BOOK LAUNCH | Christina R. Clark-Kazak- Forced Migration in/to Canada

DETAILS AND REGISTRATION:

The Centre for Refugee Studies at York University is holding a book launch for Forced migration in/to Canada: From colonization to refugee resettlement. Speakers include editor Christina Clark-Kazak, along with contributors to the collection. 

Hybrid event, regristration required: https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkceiopzgjGtxbY8lcvbAfT4wqOa3cKxVK#/registration

305 York Lanes, Keele Campus, York University

A light lunch will be served

Christina R. Clark-Kazak is professor of public and international affairs at the University of Ottawa, co-editor of Documenting Displacement: Questioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research, and author of Recounting Migration: Political Narratives of Congolese Young People in Uganda.

about the book

Forced migration shaped the creation of Canada as a settler state and is a defining feature of our contemporary national and global contexts. Many people in Canada have direct or indirect experiences of refugee resettlement and protection, trafficking, and environmental displacement.

Offering a comprehensive resource in the growing field of migration studies, Forced Migration in/to Canada is a critical primer from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Researchers, practitioners, and knowledge keepers draw on documentary evidence and analysis to foreground lived experiences of displacement and migration policies at the municipal, provincial, territorial, and federal levels. From the earliest instances of Indigenous displacement and settler colonialism, through Black enslavement, to statelessness, trafficking, and climate migration in today’s world, contributors show how migration, as a human phenomenon, is differentially shaped by intersecting identities and structures. Particularly novel are the specific insights into disability, race, class, social age, and gender identity.

Situating Canada within broader international trends, norms, and structures - both today and historically - Forced Migration in/to Canada provides the tools we need to evaluate information we encounter in the news and from government officials, colleagues, and non-governmental organizations. It also proposes new areas for enquiry, discussion, research, advocacy, and action.