[Fdu] “Are Refugees Welcome Here? Trump, Immigration and Canadian Responses” event, February 3, Centre of Eth ics, UofT

[Cynthia Wright]

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Centre For Feminist Research
Kaneff Tower
York University
Phone: 416-736-5915
cfr at yorku.ca <mailto:cfr at yorku.ca>

    *Are Refugees Welcome Here? Trump, Immigration, and Canadian Responses*

    *Friday February 3rd, 4:30 - 6PM*

    Seminar Room, Centre for Ethics, 2nd Floor, Larkin Building, 15
    Devonshire Place, University of Toronto

    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.

    /Panelists:/

      * *Salina Abji,* /SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow, Carleton University
        & Rights of Non-Status Women's Network/
      * *Idil Atak*/, Assistant Professor, Ryerson University/
      * *Andrew Brouwer,*/Lawyer, Refugee Law Office/
      * *Stephanie J. Silverman*/, Bora Laskin National Fellow in Human
        Rights /
      * *Ethel Tungohan*/, Assistant Professor, York University/


    Introduced by *Samer Muscati*, /Director, International Human Rights
    Programme (IHRP)/, and facilitated by *Petra Molnar,* /migrant
    rights researcher /

    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.

    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.

    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.

    Key points of intervention include:

      * the*S/afe Third Country Agreement/ *which limits asylum seekers
        from coming to Canada through the US and results in needlessly
        life-threatening journeys and drawn-out legal battles
      * the */Designated Countries of Origin /*regime, which works in
        tandem and separately from the *S/afe Third Country Agreement/
        *to curb and discourage asylum claims from people originating
        from +40 countries, including the US, Mexico, and Hungary
      * the */Barbaric Practices Act/*/, /a Canadian predecessor for
        ‘‘extreme vetting’
      * *reopening the ‘quota’ *on Groups of Five and Community Sponsors
        resettling Syrian and Iraqi refugees to Canada

    For more information:
    https://www.facebook.com/events/261907274241544/
    <https://www.facebook.com/events/261907274241544/>

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