We are expanding our resources and working to create a comprehensive space for training and mentoring programs for displaced scholars and students in Canada. If you know about relevant programs or initiatives, you can contribute by completing this short survey. forms.office.com/r/wRHz3ch6Pv

Si vous connaissez des programmes ou des initiatives de formation et de mentorat destinés aux personnes chercheuses et étudiantes en situation de déplacement au Canada nous vous invitons à contribuer en remplissant ce court sondage forms.office.com/r/9CLs8Sf7am

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

***Graduate students studying migration and/or ethnic history*** Apply to the Pozzetta Dissertation Award! IEHS invites submissions for two awards of $3,500 each (up from $1,000) to help graduate students with their dissertations. More information is available here: iehs.org/awards/georg...

UnborderED Knowledge is on social media!
We expand access to education & opportunities for those with lived experience of forced migration. Savoirs Sans Frontières est sur les réseaux!
Nous élargissons l’accès à l’éducation pour les personnes ayant vécu la migration forcée. unborderedknowledge.com

NEW: Pope Leo’s newly appointed Bishop, Michael Pham, outside the court in San Diego: “We need to speak up for the voiceless in our society - and we will.” The video then shows masked ICE agents leaving without snatching anyone today. More of this resistance nationwide! 👏 (🎥 PSL San Diego)

World Refugee Day: Prolonged refugee separation is harming families — and Canada’s economy

📢New blog by Rahul Balasundaram, @clarkkazak.bsky.social, and Aditya Rao - Protecting the Right to Asylum in a Closing World Providing refugees protection from persecution is not just a legal responsibility. It is a moral imperative... 🔗 bit.ly/43OX3cM

📢Nouveau blog de Rahul Balasundaram, @clarkkazak.bsky.social, et Aditya Rao - Protéger le droit d'asile dans un monde qui se referme Offrir aux réfugiés une protection contre les persécutions n'est pas seulement une responsabilité juridique. C'est un impératif moral... 🔗 bit.ly/43OX3cM

🏆RI-IR Félicitations - Congrats Winner-gagnante 👋🏽👋🏽 Lou Pingeot International Affairs-University of Ottawa Jury Bashovski @dgrondin.bsky.social @clarkkazak.bsky.social

Join us next Tuesday for a conversation on the topic of “The New Global Responsibility of Universities: Scholars at Risk and International Cooperation”. With Nadia Abu-Zahra, @bshiferaw.bsky.social, @clarkkazak.bsky.social, @pmfrowd.bsky.social & Florian Kohstall >>> bit.ly/43K3xs2

Rejoignez-nous mardi prochain : « La nouvelle responsabilité globale des universités: Universitaires en danger et coopération internationale ». Avec Nadia Abu-Zahra, @bshiferaw.bsky.social, @clarkkazak.bsky.social, @pmfrowd.bsky.social et Florian Kohstall. >>> bit.ly/3SyhOmA

🏆RI-IR Félicitations👋🏽👋🏽 @rita-abrahamsen.bsky.social Drolet Williams Vucetic @srdj.bsky.social Narita Gheciu | Pingeot | Zeitz CITATIONS conta.cc/4iyPATt Winner👉🏽 June 4 TMU cpsaconference.ca/sessions_det... Jury @clarkkazak.bsky.social Bashovski @dgrondin.bsky.social

We are seeing multiple instances of reviewers doing manuscript reviews via use of AI/LLM. If you don't want to do a review the old-fashioned way, better to decline the request. Giving someone else's manuscript to AI is a violation of intellectual property rights/laws; the manuscript isn't yours...

📢Calling potential authors! @fmreview.bsky.social have just opened up their latest call for article proposals on '#ClimateChange: choices for displaced people’ Proposals due 8 May Articles due 10 July Publication in October 2025 See: www.fmreview.org/climate-change-cfa/

Join us tomorrow at 2pm as we commemorate Refugee Rights Day in Canada! Featuring Diana Gallego, Laïla Demirdache, Thomas Ndayiragije & Aditya Rao. Moderated by @clarkkazak.bsky.social In person or via Zoom >>> bit.ly/4bMrX8a

Join us for the #Halifax launch of "Forced Migration in/to Canada: From Colonization to Refugee Resettlement," by Dr. @clarkkazak.bsky.social of @uottawa.bsky.social. April 8, 4-6 pm in SH 324 and online: loom.ly/tbCgWNw. Hosted by #SMUSociology #SMUPoliticalScience and #SMUGlobalDevelopmentStudies.

Next Thursday, we're hosting a panel discussion to commemorate Refugee Rights Day in Canada! Featuring Diana Gallego, Laïla Demirdache, Thomas Ndayiragije & Aditya Rao. Moderated by @clarkkazak.bsky.social Register here >>> bit.ly/4bMrX8a

Come work with us in beautiful Canada! We are seeking a social science research leader with expertise in public policy. Please share with your networks! #academicsky #academia #PoliSciSky #polisky usask.csod.com/ux/ats/caree....

How a president hoping to fund his government with tariffs and possibly annex Canada instead wrecked the economy and set continentalism back for almost a century. Excellent thread.

We’re looking for outstanding PhD candidates to study with us at the Evacuations Research Hub @kaldorcentre.bsky.social! You must have a demonstrated interest in disaster law, human rights law, international humanitarian law, or diplomatic and consular law. www.unsw.edu.au/law-justice/...

CfP: Conflict, Democratic Backsliding, and Diaspora Politics in Canada www.cips-cepi.ca/call-for-pap...

