Christina Clark-Kazak
@ClarkKazak
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uOttawa Prof, Migration & Age Rights, IASFM & CARFMS Past President, Parent, Former Tallship Sailer, She/her/elle; White settler, unceded Algonquin land
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Do you work with refugees and displaced people? "Your rights in research" is available in over 20 languages.
Funded by
@SSHRC_CRSH
&
@RechercheFSS
. Partnerships with
@ccrweb
@CRSYorkU
&
@_carfms
.
Translations by
@AccessAlliance
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To academics who think you’re an “expert” on every country & conflict in the world: you’re taking up space from those who live, work & research in contexts you actually don’t understand w/ your hot takes, superficial “analysis” & media interviews. Step back & listen & learn.
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Hi
#AcademicTwitter
, no, I didn’t just publish a paper or get an award. But, I did spend 2 hours meeting (virtually) with a distraught student who wanted to quit her PhD. I’m not tweeting this to get thanks but to show that there is more to academia (& life) than what is CV-able
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Very excited to submit our manuscript, In/to Canada: Forced Migration from Colonization to Resettlement, to the publisher this morning! 28 substantive chapters, plus intro + foreword, from 38 outstanding colleagues across Canada. Grateful for this collaboration. 🫶📖
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Coming soon with UTP ...
“by far the best (most clearly written, logically organized, and comprehensive) research methods textbook for undergraduate students of international and global studies that I have seen” (Reviewer A2)
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My
#methods
textbook, designed for internationally-focused, interdisciplinary courses, will be out in time for fall 2023 course adoption! In lieu of book launches, I'm offering guest lectures on any chapter, even if you don't assign the book!😉DM/email me
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Almost there! The thrill of receiving proofs never gets old. So many fascinating contributions in this book from colleagues who challenge & question methodological boundaries. I’ve learned so much from them & their work. Stay tuned …
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Very excited to see these proofs. This article is the culmination of time & care of so many people, including
@lunavives
, Gada Mahouse, Natalie Kouri-Towe, Jade How,
@JenniferHyndman
,
@slmcgrath
& kind & thoughtful (& tough!) reviewers. Hopefully out in the world by end of 2022!
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New year, new book contract. Very excited to start working on "Ageing In and Out of Place: Lived Experiences of Forced Migration Across the Life Course" - to be submitted by spring 2024. Better get writing ... ✍️😅🎉
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Please take a moment today to thank colleagues working behind the scenes to organize conferences, run orgs & centres, edit journals, peer review grants & articles, mentor, serve on committees, lead from behind...
This care work is at the ❤️of academic community, but under-valued
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Do you teach forced
#migration
? In this 8-part pedagogical video series, we explore key issues related to borders, definitions, asylum, refugee protection, etc. Thanks to Ligia Garcia Vidal, Nadia Mitchel,
@uOttawaFSS
&
@MyCarletonU
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Finalizing ancillaries (learning materials, lecture notes, exam question bank) for
#ResearchAcrossBorders
. This book has taken a *lot* longer than anticipated b/c of life (& death) in a pandemic.
But, I am so proud of the final product. Can't wait for it to be out in the world.
Coming soon with UTP ...
“by far the best (most clearly written, logically organized, and comprehensive) research methods textbook for undergraduate students of international and global studies that I have seen” (Reviewer A2)
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Rant of the day: many universities spend too much time obsessing over rankings, prizes & "star" researchers, rather than investing in everyday infrastructure & processes that would facilitate *all* research (including the important, non-awarding-winning research most of us do)
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Did 13 CBC radio interviews re: Roxham Rd yesterday. My key points:
1. Right to seek asylum protected by int'l & 🇨🇦 law
2. #⃣s are small in global context
3. 🇨🇦-🇺🇸 agreement forces irregular crossings; should be terminated
4. Politicization detracting from rights & solutions
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Anyone still on here who needs a guest lecture on
#methods
in 2023-2024 courses, I can Zoom or drop in at my expense (within limits!) to cover any topic in
#ResearchAcrossBorders
. I am on sabbatical, so have lots of flexibility. DM or email me!
My
#methods
textbook, designed for internationally-focused, interdisciplinary courses, will be out in time for fall 2023 course adoption! In lieu of book launches, I'm offering guest lectures on any chapter, even if you don't assign the book!😉DM/email me
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Parenting a child w/ complex medical needs, most focus on what he *can’t* do.
But, yesterday morning, he fixed the vacuum cleaner (took it apart & intuitively identified the problem), carved this bird pendant & made me a friendship bracelet.
A deficit approach is so limiting.
