Shauna Labman -- Book Launch
Thursday Jan 16 2020 7:00 pm, Winnipeg, Grant Park in the Atrium
Launch of Crossing Law’s Border: Canada’s Refugee Resettlement Program (UBC Press), co-presented by the University of Winnipeg Global College.
In this account of Canada’s resettlement program from the Indochinese crisis of the 1970s to the ongoing Syrian crisis, Shauna Labman explores the role that law plays in resettlement and the impact of resettlement on asylum policies. Her pathbreaking work shows that resettlement can either complement or complicate asylum claims at a time when refugee crises and fear of outsiders are causing countries to close their borders to asylum-seekers.
Crossing Law's Borders was recently featured on The Hill Times’ List of 100 Best Non-Fiction Canadian Books in 2019.
Shauna Labmanis a lawyer and associate professor of human rights in the Global College, University of Winnipeg. She started her legal career with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in New Delhi, India which led her to research the interplay between resettlement and asylum. She sits on the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization of Manitoba’s Board of Directors and, in 2016, she was recognized as one of CBC Manitoba’s Future 40 for her advocacy work with refugees.
See:
Crossing Law's Border
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The UN Refugee Agency considers resettlement - the selection and transfer of refugees from the state where they seek asylum to another state that volunteers to take them - a tool of refugee protection and an expression of international burden sharing.
In this account of Canada's resettlement program from the Indochinese crisis of the 1970s to the Syrian crisis of the 2010s, Shauna Labman explores how rights, responsibilities, and obligations intersect in the absence of a legal scheme for refugee resettlement. In particular, she examines the role of the law on the voluntary act of resettlement and the effect of resettlement on asylum policies.
This pathbreaking book looks at the interplay between resettlement and asylum in one of the world's most successful refugee protection programs and shows how resettlement can either complement or complicate in-country asylum claims at a time when refugee crises and fear of outsiders are causing countries to close their borders to asylum-seekers around the world.