During the week of October 21-25, members of the Collaborative for Racial Justice convened in a cabin located in the Greater Nappanee region for the first CRJ writing retreat and workshop. During this retreat, junior scholars from three programs across York University convened to work on projects related to the topics of race, law, and culture. Writing projects included dissertation chapters and articles for publication.

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.