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Assoc Professor, @UOttawaPoli. US & MidEast politics: social movements, ethnicity, migration, feminism, geekery.
Aug 25, 2021 19 tweets 7 min read
I had a Zoom call this morning with my colleagues at @uOttawa who are engaged in Canada’s evacuation of #Afghanistan and resettlement of Afghan #refugees. Spoilers: Canadian policy looks better on paper than it does in practice. A 🧵: 1/18 First, the commitment to resettling 20,000 #Afghan #refugees: it looks nice! But that number is NOT a commitment to evacuating 20,000 Afghan human rights defenders, feminists, and scholars who are directly threatened by the Taliban. 2/18