Migrants, Borders, Citizenship

Part of 'A Potential Toronto'
Initiated by Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry (TSCI)

More info: www.tsci.ca | tscinquiry@gmail.com

Tues., 23 Oct. 2007
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Toronto Free Gallery - 660 Queen Street East (two blocks w. of Broadview)

Fleeing marginality and harm in their native countries, many Torontonians continue to live on the margins in their new one as non-status migrants. At the same time, migrant groups have created and spearheaded myriad safe spaces, deep community networks, and countless cultural initiatives throughout Toronto, transforming established norms of citizenship in the process.

What networks of affinity are emerging between self-organized migrant groups? How are politicized groups of non-status migrants redefining citizenship? How are regularization initiatives addressing human rights and migrant safety? How are legalization campaigns like 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' facilitating new security for Toronto's non-status residents?

Join us on Tues. Oct. 23 as Peter Nyers (McMaster University, Citizenship Studies Media Lab), Cynthia Wright (York University), Patricia Diaz (Colombian Forced Migration Project), and members of No One Is Illegal (Toronto) open a collective conversation about how citizenship is being rethought within the city's migrant communities.

About A Potential Toronto
A Potential Toronto is an event series and exhibition spotlighting alternative economies, minor spaces, and organizing strategies. It is a preliminary step in a longer-term counter-cartography project which would render currents of radical energy visible, audible, and tactile.

Oct 18 Seminar and Beyond...

For Oct. 18th's seminar, we're going to be doing a review of the past weeks and will still be working on materials up to and including Week 6 (Oct 11). Week 7 (Oct 18) will be pushed back to next week. Actually, the entire Lecture and Reading schedule will be pushed back a week, including the next Reading Reflection which will now be due on Nov 8, not Nov 1. The last Reading Reflection will still be due on Nov 29, however.

I will be updating the Lecture, Reading, and Assignment Schedule (http://www.vieta.ca/SOSC4041/Course_Documents/4041_2007_lecture_reading.pdf) AND the Course Outline (http://www.vieta.ca/SOSC4041/Course_Documents/Course_Outline_HTML.html) that you can access off the blog BY LATE TONIGHT (it's not yet changed). We'll go over these changes tomorrow.

So, for Oct 18th's class, we'll be doing the following:
1) Going over the updated course schedules and outline
2) 1 hour or so lecture from me summing up "Part 2: Outlining the Issues" and all readings to date
3) A brief film
4) Group exercise (make sure you're totally up-to-date on the readings) up to and including Oct. 11.