Conference Sessions

Non-cisheteronormative migrants to Canada face complex, intersectional vulnerabilities as they pursue place-making and belonging, while gender and sexual alterities intersecting with race, ethnicity, class, and sociopolitical status can increase marginalization, economic insecurity, and sociocultural exclusion. Papers in this session focus on the experiences of sexual orientation, gender identity, expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) refugees and other im/migrants as they navigate processes of refuge and settlement. This includes accessing social welfare services, navigating socioeconomic and political precarity, and sociological analysis of border and social policy regimes. Papers also foreground queer/trans/non-binary relationalities, kinships, community re/creation, and belonging.

Non-cisheteronormative migrants to Canada face complex, intersectional vulnerabilities as they pursue place-making and belonging, while gender and sexual alterities intersecting with race, ethnicity, class, and sociopolitical status can increase marginalization, economic insecurity, and sociocultural exclusion. Papers in this session focus on the experiences of sexual orientation, gender identity, expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) refugees and other im/migrants as they navigate processes of refuge and settlement. This includes accessing social welfare services, navigating socioeconomic and political precarity, and sociological analysis of border and social policy regimes. Papers also foreground queer/trans/non-binary relationalities, kinships, community re/creation, and belonging.

From Bergman and Montgomery’s Joyful Militancy: “The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships” (p. 49, 2017). As political systems of white-supremacy, capitalism, settler-colonialism, and heteropatriarchy fuel ecological, political, and genocidal crises, we must critique our relational systems and their roles in our lives. This session presents work on SOGI refugees’ navigation of the UK refugee claimant process; Crip and Mad content notes on collective voicing; and the tension of settler kinships with the more-than-human, to explore new/old relationalities and their generative possibilities.

Why is it that professional male combative sports remain a bastion for rape culture and violence against women? What are the conditions that allow for a culture of toxic masculinity to persist despite awakenings elsewhere in society? What is the path forward, and how do we make league officials, coaches, and athletes accountable? The main objective of this session to provide new progressive sociological answers to these questions.

Even though economic inequality is one of the most visible and easily identifiable aspects of social differentiation, discussions of social class have very been limited in Canada. Why don't Canadians talk about social class? These researchers address the question directly and present evidence related to class differences based in paid work relations, social and cultural capital, and other areas. They also address class consciousness, including aspects of class identity and higher levels of oppositional and revolutionary consciousness. Connections between class and sustainable social movements focused on other forms of social inequities will also be addressed.