Webinar on International Students
Will Tao and Edris Arib presented a webinar to MOSAIC on the challenges faced by international students during the pandemic.
Immigration issues in depth – CLE BC
Erica Olmstead and Molly Joeck presented at the BCCLE Immigration Issues in Depth on Friday, December 4, 2020. Jurisprudence Update: Administrative and Immigration Law – Cases from 2020 - Erica Olmstead Detention Update – Brown and conditions of detention - Molly Joeck
Deportations Resume – Happy Holidays from the CBSA
By Erin C. Roth On November 30th, the CBSA announced that they would begin enforcing removal orders and deporting individuals from Canada. After eight months without removals, the change in direction by the Department is both curious and problematic. Photo by yousef alfuhigi on Unsplash When pandemic lockdowns commenced in March 2020, CBSA stopped removals [...]
The Under-examined Role of Racialization in Canadian Immigration
By Will Tao Last week, I presented at the NCIC 2020 on the emerging topic of Critical Race Theory. I wanted to share such a slice of my presentation for further discussion. — CAPIC-ACCPI (@capicaccpi) November 20, 2020 Among the five foundational tenets [which include per Delgado and Stefancic: (1) Racism as Ordinary; (2) Interest [...]
An ‘Organized Crime’ Allegation – when the punishment does not fit the crime
By Erin C. Roth. Participation in organized criminality is a ground for which a foreign national or a permanent resident can be found to be inadmissible to Canada and either not admitted to Canada or deported from Canada. It is a very serious allegation, yet increasingly it is being used by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) to capture and punish individuals that were neither arrested nor charged of any criminal conduct in Canada. In effect, a person who the police did not even interview as a possible suspect can still face allegations of organized crime and face loss of status and deportation from Canada.
2020 National Citizenship and Immigration Conference
Erin Roth and Will Tao are each giving a presentation at the 2020 National Citizenship and Immigration Conference
CityTV: Amercians Wanting to Move to Canada
Randall Cohn appeared on CityTV's Breakfast Television show on November 9, 2020 to discuss Americans wanting to move to Canada.
Why Rain is Right: There is No Principled Reason for Why a Canadian Temporary Resident Should Be Denied the Right to Change Their Legal Gender
By Will Tao Rain Edmond, a third-year political science undergraduate student, recently wrote an op-ed for her university's Memorial University Gazette that raises an important question about a policy gap disproportionately affecting the intersection of the transgender and temporary resident communities. In her piece, Rain, an international student, highlights the challenges she has had in [...]
Detaining the Uncooperative Migrant
By Siena Anstis and Molly Joeck This blog post is a summary of an article entitled “Detaining the Uncooperative Migrant”, which was recently published in a special issue of Osgoode Hall’s Journal of Law and Social Policy on prisoners, detention, and abolition.
Immigration Detention in an age of COVID-19
Efrat Arabel, associate professor at the Allard School of Law and Molly Joeck PhD student and lawyer at Edelmann & Co. are giving an online talk about Immigration detention in an age of COVID-19. The talk is on Thursday, October 22, 2020 from 12:45 - 1:45 pm (Pacific Daylight Time). To register, click here Abstract [...]