CRS-hosted Refugee Law Lab Associate Director Petra Molnar is featured in a Globe and Mail article about the growing prevalence of surveillance technology at Canada’s border. Read More
(Photo: Jeff McIntosh/Canadian Press. Image source: CBC News) Clear safeguards needed around technology planned for border checkpoints | CBC News
Moria 2.0: The EU’s sandbox for surveillance technologies – EURACTIV.com The three camps of Lesvos, Old Moria, Moria 2.0 all tell a story of the multi-layered ecosystem which gives rise to the allure of quick fixes facilitated by technology. Yet the complexity of human movement is nothing but simple, writes Petra Molnar, Associate Director, Refugee […]
The Refugee Law Lab is delighted to announce that we have received funding from The Law Foundation of Ontario to build a legal analytics app for refugee lawyers and others interested in Canadian refugee law decision-making. Read More
கப்பல் (kappal – ship in Thamil) Tamils flee by seaArrive, detain, separateWaiting in limbo Congrats to Harini Sivalingam (PhD candidate, Socio-Legal Studies, York University) whose research examines how Tamil maritime forced migrants from Sri Lanka who arrived to Canada aboard the MV Ocean Lady and MV Sun Sea conceptualize and navigate their experiences prior to and during […]
York collaborates on research that highlights disparities of Toronto housing crisis
New research reveals the racial, social and geographic divides of Toronto’s housing crisis, with racialized communities, newcomers and refugees hardest hit. Read More
Petra Molnar, Associate Director of the CRS Refugee Law Lab, is quoted in this story in the Guardian about a report on new tech and migration by UN Special Rapporteur Tendayi Achiume.
A new report from the Refugee Law Laboratory and EDRi (European Digital Rights) investigates how new technologies are increasingly being used at the border and to manage migration. Technological Testing Grounds is based on over 40 conversations with refugees and people on the move and shows that much of this innovation occurs without adequate governance mechanisms and does […]
The Centre for Refugee Studies is delighted to announce that Dahabo Ibrahim is the inaugural recipient of the Anthony Richmond Scholarship. This new scholarship recognizes promising graduate student research on the intersections of forced migration and environmental changes, such as climate change, flooding, drought, forest fires, and land or sanitary degradation. The scholarship was created […]