In this video, Yuriko Cowper-Smith and Jocelyn Kane introduce the ways stateless people experience protection gaps in Canada. Part of the video series produced by the Collaboratory on Forced Migration in Canada, led by uOttawa Professor Christina Clark-Kazak, it shines light on a topic that is not widely understood in Canada. For example, the number of stateless people in Canada is unknown and Canada is not party to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. Cowper-Smith and Kane propose four recommendations to respond.
Christina Clark-Kazak works as a Full Professor at University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. She served as the President for the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration and worked as the Editor-In-Chief for Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees. In the past she has worked for Saint Paul University, York University, the Canadian Government as well as the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers. She held the position of president for the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies. She worked as Director of York University’s Centre for Refugee Studies and Associate Principal at the University’s bilingual Glendon Campus. She focuses her research on age discrimination in migration and development policy, political participation of young people, and inter-disciplinary methodologies. Professor Clark-Kazak holds a doctorate from Oxford, a master’s from Cambridge, and a BA from the University of British Columbia.
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Statelessness in Canada
In this video, Yuriko Cowper-Smith and Jocelyn Kane introduce the ways stateless people experience protection gaps in Canada. Part of the video series produced by the Collaboratory on Forced Migration in Canada, led by uOttawa Professor Christina Clark-Kazak, it shines light on a topic that is not widely understood in Canada. For example, the number of stateless people in Canada is unknown and Canada is not party to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. Cowper-Smith and Kane propose four recommendations to respond.
By Christina Clark-Kazak
Christina Clark-Kazak works as a Full Professor at University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. She served as the President for the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration and worked as the Editor-In-Chief for Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees. In the past she has worked for Saint Paul University, York University, the Canadian Government as well as the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers. She held the position of president for the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies. She worked as Director of York University’s Centre for Refugee Studies and Associate Principal at the University’s bilingual Glendon Campus. She focuses her research on age discrimination in migration and development policy, political participation of young people, and inter-disciplinary methodologies. Professor Clark-Kazak holds a doctorate from Oxford, a master’s from Cambridge, and a BA from the University of British Columbia.Also Read