The Criminology Voices Series and the Critical Criminology Working Group presents:
Border (In)Security: Deportation is Not Entertainment
A Panel Discussion, featuring Michael Vonn, BC Civil Liberties Association; Jose Figueroa, facing a deportation order, We Are Jose campaign; and Mike Larsen, Kwantlen University, Criminology dept.
Monday, April 8, 2013
5-7pm
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
12666 72nd Avenue, Surrey, British Columbia in the Conference Centre (in Cedar Building)
Featuring:
* Micheal Vonn, BC Civil Liberties Association, on the implications of turning CBSA raids into entertainment commodities
* Jose Figueroa, “We are Jose”, on his three-year struggle to resist being mis-characterized as a terrorist and the “We are Jose” campaign against deportation http://wearejose.com
* Mike Larsen, Kwantlen Criminology, on the Canadian security certificate regime and spectacles of securitized migration and exclusion
All welcome!!
This panel discussion will be held in the Conference Centre, (in Cedar Building). This is a wheelchair accessible venue (with accessible washroom facilities.) Please post if you need a lift to the campus or if you would like on-site childcare/support (or write us at the Crit Crim Working group)