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Non-status citizenship and the paradoxes of immigration regimes in a sanctuary city

Professors and published an article on on how non-status people face a socio-legal precariousness that contradicts the promises of an inclusive city. Marking Toronto’s tenth anniversary of its “sanctuary city” policy, their research assesses the progress and potential of social planning and municipalist agendas to support irregularised residents. This paper highlights the discomfort and transformative potential of non-status citizenship for immigration regimes in sanctuary cities and argues that recognising non-status citizenship goes beyond notions of urban citizenship to claim formal recognition and security. It also emphasizes the role of cities in expanding service delivery and calling out the failure of planning across levels of government.

Andil Gosine introduces ‘the Ecopoetics of Lorraine O’Grady’

Professor joined an eminent group of scholars and creatives – the singer ANOHNI, artist Simone Leigh, filmmaker Linda Goode Bryant and Wellesley College President Paula Johnson – to honour his mentor and friend, Lorraine O’Grady. Dr. Gosine invites graduate students to join him in investigating and responding to O’Grady’s work and world through the one-time offering of the performance studies course (ENVS 6348) “The Ecopoetics of Lorraine O’Grady.” The course “will review the important body of art and scholarship that O’Grady has produced over the last five decades, as well as the postcolonial, feminist, anti-racist, psychoanalytical and Cultural Studies theoretical frameworks upon which she draws.” 

Getting to know Africa and It's People

Professor Joseph Mensah presented a lecture on Getting to know Africa and its people: Confronting popular stereotypes in observation of Black History Month in February 2024. In this lecture, Mensah discusses prevailing negative stereotypes about Africa and challenges them by shedding light on the continent's diversity and confronting the dehumanizing effects of these stereotypes. He urges critical thinking when consuming information about the continent and emphasizes the need to confront stereotypes with awareness, skepticism, and an understanding of Africa's political and developmental complexities

Public” Space for Whom? Encampment Evictions, Spatio-Legal Exclusion, and Differentiated Urban Citizenships in Toronto

Farida Rady is a MES alumna researcher, writer, and artist. Rady's interests are centered on questions of agency in the city and extend to housing justice, migrations, memory, and counter-narratives. Rady explores these interests within the spectrum of academic and creative processes. This work portfolio explored the encampment eviction tactics pursued by the City of Toronto in the summer and fall of 2021 in the context of spatio-legal displacement and exclusion, carceral urban governance, and differentiated and propertied urban citizenship.

Feminist research examines the spatialities of money, debt, and finance in women’s everyday lives

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