Stories of Dalit Canadians by Anne Murphy
This project inaugurates a new oral history research program among university and community partners that investigates Dalit (those deemed “untouchables” in the caste system of South Asia) individual and community histories within Canada’s past and present. The research focuses on the lower mainland of British Columbia, with special attention to locations where Dalits have established religious, cultural, social and political organizations. The project involves the completion of a series of interviews with Canadians of Dalit background to document their histories, experiences, and understanding of the implications of caste in Canada. These interviews will, if permission is granted, be made public on a project website and cIRcle. Dalit stories are often overlooked in the broader public imagination and historical and social science research; this oral history program represents an important first step towards the inclusion of the Dalit experience in our understanding of the South Asian Canadian, and particularly Punjabi Canadian, experience.
Research Partners
Primary Investigator: Dr. Anne Murphy (UBC)
Co-Primary Investigator: Dr. Suraj Yengde (Harvard)
Community Partner: Chetna Association of Canada
Additional Academic PArtner: South Asian Studies Institute, University of the Fraser Valley
Supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Engage grant, with additional support from the Dr. Hari Sharma Foundation and the Centre for India and South Asia Research (UBC).
This project builds on a set of partnerships that has, since 2017, sponsored the Dr. Ambedkar Memorial Lecture at UBC and SFU. Partners in that project include the Institute of Humanities, SFU; the Dr. Hari Sharma Foundation; the Chetna Association of Canada, and, at UBC, the Centre for India and South Asia Research; the Institute of Asian Research/School of Public Policy and Global Affairs; The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhism and Contemporary Society; and the Department of Asian Studies.