Revisiting Refugee Resettlement in Canada

Fri. Mar. 25, 2022

In the Migration Conversations podcast episode titled "Refugee Resettlement and Law's Border," Professor Shauna Labman talks about what the resettlement program is, the complementary features and types of the program, as well as critiques or concerns in relation to the program. This conversation is hosted by Professor Jamie Chai Yun Liew, Director/Chair, Institute of Feminist & Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa. They also talk about the current refugee situation globally in Afghanistan and Ukraine in particular. Listen to the podcast episode here.

Dr. Labman also offers her comments on Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement on PBS Newshour (March 22, 2022) as we increasingly see the crisis of displaced populations in Canada and globally. 

Dr. Shauna Labman is a legal scholar who writes and speaks extensively on refugee law, resettlement and private refugee sponsorship within a broader context of human rights and public international law. She focuses on the layered influences of law on public policy and government positioning.

She is an award-winning author of two books: Crossing Law's Border: Canada's Refugee Resettlement Program and Strangers to Neighbours: Refugee Sponsorship in Context. Crossing Law’s Border: Canada’s Refugee Resettlement Program (UBC Press 2019) examines the intersection of international rights, responsibility and obligation in the absence of a legal scheme for refugee resettlement. She is co-editor of the book Strangers to Neighbours: Refugee Sponsorship in Context (MQUP 2020). Both books were consecutively named in The Hill Times’ list of 100 Best Books in 2019 and 2020.