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Book Launch – "From Sovereignty to Solidarity: Rethinking Human Migration" by Harald Bauder
- Date
- April 21, 2022
- Time
- 5:30 PM EDT - 7:00 PM EDT
On April 21, 2022, the Immigration and Settlement Studies (ISS) Graduate Program and the Centre for Immigration and Settlement (TMCIS) at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) hosted a book launch of From Sovereignty to Solidarity: Rethinking Human Migration by Dr. Harald Bauder (opens in new window) (Cross-appointed Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies and Immigration and Settlement Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University; Senior Fellow, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany). The event was moderated by Sharyne Williams (external link, opens in new window) of the Immigration and Settlement Studies Alumni Association (ISSAA) and sponsored by the Soli*City research project, Urban Sanctuary, Migrant Solidarity and Hospitality in Global Perspective (opens in new window) .
From Sovereignty to Solidarity: Rethinking Human Migration seeks to re-imagine human mobility in ways that are de-linked from national sovereignty. Using examples from around the world, Dr. Bauder examines contemporary practices of solidarity to illustrate what such a conceptualization of human mobility looks like. He suggests that urban and local scales, rather than the national scale, is a better way to frame human migration and belonging. The book ultimately proposes that solidarity, rather than sovereignty, offers an alternative approach to imagine how human mobility should, and already does, occur (from Routledge (external link) ).
Check out the video of the author, Dr. Harald Bauder, discussing the book, and read the transcript of comments by Dr. Radhika Mongia (external link, opens in new window) (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, York University) and Dr. Sedef Arat-Koç (opens in new window) (Associate Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Toronto Metropolitan University).
TMCIS occupies space in the traditional and unceded territory of nations including the Anishnaabeg, the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples, and territory which is also now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. This territory is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit, as well as the Williams Treaties signed with multiple Mississaugas.