Unsettling Migration Conversations: Forced Migration, Gender, Intersectionality and Indigeneity in the Canadian Prairies
11:00am -12:00pm
Friday, March 3rd, 2023
Social Science Centre 5220
A lecture by Pallavi Banerjee
The talk will explore how immigration and refugee policies in Canada reproduce gendered and racialized regimes within families and in the public sphere for newcomers. The talk uses sociological storytelling to unpack how Canada’s refugee resettlement policies recreate regimes of gendered and racialized labour within the homes and service providing organizations. Using the case of Yazidi refugees in Calgary, the talk also includes a discussion of the ways in which land-based programming based in Indigenous knowledges allows refugee women to engage with land to process the trauma of forced migration and the regimes of oppression in the host country especially during the pandemic.
Biography:
Pallavi Banerjee is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary since 2015. Before this she was a postdoctoral fellow at the sociology department at Vanderbilt University. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Illinois, Chicago in December of 2012. Her research interests are situated at the intersections of sociology of immigration, refugee studies, gender, unpaid and paid labour, intersectionality, transnationalism, minority families and the Global South. Her book entitled, The Opportunity Trap: High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families and the Failures of Dependent-Visa Policy was published by NYU Press in 2022, explores how the immigration and visa regimes of United States affect men tech-worker and women nurses’ families of Indian immigrant professional workers in the U.S. Her other award-winning research has been published in many peer-reviewed journals including the American Behavioral Scientist, Gender Work and Organizations, Sociological Forum, Women, Gender, and Families of Color among other journals. She has also written opinion-pieces in venues such as The Globe and Mail, The Conversations and Ms Magazine and her research has been cited widely in the media in the U.S., Canada and India. She is currently co-editing two Special Issues for the journals Gender and Society and the Canadian Ethnic Studies and has been on the editorial boards of Gender and Society and Journal of Family and Economic Issues for the last four years. Dr. Banerjee directs the Critical Gender, Intersectionality and Migration Research Group at the University of Calgary, and her research is supported by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC).
The Sociology Colloquium Series, brought to you by the Department of Sociology and the Social Science Student Donation Fund, is open to the public, students and scholars of any discipline.
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