Sally Weaver Award Guest Lecture, November 22: Uncertain Waiting, Uncertain Methodologies: Anthropology of Asylum and Borders

[Jennifer Doucet]

Join us for this year's Sally Weaver Award Guest Lecture<https://uwaterloo.ca/anthropology/events/2021-sally-weaver-award-guest-lecture>!

Guest speaker, Elif Sari, Ph.D. in Anthropology (Cornell 2021) with a minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies will be presenting a lecture titled:

Uncertain Waiting, Uncertain Methodologies: Anthropology of Asylum and Borders
The prospect for Middle Eastern LGBTQ refugee resettlement has grown increasingly dim since 2015, as the United States and Canada have cut their refugee quotas and tightened their asylum policies. Today, many LGBTQ applicants, stuck in transit countries in the Global South for years, are increasingly reaching out to Canadian queer NGOs and church groups to seek private sponsorship as one of the last few available resettlement paths.
Drawing on her ethnographic research and community collaborations with Iranian LGBTQ refugees in Turkey awaiting resettlement to North America, Dr. Sari’s talk will discuss the contemporary trends in queer asylum, including global border closures, lengthening waiting times for refugees, and an increasing shift from public to private-sponsored refugee resettlement. It will also ask: How do anthropological engagements with refugees under circumstances of uncertain waiting, forced immobility, and human rights violations raise ethical, political, and methodological questions for the discipline of anthropology? How do questions of accountability, transparency, and commitment inform the methodological and ethical orientations of anthropological research on asylum and borders? And how can anthropologists create alternative methods of research and collaboration in restrictive and exploitative conditions?

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More information about Elif Sari’s work can be found on her website - elifsari.com<https://www.elifsari.com>

WHEN: Monday, November 22, 2021

Guest lecture is free to attend.

Start time is 12:30 p.m.

Interested in attending this event? RSVP here<https://www.balsillieschool.ca/event/uncertain-waiting-uncertain-methodologies-anthropology-of-asylum-and-borders/>.

This lecture is co-hosted by the Balsillie School of International Affair’s Migration, Mobilities, and Social Politics Research Cluster<https://www.balsillieschool.ca/research/clusters/migration-mobilities-and-social-politics/>
With great thanks to the generosity of our donors, this year, the prestigious Sally Weaver Award<https://uwaterloo.ca/anthropology/graduate/funding-and-awards/sally-weaver-award> will be presented to our Graduate Students, Caitlin Brast<https://uwaterloo.ca/anthropology/people-profiles/caitlin-brast> and Sarah Tomkins<https://uwaterloo.ca/anthropology/people-profiles/sarah-tomkins>.

We hope to see you there!

Seçil Daǧtaș
Associate Professor, Associate Chair, Graduate Studies
Department of Anthropology



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