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No shade to Snoopy, but I could probably wallpaper a whole room with all of the rejections I've received in my career. But, today, I celebrate the acceptance of my new book proposal. 🎉 It's all part of the process ...
#AcademicChatter
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As Ukrainians arrive in 🇨🇦 on temporary visas, I've received several messages re: informal home stays. While these are well-intentioned & possibly necessary in the absence of a gov-assisted settlement plan, I have 3 concerns. 🧵
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As I look over the 30 finalized submissions for our forthcoming book, Forced migration in/to Canada: From colonization to refugee resettlement, I'm revising the acknowledgements - arguably the most important task for me as editor. Can't wait for this book to be out in the world!
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As of today, I will only publish
#openAccess
for the reasons outlined in
@petersuber
wonderful OA book (below)
As tenured prof with multiple grants, I acknowledge my privilege & responsibility to make publicly funded research public
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On a related point, I won’t attend, promote or speak on all-white panels. Panels on migration need to include people w/ lived experience & international panels must include global south. White academics from global north get disproportionate airtime. We are part of the problem.
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New
#openaccess
article on research ethics in forced migration just published in special issue of Journal of Migration & Human Security, guest edited by Holly E Reed & Ellen Percy Kraly. A summary of progress to date & recommendations for next steps:
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Excited to collaborate with 38 talented colleagues across Canada on this bilingual,
#OpenAccess
project on forced
#migration
in & to 🇨🇦
@ClarkKazak
, Associate Professor of Public and International Affairs
@uOttawaFSS
, received a grant for her collaborative project on studying forced migration in Canada.
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Anniversary weekend plans disrupted by
#OttawaStorm
, but, after 20+ years of partnership, 14 years of marriage & 2 beautiful children, grateful to weather life’s ups & downs with my husband Sam. Cheers to many more adventures!
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Epic thrift store find! We spent the morning playing & talking city policies with our kids. Long story short:
@cmckenney
for mayor!
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Hey
#AcademicTwitter
: academia is not a zero-sum game. Celebrating and citing colleagues' work does not diminish your own research. Scholarship is enriched through engagement with others.
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Our book
#DocumentingDisplacement
is now available to order from
@McGillQueensUP
(Discount code: MQSP)
🧵 on 14 innovative chapters ⬇️
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Disappointing decision by uOttawa to "encourage", but *not* require masks. "We ask that everyone respect individual decisions." In public health context, individuals' choices affect others, esp. immunocompromised students, staff & faculty & their families/households.
#Ableism
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Happy birthday, Anahita Rose! Our kind-hearted Valentine's baby is now taller (& sometimes wiser) than me! May the year ahead be filled with lots of great books (with plot holes to analyze), friendship & new adventures. 🎂 🎈
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Recently declined an endowed Chair for family & health reasons. Came back from 1 week off for surgery + recovery to rejection email for large grant app w/ 10 partners across Canada. Both very disappointing for different reasons. But, also opportunities to refocus priorities.
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“You, YOU, published a book?” spluttered incredulously a mediocre male neighbour who frequent mansplains immigration to me.
“No. Five.”
“Five what?”
“Five books. Well, 10 including the ones in progress.”
😲 …
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On
#RareDiseaseDay2023
we are grateful for newborn screening & exceptional care
@sickkids
&
@CHEO
.
And, we are especially grateful for our Rustom, who fills our lives with kindness, creativity & endless new ideas. Couldn't imagine our world without him. 🫶
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And we have a (draft) cover! So excited that this will soon be out in the world. Grateful for co-editors
@ShaynaPlaut
Neil Bilotta
@GauvinLara
& Maritza Felices-Luna and 11 inspiring contributors. This project brought me so much joy & hope & reflection & (un)learning.
Final revised manuscript of
#OpenAccess
"Unravelling ethics in human rights work: Ongoing conversations" submitted to
@UBCPress
w/ co-editors
@ShaynaPlaut
Neil Bilotta
@GauvinLara
& Maritza Felices-Luna. Working on this book restored my faith in humanity. Our acknowledgements ⬇️
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Revised short-ish answer: I have chosen to invest my time in building academic community, even when I don’t get credit for it. I have value beyond my official title & status. I don’t need to justify myself to you or anyone else. (Saving this for next time!)
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Happy birthday to our Anahita Rose, born unexpectedly at home minutes after the midwife arrived & still living life in her own way & at her own pace. Fiercely loyal friend & sister, aspiring creative writer, math & tech whiz, animal-loving vegetarian, beloved (grand)child & niece
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PSA: Wonky formatting when copying & pasting from PDF into Word? Paste into a Google doc first, then copy & paste from there.
