Project Presentations

Advisory Group Meetings

• Challenges Newcomer Settlement [PPTX]
• EAG Meeting [PPTX]
• Project Overview [PPTX]

 

Community Meetings

• Nova Scotia Roundtable for Immigration Research (October 2023)

Presentation title: Violence Against Women Migrants and Refugees: Analyzing Causes and Effective Policy Response (Evie Tastsoglou).

• Coalition of Feminists for Social Change (October 2023)

Presentation title: Gender-Based Violence in Migration: Interdisciplinary, Feminist and Intersectional Approaches (Evie Tastsoglou and Jane Freedman).

• Metro Interagency Committee on Restorative Conversations and Family Violence (February 2023)

Presentation title: Violence Against Women Migrants and Refugees: Analyzing Causes and Effective Policy Response (Evie Tastsoglou).

Academic Conferences

• European Conference on Domestic Violence (September 2023)

Presentation title: Examining Migrant Women’s Interactions with GBV-related Services and Structures in Canada: Barriers and Vulnerabilities (Busra Yalcinoz-Ucan, Evangelia Tastsoglou, Myrna Dawson).

 

• International Sociological Association World Congress (June 2023)

Presentation title: The GBV-MIG Project: A Collaborative, Conceptual and Contextual Global Understanding of Gender-Based and Intersectional Violence (Evangelia Tastsoglou).

 

• International Sociological Association World Congress (June 2023)

Presentation title: Gender-Based Violence in Migration: Interdisciplinary, Feminist and Intersectional Approaches (Evangelia Tastsoglou).

 

• International Sociological Association World Congress (June 2023)

Presentation title: Feminist Intersectional Approaches to Understanding the Experiences of Gender-Based Violence among Newcomer Women in Canada (Evangelia Tastsoglou, Lori Wilkinson, Catherine Holtmann, and Myrna Dawson).

 

• 25th Metropolis Canada Conference (March 2023)

Presentation title: Violence against Women Migrants and Refugees: Policy Considerations and Pathways (Evie Tastsoglou).

 

• Research Network Women, Peace and Security Symposium (March 2023)

Roundtable discussion title: Reimagining Peace and Peace-Building in Relation to Gender and Security (Evie Tastsoglou).

 

• Metropolis Americas Migration Policy Summit (December 2022)

Presentation title: Policy Responses to Gender-Based Violence in the Context of Migration (Lori Wilkinson, Evie Tastsoglou, Pallabi Bhattacharyya, Mia Sisic, Myrna Dawson, Chantelle Falconer, and Cathy Holtmann).

 

• GENDER-NET Plus Workshop - Integrating Gender Analysis into Research (November 2022)

Presentation title: Policy Responses to Gender-Based Violence in the Context of Migration (Evie Tastsoglou, Pallabi Bhattacharyya, Mia Sisic, Myrna Dawson, Chantelle Falconer, Cathy Holtmann and Lori Wilkinson).

 

• 26th Biennial Canadian Ethnic Studies Association Conference (November 2022)

Presentation title: Surviving and Thriving in the Face of Gender-Based Violence: An Ecological Model of Analysis of Migrant Women's Resilience (Cathy Holtmann, Evie Tastsoglou, Myrna Dawson and Lori Wilkinson).

Poster title: Policy Responses to Gender-Based Violence in the Context of Migration: Canada (Evie Tastsoglou, Pallabi Bhattacharyya, Mia Sisic, Myrna Dawson, Chantelle Falconer, Cathy Holtmann and Lori Wilkinson).

 

• "Research Day" at the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research (October 2022)

Poster title: Violence Against Women Migrants and Refugees: Analyzing Causes and Effective Policy Responses: Canada, France, Ireland, Israel, Norway (Cathy Holtmann, Evie Tastsoglou, Pallabi Bhattacharyya, Mia Sisic, Myrna Dawson, Chantelle Falconer and Lori Wilkinson).

 

• 25th International Metropolis Conference in Berlin (September 2022)

Canada - Policy responses to gender-based violence in the context of migration

France - Policy responses to gender-based violence in the context of migration

Ireland - Policy responses to gender-based violence in the context of migration

Israel - Policy responses to gender-based violence in the context of migration

Norway - Policy responses to gender-based violence in the context of migration

 

• European Sociological Association, Research Network 33 (ESA RN 33) - Women and Gender Studies, Milan (June 2022)

Book presentation: Gender-Based Violence in Migration: Interdisciplinary, Feminist and Intersectional Approaches (Palgrave-Macmillan) by J. Freedman, N. Sahraoui, E. Tastsoglou.

 

• Canadian Sociological Association’s meetings at the Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities (May 2022)

Panel: Gender and the Continuum of Violence in Migration organized by Evangelia Tastsoglou, Pallabi Bhattacharyya, and Cathy Holtmann.

Presentation title: A Journey from “Victimization” to “Re-Victimization” Among Women Migrating to Canada – Continuity of Gender-Based Violence across Borders (Pallabi Bhattacharyya, Evangelia Tastsoglou, and Cathy Holtmann).

 

• International Workshop: Asylum Regimes, Bordering Practices and Asylum Seekers' Experiences: Gendering Violence and Precarity in Forced Migration (May 2022) 

Organized by WASEM Project and Jean Monnet European Union Centre of Excellence at Dalhousie University.

 

• Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) Migration Working Group (March 2022)

Presentation title: Vulnerabilities and Strengths: Parallel Experiences of Migrant Survivors of Gender Based Violence and Public Service Providers (Cathy Holtmann, Mia Sisic, Evangelia Tastsoglou, Lori Wilkinson, Myrna Dawson).

 

• Canadian Sociological Association, Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities (June 2021)

Presentation title: The Continuum of Violence along the Migratory Pathway: Perspectives from Key Informants (Mia Sisic, Evangelia Tastsoglou, Lori Wilkinson, Myrna Dawson, Cathy Holtmann, Chantele Falconer).