2014 Summer Course on Refugees and Forced Migration York University May 12-18, DAY 1 Monday, May 12, 2014

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1 2014 Summer Course on Refugees and Forced Migration York University May 12-18, 2014 DAY 1 Monday, May 12, :45-09:30 Registration 9:30-10:45 Welcome and Opening Remarks 10:45-11:00 Health break Location: Kaneff Tower, Room :00-12:00 Representing Refugees: Ruffling the Politics, Engaging the Ethics Martha Kuwee Kumsa, Wilfred Laurier University 12:00-01:00 Lunch 1:00-2:15 Human Rights, Humanitarian Law, Refugees and Forced Migration: a Legal Perspective Awalou Ouedraogo, Glendon College/York University 2:15-2:30 Health break 2:30-4:00 The Origins and Evolution of the Global Refugee Regime James Milner, Carleton University 4:00-6:00 Reception/Book Sale (Lounge, 8 th floor Kaneff Tower) DAY 2 Tuesday, May 13, 2014 Location: Osgoode Hall Law School, Room :00-10:15 Age and Gender in Migration Context Christina Clark-Kazak, Glendon College/York University 10:15-10:30 Health break 10:30-12:00 Islands, Asylum, and the Enforcement of Archipelago Alison Mountz, Wilfrid Laurier University 12:00-1:00 Lunch 1

2 1:00-2:15 The Deportation of Tran Trong Nghi Nguyen from Canada: Jurisdiction, Discretion and Scales of Governance Anna Pratt, York University 2:15-2:30 Health break 2:30-4:00 Sexual Minority Refugee Claims in Canada: Context and Challenges Sean Rehaag, York University DAY 3 Wednesday, May 14, 2014 Location: Kaneff Tower, Room 519 9:00-10:15 Internal Displacement: Normative Frameworks and Assistance and Protection Challenges Megan Bradley, Brookings Institution 10:15-10:30 Health break 10:30-12:00 Displacing Environmental Security Simon Dalby, Wilfrid Laurier University 12:00-01:00 Lunch 1:00-2:15 Refugee Claims and the Limits of Memory Hilary Evans Cameron, University of Toronto 2:15-2:30 Health break 2:30-04:00 A Credible Claim?: Unpacking inconsistencies in Fictional Refugee Claim Ben Liston, Refugee Law Office DAY 4 Thursday, May 15, 2014 Location: Various + Beit Zatoun (612 Markham Street) 9:00-9:45 Meet in Room 519, Kaneff Tower, organize groups 10:00 Leave for site visits 11:00-12:30 Settlement organizations 12:30-1:30 Lunch (not provided by the summer course) & travel to Beit Zatoun 2

3 1:30-2:45 The Dispossessed: Responsibilities for Refugees Joseph Carens, University of Toronto 2:45-3:00 Health break 3:00-4:30 Public Lecture: Making Sense of Transitional Justice Maxine Kamari Clarke, Yale University DAY 5 Friday, May 16, 2014 Location: Kaneff Tower, Room 519 9:30-10:30 Findings from an Exploration and Critique of the Canadian Immigration System and its Treatment of Applicants with HIV Laura Bisaillon, University of Toronto Scarborough 10:30-10:45 Health break 10:45-12:00 Refugee Resettlement Processes Michaela Hynie, York University 12:00-1:00 Lunch 1:00-2:15 Family Reunification for Refugees: How it works in Canada Geraldine Sadoway, Parkdale Community Legal Services 2:15-2:30 Health break 2:30-4:00 From Forgotten Emergencies to the Front Page: How humanitarian responses differ for rapid onset natural disasters and complex emergencies Jessie Thomson, CARE Canada DAY 6 Saturday, May 17, :30-11:30 Urban Forced Migrants Anita Fábos, Clark University 11:30-11:45 Health break Location: Kaneff Tower, Room :45-1:00 Protracted Refugee Situations and the Failure of the Refugee Regime Jennifer Hyndman, York University 1:00-2:00 Lunch 2:00-3:30 Borderless Higher Education for Refugees Don Dippo & Emily Antze, York University 3

