{"id":1697,"date":"2016-10-29T12:08:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T16:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2025-10-03T12:16:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:16:40","slug":"symposium-and-exhibition-on-migration-and-intersectionality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/2016\/symposium-and-exhibition-on-migration-and-intersectionality\/","title":{"rendered":"Symposium and Exhibition on Migration and Intersectionality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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On October 28th, 2016 Carleton University hosted a collaborative symposium between the African Centre for Migration and Society (University of the Witwatersrand) and Carleton\u2019s Migration and Diaspora Studies Initiative to provide a critical understanding of how social identities shape migrants\u2019 work experiences in South Africa, South Korea and Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two keynote speakers,\u00a0Daiva Stasiulis<\/strong>\u00a0(Carleton University) \u201cUnsettling and Recolonizing A Settler Society: An Intersectional Lens on Reforms to Canada\u2019s Migration and Citizenship Policies,\u201d and\u00a0Luin Goldring<\/strong>\u00a0(York University) \u201cApproaching the Chutes and Ladders of Precarious Legal Status with an Intersectional Perspective\u201d helped to clarify\u00a0the issues of migration, racism, multiculturalism, and gender and equity analysis of immigration policy in the context of Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conference also featured an photo exhibition titled, \u201cMetropolitan Nomads: A Journey Through Johannesburg\u2019s Little Mogadishu\u201d by\u00a0Salym Fayad<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Nereida Ripero-Mu\u00f1iz<\/strong>, which\u00a0delves into the daily lives experienced by Somali migrants in the Mayfair suburb, located in the City of Johannesburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first panel \u201cDomestic Work, Sex Work, Marriage Migration\u201d began with the gender perspectives on the feminization of migration\u00a0in the cases of South Africa, Canada and South Korea:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Zaheera Jinnah<\/strong> (University of the Witwatersrand) \u201cInformality and Intersectionality: Reflections on the Multiple Identities of Migrant Domestic Workers in South Africa\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Jamie Chai Yun Liew<\/strong> (University of Ottawa) \u201cRendering the Invisible Visible: Migrant and Immigrant Sex Workers and the Law\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Jiyoung Lee-An<\/strong> (Carleton University) \u201c\u2018Fake\u2019 or \u2018Real\u2019 Marriage? Race, Gender and Class in the Governing Practices of Marriage Migration in South Korea\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    The second panel “Framing Gendered and Racialized Migrations” focused on the living conditions and everyday life in a border town — Limpopo, South Africa:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • Blair Rutherford<\/strong> (Carleton University) \u201cNervous
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    • Thea de Gruchy<\/strong> (University of the Witwatersrand) \u201cAccidental Intersectionality: Understanding the Role of Ideology in the Process of Policy Making in the Musina Model of Care\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      The last panel “Deployments of Intersectionality in South Africa” explored the internal and international migration issues in the largest metropolitan city of South Africa — Johannesburg:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      • Ying-Ying Tiffany Liu<\/strong> (Carleton University) \u201cIntra-Migrant Economy: Chinese Restaurant Entrepreneurship and Zimbabwean Migrant Workers in
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      • Goitse Manthata<\/strong>\u00a0(University of the Witwatersrand) \u201cUrban Health, Social Identities, Intersectionality and the Work Experiences of Informal miners in the Urban periphery of Johannesburg South Africa\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

        The presentation papers have opportunities for a special issue of an academic journal that will be edited by co-organizers Blair Rutherford (Carleton University), Daiva Stasiulis (Carleton University), and Zaheera Jinnah (Wits University).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        This event ended with a book launch for Gender and Multiculturalism: North-South Perspectives<\/em> (Kwazulu-Natal University Press, 2016) which featured speeches by the authors Gopika Solanki<\/strong>, Jill Vickers<\/strong> and Daiva Stasiulis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        Three presenters at the symposium from South Africa — Zaheera Jinnah, Thea de Gruchy<\/strong> <\/strong>and <\/strong>Goitse Manthata<\/strong> got together to discuss their experiences:\u00a0On crises and commonality: reflections from an international symposium on migration and symposium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        We look forward to collaborating with the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS) at the University of the Witwatersrand again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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