final program - Canadian Association of Geographers

TH2-H GEOGRAPHIES OF MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT (Thursday, 10:30 to 12:00, Arts 2C4)
With the International Migration Research Centre at WLU, and the Diversity, Migration,
Ethnicity and Race Study Group. Migration and Development II: Environmental Migration
and Development Special Session 2 of 4
CHAIR: Belinda Dodson
4. Jonathan Crush, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Queens University, “Migration,
Development, Food Security: Missing Links.”
5. Prateep Kumar Nayak, University of Manitoba, “Environmental Change and Rural-Urban
Migration: Implications for Human-Environment Connections in Marginalised Coastal
Communities of India.”
6. Robert McLeman, University of Ottawa, “Environmental Influences on International Migration
to Canada.”
TH3-H GEOGRAPHIES OF MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT (Thursday, 1:30 to 3:00, Arts 2C4)
With the International Migration Research Centre at WLU, and the Diversity, Migration,
Ethnicity and Race Study Group. Migration and Development III: Migration Governance and
Diaspora Engagement in Development Special Session 3 of 4
CHAIR: Robert McLeman
7. Tina I.L. Marten, University of British Columbia Okanagan, “A Critical discourse analysis of
skilled worker migration under the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program.”
8. James Robson, “The Impact of International Migration on Customary Governance Systems and
the Future for Community: A Case Study from Oaxaca, Southern Mexico.”
9. Abel Chikanda, Queens University, “Engaging the Zimbabwe Diaspora for Development:
Possibilities and Obstacles to Engagement.”
Th4-H GEOGRAPHIES OF MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT (Thursday, 3:30 to 5:00, Arts 2C4)
With the International Migration Research Centre at WLU, and the Diversity, Migration,
Ethnicity and Race Study Group. Migration and Development III: Extending the debate.
Special Session 4 of 4
CHAIR: Jonathan Crush
10. Wei Xu, University of Lethbridge, “A Reflection on Geographic Research: From Ideas to
Geographic Reality.”
11. Belinda Dodson, University of Western Ontario, “Applying a Gender Lens to Migration and
Development Discourse: Insights from Southern Africa.”
12. Margaret Walton-Roberts, Wilfrid Laurier University, “Questioning the Migration-development
Nexus in the Case of India.”
F1-H ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY: learning and innovation (Friday, 8:30 to 10:00, Arts 2C4)
CHAIR: Raul Pacheco-Vega
1. Carolyn Hatch, University of Toronto, “Learning From Users: How Knowledge of (Rather Than
Knowledge About) Yields Better Market Insight.”
2. Richard Shearmur, INRS, “KIBS Use and Innovation: The Return of Geographic Hierarchies?”
3. A.F. Farahani, Simon Fraser University, “Socio-cognitive Regional Learning: Introducing a New
Framework for Understanding Regional Learning.”
4. Zara Vololona, Université du Québec, “Croissance régionale de l’emploi, récurrences spatiales
et cycles économiques que disent les données?”