Don't forget to register for our speed briefing on a new legal toolkit to protect people displaced in the context of climate change. The Australian one is tomorrow - Fri 14 Feb 12.30-1pm. Full details here www.unsw.edu.au/news/2025/02...

Many thanks to @shaunalabman.bsky.social (Global College, @uwinnipeg.bsky.social) and @mcnallyrobinson.com for hosting this timely conversation

Climate impacts are forcing people from their homes. When, how and why do they have valid refugee claims? My latest article explains ... theconversation.com/climate-impa...

Winnipeg come join me Friday night for this fantastic talk with @clarkkazak.bsky.social!

There hasn't actually been a serious border security problem between Canada and the US. Wanna know a good way to create one? Create incentives in the tens of billions of dollars for successful smuggling operations.

Students of my course Engaging Global Displacements will host a Poster Exhibit and Panel Discussion about their work with "Forced Migration in/out of Canada" edited by @clarkkazak.bsky.social What an excellent volume linking Canada's colonial history with its migration policy.

Winnipeg launch of Forced Migration in/to Canada with @clarkkazak.bsky.social Feb 7th! A critical migration primer from Indigenous displacement & settler colonialism, through Black enslavement, to statelessness, trafficking, resettlement and climate migration. www.mcnallyrobinson.com/event-18715/...

On human rights day, Norah Vollmer and I call on the Canadian government to take three important steps to better protect researchers displaced by violence and persecution: ottawacitizen.com/opinion/huma...

The Irish Centre for Human Rights is hiring! We are currently advertising a permanent lecturer post with an emphasis on human rights and climate/environment (climate justice, conflict and peacebuilding, minority rights, indigenous peoples). More info at: www.universityofgalway.ie/about-us/jobs/

Save-the-Date: Jan 7, 2025 7pm(PST) Vancouver launch, Forced Migration In/To Canada: From Colonization to Refugee Resettlement, McGill-Queen’s U Press, 2024. Editor, Christina Clark-Kazak Contributors, Erin Goheen Glanville, Francisco-Fernando Granados, Lois Klassen And, special guests!

📣Job alert (postdoc): Immigration, Information, and Technologies @irms-concordia.bsky.social Open to all #migration researchers, particularly those working with text-as-data, NLP or computational social sciences approaches. www.concordia.ca/artsci/resea... #Polisky #Migcitsky #poliscisky

The Canadian Journal of African Studies (CAAS) is looking for new editors. Apply by Feb 1st. // La Revue canadiennes des études africaines (RCEA) recrute des redacteurs/trices. Postulez avant le 1er février.

🚨Are you a person on the move interested in #BorderTech? Apply for our THIRD annual fellowship application with @migrationtechmonitor.com and @refugeelawlab.bsky.social! Application materials (in whatever language!) are due December 31st 2024 www.migrationtechmonitor.com/aboutmtmfell... A little🧵

Celebrating the launch of @clarkkazak.bsky.social's brilliant new volume, "Forced Migration in/to Canada" with one of the over 60 attendees (also a contributing author), hosted by York University's Centre for Refugee Studies. Affordably priced in PB and in O/A from @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social.

Greg Beckett (UWO) and I are putting together a panel titled "Transnational Haiti" for the upcoming #CALACS Conference in Toronto (May, 2025). We have room for more proposals if there is interest. Reach out if that's you and share with anyone potentially interested! See the panel description below.

Looking forward to discussing my chapter, “Sold as a Slave for Life: Black Enslavement in Colonial Canada,” tomorrow at our this book launch taking place at 11:30am(hybrid event). Registration link below.

‘Harm to children was part of the point’: a harrowing film on US family separations

FMR 74 now online in English on our new website! Due to technical issues, the other language editions will be published tomorrow. See: www.fmreview.org/financing-displacement-response/ #Refugees #Displacement #Funding

Happy to see our work w Natalie Welfens published in the Journal of Refugee Studies “UNHCR–state relations: transfer of authority over refugee status determination”👇 academic.oup.com/jrs/advance-...

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free Another world is possible if we fight for it www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...

{3/3} I’d like to introduce my book, Border Harms and Everyday Violence: A Prison Island in Europe. #BorderViolence #HumanRights #NoBorder #BorderHarms #EverydayViolence bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/border-harms...

Je vous propose un petit starter pack "Asylum/Forced migration". Les profils parfaits pour discuter des politiques d'asile, de la pratique en France et ailleurs, et évidemment, du dévoiement de la Convention de Genève. N'hésitez pas à m'en indiquer d'autres pour l'étoffer. go.bsky.app/GtC6Ag

These migration starter packs are a mix of EU and US. Hope it helps! - Human Rights (ish) Academics (ish): go.bsky.app/QifxUJc - Migration & Borders Volume I: go.bsky.app/TREFo1s - Migration & Borders Volume II: go.bsky.app/SNcmsLQ - Immigration Research: go.bsky.app/Pj3Lv7f

Free copies available of the incredible anthology “Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire” made available by @haymarketbooks.bsky.social! This books travels with me and has a permanent place on my bookshelf

Immigration & Asylum Policy After Brexit Edited by James Hampshire with Lucy Mayblin, Thom Davies, Arshad Isakjee, Joe Turner, Tesfalem Yemane, Randall Hansen, Mike Sklaven, Michaela Benson, Nando Sigona and Elena Zambelli. More to come politicalquarterly.org.uk/collections/... #immigrationpolicy