Events

Harney Lecture Series 2011-2012 (all events are open to the public)

October 20, 2011 (3-5 pm)*
* (Time of event has been changed from previous advertisement)
Event co-sponsored by the Munk School of Global Affairs

Policy Panel Discussion: “Canadian Refugee Policy in Global Context”

Munk School of Global Affairs,  Campbell Conference Facility
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place, Toronto ON

Panel:

• Audrey Macklin, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
• Jeff Crisp, Head, Policy Development and Evaluation Service, United Nations High Commission on Refugees, Geneva
• Zachary Lomo, LLB, Harvard, former director of the Refugee Law Project, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda (currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge).
• Michael Ignatieff (moderator), Munk School of Global Affairs

The objective of this event is to situate current Canadian refugee policy in comparative and global context, and to stimulate discussion and debate. The impetus is recent legislation changing the refugee determination process, and forthcoming legislation that will authorize the government to designate certain groups of asylum seekers. Designated asylum seekers will be subject to automatic, unreviewable detention for a year, and those accepted as refugees will be prohibited from sponsoring family members for 5 years.

The panelists will address the following issues: (1) Contemporary Canadian refugee policy (Audrey Macklin); (2) Comparison with other major refugee accepting states of the global north (Jeffrey Crisp); and (3) Perspective from global south (Zachary Lomo). Michael Ignatieff will moderate this discussion and provide further insight from his academic research and political career.

Audrey Macklin is a professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, with expertise in transnational migration, citizenship, forced migration, feminist and cultural analysis, and human rights. Jeffrey Crisp is the Head of Policy Development and Evaluation Service at the United Nations High Commission on Refugees in Geneva. Zachary Lomo is a PhD Candidate in Law at the University of Cambridge and the former director of the Refugee Law Project in Uganda. Michael Ignatieff is currently a professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs, and previously served as director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Professor Ignatieff is former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.

 

November 10, 2011 (2 - 4 pm)
Catherine Corrigall-Brown, Sociology, University of Western Ontario
Steven Weldon, Political Science, Simon Fraser University,
Ed Grabb, Sociology, University of British Columbia

"Is Diversity Good for Civic Engagement? Heterogeneity and Voluntary Association Membership in 50 Nations"

Munk School of Global Affairs, Room 208N
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place, Toronto ON



December 1, 2011 (2 - 4 pm)
David FitzGerald, Sociology, UC-San Diego, Gildred Chair for United States – Mexican Relations, and Associate Director, Centre for Comparative Immigration Studiers

"The Rise and Fall of ‘White Canada’: A Hemispheric Perspective"

Munk School of Global Affairs, Room 208N
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place, Toronto ON



January 26, 2012 (2-4pm)
Richard Alba , Sociology, City University of New York Graduate Centre
"The Looming Transition To Diversity in Wealthy Societies: Challenge and Opportunity"

Munk School of Global Affairs, Campbell Conference Facility
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place, Toronto ON

The next quarter century will represent an historic juncture for the wealthy societies of the west, as the largely white baby boomers exit the active years and are replaced by youthful cohorts that are much more diverse as a consequence of immigration. The challenge ahead, which at present is not being successfully met in most countries, will be to integrate the children of immigrants so that they can function in the economy and polity like well-trained natives. But there will be an opportunity, too: to blur the sharp boundaries that currently separate the shrinking mainstream majority from burgeoning immigrant-origin populations.

Richard Alba is a Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York. His research focuses on race/ethnicity and international migration. A prolific scholar, his most recent books include The Next Generation: Immigrant Youth in a Comparative Perspective (NYU Press, 2011), edited with Mary Waters and Blurring the Color Line: The New Chance for a More Integrated America (Harvard University Press, September, 2009). Professor Alba has received numerous professional honours, including being elected Vice President of the American Sociological Association and President of the Eastern Sociological Society.

