Upcoming event

Research and Advocacy: Sanctuary, Solidarity and the Politics of Migrant Justice

Across Canada, migrants with precarious legal status face barriers that are not accidental — they are built into an immigration system that institutionalizes uncertainty. As migrants navigate uncertain pathways to secure status and restricted access to essential services, vulnerability to workplace exploitation and limited resources, the city is where sanctuary, solidarity, and access politics are tested daily, and where the gap between the promise of access and its uneven reality is most visible.

This one-day conference brings together frontline practitioners, grassroots organizations, academics, and migrants themselves to bridge research, advocacy, and practice around what justice in the city actually requires — for whom, and on what terms.

WHAT: Research and Advocacy: Sanctuary, Solidarity and the Politics of Migrant Justice

WHEN: Saturday, September 19, 2026 (9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.)

WHERE: Room POD-250, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto*

*In-person ONLY | event is held solely in English

Panel Discussions topics include:

Producing and Negotiating Precarious Legal Status Trajectories
Solidarity: Grassroots Community Building and Justice Organizing
Living and Contesting Precarity in the City, Part 1: Health
Living and Contesting Precarity in the City, Part 2: Work

This event is supported by the Law Commission of Canada and SoliCity. In collaboration with the FCJ Refugee Centre and researchers from the SoliCity, PRECAR, CEP, and FCJ-CEP projects.