The politics of immigration have heated up in recent years, becoming the focus of pointed political debates considering the Syrian and African refugee crises, the Brexit referendum and national elections in both Canada and the United States.
These hot topics inspired Dal鈥檚 Pauline Gardiner聽Barber (Sociology and Social Anthropology) and Ruben Zaiotti (Political Science and the European Union Centre of Excellence) to propose 鈥淚mmigration Politics in Review鈥� as the common interdisciplinary theme for this year鈥檚 MacKay Lecture Series.
鈥淚mmigration Politics in Review is a timely relevant series which we hope will engage people in a comparative discussion about global migration聽and its consequences for migrants generally, and for immigrants and refugees who arrive in Canada to settle in our communities,鈥� says Dr. Gardiner Barber.
The first lecture of the series will take place on Thursday, November 17 at 7 p.m. in room 127 of the Goldberg Computer Science Building. It features , associate professor of Human Geography and the Program in Journalism at the University of Toronto 鈥� Scarborough. Her presentation, "Living Race in the Post-Racial Era? Mixed Race Amnesia in Canada," will focus on how multiraciality is experienced in the global north. Dr. Mahtani鈥檚 research explores some of the assumptions and attitudes people have around multiraciality.
The remaining lectures of this series will take place in the new year (in January and February) and will feature Audrey MacKlin of the University of Toronto on "Resettling Canada's Refugees: Cosmopolitanism, Citizenship and Privatisation" and Thomas Faist of Bielefeld University, Germany, on "The Futures of Migration in Europe and Germany: A New Normalcy?" The annual MacKay History lecture topic will be announced at a later date.
For further details on this year鈥檚 MacKay Lecture series, visit its website.
MacKay Lecture Series tackles immigration
Genevieve MacIntyre - November 17, 2016
Artwork for this year's MacKay series.