- Location
- zoom webinar (details to be shared closer to event date)
- Series/Type
- Alumni Event, Faculty/Staff Event, Future Student Events, Professional Development, Student Event, U of T Community Event
- Format
- Online
- Dates
- May 25, 2023 from 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Links
When: Thursday May 25th, 7-8:30pm
Organizer:
• Tania Ruiz-Chapman: (she/her), PhD student in Social Justice Education, OISE
Panelists:
• Kyon Ferril: (he/him), artist, activist, migrant and prisoner justice community organizer and educator. Kyon is an artist, writer and organizer. He is a former immigration detainee who has faced indefinite detention and double punishment. He is one of the founding members of the Migrant Detainee Support Coalition. He is the author of ‘#1000336145″, a collection of poems first published in 2016.
• Tania Ruiz-Chapman: (she/her), PhD student in Social Justice Education, OISE. Tania’s work examines the politics of migration, citizenship and border fortification. Her work is grounded in critical disability studies, as she centers the body and makes an analysis of the socio-political and economic conditions which disable and compromise the health of many migrants – documented, precariously documented and undocumented.
• Julia Sande (she/her), Juris Doctor (JD), Law, human rights law and policy work for Amnesty International Canada.
Moderator:
• Lou Tam (they/them), PhD, MIT Postdoctoral Associate in Women and Gender studies, Disability, Migrant and Prisoner Justice Organizer.
Event Description:
This panel engages with disability and disablement in the context of those who lack status in Canada. We will be examining the various dynamics that put undocumented communities at a high risk of acquiring disability. Our panel brings together academic analysis, lived experience and legal expertise to discuss the history and experience of indefinite detention. We will question how disability and dynamics of disablement are human rights issues, as well as what recourses undocumented detainees can access after they become disabled at the hands of the state (either through direct violence and/or neglect). This event will be empowering and educational!
ASL interpretation and CART captioning will be provided. Please submit other access requests or needs in your RSVP form, or contact cgds.utsc.@utoronto.ca with questions.
