CRSP Talk

Centre for Research on Security Practices (CRSP)

Join us as we talk to researchers, students, practitioners, and policy and social change makers to explore diverse topics related to human security. CRSP Talk features discussions about threats to human security as well as insights into how it is enhanced and sustained. Along the way, we will periodically pause to discuss the research process itself and how researchers journey from generating ideas to sharing findings.

  1. Stuck, Silent, and Disposable: how precarious migrants in rural Ontario fight for Legal Aid

    May 13

    Stuck, Silent, and Disposable: how precarious migrants in rural Ontario fight for Legal Aid

    Guest for this episode Nuha Dwaikat-Shaer is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Social Work at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is also a Steering Committee member at the  Centre for Research on Security Practices. She recently completed her PhD at the School of Social Work at McGill University. Her research focuses on space and housing rights and how that's affected by settler colonial practices. Her broad research agenda focuses on access to social services for racial minorities in settler colonial contexts, rooted in a commitment to human rights and social justice. Links & Resources Mentioned Research project page – https://researchcentres.wlu.ca/centre-for-research-on-security-practices/resources-and-publications/bridging-the-justice-gap-supporting-precarious-migrants-in-rural-ontario.html  Community Legal Clinic – Brant, Haldimand and Norfolk (project partner) – https://www.bhnlegalclinic.ca Hanley, J., Salamanca Cardona, M., Larios, L., Henaway, M., Dwaikat-Shaer, N., Ben Soltane, S., & Eid, P. (2018). Transportation and temp agency work: Risks and opportunities for migrant workers. Cahiers de géographie québécoise, 62(177). https://doi.org/10.7202/1068740ar Larios, L., Hanley, J., Salamanca, M., Henaway, M., Dwaikat-Shaer, N., Ben-Soltane, S., & Eid, P. (2020). Engaging migrant care workers: Examining cases of exploitation by recruitment agencies in Quebec, Canada. International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, 6(1/2), 138–157. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMBS.2020.108690 Hanley, J., Larios, L., Salamanca, M., Henaway, M., Dwaikat-Shaer, N., Ben-Soltane, S., & Eid, P. (2017). Gender dynamics of temporary placement agency work: (Im)migrants, know your place! Canadian Diversity, 14(2), 37-42. AI acknowledgment: AI tools were used to generate the background and assist with the layout of the podcast image.  This episode was produced by Avery Moore Kloss from Folktale Studio.  It was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.  More information on the Centre for Research on Security Practices at crsp.online.

    57 min
  2. Misaligned Frameworks (Part II): Migrant Exploitation and Anti-trafficking Efforts

    Mar 5

    Misaligned Frameworks (Part II): Migrant Exploitation and Anti-trafficking Efforts

    Guests for this episode Dr. Evelyn Encalada Grez is a transnational labour scholar and community-labour organizer committed to critical sociology and decolonial theories of knowledge production that centres diverse ways of knowing and precarious workers’ experiences within the margins of the global economy. She is the co-founder of the award-winning collective, Justice for Migrant WorkersJ4MW), that has advocated for the rights of migrant farmworkers in Canada for two decades. Her research bridges grassroots activism with academic scholarship. Through this approach, Dr. Encalada Grez has extensively documented the lives of Mexican migrant farmworker women who work and forge transnational livelihoods between rural Canada and rural Mexico. As a public sociologist, Dr. Encalada Grez has mobilized her research through various media sources such as documentaries, and given talks in venues such as Parliament Hill, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and at the United Nations in New York. She has also worked transnationally with export-processing workers in Mexico and Central America, and as lead travelling faculty teaching US university students in over 6 countries. For three semesters, she was also the Academic Director of an intensive social justice study abroad program in her city of birth, Valparaiso, Chile. Dr. Encalada Grez is driven by her immigrant working class experiences and committed to decolonializing and transformative pedagogies. Co-hosts Dr. Katrin Roots is an Assistant Professor in Criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University and has researched Canada’s anti-trafficking efforts for over 15 years. She is the author of Domesticating Human Trafficking: Law, Policing and Prosecution in Canada (2022) and co-editor of Trafficking Harms: Critical Politics, Perspectives and Experiences (2024).Dr. Jessica Templeman is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her research focuses on exclusionary migration law and policy in Canada, including deportation for criminality and human trafficking.Dr. Ann De Shalit is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Work at the University of Windsor and teaches at Trent and York Universities. She has conducted critical trafficking research since 2009 and has supported grassroots migrant and labour justice activism for over a decade. Links & Resources Mentioned If you missed Part 1, listen here.  Justice for Migrant Workers (J4MW)  Migrant Dreams (documentary film) Article from the Toronto Star on migrant farm worker injury and deportability (by Evelyn on Laura’s case) City of Toronto – Access to City Services for Undocumented Torontonians (AccessTO) Canadian Council for Refugees – Access without fear resources Roots, K., De Shalit, A., Templeman, J., Murray, J., Collrin, B., & van der Meulen, E. (2024). Human trafficking or migrant labour exploitation? Bridging the knowledge gap. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Wilfrid Laurier University.  Roots, K., De Shalit, A., & Van Der Meulen, E. (2024). Trafficking harms: Critical Politics, Perspectives and Experiences.   This two-part series was supported by a Knowledge Synthesis Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). CRSP Talk is a production of the Centre for Research on Security Practices (CRSP) at Wilfrid Laurier University. This episode was produced by Avery Moore Kloss from Folktale Studio.  It was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.  More information on the Centre for Research on Security Practices at crsp.online.

