On October 28, 2024, faculty members of University of Ottawa and Carleton University, students, and visiting scholars gathered to celebrate the book release of Forced Migration in/to Canada: From Colonization to Refugee Resettlement.
Forced Migration in/to Canada is a critical primer from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Researchers, practitioners, and knowledge keepers draw on documentary evidence and analysis to foreground lived experiences of displacement and migration policies at the municipal, provincial, territorial, and federal levels.
Forced Migration in/to Canada is now available as an open access publication and can also be purchased on the McGill-Queen’s University Press website as part of the MQUP Refugee and Forced Migration Studies series.
This event, co-hosted by LERRN and Carleton University’s Migration and Diaspora Studies (MDS) Department, invited selected authors to have a roundtable discussion regarding their respective chapters, as well as the broader themes of the book.
- Rachel McNally – Chapter 14: (Dis)Ability and Medical Conditions in Canadian Refugee Resettlement ·
- Amrita Hari – Chapter 16: Class Identity, Performance, and Practices in Refugee Selection and Integration in Canada (co-author Joe Quintero) ·
- David Moffette – Chapter 19: Negotiating Citizenship: Securing Permanence? ·
- Yin-Yuan Chen – Chapter 24: Canada’s Refugee Health-Care System and Its Humanitarian Undertow
The panel discussion and succeeding Q&A session was moderated by James Milner, Laura Madokoro, and Christina Clark-Kazak, the editor of the book. Thoughtful questions were raised about whose stories are not often told, how scholars can systematically create spaces for including and amplifying voices of people with lived experience of displacement in the literature of forced migration studies, and the power of these narratives to better inform the forced migration study, practice, and policy. The authors shared personal reflections and lessons learned from their research regarding the process of integrating lived experiences of displacement into their work. They expressed a hope that Forced Migration in/to Canada will inspire readers to explore ”new areas of inquiry, discussion, research, advocacy, and action”.
To listen to the event discussion, follow the link below.
Stay tuned for the announcement of the release of a French version of the book.
This report was prepared by Lilly Neang, LERRN Knowledge Mobilization Officer.