(In addition to home schooling, my kids are providing tech & moral support. Should I make them co-authors?)
#AcademicChatter
#momademia
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Nothing like a major health scare to reset my priorities ... and remind myself that trying to make everyone happy makes me unhappy because it's impossible.
#boundaries
#selfcare
#AcademicChatter
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Hey
#AcademicTwitter
!
Recently, a colleague asked me why I am not yet full professor.
Short answer: I don’t have enough publications.
Long answer: 🧵⬇️
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Very helpful when journals send decisions w/ comments of articles I’ve reviewed. I learn from the comments of other reviewers & reflect on tone & content of my peer review to improve for next time. All journals should do this!
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Why are some academics consistently "too busy" to peer review, do service work, mentor, participate in student-led initiatives, etc? It's not about time, but priorities. Academic incentive structures value individual stars over collective knowledge-making.
#AcademicChatter
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I got shortlisted for something.
My (non-academic) husband's take: that's great, but are you sure this is good for you, or just a way for the university to get you to do more work?
Nothing like a dose of caring realism to damper enthusiasm for a new project.
#AcademicChatter
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Finally opened my course evaluations & read the comments to update my teaching dossier. Was prepared for the worst given COVID challenges. Instead, so many kind comments! I love teaching, but thought I hadn't been doing a great job recently. Relieved students think otherwise! 🥹
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Grateful to
@CHEO
pharmacy for expediting a bottle of life-sustaining medication for our son. After 10+ yrs managing 4 different prescriptions w/ different doses & different renewal timings, I forgot to renew 1 in time. Thankful for the pharmacist's understanding & support. 🙏
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@kelly_zvobgo
True story:
Audience member: what are you doing your PhD on?
Me: I’m a faculty member; my research is on age discrimination
Him: Oh, so you’ll enjoy the keynote
Me: I am the keynote
Him: But you’re so young …
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Youngest just stated matter-of-factly to the optometrist: "There's no such thing as girl or boy glasses. I can choose any of these."
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📢 TT job alert: Sociology - Assistant Professor (International Migration), University of Toronto, 🇨🇦. Details ⬇️
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Shopping while brown, my husband was escorted out of a store by a uniformed police officer. A white shopper, after yelling a racial slur at my spouse, had reported him for “blaring hate messages” on our car radio. The song? “Jalebi baby” on local station. Everyday racism in 🇨🇦
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Important piece in New Humanitarian about the lack of durable solutions for refugees, resulting in protracted displacement: ‘It’s like living in a waiting room to nowhere’
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Applied to something and got to see the rec letters from colleagues & former student. Wow! 😭 Those letters mean more to me than any potential external recognition. So much care & thought went into them. Grateful. 🫶
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Over 100 leading researchers & advocates from across Canada have signed an open letter to Canadian federal party leaders calling on greater Afghan refugee protection and resettlement to Canada.
You can add your name here:
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Look what arrived today?! So excited to read this
@RawanArar
&
@FitzGeraldUCSD
🎉📖
[alt text: Book entitled “The Refugee System” by Rawan Arar and David Scott FitzGerald]
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Playing "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" on the piano & transported back to the processional at our interfaith, outdoor wedding at the YMCA camp where we first met. Many years & adventures later, still no regrets about choosing joy over family expectations.
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Grades submitted for my 3 spring/summer courses! ✅ 100s of students now know a bit more about human rights & migration. Several students' final projects were outstanding. Now I also know a bit more about human rights & migration. The joys of teaching & learning!
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International academics: please stand in solidarity with our UK-based colleagues by not crossing the digital picket line. I cancelled a talk this week
@uniofleicester
. 68 universities are involved in
#UCUstrike
; check the list here:
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Very excited to be back on Twitter now that I’ve sent my book manuscript Research Across Borders to UofT Press. Dedicated to my mother-in-law, Mehroo (1947-2020), who lived across borders.
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Congratulations to our brilliant colleagues
@anneslevesque
&
@thechaiyun
for topping the
@ConversationCA
impact charts for
@uOttawa
in January! 🎉👏
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Sharing in the joys of (former) students' successes is the best part of this job. Just got an email with the subject line "I got in!" and it made my whole day. 🎉
#AcademicChatter
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3. Trafficking in Canada, especially Ontario, is a domestic reality. Most victims are Indigenous women, girls & LGBTQ2S+ and recently arrived immigrants. There are already reports of trafficking of Ukrainian women & children in Europe. 🇨🇦 needs to take steps to ⬇️ risks now.
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Hey
#AcademicTwitter
: When a (former) student publishes sole-authored work, celebrate & promote it as you would a colleague's. Presenting it as *your* student's paper on X centres yourself & reinforces hierarchies. Amplify, don't appropriate.
