Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Public Lecture: The Politics of Migrant “Illegality” in Canada: Issues in Research and Organizing

By: Cynthia Wright (York University)

March 18, 5:30 pm
2017 Dunton Tower
Carleton University


Cynthia teaches in the School of Women’s Studies at York University. A long-time activist, she is the author of “Against Illegality: New Directions in Organizing by and with Non-Status People in Canada” (2006) and of “From ‘Managed Migration’ to a Politics of No Borders,” (2008) among other articles and reviews. With Bridget Anderson and Nandita Sharma, she is guest-editing a special issue of Refuge on the politics of no borders.

Co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies (IIS), and the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies.