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Examining Canadian refugee policy in a global context

October 13, 2011

TORONTO, ON – As the nation­al debate over a new and more aggres­sive refugee pol­i­cy inten­si­fies, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to will bring togeth­er a pan­el of inter­na­tion­al experts to exam­ine Cana­di­an refugee pol­i­cy in a glob­al con­text. The pan­el dis­cus­sion – co-host­ed by the Har­ney Pro­gram in Eth­nic, Immi­gra­tion and Plu­ral­ism Stud­ies at U of T and the Munk School of Glob­al Affairs – will take place on Thurs­day, Octo­ber 20, 2011 from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Vivian and David Camp­bell Con­fer­ence Facil­i­ty at the Munk School of Glob­al Affairs at U of T.

The dis­cus­sion will be mod­er­at­ed by Michael Ignati­eff of the Munk School of Glob­al Affairs and will fea­ture per­spec­tives from the fol­low­ing inter­na­tion­al experts:

- Audrey Mack­lin, Fac­ul­ty of Law, Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to

- Jeff Crisp, Head of Pol­i­cy Devel­op­ment and Eval­u­a­tion Ser­vice, Unit­ed Nations High Com­mis­sion on Refugees, Gene­va

- Zachary Lomo, LLB, Har­vard, for­mer direc­tor of the Refugee Law Project, Mak­erere Uni­ver­si­ty, Kam­pala, Ugan­da (cur­rent­ly a Ph.D. can­di­date at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cam­bridge)

Media are invit­ed to attend but are asked to con­firm their atten­dance in advance by con­tact­ing Jef­frey Reitz at jeffrey.reitz@utoronto.ca. Please RSVP no lat­er than 12 p.m. on Wednes­day, Octo­ber 19.

EVENT DETAILS:

WHAT: Exam­in­ing Cana­di­an refugee pol­i­cy in a glob­al con­text

WHEN: Thurs­day, Octo­ber 20, 2011 from 3 to 5 p.m.

WHERE: Vivian and David Camp­bell Con­fer­ence Facil­i­ty, Munk School of Glob­al Affairs, 1 Devon­shire Place, Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to

For more infor­ma­tion, please con­tact:

Loret­ta Ho
Ethnic.studies@utoronto.ca