Meredith Terretta

Prof of History, uOttawa | Author of Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence: Current Project The #VisaBarrier:

[Meredith Terretta @MTerretta]

Use the https://t.co/BHseB4EWGr tool to help gather data about the visa application experiences of visa-required researchers. Help to create evidence-based advocacy on this issue.
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[Meredith Terretta @MTerretta]

@ProfXtian @UCalgary @UCalgaryLaw Many congratulations to you @ProfXtian 🎉

[Meredith Terretta @MTerretta]

Look what came in the mail just in time for vacation airplane reading. Thanks ⁦@Umut_Ozsu⁩

[Meredith Terretta @MTerretta]

@philjanzen Very well deserved honour.

[André Picard @picardonhealth]

Health conference moved from Calgary to Bali because of ‘severe delays’ in visa approvals. Visa issues also hampered the International AIDS Conference in Montreal in 2022, by @fatimarazaa https://t.co/5P68HMgxfr via @globeandmail @paimadhu #GlobalHealth

[Meredith Terretta @MTerretta]

After a few years of studying the @IRCC-imposed #VisaBarrier to internationalizing research in Canada, we have come to the same conclusion: if visa-required researchers are collaborating, knowledge mobilization activities must take place elsewhere.

[Meredith Terretta @MTerretta]

Sounds big.

[American Historical Review @AmHistReview]

The American Historical Review’s March 2024 issue is now available. This issue features articles and forums that rethink approaches to intellectual, migration, imperial, Indigenous, and digital histories. https://t.co/0CN6PQacPG

[Meredith Terretta @MTerretta]

Absolutely amazing #VisaBarrier project analysing and depicting data on visa inequality in the UK. Read the thread 🧵

[Marta Foresti @martaforesti]

Blown away by the interest and rage 😡 on the work on visa inequality.

With LAGO I have a clear aim: to tell a truthful, beautiful and inspiring story about the movement of people around the 🌍

To do so I collaborate with @fedfragapane ✨

First we looked at visa inequality 👇

[Meredith Terretta @MTerretta]

Many thanks @kaychadha for your role in the group’s experiential learning about how to use digital tools to communicate results and mobilize knowledge.

[Walk With Web @WalkWithWeb]

WWW CEO @kaychadha led a workshop on Digital #KnowledgeMobilization at @uOttawaArts with our Senior Developer Maria Yala.
https://t.co/cXVU62VdEP trains doctoral students from Canada, Ghana & Cameroon to improve refuge-seeking and hosting in Africa.

Project Director @MTerretta

[Meredith Terretta @MTerretta]

#VisaBarrier is inequitable

[Marta Foresti @martaforesti]

The staggering costs of visa inequality🚨

In 2023 rejected EU visas cost the world’s poorest €100M +, 💰 flowing from poor to rich countries, like a 'reverse remittance'.

Yet we never hear about this🤨

I talked to @euobs based on latest LAGO analysis https://t.co/7bQb6iiwW9

[Meredith Terretta @MTerretta]

@WalkWithWeb digital stills instructor Kartikay Chadha teaches: Digital #KnowledgeMobilization Step 1 is to EMPATHIZE: Show that you know your users & care about their lives. He leads the #FrontiersOfBelonging #IRTG through the process. ⁦@SSHRC_CRSH⁩ ⁦@uOttawaArts⁩

[Meredith Terretta @MTerretta]

@WalkWithWeb digital stills instructor Kartikay Chadha teaches: Digital #KnowledgeMobilization Step 1 is to EMPATHIZE: Show that you know your users & care about their lives. He leads the #FrontiersOfBelonging #IRTG through the process. ⁦@SSHRC_CRSH⁩ ⁦@uOttawaArts⁩

[Meredith Terretta @MTerretta]

“We call on the United States to uphold its international obligations and urge the government to reconsider restrictions that undermine the fundamental right to seek asylum.” https://t.co/c0ETt5IfXU

[James Hathaway @JC_Hathaway]

Biden's order — refusing even to hear asylum claims when an arbitrary threshold is reached — is illegal under the UN treaties the US helped to write, and which •it• signed. Shameful. https://t.co/t1GD82g94a

[Alex Neve @AlexNeve24]

This is a deeply troubling and wrong-in-law take on the @uOttawa encampment. A few thoughts in response...

