Migration et Immigration

(SOM4c) Sociology of Migration: Transnationalism

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Wednesday Jun 19 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
Trottier Building - ENGTR 0070

This session illuminates various dimensions and themes found in the transnationalism literature. Identity formation and negotiation, using Alevi immigrants from Turkey as a case study is one theme while what ... more

(SOM4d) Sociology of Migration: Social and cultural integration of immigrants

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Thursday Jun 20 9:00 am to 10:30 am (Eastern Daylight Time)
Trottier Building - ENGTR 0070

In immigration research, integration refers to how parts of the immigrant experience come together and facilitate the incorporation of immigrants into their new society. Emphasis often is on how cultural ... more

(SOM4e) Sociology of Migration: Migration, gender, and intersectionality

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Thursday Jun 20 11:00 am to 12:30 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
Trottier Building - ENGTR 0070

It is widely acknowledged that gender and sexuality are integral in the processes of migration and in migration outcomes. Three papers presented in this session illuminate the complex ways in ... more

(SOM4f) Sociology of Migration: Open Themes I

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Thursday Jun 20 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
Trottier Building - ENGTR 0070

This session highlights diverse topics, but each introduces new issues that are likely to stimulate future research; each paper also introduces alternative sources of data. The first paper continues the ... more

(SOM6a) Queering im/migration, place-making, and belonging I

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Friday Jun 21 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
Trottier Building - ENGTR 0070

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, ... more