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Join us for this year’s in-person Graduate Student Symposium on international migration and mobility, hosted by Queen’s University and the Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA). Students will be presenting research addressing this year’s theme of Borders and (Un)Bordering: Analyzing Migration and Mobility Through Contestation and Conflict.
About the Symposium:
The Queen’s-BSIA International Migration and Mobilities Graduate Symposium is designed to showcase graduate students’ work and promote their professionalization. Students will have the opportunity to discuss and receive feedback on their ongoing research from peers and a panel of invited faculty members. The symposium seeks to tease out how bordering occurs along race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, indigeneity, or religion to force some people more than others into involuntary (im)mobility. Graduate students will share their research with the BSIA and the broader community, and receive feedback from invited faculty from Queen’s, Laurier and the University of Waterloo, and faculty affiliated with Laurier’s International Migration Research Centre and the BSIA’s Migration, Mobilities and Social Politics Research Cluster.
9:00 – 9:10 am – Welcome
9:10-10:15 am – Roundtable Discussion
10:30 – 11:40 am – Panel 1: Border Controls and the Politics of Migrant Governance
11:40 am – 12:40 pm – Lunch
12:40 – 1:45 pm – Panel 2: B/Ordering, (Im)mobility and (re)shaping of identity formation
2:10 – 3:30 pm – Roundtable Discussion
