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What are Universities Doing to Help Prospective Teachers Find Positions?
No full textThe average tuition of a four-year public college is $3510 per year(Adriane, 2003). In this study, letters were sent letters to the educationdepartments of fifteen state universities in a southern state by a schoollevel administrator. Each university was asked to help the localeducation agency (LEA) find prospective teachers from theuniversities’ recent and/or future graduates. This article looks at theresponse times as well as which universities invite future success oftheir graduates
Critical Legal Practices: Approaches to Law in Contemporary Anti-racist Social Justice Struggles in Sweden
No full textBased on interviews with legal practitioners working with or within anti-racist social justice movements in Sweden, we explore some dilemmas and paradoxes that appear when social movements pursue struggles for anti-racist social justice through the legal arena. How do the interviewees understand and critically relate to legal practices in contemporary anti-racist social justice struggles? What are the conditions of engagement of these organisations in the legal arena and how do they impact social justice struggles in Sweden? What are the stakes in the legal practices of these movements? Rather than a strategically chosen tool for social justice, legal practice could be understood as a kind of self-defence, as resorting to law is often a response to an unjust legal system, oppressive treatment by the state or disadvantage and deprivation. The interviewees’ reflections on their legal practices are informed by a fundamental ambivalence between the ideological commitment in the critique of law and their position from which it is impossible to ignore the legal arena. Instead of taking a clear stance for or against the law as a tool for social justice struggles, we have attempted to understand what are the methods and the effects of legal practice that grow from this ambivalence. The accounts of our interviewees indicate that both practical strategies and ways of accounting for these aim at subverting and challenging the law while at the same time using it. Throughout the analysis we have conceptualised these strategies as decentring, re-politicising and redistribution
A COVID-19 State of Exception and the Bordering of Canada’s Immigration System: Assessing the Uneven Impacts on Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrant Workers
No full textResponses to COVID-19 have been characterized by rapid border closures that have transformed the pandemic from a crisis of health to a crisis of mobility. While Canada was quick to implement border restrictions for non-citizens like refugees and asylum seekers, exemptions were made for some migrant groups like temporary workers. The pandemic marked a departure from who is considered worthy of admission to Canada. In fact, the border through restricted and securitized measures has filtered desirable versus non-desirable migrants, creating a hierarchy among migrants within Canada’s immigration system by categorizing groups into those deserving versus non-deserving of admission. Deeply embedded societal discrimination and structural inequalities means that COVID-19 has exacerbated the vulnerabilities of migrant groups more than others. COVID-19 has placed an uneven burden on refugees who face increased border restrictions, significant health and safety risks, and limitations in accessing human rights. This paper documents the challenges, social and economic impacts, and exacerbated vulnerabilities border closures have imposed on refugees, asylum seekers and temporary migrants. We assess the many challenges that COVID-19 has created at the intersection of border studies, security resilience and human rights. We employ the conceptual frame of security resilience to critically analyse the dynamics of how and why border strategies have restricted migrant groups in times of crisis and amounted to an unjustified weakening of refugee rights. Finally, we argue that social resilience, which is rooted in rights-based strategies, not only ensures that societies are prepared to meet external shocks and disruptions, but that policy responses mitigate societal discrimination and inequalities. We highlight these strategies as effective mechanisms for reconciling both public health concerns and the rights of migrants to create more cohesive societies in times of crisis
Toll of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Primary Caregiver in Yazidi Refugee Families in Canada: A Feminist Refugee Epistemological Analysis
