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2015-2016

Fall 2015

Date, Time, Location	Event Details
September 17 4:00-5:00 p.m. SSC 5220	Program Orientation & Information Session Dr. Stephanie Bangarth Director of Collaborative Graduate Program in Migration and Ethnic Relations
October 1 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. SSC 5220	Dr. Audra Bowlus Professor and Department Chair of Economics, Western University. "Immigrant job search assimilation in Canada”
October 15 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. SSC 5220	Dr. Michelle Buckley Assistant Professor of Human Geography, University of Toronto Scarborough Campus "The Home as a Siphon of Value: Residential Construction and Precarious Migrant Labour in the Greater Toronto Area"
October 22 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. SSC 5220	Dr. Lisa Kaida Assistant Professor of Sociology, McMaster University. “Ethnic Variations in Immigrants Exit from Poverty and Female Employment”
November 5 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. SSC 5220	Mr. Laurent Martel Chief, Analysis and Projections, Demography Division, Statscan
November 19 4:00-6:00 p.m UCC 315, Council Chambers	Journeys of Migration 2015 International Week Event Speakers: Bassam Lazar (Iraq), Bianca Lopes (Brazil), Phuong Pham (Vietnam), and the Ameen family who have recently arrived in Canada as Syrian government assisted refugees. Presented in partnership with the London and Middlesex Local Immigration Partnership, London Cross Cultural Learner Centre, and South London Neighbourhood Resource Centre
December 3 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. SSC 5220	LIFE AFTER MER Featuring: Dr. Kelly Barnes (Psychology/MER 2015), Dr. Marylynn Steckley, (Geography/MER 2015), & Dr. Natalia Lapshina (Psychology/MER 2015)

Winter 2016

Date, Time, Location	Event Details
January 7 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. SSC 5220	Dr. Danielle Gaucher Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Winnipeg "How Social-Psychological Theory Can Inform Immigration Research: Insights from System Justification Theory and the Stereotype Content Model"
January 21 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. SSC 5220	Dr. Edward Koning Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Guelph "Immigration and the Politics of Welfare Exclusion"
February 4 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. SSC 5220	Mery Nleya Multicultural HIV Prevention Coordinator, London Regional HIV/AIDS Coalition
February 25 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. SSC 5220	Dr. Marta Dyczok Associate Professor of Political Science and History, Western University “War and Displacement in Ukraine”
March 24 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. SSC 5220	Dr. Michele Manocchi Visiting Scholar, Centre for Research on Migration and Ethnic Relations "Asylum seekers and refugees: labelling processes, practices of resistance, and perpetuation of the status quo"
April 7 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. SSC 5220	Graduate Student Conference "Mobile Roots: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Migration”