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<p class="m_-8439017465925747605p3"><span
class="m_-8439017465925747605s1"><b>Are Refugees
Welcome Here? Trump, Immigration, and Canadian
Responses</b></span></p>
<p class="m_-8439017465925747605p3"><span
class="m_-8439017465925747605s1"><b>Friday
February 3rd, 4:30 - 6PM</b></span></p>
<p class="m_-8439017465925747605p3"><span
class="m_-8439017465925747605s1">Seminar Room,
Centre for Ethics, 2nd Floor, Larkin Building,
15 Devonshire Place, University of Toronto </span></p>
<p class="m_-8439017465925747605p5"><span
class="m_-8439017465925747605s1">The Canadian
Association of Refugee and Forced Migration
Studies (CARFMS) and the International Human
Rights Program (UofT) invite you to an informal,
information-sharing, and brainstorming session
at the Centre for Ethics to discuss the
implications of Trump Administration’s Executive
Orders on immigration and refugee policy in the
US, and political change in Canada.</span></p>
<p class="m_-8439017465925747605p5"><span
class="m_-8439017465925747605s1"><i>Panelists:</i></span></p>
<ul class="m_-8439017465925747605ul1">
<li class="m_-8439017465925747605li7"><span
class="m_-8439017465925747605s2"></span><span
class="m_-8439017465925747605s3"><b>Salina
Abji,</b> </span><span
class="m_-8439017465925747605s1"><i>SSHRC
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Carleton University
& Rights of Non-Status Women's Network</i></span></li>
<li class="m_-8439017465925747605li5"><span
class="m_-8439017465925747605s1"><b>Idil Atak</b><i>,
Assistant Professor, Ryerson University</i></span></li>
<li class="m_-8439017465925747605li5"><span
class="m_-8439017465925747605s1"><b>Andrew
Brouwer,</b><i> Lawyer, Refugee Law Office</i></span></li>
<li class="m_-8439017465925747605li5"><span
class="m_-8439017465925747605s1"><b>Stephanie
J. Silverman</b><i>, Bora Laskin National
Fellow in Human Rights </i></span></li>
<li class="m_-8439017465925747605li5"><span
class="m_-8439017465925747605s1"><b>Ethel
Tungohan</b><i>, Assistant Professor, York
University</i></span></li>
</ul>
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<p class="m_-8439017465925747605p5"><span
class="m_-8439017465925747605s1">Introduced by <b>Samer
Muscati</b>, <i>Director, International Human
Rights Programme (IHRP)</i>, and facilitated
by <b>Petra Molnar,</b> <i>migrant rights
researcher </i></span></p>
<p class="m_-8439017465925747605p5"><span
class="m_-8439017465925747605s1">This
interdisciplinary conversation will situate the
Executive Orders into a historic and sociolegal
pattern of violence against specific communities
and discuss how to effect positive change in
Canadian law and policy.</span></p>
<p class="m_-8439017465925747605p5"><span
class="m_-8439017465925747605s1">Throughout the
sixteen year-old “War on Terror,” Muslim and
other minorities have been exposed to racially-,
religiously-, and ethnically-motivated
targeting. Although history demonstrates time
and again that refugees are not terrorists,
Trump’s Orders specifically link the two and
perpetuate the dangerous fallacy that the Muslim
community is a source of danger. </span></p>
<p class="m_-8439017465925747605p5"><span
class="m_-8439017465925747605s1">In the wake of
the attack at the Quebec City Islamic Cultural
Centre, this interactive dialogue will address
how to effect realizable change quickly,
effectively, and strategically in Canada, as
well as how to combat Islamophobia and negative
discourses around migration. </span></p>
<p class="m_-8439017465925747605p5"><span
class="m_-8439017465925747605s1">Key points of
intervention include:</span></p>
<ul class="m_-8439017465925747605ul1">
<li class="m_-8439017465925747605li5"><span
class="m_-8439017465925747605s1">the<b> S<i>afe
Third Country Agreement</i> </b>which
limits asylum seekers from coming to Canada
through the US and results in needlessly
life-threatening journeys and drawn-out legal
battles</span></li>
<li class="m_-8439017465925747605li5"><span
class="m_-8439017465925747605s1">the <b><i>Designated
Countries of Origin </i></b>regime, which
works in tandem and separately from the <b>S<i>afe
Third Country Agreement</i> </b>to curb
and discourage asylum claims from people
originating from +40 countries, including the
US, Mexico, and Hungary</span></li>
<li class="m_-8439017465925747605li5"><span
class="m_-8439017465925747605s1">the <b><i>Barbaric
Practices Act</i></b><i>, </i>a Canadian
predecessor for ‘‘extreme vetting’</span></li>
<li class="m_-8439017465925747605li5"><span
class="m_-8439017465925747605s1"><b>reopening
the ‘quota’ </b>on Groups of Five and
Community Sponsors resettling Syrian and Iraqi
refugees to Canada</span></li>
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<p class="m_-8439017465925747605p8"><span
class="m_-8439017465925747605s4">For more
information: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
onclick="return checkLinkHref(this.href);"
target="_blank"
href="https://www.facebook.com/events/261907274241544/"><span
class="m_-8439017465925747605s5">https://www.facebook.com/<wbr>events/261907274241544/</span></a></span></p>
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