4 3:30-3:45 Health break 3:45-5:00 Witness to Genocide, Witness to Resilience: My Journey from Sri Lanka to Canada Ilamaran Nagarasa, Independent Journalist, Refugee Advocate DAY 7 Sunday, May 18, 2014 (N.B. The public transit system starts to run at 9am on Sundays) Location: Kaneff Tower, Room :30-12:00 Participant Presentations 12:00-1:00 Lunch 1:00-2:30 The Future of Forced Migration Judith Kumin, University of New Hampshire 2:30-2:45 Health break 2:45-3:30 Wrap up + evaluations 4

5 PRESENTER BIOS Alison Mountz, Wilfrid Laurier University Alison Mountz is Associate Professor of Geography and Canada Research Chair in Global Migration. She is affiliated with the International Migration Research Centre and cross-appointed between the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. Before coming to Waterloo, Mountz was on faculty at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and the Mackenzie King Research Fellow with the Canada Program at Harvard University. Dr. Mountz's work explores the tension between the decisions, displacements, and desires that drive human migration and the policies and practices designed to manage migration. Her current research examines border enforcement, asylum, and detention on islands. Her work has been funded by the John D. and Catherine T. McArthur Foundation, the Canadian Embassy, the National Science Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the Metropolis Project. In 2010 Mountz published Seeking Asylum: Human Smuggling and Bureaucracy at the Border (University of Minnesota Press). In this monograph, she looks at how Canada and other countries respond to human smuggling. Seeking Asylum was awarded the 2011 Meridian Book Prize from the Association of American Geographers. Anita Fábos, Clark University Anita Fábos is an Anthropologist who has conducted research and outreach among refugees and other forced migrants in urban settings in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. Her scholarship and practice pursues a number of interconnected themes in the area of forced migration and refugee studies: how people make and transform ethnic and racial boundaries and boundary markers, people s experiences of displacement and challenges to gender norms, historical shifts in citizenship and nationality laws, methods and ethics of research with hidden, vulnerable and mobile populations, transcultural social networks, and refugee narratives and representations. Starting with a lengthy period of action research, NGO activism and outreach in Cairo, Fábos research and writing has followed the movements of Muslim Arab Sudanese -her main research participants- from their place of first exile in Egypt, to asylum in Europe and North America, and towards the formation of a diaspora straddling Islamic space (countries in which Islam is the religion of the state) and the asylum space of countries of resettlement in Europe and North America. As the Director of the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies program at the American University in Cairo, and later Programme Coordinator for the graduate program in Refugee Studies at the University of East London, Fábos has been involved in developing integrated teaching, research, and outreach programs that have incorporated refugee and forced migrant perspectives into collaborative work with scholars, practitioners, refugee organizations, policy makers, and international organizations. Anna Pratt, York University Anna Pratt s research explores immigration penality and border control in Canada. She is the author of Securing Borders: Detention and Deportation in Canada (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005). She has carried out a major study of frontline border control in Canada and has published findings that interrogate the law/discretion binary, the enabling effects of administrative discretion, racial profiling and the production and transmission of heterogeneous risk knowledges on the frontline and in the courts. Anna has also examined the introduction of bordering technologies that mobilize vigilant citizens and communities in Canada, such as the CBSA Most Wanted List. Her recent research explores the mechanisms of administrative discretion, jurisdiction and scale in relation to criminality-based deportations from Canada, paying close attention to the effects of judicial discretion. Anna has recently begun a close study of the Canada-U.S. Shiprider program (2013) which removes the international maritime boundary as a barrier to law enforcement. 5