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Delivery from our resident chef/barista to keep me going while my students write their online exam tonight.
#momademia
☕️🥰
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Proud
#momademia
moment: my kids' first published book review - of The Doll by
@nhungtrandavies
in
@JRefugeeStudies
! With postscript by me. Many thanks to
@GcrCole
for expert editing & willingness to try this child-authored format.
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Best Monday ever! Started off with virtual coffee with
@JenniferHyndman
& ended w/ walk & phone call with
@_johrey
. A reminder that good colleagues both lift me up & challenge me to reach further. Blessed to know these brilliant minds + wonderful human beings.
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"Your Rights in Research" now available in 19 languages! Thanks to translation by
@ayarata
&
@AccessAlliance
; funding from:
@SSHRC_CRSH
&
@uOttawaFSS
; partnerships with
@ccrweb
@_carfms
@CRSYorkU
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My 2022 resolution: say "no" to major admin & service roles. So far: 3 for 3. It's liberating!
In past 10 years, I've been: dept chair, research centre director, associate dean, journal editor, president of Cdn & int'l scholarly assoc. I need boundary-setting & self care. Send🤞!
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Why is 🇨🇦 celebrating international students working full time on top of f/t studies? I don’t oppose lifting cap on working hours, but students wouldn’t have to work so much if intl tuition wasn’t so high + if they had ⬆️ access to higher paying RA & TA jobs.
As international students working at
@UPS_Canada
shared with me, the lifted cap on work hours from 20 to 40/wk has had a positive impact on their ability to support themselves financially while studying in Canada.
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📢Hi
#Migration
researchers! I'm looking for a recent example of unintended negative results of research. Preferably outside Canada & beyond "forced migration" (ex. labour migration, international students, etc). Ideally in a published/public source so I can cite. Thanks!
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Reading "The Refugee System" by
@RawanArar
&
@FitzGeraldUCSD
. Far-reaching & multiscalar, their systems approach is transformational. Should be required reading in all
#Migration
courses. 1st chapter available
#OpenAccess
:
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Happy Navroz to all who celebrate. May the new year be filled with good thoughts, good words & good deeds!
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NEW versions of "Your Rights in Research" - Farsi & Dari (updated)
All 9 languages + supporting docs here:
French:
English:
Thanks to
@ccrweb
,
@RechercheFSS
,
@SSHRC_CRSH
,
@ayarata
,
@AccessAlliance
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Large-scale forced
#Migration
in & from
#Ukraine
is a humanitarian emergency. However, calling it a "refugee crisis" is problematic & counterproductive because:
1. Refugees are people. Framing them as a "crisis" is dehumanizing & suggests refugees are the problem.
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Day 100: Grateful for my kids who challenged me to
#100DaysofGratitude
& made me think differently about gratitude, attitude & communication. 3 things I learned:
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I stand with
#Ukraine
& call on
@SeanFraserMP
@melaniejoly
& 🇨🇦 gov. to:
✅ keep borders open & uphold right to asylum
✅ extend all temporary visas & permits of 🇺🇦 citizens in 🇨🇦
✅ expedite family reunification applications
✅ work w/ 🇺🇦-🇨🇦 orgs
✅⬆️ refugee resettlement
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This brilliant book on radical care in teaching & research by victoria restler gives me hope.
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I used to think the best revenge when people underestimate me is to prove them wrong.
Now, I think it’s to not care. Caring takes a lot of time, energy & emotional labour.
I’m investing my care in people & processes that build community & reciprocal relationships.
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Final revised manuscript of
#OpenAccess
"Unravelling ethics in human rights work: Ongoing conversations" submitted to
@UBCPress
w/ co-editors
@ShaynaPlaut
Neil Bilotta
@GauvinLara
& Maritza Felices-Luna. Working on this book restored my faith in humanity. Our acknowledgements ⬇️
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Grad student asks me for a reference letter b/c their supervisor "says they don't know me well enough". Colleagues: don't do this. If you supervise a student, you should know them well enough. If you can't write a strong reference letter, tell them why.
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#ResearchAcrossBorders
is now available to pre-order from
@utpress
. This textbook introduces students to interdisciplinary, cross-cultural methodology & includes ancillary resources (lecture notes, question bank & activities) for instructors.
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Just reviewed course evaluations from my 3 spring/summer courses. Thanks to all the students for taking the time to provide feedback & suggestions for improvement.
This one in particular made my day. 🥹
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As universities rush to return to "business as usual" for 2022-2023, I feel like we've missed a collective opportunity to pause & reflect on 2+ years of online & hybrid learning & how this could inform our pedagogy - even in the classroom.