This event will serve as the keynote lecture for the 5th Annual Ethnic and Pluralism Studies Graduate Research Conference (January 26-27, 2012)

January 27-28, 2011
108N Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place, Toronto ON

FULL PROGRAM DETAILS and PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS

For this year's conference, we received a record number of proposal submisions from a great variety of disciplines and institutions. As a result, we had a program featuring 8 sessions and 31 papers, with presenters coming from not only the GTA but British Columbia, Alberta, as well as Norway, the UK and the United States...READ MORE

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Program outline:

January 27, 2011 Room 108N
08:00-08:30    Registration
08:15-08:30    Opening Remarks
08:30-10:00    Session 1: "Employment"
10:00-11:30    Session 2: "Law, Citizenship and Multiculturalism"
11:30-12:15    Lunch
12:15-01:45    Session 3: "Education"
01:45-02:00    Move to Massey College
02:00-04:00    Keynote Lecture, Upper Library, Massey College
                     Mary C Waters (M.E.Zukerman Professor of Sociology, Harvard University)

January 28, 2011 Room 108N
08:15-08:30    Registration
08:30-10:00    Session 4 "Gender"
10:00-11:30    Session 5 "Religion"
11:30-12:15    Lunch
12:15-01:45    Session 6 "Media"
02:00-03:30    Session 7 "Identity"
03:30-03:45    Break
03:45-05:15    Session 8 "Migration and Refugees"

NEW! Some of the papers and presentation slides from the conference have been made available by the presenters:

Session 5: Jordan Palmer "An Affront to Human Dignity: An Examination of rht Treatment of Polygamy in Modern, Multicultural Canada"
Session 6: Nafisa Tanjeem "Slumdog Millionaire: A Transnational Imperial Project"
Session 7: Minha Reokenally "Adulthood and Citizenship for 1.5 Generationa Korean Youth: Answering Critical Questions"

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3rd Annual Ethnic and Pluralism Studies Graduate Research Conference

Our 3rd Annual Graduate Research Conference was held on January 28 and 29, 2010. This conference is aimed at providing graduate students in the area of Ethnic Studies with a forum to showcase their current and recent research. The presenters receive feedback from discussants who are specialists in their fields, making this event a great learning and traning opportunity for future presenations in more formal conferences.

Howard Kislowicz (U of T, Faculty of Law, SJD program) The (Contested) Objectives of Multiculturalism and Canadian Law
Mike Jones (U of T, Study of Religion, MA program) Multiculturalism and the Canadian Supreme Court
Jennifer LeClair (U of T, ERES, MA program) National Minority Politics in the 2001 Hungarian ‘Status Law’ Context
Ciann L. Wilson (York U, Environmental Studies, MA program) Art, Sexual Health and Education-Centered Community-Based Participatory Research
Nehal El-Hadi (U of T, Urban Planning, PhD program) Immigration and the Creative City
Rebecca Nava (Ryerson U, Immigration and Settlement Studies, MA program) Race Discourses in the Canadian Public School System: A Review
Dipal Damani (U of T, Public Policy, MA program) Assessing the Effectiveness of Ethno-Specific Organizations
Ashley Korn (Ryerson U, Immigration and Settlement Studies, MA) What to Expect? Examining the Role of Pre-departure Cultural Orientations
Barbara Lee (U of T, Social Work, PhD program) Canadian Child Welfare Service Response to Asian Children and Families
Ethel Tungohan (U of T, Political Science, PhD program) Assessing Temporary Labour Migration Programs and Migrants’ Political Advocacy through the Case study of the Live-in Caregiver Program
Tracy Smith-Carrier (U of T, Social Work, PhD program) Few Rights, Many Responsibilities: An Exploration of the Social Rights for Immigrants with Precarious Status in Canada
Josephine Eric (U of T, Anthropology, MA program) Prepare for the worst: Rite of passage of Filipino Women’s Settlement and Integration in Canada from the 1960s to the present
Seong-gee Um (U of T, Social Work, PhD program) Migration of Care Labour: Immigration Policy Change and Its Impact on the Eldercare Workforce in South Korea
Marie Pier Joly (U of T, Sociology, PhD program) Revisiting the Relationship between Acculturation and Mental Health
Emily Laxer (U of T, Sociology, PhD program) Citizenship Regime and Immigrant Civic Participation in Multi-Nation States: Comparing patterns in Quebec to those in Ontario and British Columbia
Joanna Popczyk (U of T, CERES, MA program) Understanding Polish-Tatar Religious Identity through the lens of Will Herberg’s ‘Protestant, Catholic, Jew’
Duygu Gul (York U, Sociology, PhD program) The politics of apology and notions of citizenship: the case of the Dersim massacre
Reem Attieh (York U, Sociology, PhD program) The representation of suffering: the media’s coverage of the war in the Gaza Strip
Sophie Voegele (York U, Sociology, PhD program) Distant Suffering: Othering and the politics of representation
Filiz Tutku Aydin (U of T, Political Science, PhD program) Explaining Diaspora Mobilization: The Case of the Crimean Tatars in the Former USSR
Eugenia Madisson (U of T, CERES, MA program) Roma issues: Integration in Europe and Canada
Dennis Molinaro (U of T, History, PhD program) "A Species of Treason?" Deportation and Nation-building in the case of Tomo Čačić, 1931–1934
Ashiya Desai (U of T, Social Work, MSW program) Canadian Refugee Policy: An Assessment of Recent Changes and Proposed Reforms

