Unwelcome: From Roxham Road to the Rise of International Asylum Coordination

This is a presentation by Shauna Labman from the University of Winnipeg. The presentation is the annual International Law and Global Justice Lecture.

Shauna Labman is Executive Director of Global College and Associate Professor of Human Rights at The University of Winnipeg. A legal scholar of refugee law and humanitarian pathways to protection, she situates her work within the broader frameworks of human rights and public international law. Her book Crossing Law’s Border: Canada’s Refugee Resettlement Program won the 2019 K.D. Srivastava Prize for Excellence in Scholarly Publishing, and she is co-editor of Strangers to Neighbours: Refugee Sponsorship in Context. She is a co-applicant on both the SSHRC Partnership Grant UnborderED Knowledge, and a SSHRC Insight Development Grant examining the impact of Canada’s welcome to displaced Ukrainians. Dr. Labman holds a PhD and LLM from the University of British Columbia and an LLB from the University of Victoria. Her doctoral work was supported by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the Liu Institute for Global Issues. She is a member of the Law Society of Manitoba and was a member of the Law Society of Ontario from 2004-2018. She has worked with the UNHCR in New Delhi and with the Canadian Embassy in Beijing.