About this Event
About the seminar:
International students are often understood through isolated challenges such as financial hardship, housing insecurity, or mental health concerns. This colloquium shifts the focus from individual resilience toward the governing logics that produce and sustain precarity, examining how legal, economic, and social forms of insecurity intersect in the lives of international students. Drawing on research with international students in BC, it offers a new framework for conceptualizing precarity and explores its implications for higher education policy and practice.
About the speaker:
Dr. Gloria Lin is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Public Policy and a Research Associate at the Cassidy Centre for Educational Justice at Simon Fraser University. Her research examines how immigration, education, and labour policies produce multidimensional precarity for international students in Canada. She is currently part of the Understanding Precarity in BC (UP-BC) research initiative investigating insecurity and inequality across British Columbia.
This event made possible with co-sponsorship from:
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: Dept. of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies; David See-Chai Lam Centre; Global Asia Program; the Faculty of Education's Research Hub; Centre for Research on International Education; Office of International Education; and the Faculty of Graduate Studies.
Event venue & nearby stays
Halpern Centre, Room 114, Halpern Centre, Burnaby, Canada
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