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DESCRIPTION:The Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law welcomes Prof
 essor Sonia Cancian for a talk on migration.\n\nLunch will be served\, so 
 kindly RSVP to oppenheimer [at] mcgill [dot] ca\n\nLife stories and the la
 w are intrinsically connected. We witness this daily both on a micro- and 
 macro-scale\, whether at a client’s meeting with her/his lawyer\, in the c
 ourtroom\, in the creation of binding precedents\, in the diffusion of soc
 ial and legal awareness\, and among countless other contexts\, in the intr
 oduction and implementation of policies and laws. As we consider the recen
 t immigration crisis culminating as I write\, what becomes especially evid
 ent is that the narratives of migrants and refugees—much like their counte
 r-narratives--shape\, and are shaped by\, social and political awareness a
 nd the creation of policy and laws. What kinds of stories of refugees and 
 migrants are we talking about here? How do they influence the individual a
 nd the broader communities\, and vice versa? In what ways do the stories g
 ive insight to the shaping of policies and laws?  And\, how do policies in
 fluence the lives of migrants and refugees today and in the past? This sem
 inar will lead a discussion on life stories of migrants and refugees and t
 heir power (or not) within the world of policy-making and the law.\n\nDr. 
 Sonia Cancian is an associate professor at Zayed University\, Dubai\, Unit
 ed Arab Emirates. She is a migration historian with a special interest in 
 letters and other personal narratives in the fields of gender studies\, hi
 story of media\, history of emotions\, memory and the 19th and 20th centur
 y history of Canada and Italy. \n
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LOCATION:NCDH 316\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 36
 44 rue Peel
SUMMARY:The Power of Life Stories: Situating the Narratives of Migrants and
  Refugees within the Context of the Law
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 tives-migrants-and-refugees-within-context-law-267179
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