'Just cause' is not the legal test. What makes the students actions lawful (and they are) is that they are exercising fundamental freedoms of expression & peaceful assembly, protected under the Charter of Rights & under Canada's international human rights obligations. Freedoms every one of us should take to heart, and embrace & champion vigorously, whether or not we are the ones protesting.

Notably, the U of O students have taken up their right (a right we all share) to peaceful protest thoughtfully & courageously, and with remarkably little disruption to campus life. I know, I've been there several times, including an engaging afternoon teach-in discussing international law. Sometimes I've just spent a few moments, other times I've stayed for lengthier conversations. I've been their in the full heat of the sun & in pouring rain. Each time, I've had inspiring exchanges with the students involved. I've always left with respect & admiration. Left, in fact, with renewed hope in what too often feels to be a hopeless time.

I served as a Commissioner with the Ottawa People's Commission on the Convoy Occupation. With my fellow commissioners I heard & read testimony from over 200 residents of Ottawa about the fear, assaults, hate & abandonment they went through while the convoy had taken over & blocked a large swath of the downtown core. Many of the most vulnerable members of our community felt so terrorized they could not leave their homes or were unable to navigate the hostile sidewalks outside their apartments. It is an absurdity, and an absolute affront to the trauma & unrelenting rights abuses endured by thousands of people in downtown Ottawa for 3+ weeks, to draw any kind of comparison between the truckers & the students. Or to suggest that the impact of what was playing out with the big rigs & other vehicles completely blocking passage along city streets, compares even slightly to tents pitched on a relatively out of the way university greenspace the size of one small city block.

There is no comparison; at all. That is why action should have been taken, much earlier than it was, to restrict the convoy & protect human rights; but is not justified in any way with the encampment. And for that restraint & respect for the law, @recteurUOpres & the university administration deserves praise for their approach, which has of course not been on display on other campuses. (What happened in Calgary & Edmonton should offend us all.)

And enough with red herrings of asserting that campuses are private property, Charter-free zones, where only the law of trespass & the dictates of university officers govern, and the police can be summoned at will. The 'universities are private property' argument is, at best, still unsettled law with courts across the country having taken different approaches over the years. And as we've seen 2 times now, Quebec judges refused to take the step of forcing the McGill encampment to be dismantled.

Here's a refreshingly contrary take about the rule of law & the encampments. "Enforcing the law" means upholding protest rights & intervening to limit or shut down a protest ONLY when truly justified, for reasons recognized under human rights laws. It does not mean sending in the police to clear away protesters because they have inconveniently occupied space & have views that some may find uncomfortably challenging.

[Meredith Terretta @MTerretta]

@ProfXtian So many congratulations to you @ProfXtian

[Meredith Terretta @MTerretta]

Forthcoming – Ndlovu-Gatsheni’s Beyond the Coloniality of Internationalism: Reworlding the World from the Global South – CODESRIA https://t.co/lcYbdP4P7J

[Joshua Sealy-Harrington @JoshuaSealy]

My comments to the @TorontoStar on today’s vindication: “I am relieved that these brave students will face no formal sanctions & that their support for Palestinian resistance & opposition to Israeli apartheid was properly characterized as not antisemitic.” https://t.co/BiIQginFJK

[Meredith Terretta @MTerretta]

@MargotTudor HBD 🥳

[Meredith Terretta @MTerretta]

Thanks for your leadership @AlexNeve24

[Alex Neve @AlexNeve24]

A day on the Hill & at the encampment with these 2 justice warriors. Our message? Gaza/Israel/Palestine: international law, human rights & justice must & can prevail. It’s the only way forward. @ArdiImseis @MichaelLynk5

[Meredith Terretta @MTerretta]

“If we do not demonstrate our willingness to apply the law equally, if it is seen as being applied selectively, we will be creating the conditions for its collapse. In doing so, we will be loosening the remaining bonds that hold us together.”

[Int'l Criminal Court @IntlCrimCourt]

#ICC Prosecutor @KarimKhanQC announces applications for arrest warrants in relation to Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant in the context of the situation in the State of #Palestine ⤵️
https://t.co/WqDZecXFZq