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<p class="MsoNormal">***This event is part of <b>York
University Refugee Awareness Week 2018</b>,
details are available at
<a onclick="return checkLinkHref(this.href);"
target="_blank"
href="http://www.yorku.ca/refugees"
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(and an up to the minute schedule is available at </span><a
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target="_blank"
href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1778809858860333/"
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style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;background:white">https://www.facebook.com/<wbr>events/1778809858860333/</span></a><span
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><b><span
style="font-size:18.0pt">Creating Pathways and
Crossing Borders:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><b><span
style="font-size:18.0pt">Access to Higher
Education for Refugees and Precarious Migrants</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center">Thursday,
February 8<sup>th</sup>, 2018</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center">12:00-2:00pm<br>
<span style="background:white">Founders College
Senior Common Room (Room 305)</span></p>
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<div style="text-align:center">Critical border
scholars have argued that borders are ideological
constructs with material consequences that exist not
only as boundaries between countries, but also act
to limit rights and entitlements for many within
them (e.g. Anderson, Sharma, and Wright, Refuge
Journal, 2009). These are reflected in refugee camps
and in barriers to refugee resettlement and higher
education for refugees and others with precarious
migration status both locally and globally. </div>
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<div style="text-align:center"><span
style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">This
<b>York U 2018 Refugee Awareness Week panel</b>
features three York affiliated initiatives
working to facilitate access to higher education
for refugees and others with precarious status
within and across borders, from Kenya, Malawi,
Jordan, Lebanon and Toronto, Canada. These
speakers, representing <b>the
</b></span><a onclick="return
checkLinkHref(this.href);" target="_blank"
href="http://www.bher.org/"
moz-do-not-send="true"><b>Borderless Higher
Education for Refugees (BHER) Project</b></a><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">, the
</span><a onclick="return
checkLinkHref(this.href);" target="_blank"
href="https://www.osgoode.yorku.ca/refugees/wusc-refugee-sponsorship/"
moz-do-not-send="true"><b><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">World University Service
of Canada</span></b></a><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif"> and York University’s new
</span><a onclick="return
checkLinkHref(this.href);" target="_blank"
href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/canadian-dreamers-york-university-1.4488252"
moz-do-not-send="true"><b><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">Access for Students with
Precarious Immigration Status Program</span></b></a><span
style="letter-spacing:-0.1pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">
seek to generate awareness and foster dialogue
about global and local realities of access to
higher education as well as the role the York
University community has, is, and can play in
addressing these challenges in a manner
consistent with and advancing its social justice
and accessible education mandate.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:center"><b>TOPICS/SPEAKERS:</b></div>
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<div style="text-align:center"><b>1: Access to
Higher Education for Refugees in Dadaab, Kenya:
The Borderless Higher Education for Refugees
(BHER) Project</b></div>
</b>
<div style="text-align:center">Aida Orgocka, BHER
Project Manager</div>
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<div style="text-align:center"><b>2: Resettling
Refugee Students: The World University Service
of Canada (National and York University
Campuses)</b></div>
</b>
<div style="text-align:center">Chiedza Pasipanodya,
WUSC Ottawa – Regional Liaison Officer</div>
<div style="text-align:center">Myriame Flurisca WUSC
Glendon</div>
<div style="text-align:center">Robert Hanlon, WUSC
Keele – Chairman</div>
<div style="text-align:center">Aelya Salman, WUSC
Keele – Student Refugee Program Coordinator</div>
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<div style="text-align:center"><b>3) York
University’s Access for Students With Precarious
Immigration Status Program</b></div>
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<div style="text-align:center">Tanya Aberman, Research
and Program Coordinator, FCJ Refugee Centre and York
U Access for Students With Precarious Immigration
Status Program</div>
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<div style="font-weight:bold;text-align:center"><b>Discussant:
Professor Luin Goldring, Department of Sociology,
York University</b></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"><b><span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;background:white">Panel
Chair and Co-Organizer (with WUSC Keele Campus
Committee):</span></b><span
style="letter-spacing:-.1pt;background:white">
John Carlaw, Project Lead, York University Syria
Response and Refugee Initiative</span></p>
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John Carlaw <a onclick="return
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refugees@yorku.ca</a><span
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<div style="text-align:center">This panel is
organized by York’s local World University Service
of Canada Committees and Syria Response and
Refugee Initiative as part of Refugee Awareness
Week 2018. Thank you to the Centre for Refugee
Studies and Founders College for support with this
activity.</div>
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<div style="text-align:center"><b><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.133333px">Refugee
Awareness Week 2018 from</span><span
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style="top: 2px; z-index: -1;">February 5th to
9th</span></span><span
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style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.133333px">is
a collaborative initiative of a coalition of
York University student groups and supporting
departments working on refugee issues and
advocacy. It is meant so promote education and
engagement in this field.</span></b></div>
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