L’Institut de recherche sur les migrations et la société (IRMS), l’Institut d’études canadiennes de McGill et l’ÉRIQA vous invitent à un panel le jeudi 24 avril à 17h à l’Université Concordia: Talking about Immigration & Diversity in Polarized Political Times, Framing immigration and diversity in the public sphere: the evolving roles of academics, journalists, and public intellectuals. 

Le panel sera en anglais et accueillera Toula Drimonis, Nicholas Keung, Mireille Paquet (membre ÉRIQA) et sera animé par Jennifer Elrick.

Description:

Immigration and diversity have become weaponized as populist and right-wing talking points. How can we talk about these topics productively with the public and in the media?

In this fireside conversation, we explore the challenges faced by public intellectuals, academics, and journalists who write and report about immigration and diversity. Each group seeks to make sense of how immigration and diversity shape society, to tell the story of migrants’ and minorities’ life experiences, and to examine how to ensure that people from diverse backgrounds have access to the same resources and opportunities.

How have recent political dynamics affected the ability of scholars, researchers and journalists to talk about immigration and diversity?

How have their strategies evolved in response?

We take on these questions by considering the challenge of injecting nuance into a media landscape that favors soundbites; the tension between presenting “facts” and making moral, ethical, or political arguments; the strategic choice of venues; the ways to measuring impact; and the navigation of backlash.

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