CIARS in Conversation
Anti-Racism as a Framework for Reimagining Resettlement Experiences in Education for Refugees
University of Toronto
OISE Building, Room 11-164
252 Bloor St W
Toronto ON M5S 1V6
Canada
As part of our ongoing CIARS in Conversation series, we are hosting a discussion titled "Anti-Racism as a Framework for Reimagining Resettlement Experiences in Education for Refugees." This event aims to explore liberatory approaches to enhancing resettlement experiences for refugees in education through an anti-racist lens.
Date: March 21st Time: 6:00 PM Location: OISE/ U of T 252 Bloor Street West Room 11-164
We are honoured to have distinguished panelists including Dr. Alana Butler, Zuhra Abawi, and Berivan Kutlay Sarikaya, who will offer their insights and expertise on this important topic. Additionally, we are pleased to inform you that Sevgi Arslan will be moderating the discussion.
About the Speakers
Author of The Effectiveness of Educational Policy for Bias Free Hiring: Critical Insights to Enhance Diversity in the Canadian Teacher Workforce (2021), and co-editor of Equity as Praxis in Early Childhood Education and Care(2021) and Enacting Anti-Racist and Activist Pedagogies in Education: Canadian Perspectives (2023). Her work focuses on that discourses of race, equity and identity are negotiated, mediated and socialized in education. Zuhra is particularly interested in the racialized hierarchies that undergird refugee and asylum-seeking policies and processes in Canada and other countries of the Global North.
Dr. Alana Butler has been an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Queen’s University since 2017. She currently teaches in the Bachelor of Education and Graduate Studies program. Her research interests include the academic achievement of low-socio economic students, race and schooling, and equity and inclusion. Her current research projects include a study of post-secondary access for low-income youth, anti-oppressive/anti-racist pedagogy in secondary classrooms, Black school leaders, and the experiences of youth in foster care. Her scholarly work has been published in British Journal of Sociology of Education, Canadian Journal of Education, Gender and Education, and Canadian Ethnic Studies.
Dr. Berivan Kutlay Sarikaya is a Kurdish anti-abolition feminist scholar/activist and earned her doctoral degree from the Adult Education and Community Development Program at OISE of the University of Toronto. She has a multidisciplinary academic background in women and gender studies, criminology and intercultural conflict management, along with several years of university and community-engaged teaching experience. Her research interests lie at the intersection of abolitionist feminisms and incarceration; transnational feminism; decolonial feminist theory; critical disability theory, critical race theory, anti-colonial thought and pedagogy; gender-based state violence and trauma studies; social movements and activism in the Global South.
She is also IRCNFF Campaign Coordinator in the initiative to end the Gender-Based Violence Program in the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants. She has over 25 years of professional experience in the human rights field, including 15 years of work experience with diverse professional and scholarly work in the community-based and human rights-based programs for survivors of torture, internally forcibly displaced Kurdish women and refugees funded by UNHCR, EU, International Organization of Migration, and International Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims in Turkey, Europe and Canada.