6 (RCMP). The themes of border control and the reconfiguration of sovereignties, scale and jurisdiction, and the production of national identities take on particular salience in light of the connections between the Shiprider program and the Mohawk Akwesasne territory near Cornwall, Ontario, where this initiative was first launched as a pilot project. Awalou Ouedraogo, Glendon College/York University Awalou Ouedraogo obtained a doctoral degree in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. His research interests include the history and philosophy of international law, war, its regulations and alternatives, human rights and humanitarian law, peaceful settlement of disputes, states responsibility, post-conflict peace building in Africa. Ben Liston, Refugee Law Office/Toronto Ben Liston was called to the Bar in 2012 and is currently a staff lawyer at the Refugee Law Office in Toronto. He represents refugee claimants before the Refugee Protection Division and detention clients before the Immigration Division. Prior to his call he clerked at the Federal Court of Canada, interned with the UNHCR in Nepal, and volunteered in the Immigration/Refugee division at Downtown Legal Services, the University of Toronto's student law clinic. He was also a CRS Summer Course intern in 2012! Christina Clark-Kazak, Glendon College/York University Christina R. Clark-Kazak is Assistant Professor in Refugee and Humanitarian Affairs at York University. She teaches in International Studies and Public and International Affairs at York University s bilingual Glendon College and is a research fellow at York s Centre for Refugee Studies. Christina holds a doctorate in Development Studies from Oxford University, a Master's in International Relations from Cambridge University and a B.A. in French and International Relations from the University of British Columbia. For 10 years, she has also worked as a development practitioner and consultant for the Canadian Government, international non-governmental organizations and the United Nations. Her research interests include conflict-induced migration and political participation of children and young people, particularly in the Great Lakes region of Central Africa. Her recent book, Recounting Migration, explores the political narratives of young Congolese refugees in Uganda. Don Dippo, York University Don Dippo is a University Professor of Education and a former elementary school teacher. His Ph.D. is in the Sociology of Education with specialization in the Sociology of Knowledge. He teaches EDUC 2400 Inquiries Into Schooling and EDUC 3700 Teaching and learning for a Sustainable Future in the undergraduate pre-service teacher education programme and EDUC 5120 Theory and Research in Language, Culture and Teaching and EDUC 5446 Ecology, Ethics and Education in the graduate programme. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University and is on the Board of Directors of Success Beyond Limits, a youth-lead organization in the Jane/Finch community. Current research interests include: the social and political organization of knowledge; environmental and sustainability education; global migration and settlement; university/community relations, teacher education. Emily Antze, Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) Emily Antze is an experienced manager of overseas community development projects and holds an MA in Sociology and Equity Studies/Comparative, International and Development Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Before joining the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees project team in 2013, she was as a Program Manager for 6

7 Canadian NGOs International Development and Relief Foundation and World Literacy Canada; in her previous roles she has overseen a variety of overseas community development projects in the education and health sectors and has worked in Ghana, India, Nepal and Zambia. As the Program Administrator for the BHER project, Emily s work encompasses both project management activities and academic program development. She is based at York University but collaborates closely with the BHER project s field staff team in Kenya. Geraldine Sadoway, Parkdale Community Legal Services/Osgoode Hall Law School, York U. Geraldine Sadoway has practiced and taught immigration and refugee law since After completing the LLM in international human rights law at Cambridge University, she has also undertaken international human rights work and teaching on behalf of Parkdale Community Legal Services (PCLS) and the Canadian Council for Refugees, appearing before the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights when Canada was examined by the Committee in May of In 2009 Geraldine Sadoway received an award for teaching excellence from Osgoode Hall Law School. In addition to casework supervision and training of the Osgoode law students involved in the intensive poverty law programme at Parkdale Community Legal Services, she appears regularly at the Immigration and Refugee Board and the Federal Court on behalf of PCLS clients. She has also argued as an intervener at the Ontario Court of Appeal and in the Supreme Court of Canada as counsel for METRAC (Metro Action Committee on Violence Against Women and Children) in the sponsorship debt recovery case of Mavi et al v. M.C.I. and A.G. for Ontario. Hilary Evans Cameron, University of Toronto Hilary Evans Cameron practiced refugee law for ten years following her call to the Bar in 2003 and is currently pursuing a Doctoral degree in Refugee Law at the University of Toronto. She has written on risk perception and on memory (International Journal of Refugee Law), on the right of Canadian children to challenge their parents deportations in Federal Court (UBC Law Review), on legal pedagogy (Journal of Law and Social Policy, upcoming), and on the standard of judicial review (Canadian Journal of Administrative Law and Practice, upcoming). Hilary is a puppeteer and former street performer. Ilamaran Nagarasa, Freelance Journalist & Refugee Advocate Ilamaran Nagarasa is a freelance journalist from Sri Lanka. He has lived in Canada for the last 5 years, and is now working with Canadian Multicultural Radio. He is also a member of PEN Canada, and assists Romero House, a Toronto-based refugee advocacy organization, with their public outreach activities. James Milner, Carleton University James Milner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Carleton University. In recent years, he has undertaken field research in Burundi, Guinea, Kenya, India, Tanzania and Thailand, and has presented research findings to stakeholders in New York, Geneva, London, Ottawa, Bangkok, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and elsewhere. He has worked as a Consultant for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in India, Cameroon, Guinea and its Geneva Headquarters. He is author of Refugees, the State and the Politics of Asylum in Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), co-author (with Alexander Betts and Gil Loescher) of UNHCR: The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection (Routledge, 2012), and co-editor of Protracted Refugee Situations: Political, Human Rights and Security Implications (UN University Press, 2008). Before joining Carleton, he was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto ( ) and a Trudeau Scholar at the University of Oxford ( ). 7

