Prof. Audrey Macklin's research on Canada's private refugee sponsorship program profiled in U of T Magazine

Thursday, October 3, 2019

A feature article in U of T Magazine profiles Prof. Audrey Macklin's research on Canada's groundbreaking private refugee sponsorship program ("The Power of Good Intentions: Canada’s program of private refugee sponsorship has been held up as a model for the world. Could it be even better?", October 2, 2019).

When she was named a 2017 Trudeau Fellow, Macklin’s research question was: How does the process of helping refugees become citizens transform the citizenship of sponsors?

Listen to Prof. Audrey Macklin interviewed on CBC radio's The Sunday Edition about immigration and asylum-seekers

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Prof. Audrey MacklinOn CBC Radio's program The Sunday Edition, host Michael Enright conducted an extensive interview with Prof. Audrey Macklin, Chair in Human Rights, regarding perceptions about the issue of immigration and asylum-seekers in Canada.

Prof. Audrey Macklin writes "'Jihadi Jack' and the folly of revoking citizenship"

Friday, August 23, 2019

Republished from The Conversation.

By Audrey Macklin

The British government has just stripped Islamic State recruit Jack Letts of his United Kingdom citizenship.

Prof. Audrey Macklin receives UTAA's Ludwik and Estelle Jus Memorial Human Rights Prize

Monday, March 18, 2019
Portrait of Audrey Macklin

The University of Toronto Alumni Association’s 2019 Awards of Excellence have been announced, and among them, Professor Audrey Macklin, LLB 1987, Chair in Human Rights Law, has received the Ludwik and Estelle Jus Memorial Human Rights Prize.

Asper Centre Immigration Detention Symposium

On Friday March 15th 2019 the Asper Centre will convene a one-day Immigration Detention Symposium focused on advancing litigation and advocacy strategies to address the challenges within Canada’s immigration detention system. This Symposium will also highlight immigration practitioners’ and civil society’s current advocacy efforts, recommendations and resources for achieving meaningful solutions to the challenges.

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Technological Experiments in the Digital Age: Artificial Intelligence, Internet Freedoms, and the State

How would you feel if an algorithm decided whether you could stay in Canada? What if it determined you are more likely to commit a crime because of the colour of your skin? Or if it trawled through your Tweets or Facebook posts to see if you are a risk to national security, without ever revealing any of the categories it used to make this decision?

Asper Centre Constitutional Roundtable with Professor Y.Y. Chen

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Professor Y.Y. Chen will present an Asper Centre Constitutional Roundtable titled “Toward a Substantive Understanding of Citizenship in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms,”  considering how “citizens” should be interpreted in the Charter context and whether “immigration status” should be considered a protected ground under s. 15 of the Charter.  

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The IHRP's Petra Molnar co-authors "Ottawa’s use of AI in immigration system has profound implications for human rights"

Friday, September 28, 2018

In a commentary in the Globe and Mail, International Human Rights Program researcher Petra Molnar (JD 2016) and Ronald Deibert, Director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, warn about the implications of the federal government's use of artificial intelligence in refugee cases ("Ottawa’s use of AI in immigration system has profound implications for human rights," September 26, 2018).

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