For more details, please see our PROGRAM as well as the list of ABSTRACTS. If you would like to contact any of the presenters for a full-text version of their paper, please contact the Ethnic Studies Program Administrator.

2nd Annual Ethnic and Pluralism Studies Graduate Research Conference

On January 29-30, 2009, graduate students at the University of Toronto showcased their current and recent work at a conference sponsored by the Harney Program in Ethnic, Immigration, and Pluralism Studies. Topics were in any area related to the mandate of the Ethnic and Pluralism Studies Program, including ethnic and race relations,international migration and immigration, cultural and linguistic communities, inter-group dynamics, nationalist movements, aboriginal affairs, and human rights.Submissions in the area of race relations, education, and religion were especially encouraged this year. The conference provided an opportunity for students to meet and discuss issues in ethnicity: successful networking is a conference goal. It also gave valuable feedback to those seeking publication of their research. The event was designed to be participatory rather than exclusionary. With that in mind, it was open to all who wished to attend.

Click for 2009 conference schedule and abstracts.

2009 Conference presentations
(click on title for full-text of available papers):

Wendell Adjetey, Political Science, University of Toronto, "The Moynihan Report: Analysis, Contemporary Discourse, and Social Policy"
Elinor Bray-Collins, Political Science, University of Toronto, "Confessionalism from Below: Youth Politics and Communal Conflict in Lebanon"
Christine Carrasco, Melanie Gillespie, Monika Goodluck, School of Public Health, University of Toronto, "Accessing Primary Health Care in Canada: Giving Voice to the Perceptions and Experiences of Racialized Immigrants (A Systematic Review)"
Paul de Silva, Communications and Culture, York/Ryerson, "Television, the Public Sphere, and the Miscasting of Minorities in a Multi-cultural Society"
Maria-Luisa Elias, MSW University of Toronto, Vivian Del Valle, MSW, RSW, Norma Hannant, MSW, RSW, "Mexican Refugees Fleeing Abuse and Violence"
Cristina Guerrero, Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning, OISE/UT, "Latinidad and the High School Experience: Working to Curb School Leaving among Spanish Speaking Youth in Toronto's Public School System"
Nicole Helmer, Nursing, University of Toronto, "Exploring Culturally Appropriate Care across the Cancer Trajectory: Are the Health Beliefs of Aboriginal People Incorporated or Further Suppressed by Western Ideologies?"
Cory Jansson, Political Science, York University, "Understanding the Poor Economic Integration of Swedish Immigrants"
Ada Jeffrey, Religion, University of Toronto, "Religion: Terms of Engagement with the Social Sciences"
Howard Kislowicz, Law, University of Toronto, "Cultural Membership in Bruker v. Marcovitz"
Bukola Kolawole, Nursing, University of Toronto, "Understanding the Barriers Confronted by Internationally Educated Nurses in Integrating into the Ontario Healthcare System using Postcolonial Theory"
Mourad Laabdi, Religion, University of Toronto, "On the Possibility of a Universal Religion of Reason: From Kant to Derrida"
Barbara Lee, Social Work, University of Toronto, "Unaccompanied/Separated Children: Implications for the Child Welfare System"
Michelle Lee, Nursing, University of Toronto, "Second Generation Korean Canadian Female Youth (SGKCFY): An Exploration of the Intersection of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in the Successful Psychosocial Integration into Multicultural Societies"
Deryck Ramcharitar, English, University of Toronto, "Masks of Confession: Looking Behind the Confession of White Male Narrators in Shooting an Elephant and Disgrace"
Beesan Sarrouh, Political Science, University of Alberta, "The Impacts of Britain and Ontario's Multicultural Education Policies (MEP) on Muslim Students in Secular Schools"
Andrew Snowball, Social Work, University of Toronto, "Human Nature: Locating Ourselves"
Mark van der Maas, Sociology, University of Toronto, "Claims to Identity in Determining Resources for Indigenous Social Movements in Canada"
Priya Verma, MSW, University of Toronto, "Flying While Muslim: Social Exclusion in the Name of National Security"

