Speakers

The Summer Institute featured a strong line-up of speakers with different backgrounds and experience.  An excellent student-instructor ratio and the interactive style of teaching enabled course participants to make the most of the presenters' expertise and specialised knowledge.

Lead instructors were: 

• Ruben Zaiotti, Director, JMEUCE, JM Chair in Border Control & Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Dalhousie University
• Melanie Smith, PhD Student, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University

They were joined by several knowledgeable speakers:

• K.I.M. (Kim) Van Dam, Senior Researcher, Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen, and Associated Researcher, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
• Kiran Banerjee, Canada Research Chair in Forced Migration Governance and Refugee Protection & Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Dalhousie University
• Julie Chamagne, Director, Halifax Refugee Clinic 
• Kerian Burnett, Activist for Temporary Migrants
• Staff, Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
• Staff, Maritime Museum of the Atlantic 
• Staff, Grand Pré National Historic Site