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Weekend reading: a carefully crafted ethnography following the journeys & social networks of Central Americans in Mexico by Alejandra Diaz de Leon
@ElColegioMexico
(2023
@AZpress
). Important insights into solidarity & mutual aid in transit migration.
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What this deal certainly will *not* do is "end irregular ... migration". No deal or border ever has. Rather, reducing ways for pple to claim asylum will *increase* smuggling, trafficking & irregular status b/c it disincentivizes pple from presenting to border/imm officials.
Canada expected to accept 15,000 more legal migrants in U.S. deal to end irregular cross-border migration
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I've been working in the area of child rights for over 20 years, including with child soldiers & children in immigration detention. This is one of the most blatant abuses of adult power I have seen - parents using their own children as human shields.
Ottawa Police have said about a quarter of the protesters have brought children with them.
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📢 Excellent new multilingual resource on co-producing research w/ refugees & others with lived experience of displacement.
It is a great pleasure to share with
@APNORefugees
new Guidelines for Co-produced Research with Refugees and Other People with Lived Experience of Displacement
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First
#sabbatical
project: Re-organizing home office. Found these gems from home schooling circa 2020. What a time we & our kids are living through!
@Momademia
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Despite 🖥️ errors, submitted (2x!) proposal w/ 5 unis & 5 NGOs from BC to NS! Excited to build on momentum of interdisciplinary, bilingual, pan-🇨🇦 partnership to widen, deepen & institutionalize access to research & higher education for pple w/ lived experiences of displacement.
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Another day, another rejection.
As much as this is "normal" in academia, why do we normalize a system where even "successful" academics are set up to fail repeatedly because there is not enough $ to fund all the "excellent applications"?🤷♀️
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Navroz Mubarak from our family to yours. May this new year be filled with good thoughts, good words & good deeds.
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Great brainstorming session with
@JenniferHyndman
yesterday. Her advice: propose a project that gives you joy with collaborators who care.
Wise words from one of the most respected & cited scholars in
#ForcedMigration
.
Grateful for her mentorship of me & so many others.
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Day 31: I am grateful to
@RefugeJournal
for 40 years of bilingual,
#openaccess
, peer-reviewed publication! Shout out to the current editorial team:
@DSoennecken
@TheriaultP
Christopher Anderson, Kathryn Barber &
@Raluca_Bejan
#100DaysofGratitude
#AcademicTwitter
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📢 JOB! Canada Research Chair, Tier 1 in Climate-Related Migration and Displacement - Political Science, University of Victoria, 🇨🇦
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🎉 proofs arrived for my next book!
😱 references all mixed up in typesetting process!
Some books are especially difficult labours of love, but hopefully that makes it all the more worth it when they finally arrive in the world! 📚
The academic rollercoaster continues ...
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A huge loss for the forced migration & refugee studies community - in Canada and globally. Howard Adelman established
@CRSYorkU
, edited
@RefugeJournal
& mentored countless students & colleagues. May his memory be a blessing.
RIP. Howard ADELMAN, CM - Obituary (2023)
A Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at York University, Adelman was one of the founders of Rochdale College, founder and director of York's Centre for Refugee Studies, and a former editor of the journal, _Refugee_
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Many thanks to everyone who joined us in person & online for the launch of Messy Ethics in Human Rights Work (
@UBCPress
). Huge gratitude to
@mcnallyrobinson
for hosting & taking care of every detail (big & small) &
@CHRRmanitoba
for co-organizing.
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On
#WorldRefugeeDay
I call on the 🇨🇦 gov to:
✅ suspend the Safe Third Country Agreement
✅ end immigration detention
✅ hire more
@CitImmCanada
officers to clear backlog
✅ apply emergency processing to *all* fleeing war zones & mass HR abuses
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Back at work after a few days off unplugging & recharging with a few of my favourite people.
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📢 TT job: Assistant Professor, Decolonial Feminism, Anti-Racism and International Development, uOttawa. Cross-appointment. Wide range of disciplines, or rare opportunity for interdisciplinary scholar:
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In celebration of our first book event for Messy Ethics in Human Rights Work - available in print &
#OpenAccess
e-book (link below), a brief 🧵 summarizing the key take-aways:
Join us for the launch of Messy Ethics in Human Rights Work (
@UBCPress
) on October 26, 7-8 pm at
@mcnallyrobinson
– Grant Park, featuring co-editors Neil Bilotta, Christina Clark-Kazak, Maritza Felices-Luna, Shayna Plaut, and Lara Rosenoff Gauvin.
#umanitoba
#HumanRights
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