1st Annual Ethnic and Pluralism Studies Graduate Research Conference

On April 14 and April 15, graduate students at the University of Toronto showcased their current and recent work at a conference sponsored by the Harney Program in Ethnic, Immigration, and Pluralism Studies. The conference provided an opportunity for students to meet and to discuss issues in ethnicity: successful networking was a conference goal. It also gave valuable feedback to those seeking publication of their research. The event was designed to be participatory rather than exclusionary. Participants were from History, Sociology, Ethnomusicology, Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, Political Science, Planning, Industrial Relations and Human Resources, Nursing Science, Anthropology, Women and Gender Studies, Theory and Policy Studies in Education, and the Asian Institute.

For a conference schedule, click here.

2008 Conference presentations
(click on title for full-text of available papers):

Chantal Amirault, Political Science, "Urban Planning: Tool and Weapon."
Rupa Banerjee, Industrial Relations and Human Resources, "Determinants and Effects of Post-Migration Education among New Immigrants in Canada."
Kata Bohus, History, "Freedom Fighter Today, Housewife Tomorrow: Hungarian Refugee Women's Experience in Canada after the 1956 Revolution."
Jessica Chandrashekar, Women and Gender Studies, "Post-9/11 Amendments to Bill C-36 and its Impacts on Sri Lankan Tamils."
Celine Cooper, Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, "Race, Nation, and Representations of Space: A Spatial Analysis of the Herouxville Affair."
Isabelle Cote, Political Science, "Political Mobilization of 'Regional Ethno-Territorial Minorities: The Case of the Han Chinese in Xinjiang."
Martha Fanjoy, Anthropology, "Conceptions of Belonging among Sudanese Refugees in Canada: Evidence and Methods."
Karen Fong, Planning, "Overcoming Structural Racial Discrimination: An Analysis of the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council's Approach to Improving Skilled Immigrant Labour Market Integration."
Sanjay Jeram, Political Science, "Making Decentralization Work in Ethnically Divided Societies: State and Societal Synergism."
Alanna Krolikowski, Politial Science/Asian Institute, " Chinese Nationalism and State Personhood in Ontological Security Theories: A Sceptical View.:
Michelle Lee, Nursing, "Korean Canadian Youths within Religious Settings."
Tobold Rollo, Political Science, "Embedded and Embodied: The Politics of Recognition and Reconciliation."
Lisa Seto, Nursing, "Using Qualitative Methodology and Postcolonial Theory to Examine Preferences for Place of Death of Terminally Ill Chinese Canadians."

Program Director:
 Jeffrey G. Reitz
Courses, 2011-2012

Program Administrator:
Momo Kano Podolsky

Anthropology
European, Russian, & Eurasian Studies
Geography
History
Industrial Relations & Human Resources
Nursing Science
Political Science
Religion
Social Work
Sociology
Sociology & Equity Studies in Education
Theory & Policy Studies in Education
Women & Gender Studies