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The Annual Dr. Kerry Preibisch Global Social Justice and Migration Lecture Series is organized by the International Migration Research Centre, with a first edition in 2016. Dr. Kerry Preibisch was a prolific scholar in the area of social justice and migration, who died of cancer in January, 2016, at the height of her career. The objective of this annual memorial lecture is to add to the myriad ways that scholars and students can keep her research and vision of promoting migrants’ human rights alive into the future.
About the Speakers
Aaraón Díaz Mendiburo research health, education, employment, social representation, and intercultural relations issues of agricultural migrants in Canada, their families, and both their communities of origin and destination. As an independent documentary film maker, he has directed and produced Migrant Mother (2020), Matices “Temporary” Migration in Canada (2011) and Migrants: Those who come from within (2007). He is currently working on his fourth documentary about the activism against the cannabis stigma in North America.
Evelyn Encalada Grez is a transnational labour scholar and community-labour organizer committed to critical sociology and decolonial theories of knowledge production that centers diverse ways of knowing and precarious workers’ experiences within the margins of the global economy. She is the co-founder of the award winning collective, Justice for Migrant Workers, J4MW that has advocated for the rights of migrant farmworkers in Canada for two decades. Her research bridges grass-roots activism with academic scholarship and through this approach Dr. Encalada Grez has extensively documented the lives of Mexican migrant farmworker women who work and forge transnational livelihoods between rural Canada and rural Mexico.
