Schedule of sessions at “Who Belongs? Rights, Benefits, Obligations and Immigration Status“
Also see: Speaker Bios | Papers & Abstracts
Location: University of Toronto, Faculty of Law – Flavelle House (78 Queen’s Park Crescent West)
Dates: September 23-25, 2010
Conference Rapporteurs: Fay Faraday, Caroline Lindberg and Vinay Sarin
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010
Welcome Reception
6 – 8 pm
- Welcome: Alan Broadbent, Maytree Foundation
- Literary readings: Vincent Lam, Kim Echlin, Melchior Mbonimpa
Friday, September 24, 2010
Welcome
8:30 am
- Mayo Moran – University of Toronto Law School
- Cheryl Milne – David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights
- Nathalie Des Rosiers – Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Session 1: Canadian Immigration by the Numbers – A Statistical Perspective
9 – 9:30 am
- Daniel Hiebert, Superdiversity in Canada: A Statistical Picture of Canadian Immigration
Session 2: Race, Ethnic Origin and Immigration Status
9:30 – 10:45 am
- Avvy Go, Family Class Sponsorship and Racialized Communities
- Grace-Edward Galabuzi, Racialized Canadians as permanent immigrants on the outside looking in: The imperative of changing the toxic immigrant narrative
- Geraldine Sadoway, Barriers to Attaining Citizenship
- Moderator: Jehad Aliweiwi
Morning Break: 10:45 – 11:00 am
Session 3: Citizenship and Statelessness
11am – 12:15 pm
- William Conklin, The Concealed International Law Discourse concerning Stateless Peoples
- Don Galloway, Conflicting Conceptions of Citizenship and its Entitlements
- Audrey Macklin, The Heft of Citizenship
- Moderator: Sharryn Aiken
Lunch: 12h15 – 13h45 – Lunchtime Speaker: TBC
Session 4: The Charter of Rights and Human Rights Acts
1:45 – 3:15 pm
- Sean Rehaag, The substantive content of “every citizen of Canada” in the Charter: Are citizens whoever Parliament says they are?
- Shaheen Azmi, Human Rights Protections for New Canadians
- Sharryn Aiken, From Slavery to Expulsion: Racism, Canadian Immigration Law and the Unfulfilled Promise of Modern Constitutionalism
- François Larsen & Marie Carpentier, Human Rights and Temporary Workers
- Moderator: Cheryl Milne
Afternoon Break: 3:15 – 3:30 pm
Session 5: Workshops
Workshop A: Immigration Status, Integration and Democratic Participation
3:30 – 4:45pm
- Myer Siemiatycki, The Municipal Franchise and Social Inclusion
- Phil Triadafilopoulos, Voting Rights for Permanent Residents
- Cara Zwibel, Democratic Participation and the Right to Vote: A Constitutional Argument
- Moderator: Sujit Choudhry
Workshop B: “No Status”, Precarious Status and Canada’s International Obligations
3:30 – 4:45pm
- Joseph Carens, How Can You Belong If You Don’t Have Permission to Be There? Irregular Migrants, Amnesty and Firewalls
- Emily Carasco, Unaccompanied Children – Canada’s Obligations
- Luin Goldring, Precarious Status
- Sukanya Pillay, The non-refoulement principle and Canada’s obligations
- Moderator: Naveen Mehta
The First Annual Alan Borovoy Debate: The right to vote in municipal elections
7 – 10 pm – Hart House, Debates Room
*Please note the location change. This event will be held at the Hart House, Debates Room and not the Flavelle House*
- Raj Anand, Welcome
- Sarah Thomson, Introductory Remarks
- York Debating Society: The right of non-citizens to vote in municipal elections
- Julia Lassonde and Lilia Leon: Artistic Performance
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Session 6: The Enforcement of Immigration Categories
8:45 – 10 am
- Doris Marie Provine, Legal Status vs. Moral Status: Re-imagining Immigration Enforcement
- Andrea Kim, The Treatment of Children in Immigration Detention Centres
- Juliet Stumpf, Crimmigration and Discrimination
- João Velloso, Punishment along, beyond and in addition to the Criminal Law: Immigration Control and the challenges to the rule of law
- Moderator: Audrey Macklin
Morning Break: 10 – 10:15 am
Session 7: Immigration Status and Employment
10:15 – 11:45 am
- France Houle, Mobility of Professionals and Tradespersons : Global Governance Beyond Human Rights?
- Paula Kinoshita, Temporary Foreign Workers
- Sarah Marsden, Proposed Changes to the Temporary Migration Scheme
- Jill Hanley, Domestic Workers
- Moderator: Patricia Hughes
Lunch: 11:45 am – 12:45 pm
Session 8: Rights, Benefits and Immigrant Integration
12:45 – 2 pm
- Matthew Mendelsohn, Immigrants’ Access to Employment Insurance
- Keith Banting and Edward Koning, Immigrants in the Canadian Welfare State
- Leslie Seidle, Intergovernmental Immigration Agreements and Settlement Services: Who’s in, Who’s out
- Debbie Douglas, Successful Integration: Closing the gap between perception and reality
- Moderator: Rupaleem Bhuyan
Session 9: Immigration Status and Access to Health Care
2 – 3 pm
- Dr. Bob Frankford, Barriers and Inconsistencies in Health Care for Immigrants
- Angus Grant, Challenges to the Interim Federal Health Program
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