Panel discussion will be followed by a Q&A session.

Panelists:

Anna Triandafyllidou - Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, Ryerson University

Anna Triandafyllidou holds the Canada Excellence Research Chair on Migration and Integration at Ryerson University. She is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies. She is currently editing a volume on Migration and Pandemics: Spaces of Solidarity and Spaces of Exception, that will appear in the IMISCOE book series with Springer Open in 2021. She is also editing a blogging space in collaboration with Open Democracy: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/pandemic-border/

For more information on her work please visit: www.ryerson.ca/cerc-migration

John Shields - Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University

John Shields is a Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University where he has been teaching and researching for more than 30 years. He has published extensively in the areas of immigration, settlement, the labour market, non-profit studies, and public policy. Much of his research has been community-centre collaborative research. His most recent books are Immigrant Experiences in North America (with Harald Bauder, 2015) and Precarious Employment: Causes, Consequences and Remedies (edited with Stephanie Procyk and Wayne Lewchuk, 2017).