Connor’s doctoral work is focused on the rise of far-right extremism within Canada. Canada’s reputation for multicultural values, this nation is not immune to far-right extremist movements. Canada is currently experiencing a rapid increase in the social and political presence and activism of far-right extremists. Connor’s work will examine the key factors that foster the far-right radicalization of groups, individuals, and their movements.
Bringing migration governance literature into conversation with carceral studies, this article offers a conceptual framework to account for the interconnectedness between migration governance in the global North and the racial logics of carcerality. It argues that criminalization, incarceration, detention, and deportation, converging as a carceral industrial complex, should be viewed in historically specific contexts as modes of racist exclusion that fulfill racial projects.
This webinar was hosted by YouthREX.
Young people with incarcerated family are often invisible or ignored, but the very real impacts of the criminal justice system on their lives – and the stigma they experience – affect their wellbeing, their sense of self and belonging, and their future aspirations.
Canadian immigration detention is used to control migration and to facilitate the removal, deportation and exclusion of unwanted and illegalized migrants. While the Canadian government has advanced efforts to create alternatives to immigration detention, it is also building new detention centers, maintaining the use of provincial prisons, and continuing to sanction migrants to indefinite detention.
What types of education programs are available to prisoners in Canada? What are some of the critiques of these programs? What can we learn from the education policies and programs available to prisoners in the United States?
Despite extensive critique calling for greater acknowledgement of intersectionality, the LGBTQ community in North America continues to foster a White, upper- and middle-class, gender-normative culture. Media discourse has perpetuated these narratives by downplaying the racism inherent in events centring homophobic violence against racialized LBGTQ people.
Join the Center for Feminist Research in celebrating the launch of Memorializing Violence: Transnational Feminist Reflections, edited by CFR associates Professor Alison Crosby and Heather Evans.
Memorializing Violence brings together feminist and queer reflections on the transnational lives of memorialization practices, asking what it means to grapple with loss, mourning, grief, and desires to collectively remember and commemorate–as well as urges to forget–in the face of disparate yet entangled experiences of racialized and gendered colonial, imperial, militarized, and state violence.