    49 min
  3. Misaligned Frameworks (Part I): Migrant Exploitation and Anti-trafficking Efforts

    Mar 5

    Misaligned Frameworks (Part I): Migrant Exploitation and Anti-trafficking Efforts

    Guests for this episode Vincent Wong joined the University of Windsor Faculty of Law as an Assistant Professor in 2022. He is also a PhD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, where his dissertation focuses on racial capitalism and the processes that produce and structure unfree status-excluded labour in Canada. He serves on the board of the Community Justice Collective (Tkaronto). Professor Wong  holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Juris Doctor from the University of Toronto and a Master of Laws from Columbia Law School, where he was a Human Rights Fellow and James Kent Scholar. Professor Wong’s research focuses on law and political economy – specifically at the nexus between migration, race, markets, and the law. He is particularly interested in how a Canadian context-specific critical race theory (CRT) can better inform and be informed by the practice of anti-racist and intersectional movement lawyering. Professor Wong is also interested in what critical frameworks of law and political economy have to offer in the context of understanding the emerging hub of the 21st century global economic order: China. Prior to academia, Professor Wong worked as a Staff Lawyer at the Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic and Secretary of the Chinese Canadian National Council - Toronto Chapter. He has also previously held positions at the International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto and the African American Policy Forum. Chanelle Gallant is an abolitionist feminist who has been fighting to free women’s sexuality from criminalization for over 25 years. She is a frontline organizer, writer, thinker, strategist, and the co-author of Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice. Chanelle has contributed to dozens of influential publications, including Pleasure Activism, and spoken everywhere from Princeton, Columbia, and the London School of Economics to the UN Special Rapporteur, and at thousands of organizing meetings and trainings. She is currently a visiting Activist-Scholar at the Centre for Feminist Research at York University, Toronto. Chanelle cut her teeth fighting the cops as a core organizer in the historic fight against the P***y Palace raid in 2000, and went on to found numerous sex work organizations and SURJ-Toronto. She now sits on the national board for multiple organizations in the US and Canada. Chanelle is a queer femme, a survivor, and the eldest daughter of a poor family that has been impacted by criminalization and incarceration. She works as a money coach and advisor, social movement strategy consultant, and trainer. Chanelle is a Lambda Literary Fellow and holds an M.A. in Sociology. Co-hosts Dr. Katrin Roots is an Assistant Professor in Criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University and has researched Canada’s anti-trafficking efforts for over 15 years. She is the author of Domesticating Human Trafficking: Law, Policing and Prosecution in Canada (2022) and co-editor of Trafficking Harms: Critical Politics, Perspectives and Experiences (2024).Dr. Jessica Templeman is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Memorial University of Newfoundland and a member of the Collaborative for Racial Justice. Her research focuses on exclusionary migration law and policy in Canada, including deportation for criminality and human trafficking.Dr. Ann De Shalit is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in Social Work at the University of Windsor and teaches at Trent and York Universities. She has conducted critical trafficking research since 2009 and has supported grassroots migrant and labour justice activism for over a decade. Links & Resources Mentioned Gallant, C., & Lam, E. (2024). Not your rescue project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice. Butterfly: Asian and Migrant Sex Worker Support Network Canadian immigration enforcement and deportability; reference to IRPA section 37 (“organized crime” inadmissibility) and its low evidentiary threshold in practice Recent Supreme Court of Canada case referenced as R v Kloubakov (in relation to sex work provisions and who is heard/excluded) Roots, K., De Shalit, A., Templeman, J., Murray, J., Collrin, B., & van der Meulen, E. (2024). Human trafficking or migrant labour exploitation? Bridging the knowledge gap. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Wilfrid Laurier University.  Roots, K., De Shalit, A., & Van Der Meulen, E. (2024). Trafficking harms: Critical Politics, Perspectives and Experiences.   This episode was funded by a Knowledge Synthesis Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). CRSP Talk is a production of the Centre for Research on Security Practices (CRSP) at Wilfrid Laurier University. Next Episode Part 2 continues the series with organizer and scholar Dr. Evelyn Encalada Grez, focusing on migrant workers, labour precarity, and resistance, where we discuss what changes when trafficking discourse is applied to labour sectors beyond sex work. This episode was produced by Avery Moore Kloss from Folktale Studio.  It was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.  More information on the Centre for Research on Security Practices at crsp.online.

