GRAMNet Film Series Launch

Launch of the 2022/2023 GRAMNet/BEMIS Film Series.

Join us for the screening of this fascinating documentary by Professor Alison Mountz and filmmaker Lisa Molomot. We are delighted to be joined by Alison Mountz, Professor and Laurier Research Chair in Global Migration at Wilfrid Laurier University, for the screening.

The 80-minute documentary will be followed by a short discussion by Professor Mountz of the research that contributed to film’s making, as well as a Q&A with the audience.

Trailer:

Drinks and nibbles to be provided.

Alison Mountz is professor of geography and Laurier Research Chair in Global Migration at Wilfrid Laurier University. She moved to Canada from the United States and has spent much of her adult life crossing and researching the border between the two countries. Her work explores how people cross borders, access migration and asylum policies, survive detention, resist war, and create safe havens. Dr. Mountz’s books include Seeking Asylum: Human Smuggling and Bureaucracy at the Border (University of Minnesota, awarded the Meridian Book Prize); Boats, Borders, and Bases: Race, the Cold War, and the Rise of Migration Detention in the United States (University of California, co-authored with Dr. Jenna Loyd); and The death of asylum: hidden geographies of the enforcement archipelago (Minnesota, awarded the Globe Book Award). Mountz edits Politics & Space, hosts the podcast Displacements, and directs Haven, a lab designed to preserve and share migration-related data. She is a member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada, held a Canada Research Chair in Global Migration, and the William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professorship of Canadian Studies at Harvard University.