8 Jennifer Hyndman, York University Jennifer Hyndman is Professor in the Departments of Social Science and Geography, and is the Director of the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University. Her research focuses on conflict and related human displacement, humanitarian emergencies, as well as refugee resettlement in Canada. Hyndman comes to York from Simon Fraser University where she received the President s Award for Teaching Excellence in Hyndman s research traverses political, economic, cultural and feminist dimensions of migration, focusing on people's mobility, displacement, and security. Her scholarship is particularly concerned with the dynamics of conflict and disaster that create refugees and internally displaced persons, as well as international humanitarian responses to such crises. Recent work examines the intersection of conflict with the 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka and Aceh, Indonesia, as well as the geopolitics of international aid in these locations. Her work also includes geographies of refugee settlement, exclusion, containment, and the production of 'securitized' space both in the Global South and in North America. Jessie Thompson, CARE Canada Jessie Thomson joined CARE Canada in 2011 as an Emergency Response Program Manager. Since her joining CARE she has been deployed to Chad, Mali, Kenya, Turkey and the as part of the Horn of Africa Regional Team. Prior to joining CARE, Jessie worked as a Protection Delegate with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Pakistan and has worked as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Response Group at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, leading the development of Canadian policy related to UNHCR, refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), as well as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Refugees Branch at Citizenship and Immigration Canada. In 2008, Jessie received a Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation Gordon Global Fellowship and co-produced and co-directed Home Free, a short film about Burundian Refugees in Tanzania. Jessie began her career with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in London and as a volunteer in Kakuma Refugee Camp with Windle Charitable Trust. Jessie is currently the Director of CARE Canada s Humanitarian Assistance and Emergency Team based in Ottawa with frequent travel to the field. Joseph Carens, University of Toronto Joseph H. Carens, Ph.D., is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Culture, Citizenship, and Community, which won the 2002 C. B. Macpherson Award, and of Equality, Moral Incentives and the Market. He has written for the Boston Review, Political Theory, Journal of Political Philosophy, and many other journals. Judith Kumin, University of New Hampshire, UNHCR (retired) Judith Kumin worked for UNHCR from 1979 until In the early years of her career she led the agency s program for Orderly Departure from Vietnam and managed the resettlement of Indochinese refugees out of Thailand. She was Chief of Mission in Belgrade during the war in the former Yugoslavia and subsequently served as UNHCR s Representative in Germany, Canada, the Benelux countries and to the European Union. At UNHCR Headquarters she was Director of Public Information and Spokesperson for High Commissioner Sadako Ogata. She concluded her career as UNHCR s Director for Europe and authored UNHCR s State of the World s Refugees Ms Kumin has taught at Carleton University (Ottawa) and at the Free University of Brussels (Belgium). She is currently teaching international human rights at the University of New Hampshire (Manchester). Laura Bisaillon, McGill University Laura Bisaillon earned an Interdisciplinary PhD in Population Health from the University of Ottawa. Her prior degrees are in Urban Planning (McGill), Political Studies (Bishop s), and International Relations (Strasbourg). She is fluent in English and French. Previously, she held a Postdoc 8

