It's time to table the online harms bill. Emily Laidlaw and I: thestar.com/opinion/contri… And an open letter signed by the whole Expert Panel on Online Safety + a wide range of experts & civil society leaders: onlineharms.co

Just published a new #BookReview! Parisa Azari reviewed McGill-Queen's University Press 's "Strangers to Neighbours: Refugee Sponsorship in Context" by @ShaunaLabman and Geoff Cameron . Read the #OpenAccess review here: refuge.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/refu…

Thanks to the Niskanen Center for covering my paper with Thomas Soehl on how Canada's BVOR program has a unique impact on employment outcomes for resettled refugees. Read more here: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

This is a brilliant film, now recognized with an Oscar nomination. I wrote about it for the National Film Board of Canada here: blog.nfb.ca/blog/2023/11/0…

I’ve known Kaveh Shahrooz کاوه شهروز since we were colleagues in government. We’ve collaborated on campaigns defending human rights in Iran, and he has a long track record as a passionate and principled defender of rights and democracy. I’s unfair and disingenuous to claim otherwise.

Excited to see this in print! Kiran and Craig Damian Smith were stellar editors of this excellent volume👏👏 @ShaunaLabman and I are in here with a comparative chapter on executive discretion in refugee resettlement in the US and Canada.

What a terrific group of contributors brought together by our exemplar editor Christina Clark-Kazak! Looking forward to seeing this in print and assigning it to students.

My article for the Journal of Refugee Studies, "Private sponsorship prefigured: Religious groups and Canada’s Cold War refugee policy," is now available with Open Access. You can find it here: doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fe…

If you study the politics of asylum and would be interested in contributing a chapter to a critical handbook on this topic, please reach out to me with some information about your area of focus. I want to cast a broad net and amplify junior ppl, scholars of color, Global South

(1/3) Dr. Labman has contributed chapters to two new books on migration and both books are #OpenAccess – meaning anyone can download the full book in PDF form freely! Links for both books are available here: bit.ly/3AArjfd

(2/3) Migration Governance in North America: Policy, Politics, and Community, ed. by Kiran Banerjee & Craig Damian Smith (MQUP 2024), includes a chapter by Geoffrey Cameron & Shauna Labman titled "The Dynamics and Divergences of Executive Discretion in Refugee Resettlement."

📚 New #CRS Book Launch! Dec 5 from 11:30AM-1PM (EST), join Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) to celebrate the release of 📕Forced Migration In/To 🇨🇦 - edited by Christina Clark-Kazak & FT the work of researchers, practitioners, & knowledge keepers. Register using the 🔗 - bit.ly/48HEKak

This is alarming news. Mr Seioshanseian was previously blacklisted and expelled by Qatar, although his family had resided there for generations. There is no evidence that his treatment is anything other than religious discrimination.

Diaspora communities’ role in refugee sponsorship Check out the recently published article, “The Invisibilised Labour of Diasporas as Co-sponsors in Refugee Sponsorship: Lessons From Canada.” academic.oup.com/rsq/advance-ar… #OpenAccess #CommunitySponsorship

If you are in or around University of Guelph on March 6th, come join me, Edward Koning, and Saba Safdar to talk about populism and immigration policy. We'll be in John T. Powell 2266 from 11:30-1:00pm. Thanks to GuelphPOLS for hosting.

Good article in the Times today. An earlier piece by Adrian Humphreys for the National Post goes into a lot more historical detail on the Treaty: nationalpost.com/news/canada/tr…

#OpenAccess from CJPS_RCSP - Immigration Bureaucrats and the Development of the Canada-United States Safe Third Country Agreement - cup.org/4lIsHPC - Kiran & Geoff Cameron #FirstView