    55 min

  4. 08/18/2025

    Police Use of Facial Recognition Technology: public perceptions and engagement in policy making

    Guests for this episode: Christopher D. O’Connor is an Associate Professor in the Criminology and Justice program at Ontario Tech University. His primary research areas include policing, youth participation in crime, rapid growth communities, and emerging/disruptive technologies. He has researched public perceptions of a range of issues including crime, disruptive technologies, and attitudes toward the police. More recently, his research has examined police data quality and collection techniques, auxiliary police, and the use of facial recognition technology by the police.   Andrea Slane is a Professor in the Legal Studies program at Ontario Tech University.  Her research focuses on privacy, data protection, and the variety of legal regimes that protect people from both individual and commercial wrongdoing online, over digital devices and via smart technologies. She uses a range of methods including doctrinal legal analysis, qualitative data collection and analysis, and cultural studies to contribute to determining more just means to regulate the flow of personal and community level information, whether between individuals; individuals and businesses; businesses and government; business to business; or to the public.   Links to Research: Andrea Slane, “Privacy Protective Roadblocks and Speedbumps Restraining Law Enforcement Use of Facial Recognition Software in Canada” (2021) 69:2 Criminal Law Quarterly 216-236. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4275241 Christopher O’Connor, Andrea Slane, Dallas Bouckley (Hill) and Victoria Baker, “Public Perceptions of Facial Recognition Use by Police in Canada” (2025) Policing and Society, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2025.2508192 Dallas Hill, Christopher O’Connor, and Andrea Slane, “Police Use of Facial Recognition Technology: The Potential for Engaging the Public through Co-Constructed Policy-Making” (2022) 24:3 International Journal of Police Science and Management, 325-335, https://doi.org/10.1177/14613557221089558. Bradford, B., et al., 2020. Live facial recognition: trust and legitimacy as predictors of public support for police use of new technology. The British journal of criminology, 60 (6), 1502–1522. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azaa032 Bragias, A., Hine, K., and Fleet, R., 2021. Only in our best interest, right?’ Public perceptions of police use of facial recognition technology. Police practice and research, 22 (6), 1637–1654. https://doi.org/10.1080/15614263.2021.1942873     This episode was funded, in part, by Venture13 Policetech Accelerator This episode was produced by Avery Moore Kloss from Folktale Studio.  It was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.  More information on the Centre for Research on Security Practices at crsp.online.

    36 min

  5. 09/09/2024

    Research in Settler Colonial Contexts: a conversation on Palestine

    Executive Producer for this episode is: Nuha Dwaikat-Shaer is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Social Work at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is also a Steering Committee member at the  Centre for Research on Security Practices. She recently completed her PhD at the School of Social Work at McGill University. Her research focuses on space and housing rights and how that's affected by settler colonial practices. Her broad research agenda focuses on access to social services for racial minorities in settler colonial contexts, rooted in a commitment to human rights and social justice. Guests for this episode include:  Ron Smith is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Much of his work is focused on Palestine, The West Bank and Gaza.  Omar Jabary Salamanca   is a Research Fellow and Co-Director Of The Observatory Of The Arab and Muslim Worlds at the University of Bristol in Belgium. His research and teaching focus on questions of Political Geography, Political Economy and Political Ecology In Settler Colonial Contexts. This episode was produced by Avery Moore Kloss from Folktale Studio.  It was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.  More information on the Centre for Research on Security Practices at crsp.online.

