Book Launch: We asked for refugees, we got people instead
January 11, 2027
2:00pm - 3:30pm (ET/Toronto)
This is a virtual event
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Guest speaker: Bronwyn Bragg, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Lethbridge and CRS affiliated scholar
Prof. Bragg's new book "We asked for refugees, we got people instead: Refugee placemaking in Canada" will be published in November 2026 with McGill Queen's University Press' Forced Migration and Refugee Issues series. She wrote much of this as a postdoctoral fellow at CRS.
Bio
Bronwyn Bragg is an assistant professor in the department of geography and environment at the University of Lethbridge. Specializing in migration, feminist political economy, and precarious work, she has published articles on immigrant labour, citizenship, family reunification, and immigration policy. Her research is supported by the Social Sciences Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is the author of "We asked for refugees, we got people instead" forthcoming with McGill-Queen's University Press in November 2026.
