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University webinar focused on migrant activism
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The University of Lethbridge hosted their WSSS Webinar last week focusing on migrant activism and community-based research in a global pandemic and featuring scholars whose research bridges academia advocacy and community based work in migrant justice.
Ethel Tugohan, Canadian Research Chair in Canadian Migration Police, Impacts and Activism, and assistant professor in the Department of Politics at York University, started the webinar by sharing her experience as an immigrant and how perplexed she was about how migrant perspectives are routinely dismissed, leading into how her work with community engaged work has benefited communities over academia publications.
University webinar focused on migrant activism
Poll
Yes
By Greg Bobinec on February 23, 2021.
The University of Lethbridge hosted their WSSS Webinar last week focusing on migrant activism and community-based research in a global pandemic and featuring scholars whose research bridges academia advocacy and community based work in migrant justice. Ethel Tugohan, Canadian Research Chair in Canadian Migration Police, Impacts and Activism, and assistant professor in the Department of Politics at York University, started the webinar by sharing her experience as an immigrant and how perplexed she was about how migrant perspectives are routinely dismissed, leading into how her work with community engaged work has benefited communities over academia publications.