    1h 15m

  6. 07/19/2024

    Combating Violent Extremism: from policy to practice

    (00:07) Understanding Violent Extremism in Canada (09:57) Preventing Violent Extremism Through Research (26:28) Understanding Online Harm's Impact and Policy   A thank you to our guests for this episode: Dr. Ghayda Hassan is a clinical psychologist and professor of clinical psychology at UQAM university in Montreal and has several research, clinical and community based national and international affiliations. She is the director of the Canadian Practitioner Network for the Prevention of Radicalization and Extremist Violence funded by PS Canada and a UNESCO co-chair in Prevention of Radicalization and Extremist Violence. She currently sits as the Chair of the Independent Advisory Committee of the Global Internet Forum for Countering Terrorism. She is a member of the RCMP Management Advisory Board and was a member of the expert advisory group on online safety at the ministry of Canadian Heritage. She is a researcher and senior clinical consultant for the SHERPA subteam Research and Action on Radicalisation and Social Suffering at the CIUSSS Center in Montreal. Dr. David Yuzva Clement is an adjunct research professor and contract lecturer in the School of Social Work, Carleton University (Canada), associate fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (Netherlands), co-founder of the inter-faith peace initiative Bonn (Germany), and research advisor at the Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence (Canada). David’s research focuses on examining the nexus between social work and preventing and countering violent extremism, advancing knowledge on children, youth, and families who are affected by violent extremism and extremist ideologies, as well as the interplay between community organizing, civic education, and democracy. Dr. Bree Akesson was the executive producer for this episode.  Links to Resources: Public Safety Canada: Public Safety CanadaMoonshot: Moonshot CVECanadian Practitioners Network for the Prevention of Violent Extremism (CPN-PREV): CPN-PREVCanada’s proposed Online Harms Bill: Online Harms Bill InformationDr. Barbara Perry's Research: Barbara PerryCampbell Collaboration: Campbell Collaboration  This episode was produced by Avery Moore Kloss from Folktale Studio.  It was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.  More information on the Centre for Research on Security Practices at crsp.online.

    36 min

  7. 04/19/2024

    From Roots to Home: visualizing the journey through homelessness

    Click here to see the image called "From Roots to Home" that we discuss in this episode. More about our episode co-hosts: Erin Dej is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University. Erin is a critical criminologist who has been researching homelessness for 15 years. Erin received a PhD from the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa and an MA in Legal Studies from Carleton University. Before joining Laurier, Erin held a SSHRC funded postdoctoral fellowship with the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, York University. Jason Webb is the Senior Policy Researcher at the BC First Nations Justice Council. He's developing a pre-arrest diversion program for Indigenous peoples experiencing homelessness in Prince George, BC. Jason earned a PhD from York University and held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Wilfrid Laurier University. Jason brings a wealth of knowledge and experience on topics ranging from criminalization, homelessness, and citizenship. With his extensive background in qualitative research, Jason contributes unique insights from a critical sociological lens to the policy domain.   A thank you to our advisory group members who lead the storytelling in this episode: Barb McPhee: Lived experience expert for over 50 years providing communities, families and individuals facing challenges in their lives with supports  and direction.  Focusing on the poverty pillars of housing, food and health insecurities using care and kindness. Deborah Hill: is a mom of four. She is a survivor of substance use, domestic violence, and homelessness.  Deborah is an Indigenous who has returned to school and received a diploma and an undergraduate degree in Community Services.  She is determined to advocate for the vulnerable population experiencing mental health and substance use. Simon Lazanja: Was a former football player at high level. Built a tool and die company from nothing. Recovering alcoholic. This episode was produced by Avery Moore Kloss from Folktale Studio.  It was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.  More information on the Centre for Research on Security Practices at crsp.online.

    25 min

  8. 04/19/2024

    The ‘Hum’ of Dispossession: belongings and homelessness

    Nicholas Blomley is a Professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University, and a researcher in a cross-Canada research project on homeless people’s belongings.  Connie Long is an advocate for vulnerable communities with lived experience who organizes in Chilliwack and Abbotsford. She has experience with addiction and is passionate about what she does. Claire Shapton recently completed an MA in Geography at Simon Fraser University, and worked closely with Drug War Survivors, an peer centred organization in Abbotsford.    Chapters (00:11) Loss of Personal Belongings in Homelessness (10:17) Trauma of Losing Home and Belongings (19:29) Effects of Trauma and Loss (27:59) Dehumanization and Dispossession of Belongings (38:50) Addressing Homelessness and Belongings Advocacy (51:36) Importance of Addressing Property Loss   Resources: "Homeless people deserve a right to belongings" by Nicholas Blomley and Connie Long This episode was produced by Avery Moore Kloss from Folktale Studio.  It was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.  More information on the Centre for Research on Security Practices at crsp.online.

    53 min
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Join us as we talk to researchers, students, practitioners, and policy and social change makers to explore diverse topics related to human security. CRSP Talk features discussions about threats to human security as well as insights into how it is enhanced and sustained. Along the way, we will periodically pause to discuss the research process itself and how researchers journey from generating ideas to sharing findings.

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    2022 - 2026
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