Join us as we talk to researchers, students, practitioners, and policy and social change makers to explore diverse topics related to human security. CRSP Talk features discussions about threats to human security as well as insights into how it is enhanced and sustained. Along the way, we will periodically pause to discuss the research process itself and how researchers journey from generating ideas to sharing findings.
Stuck, Silent, and Disposable: how precarious migrants in rural Ontario fight for Legal Aid
This episode of CRSP Talk features Dr. Nuha Dwaikat-Shaer, a social worker and researcher, discussing her qualitative study on the challenges migrants with precarious immigration status face when seeking legal aid. The discussion focuses on the lives of essential migrant workers and international students in rural Southern Ontario who are often invisible in legal and social systems, facing barriers like geographic isolation, language issues, and fear of retaliation. Dr. Dwaikat-Shaer shares stories illustrating how their precarious status and closed work permits can force them to choose between enduring abuse and risking deportation. The conversation concludes by exploring systemic solutions for practitioners, researchers, and policymakers, emphasizing dignity-centered services and the need for policy change toward open work permits and easier access to status.
5 Mar 2026
Misaligned Frameworks (Part II): Migrant Exploitation and Anti-trafficking Efforts
In Part 2 of this two-part series on human trafficking, the focus shifts from sex work to migrant labour, and what is left out when trafficking frameworks dominate policy responses. Joined again by co-hosts Dr. Katrin Roots (Wilfrid Laurier University), Dr. Jessica Templeman (Memorial University), and Dr. Ann De Shalit (University of Windsor), this episode centres the work and expertise of migrant justice organizer and scholar Dr. Evelyn Encalada-Grez. Drawing on decades of organizing with migrant farm workers, Evelyn exposes how Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) and immigration enforcement actively produce the very conditions (precarity, coercion, abuse, and violence) that anti-trafficking discourse claims to address.
5 Mar 2026
Misaligned Frameworks (Part I): Migrant Exploitation and Anti-trafficking Efforts
This is the first in a special two-part series on human trafficking that takes a critical deep dive into trafficking discourse, state power, and their impact on migrant and sex workers. Avery Moore Kloss is joined by co-hosts Dr. Katrin Roots (Wilfrid Laurier University), Dr. Jessica Templeman (Memorial University), and Dr. Ann De Shalit (University of Windsor) to discuss human trafficking across policy, policing, and public narratives. Featuring interviews with legal scholar Vincent Wong and organizer/writer Chanelle Gallant, Part 1 traces how vague and flexible trafficking frameworks can expand carceral state power, amplify racialized and colonial logics of protection, and produce real-world harms through policing, surveillance, raids, detention, and deportation.
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