The symposium will take place at several locations around campus - see the campus map for an illustration of the locations.
Tuesday, May 15, 2018 (Day 0)
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Location:
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Schurman Market Square (foyer), Don and Marion McDougall Hall
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4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
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Registration
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6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
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Opening Plenary Session - Understanding the Context of Labour Mobility in Atlantic Canada Who is here? What work has been done before? What are our stories? Session will conclude with a Welcome Reception including hot & cold hors d'oeuvres.
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Wednesday, May 16 (Day 1)
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Location:
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School of Sustainable Design Engineering Building, SDU Engineering Class of 1954 Lecture Hall (128)
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8:00 a.m - 9:00 a.m.
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Additional Registration
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9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.
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Introduction & Welcome (Nora Spinks, Christina Murray and Barb Neis)
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A) Historical and Wider Context
9:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
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Sharon Roseman
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"Fathers and Sons: Studying Work Mobilities Over the Life Course"
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Katie Mazer
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“‘There’s something kind of hush-hush about it all’: The normalization of working away”
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Tracy Friedel, Carmen Wells, Danielle Lorenz and Alison Taylor
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“McMurray Metis: Impacts of mobility for Metis families, 1930s to 1970s”
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Michael Haan and Phyllis Rippey
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“Exploring the Gendered Dimensions of Extreme Commuting”
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Lachlan Barber and Barb Neis
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“Mobility as a family strategy on the Burin Peninsula: Findings from the construction component of On the Move”
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J. Adam Perry
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"No white picket fences: Migrant families’ transitions to permanence and non-consentual separation in Canada"
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10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
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BREAK
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B) Family
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p .m.
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Julie Gosselin and Ashley Balsom
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“Mothers’ experience with mobile work and family planning in NL”
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Pam Moores, Holly LeDrew, Trudy Read and Moira O’Regan-Hogan
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“He’s Here and He’s Gone”
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Bernadine Mullin-Splude
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"The Emotional Cycle of Deployment"
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Nicole Snow
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“Mental Health of Migrant Workers and Their Families – A Narrative Inquiry”
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Dianne Looker
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“Youth, families and mobility: Exploring Family Impacts and Evolution”
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Laura Tejada
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“Intergenerational Patterns in Long-Distance Relationships”
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12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
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LUNCH
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Family cont’d
1:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
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Steven High
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“Employment Mobility and Family Fixity in Three Gentrifying Neighbourhoods of Montreal”
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Paola Soto and Eliza MacLauchlan
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“The transnational parenting experience of Mexican and Filipino women that live in Prince Edward Island under the Temporary Foreign Worker program"
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Jill Bucklaschuk
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“Reunification after separation: How families cope with temporary migration and navigate permanent settlement in Manitoba”
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Panelists:
Melissa Ralph, Kevin Ryan, Marie Antoinette Pangan, Don Avery, and Julie Bouchard.
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Panel Discussion and Delegate Dialogue:
Family
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3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
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Break
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C) Work
3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
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Sara Dorow and Sandrine Jean
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“Work Rotations and ‘Camp Time’: Effects on Mobile Workers and Their Families”
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Natasha Hanson
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“How working within the trucking industry impacts the family life and well-being of truck drivers on PEI”
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Elise Thorburn and Kara Arnold
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“Working On the Move – Human Resource and Union Perspectives on Mobility and Labour”
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Lois A. Jackson
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“The work-related geographic mobility of harm reduction service providers: An exploration of key influences on mobility within urban and rural places”
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Delphine Nakache and Leonor Cedillo
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“Work-Family Balance among Temporary Foreign Workers”
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4:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
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Summary and closing remarks for Day 1 (Nora Spinks and Barb Neis)
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6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
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Dinner
McMillan Hall (courtyard), W.A. Murphy Student Centre
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Thursday May 17 (Day 2)
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Location:
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School of Sustainable Design Engineering Building, SDU Engineering Class of 1954 Lecture Hall (128)
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9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.
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What we heard/what we missed from day 1
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C) Work cont’d
9:15 a.m. -10:15 a.m.
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Panelists:
Brian Oulton (PEI Trucking Sector Council), Ian Fong (Person with Lived Experience), Alexia Newson (Storekeeper/Clerk in the Canadian Coast Guard) and Holly Rye (Community Integration and Spousal Employment Supervisor, Military Family Resource Center)
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Panel Discussion and Delegate Dialogue:
Life at Work
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10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
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BREAK
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D ) Communities
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Doug Lionais and Christina Murray
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“Understanding Professional Perceptions of Labor Mobility and its impact on Families and Communities”
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Michelle Porter
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“Children, Work, and Mobility: Childhood and the Decision to Work in Rural NL”
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Dana Howse
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“Work Injury and return to work in the context of work mobility: Implications for Families”
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Delphine Nakache
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“Temporary foreign workers and the right to family accompaniment: A case for family rights in Canada”
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Panelists: Rosalie Blanchard (PEI Association for Newcomers to Canada, PEIANC), Paola Soto (Cooper Institute), Bernie Mullin-Splude (Family Military Resource Centers),
Jessica Dorgan-Trail (Executive Director of Kids West Family Resource Centre), Jennifer Cheeks (Women in Resource Development Corporation, NL),
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Panel Discussion and Delegate Dialogue:
Responding the Needs of Mobile Families: A Discussion on Community Service and Supports
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12:15p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
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LUNCH
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E ) Next steps
1:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
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Natasha DeCoste ( Military Family Resource Center), other panelists TBA
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Panel Discussion and Delegate Dialogue:
Next steps Home, work and community
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Dialogue (small group discussions)
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Feedback
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3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
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Closing
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