Media

 
 
Borders are first imagined and then built. What we think borders can do is shaped by the stories we tell. What is your border story? This webinar begins with a virtual screening of Erin Goheen Glanville's Borderstory, a Worn Words short documentary and dialogue-opener about what the word ‘border’ means. Following the film, cross-sector experts engage questions as part of a panel discussion on the word ‘border’ and give concrete suggestions for policy and law. Participants ask honest questions and participate in dialogue based on personal experience and collective curiosity. As global and country citizens, attendees and panellists imagine incremental ways our idea of ‘border” can increasingly become more human-centred and benefit the safety needs of people seeking refuge while honouring the practical need for boundaries.
 
Speakers: - Erin Goheen Glanville - SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Communication and a Research Associate at the Centre for Policy Studies on Culture and Communities at Simon Fraser University (SFU) - Keynote Speaker: Handel Kashope Wright - Professor and Director of Centre for Culture, Identity and Education, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Francesca Fionda and Alia Dharssi - Journalists Moderators: - Nadia Carvalho, Vancouver Immigration Partnership (VIP) - City of Vancouver - Munifa Ahmed BCREFUGEEHUB.CA @BCREFUGEEHUB REFUGEEHUB@ISSBC.ORG

Refugees and Borders: Remapping the World We Think We Know

2020 community-university webinar screening Borderstory followed by cross-sector experts in a panel discussion on the word ‘border.’ Borders are first imagined and then built. What we think borders can do is shaped by the stories we tell. What is your border story?

 

“Growing Capacity for Refugee Welcome: Culture, Stories, and Discourse”

2019 plenary talk for provincial BC Refugee Hub consultation, co-hosted with Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House, Vancouver Immigration Partnership, and UBC Migration.

 
 
Podcast
 

Emerging Scholars and Practitioners on Migration Issues Network Podcast

This Aug 2020 podcast episode is focused on "Methodological Challenges in Forced Migration Research Studies” and includes discussion with three emerging scholars. Listen at 15:40 to hear my comments on the methodology of Worn Words.

 
How do media represent refugees and migration? How can we tell different stories that acknowledge complexities of the issue? Hear what Erin Goheen Glanville, the Postdoctoral Researcher at SFU School of Communication, has to say about this topic.
 

Migration and Communication

“Storytelling for Refugee Dialogue,” interview for Making Knowledge Public series with Simon Fraser University’s School of Communication.

Erin Goheen Glanville, Postdoctoral Researcher at SFU School of Communication shares the two sides of the refugee story and what this legal label really means? How can we look past a legal label and yet be able to tell a true story.
 

Migration and Communication

“The Refugee Label,” interview for Making Knowledge Public series with Simon Fraser University’s School of Communication.

We are at the height of what media and politicians are calling a "global refugee crisis". Over 65 million people are currently forcibly displaced. The language of crisis often produces a certain type of pragmatic and urgent humanitarian narrative, but creative storytelling is occurring as well.
 

Forced Migration Narratives and Storytelling

Interview about teaching forced migration narratives: storytelling in popular culture and guest speakers.

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