9 Fellowship with the Ontario Training Centre for Health Services and Policy Research at York University s Sociology Department and the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network in Toronto. At this time, she is working on two book projects, one with Springer Press and the other with the University of British Columbia Press. Martha Kuwee Kumsa, Wilfred Laurier University Martha Kumsa teaches in all streams of the Social Work program. Her teaching and research interests include: bridging the micro-macro rift; interdisciplinary knowledge; reflexive learning; liberatory practice; Participatory Action Research; transformative community practice; explorations of spirituality, issues of identity and cohesion, the paradox of nationalism and transnationalism, the flux of glocalization (global homogenization and local fragmentation), issues of home, homeland, and belonging among diasporic communities of refugees and immigrants. Megan Bradley, Brookings Institution Megan Bradley is a fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, where she works with the Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement. Her work addresses the rights and well-being of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees, with a particular focus on the resolution of displacement crises. Her research also examines issues of transitional justice and accountability for human rights violations. She is the author of Refugee Repatriation: Justice, Responsibility and Redress (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Dr. Bradley joined Saint Paul University (Ottawa, Canada) as an Assistant Professor of Conflict Studies in 2009, and has also taught at McGill University (Montreal, Canada). She has worked with a range of organizations concerned with humanitarian, human rights and development issues including the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Development Research Centre. From , she served as the Cadieux-Léger Fellow in the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT). She received her doctorate in International Relations from St Antony s College, University of Oxford (2009), and also holds an MSc in Forced Migration (2004) from Oxford and an MA in Philosophy and International Relations from the University of St Andrews (2003). Michaela Hynie, York University Michaela Hynie is generally interested in how to use research as a means for social change, both directly, through the process of research itself, and indirectly, by generating research findings that can be used for activism. The content of her research falls into three broad categories. The first is culture, immigration and health inequities. This includes culturally appropriate health and mental health care, health care access, and using community based research methods in diverse immigrant and refugee communities. The second is how basic interpersonal or social psychological processes are affected by culture. This includes looking at how stress and social support differ by culture, and the effects of culture on the experience and expression of social emotions (i.e., shame and guilt). The third is exploring the impact of policy on social integration of immigrants and refugees. Maxine Kamari Clarke, Yale University Kamari Clarke is a Professor of Anthropology and International and Area Studies at Yale University and is a Visiting Professor at UPenn in Anthropology and Africana Studies. Her research explores issues related to religious nationalism, legal institutions, human rights and international law, the interface between culture, power and globalization, and its relationship to race and modernity. Professor Clarke has two research projects underway. One project lies at the intersections between legal and religious knowledge in which she examines contemporary crises over the state accommodations of cultural differences and the ways that different cultural agents seek to enforce, legitimatize and authorize decision-making in North American courts. In this work she explores 9

10 various cases (constitutional freedoms, asylum, criminal/religious, religious freedoms among inmates) where courts have ruled in one way and those affected by the ruling have mobilized their forces differently. The second project is related to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the African Union and explores current theoretical debates on the globalization of human rights, the anthropology of justice, and genealogies of affect. This project explores contestations over justice, documenting the making of the Rome Statute for the ICC and the corresponding rise of the rule of law movement and the implications of ICC activity in Africa. Research underway is taking place at two critical sites: (1) the ICC at The Hague, in which investigations and adjudication are ongoing; (2) the AU Commission in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where political, economic and culturally shaped decision-making is underway toward the development of an African court with the jurisdiction to handle international crimes committed by individuals. Sean Rehaag, York University Prior to joining the Osgoode faculty in 2008, Sean Rehaag was a visiting scholar at the University of Montreal s Chaire de recherche du Canada en droit international des migrations. He has also been a visiting scholar with the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies at UC Hastings, a visiting researcher at the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, and an instructor at the University of Victoria and the Université de Sherbrooke. His doctoral dissertation, which received the Alan Marks Medal for best graduate thesis in 2008 at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law, used a legal pluralist approach to assess the competing legal claims that arise when faith-based communities offer sanctuary to unsuccessful refugee claimants to prevent their deportation. Professor Rehaag s research and teaching focus on migration law and human rights, as well as on the role that legal norms and institutions play in controversies that implicate multiple communities. Simon Dalby, Wilfrid Laurier University Simon Dalby is a CIGI Chair in the Political Economy of Climate Change and Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. His published research deals with climate change, political ecology, geopolitics, global security, environmental change, militarization and the spatial dimensions of governance. He is co-editor of Rethinking Geopolitics (Routledge 1998), The Geopolitics Reader (Routledge 1998, 2006), and author of Creating the Second Cold War (Pinter and Guilford, 1990), Environmental Security(University of Minnesota Press, 2002) and Security and Environmental Change (Polity, 2009). Simon Dalby was educated at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Victoria and holds a Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University. Before joining the Balsillie School he was Professor of Geography, Environmental Studies and Political Economy at Carleton University in Ottawa. 10