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The Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture (SSPC) is hosting a webinar on the mental health of refugees and im/migrants, specifically the impact of separation on families and children by Cécile Rousseau and Suzan J. Song.
Registration for this webinar is free for students, trainees, and residents, as well as SSPC members. The webinar is free for registrations in low- and middle income countries. It is $5 for non-SSPC members. Early-bird regisration ends March 15. Webinar Details: Fri Mar 29 2019, 1:00-2:30pm PDT
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The Toronto Latin American Film Festival (LATAFF), Sony Center Canada and the Centre for Spanish Speaking Peoples present: Trans Latina Ontario (TLO) Digital Stories.
A Q & A will also take place following the 8 short films: "Unbroken" by Celeste Bilbao-Joseph (Argentina) "He Found Himself Within Her" by Adalyn Díaz (Mexico) "It's Been a Long, Long Way" by Alex Freeland (Argentina) "Arrival of Miss Latismiere" by Gigi Latismiere (Mexico) "Thank You Canada" by Maria Clara De Sena (Brazil) "Why I'm Here" by Paulina (Mexico) "Confident Woman" by Tanya (Ecuador) "Ubuntu, I Am Because We Are" by Xica DaDiva (Honduras) The event is free and will take place on Friday, October 19, 2018 from 7:00-10:00 PM at the George Ignatieff Theatre in Toronto. University of Toronto's Hart House and The Centre for Community Partnerships are hosting a screening of the documentary Migrant Dreams, which highlights the exploitation of migrant workers in Canada who arrived through the Government of Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program. A discussion will take place after the screening with Dr. Rupaleem Bhuyan, Associate professor and Lead Investigator of The Migrant Mothers Project, and Sara Asalya, Palestinian immigrant and one of RBC’s top 25 immigrants of Canada.
The event is free and will take place on Oct. 10, 2018, 6-8:30 pm in the East Common Room of Hart House. The film ‘I Am Rohingya: A Genocide in Four Acts’ will be playing at the University of Toronto on October 9th, 2018 at 6:30PM.
The film documents the "journey of fourteen refugee youth who take to the stage to re-enact their families’ experiences in Burman and beyond; before, during, and immediately after the escalation of military violence in their native homeland, Rakhine state; their unforgiving escape by foot and by boat to makeshift camps in Bangladesh; and their eventual resettlement in the strikingly un-familiar Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario." A Q&A period with the director and the cast will take place following the screening. At a time when the number of migrants and displaced persons around the world is dramatically rising and the debate in Canada is becoming increasingly ideological and polarized, the Global Migration and Health Initiative organizes a conversation on refugees today - their identity, reality, and the challenges they face, health and health-related but not only - as seen by three presenters who contribute quite different if complementary perspectives. The three presenters will be:
1. Jean-Nicolas Beuze UNHCR Representative in Canada 2. Cynthia Guignard Former Volunteer, EuroRelief, Moria Refugee Camp, Lesvos, Greece 3. Andrea A. Cortinois Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health Co-Director, Global Migration and Health Initiative The event will take place on October 4, 2018 from 5-7 pm at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health in Toronto. Registration is now open. The event is co-sponsored by the Juxtaposition Global Health Magazine, Health Studies Students' Union (HSSU), and the Office of Global Public Health Education & Training at DLSPH. The #donttakethekids movement has requested that children’s toys be piled in front of the US Consulate in Toronto on June 8, 2018 at 2 pm.
"The US administration has found a powerful new way to stop people from crossing its borders: taking away their children. In recent months, over 700 little kids – including more than 100 babies and toddlers – have been taken from their detained parents and sent to facilities across the country." The toys will represent a donation to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which is fighting the new policy in court. The event details can be found here. The Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers (OHCOW) and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, in collaboration with the Global Migration and Health Initiative (GloMHI), are hosting the Work, Migration and Health Forum 2018.
The Forum examines the labour experiences of temporary foreign workers, new immigrants, refugees, working international students and undocumented migrants, and explores opportunities for effective interventions, including: developing responsive policies and regulations; providing accessible health care, social services, and community support; delivering workplace health and safety prevention initiatives; and fostering the engagement and empowerment of workers. The event will take place at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (UofT) on May 8 & 9, 2018 with a Pre-Event Public Lecture on the evening of May 7, 2018. Confirmed keynote speakers include Dr. Santino Severoni of the World Health Organization (WHO), Sara Mojtehedzadeh of the Toronto Star, Nadira Begum from Access Alliance and Basak Yanar of the Institute for Work and Health (IWH). Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will be screening the film, Human Flow, on April 23 at Mayfair Theatre in Ottawa. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion on refugee and migration issues with experts and aid workers from Doctors Without Borders, who will share their stories of responding to the needs of refugees, migrants and internally displaced people in various places around the world.
Speakers will include MSF's Dr. Joanne Perry and Carol Devine who works on forced migration and climate change. The 2018 David Dodge CIFAR Lecture will be happening on May 2, 2018 in Toronto. CIFAR Senior Fellow Irene Bloemraad will explore the complexities of framing and how we divide “us” from “them.” Dr. Bloemraad highlights that understanding and implementing the possibilities of inclusive nationalism is an urgent challenge today as some leaders are linking nationalism to policies that will close borders and lead to a further divide.
"While nationalism is growing around the world, record numbers of people are migrating beyond their country of birth. Increasingly, these migrants face hostility and discrimination by native-born citizens who see them as outsiders." The Challenging Migrant Detention Conference is happening on June 19 -21, 2018 in Montreal, Canada.
The conference will draw on experiences of detention and resistance in multiple countries, and discuss strategies to challenge migrant detention, including research, litigation and community mobilization. Speakers include: François Crépeau, McGill University, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants; Jacqueline Bhabha, Harvard University; Mary Bosworth, University of Oxford; Jean-Nicolas Beuze, UNHCR; Guglielmo Schinina, IOM; representatives of the International Detention Coalition, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights First, End Immigration Detention Network, and many others Topics include: · Detention of children · Migrant voices: former detainees speak out · Mental health impact of immigration detention · Migrants’ experiences at the US/Mexico border · Resistance to deportation and detention in Israel, Italy and Greece · Fortress Europe: From the Balkans route to Mediterranean hotspots · Detention of migrants in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Australia · Racialization and Othering in the detention process · Innovative judicial remedies, from habeas corpus to Charter damages · Strategies for minimizing immigration detention in Canada Register at: http://www.sherpa-recherche.com/en/partage-des-savoirs/colloques-2/ |
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