Afternoon plenary
Racism, Austerity, and Precarity: Canada's Role in the Migrant Crisis
WHEN
November 18, 2017 at 4:00pm - 5:15pm
WHERE
Engineering Teaching & Learning Complex (ETLC), University of Alberta
with Harsha Walia
Migrants and racialized communities face systemic barriers to labour rights, permanent residency, and dignity in Canada. With escalating white supremacy as a stark reality alongside the national myth of multiculturalism, how we do we challenge structural racism as an integral part of fighting neoliberalism?
Harsha Walia is the award-winning author of Undoing Border Imperialism, and involved in anti-racist, feminist, low-income communities of resistance.