No full textExisting discourse on refugee resettlement in the West is rife with imperialist and neoliberal allusions. Materially, this discourse assumes refugees as passive recipients of resettlement programs in the host country denying them their subjectivities. Given the amplification of all social and economic inequities during the pandemic, our paper explores how Canada\u27s response to the pandemic vis-a-vis refugees impacted the everyday of Yazidis in Calgary - a recently arrived refugee group who survived the most horrific genocidal atrocities of our times. Based on interviews with Yazidi families in Calgary and with resettlement staff we unpack Canada\u27s paternalistic response to COVID-19 toward refugees. We show how resettlement provisions and social isolation along with pre-migration histories have furthered the conditions of social, economic, and affective inequities for the Yazidis. We also show how Yazidi women who were most impacted by the genocide and the subsequent pandemic find ways of asserting their personhood and engage in healing through a land-based resettlement initiative during the pandemic. Adopting a Feminist Refugee Epistemology and a southern moral imaginary as our discursive lenses, we highlight the need to dismantle the existing paternalistic structures and re(orient) resettlement practices and praxis to a social justice framework centering the voices of refugee women and families in their resettlement process
Editorial: Validating Our Values
No full textWhen asked by William Purkey to act as editor for the Journal forInvitational Theory and Practice my first reaction was “Where is mygood friend Bill Stafford going?” I called Bill and found that the summerlures of the Jersey shore, fishing, crabbing, and the delights of being agrandfather were making increasing demands on his time. On top of that,Bill has a new house in Pennsylvania and a new crop of back road restaurantsin the quaint and quiet villages to be explored and celebrated.As Bill was willing to succumb to the bliss of the rewards from a verysuccessful career, I consented to a short stint in his shoes. Bill’s serviceas editor of the journal has been as gracious as it has been invaluable. Ican only hope to extend his conscientious and caring leadership
On Inviting Seniors to the Dance of Life
No full textA friend of mine is a sturdy guy who gives an appearance of invulnerability. His crooked nose, scarred bald head and well-muscled mesomorphic body tell others quickly that he has had a few scrapes with "real life" and though his head is slightly bloody, it\u27s unbowed. His earthy phrasing and sparkling eyes make it clear he\u27s still strong at 62 years of age.My buddy was an officer in the U.S. Marine Corp. He twice coached the state football champions and for ten years handled a major school system\u27s toughest discipline problems.
I figured my good friend would be happy when retirement arrived and while we celebrated the occasion over lunch we laughed long and hard reliving some of his encounters. At the close of the "victory party" I commented, "You must be glad to be free from all that crap." His answer surprised me. He said, "I\u27m scared as hell. I don\u27t know what I\u27m going to do. Oh, I\u27ll stay busy, but I picture myself sitting in shopping malls with some other old codgers while we watch people stroll through." I looked in his courageous eyes and saw his tears that underscored the deep fear this tough old combat veteran felt
Identification Badges: An Invitational Approach to School Safety
No full textAs violence within our schools continues to increase, educators are in need of innovative methods for school safety. The following article examines the use of identification badges as an invitational approach to creating schools without fear. Three high schools were contacted which use identification badges for students, teachers, administration, staff, and visitors. The use of these badges was reported to be an effective and inviting measure within each of the three schools
La mémoire de la traversée dans L’empreinte à Crusoé de Patrick Chamoiseau
No full textL’empreinte à Crusoé by Patrick Chamoiseau revisits European colonial expansion, specifically slave trade and, rewriting Robinson Crusoe, the deportation of Africans towards America. Chamoiseau’s elliptic style reveals the traumata caused by this experience. The novel thus succeeds in communicating its extreme without describing the ocean crossing itself.L’empreinte à Crusoé de Patrick Chamoiseau revisite la période de l’expansion coloniale européenne dans le « Nouveau monde », avec son corollaire tragique : le commerce triangulaire et l’esclavage. Cette étude interroge les modalités de prise en charge de cette mémoire traumatique et, en particulier, de l’expérience extrême de la traversée, dans la réécriture chamoisienne de Robinson Crusoé. Je montrerai que la traversée est évoquée au moyen d’un discours allusif et elliptique, qui contourne l’événement tout en insistant sur la prégnance du traumatisme. Celui-ci s’exprime à travers les troubles psychiques du personnage-narrateur, porteur d’une mémoire douloureuse et « obscure », qui se lit comme une hantise et comme un impossible à dire. Par la force suggestive du discours, L’empreinte à Crusoé remporte le pari de dire l’extrême tout en faisant l’économie du récit de l’événement. 
