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CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research - Zenodo, 2008

Racialized Migrant Women in Canada, 2009

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020

Other agencies have shifted toward service delivery via remote means (i.e., telephone, videoconfe... more Other agencies have shifted toward service delivery via remote means (i.e., telephone, videoconference). However, this presents challenges to survivors who do not have access to technology and lack the privacy to participate.

On 27 May 2020, UN Women launched the “shadow pandemic” public awareness campaign, drawing attent... more On 27 May 2020, UN Women launched the “shadow pandemic” public awareness campaign, drawing attention to the global spike in domestic violence linked to COVID-19. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women, describes the idea of a shadow pandemic as follows: “Even before the [COVID-19] pandemic, violence against women was one of the most widespread violations of human rights. Since lockdown restrictions, domestic violence has multiplied, spreading across the world in a shadow pandemic.”

Assets Coming Together (ACT) for Youth is a community-university research project that involves a... more Assets Coming Together (ACT) for Youth is a community-university research project that involves allies from the Jane-Finch community and scholars. It seeks to develop a positive youth development (PYD) strategy to support urban communities like JaneFinch. The project serves as an example of doing complex knowledge mobilization (KM) work with diverse partners. Scholars, community leaders, and youth acted as researchers and stakeholders for ACT for youth. How can KM go beyond sharing research findings, in order to build capacity and create social change in unique partnerships?

Professor Janet Mosher describes Osgoode newest clinical program, which was passed by Faculty Cou... more Professor Janet Mosher describes Osgoode newest clinical program, which was passed by Faculty Council in 2017

Faculty mentioned/quoted: Professor Janet E. Moshe

Domestic violence cases in Canada present unique access to justice challenges due to complex powe... more Domestic violence cases in Canada present unique access to justice challenges due to complex power dynamics, structural inequality, and the reality that victims, offenders, and children must often navigate multiple legal systems to resolve multiple issues. The complexity of these cases has both personal and systemic impacts, and because women are the primary victims of domestic violence, these impacts are gendered and are heightened for marginalized women. Issues may also differ across Canadian provinces and territories and on First Nations reserves given the application of different laws, policies, and dispute resolution models. This paper explores how the access to justice crisis in Canada manifests in domestic violence cases. After reviewing the literature on access to justice and domestic violence, we map out and compare laws, government policies and justice system components affecting the parties in domestic violence cases across Canadian jurisdictions, highlighting the barrier...

Journal of Law and Social Policy, 2018

Contributions to volume 28:1 of the JLSP offered poignant insights into the root sources of the o... more Contributions to volume 28:1 of the JLSP offered poignant insights into the root sources of the overrepresentation of Indigenous and African Canadian children and families in state child welfare systems, highlighting the role of poverty, racism, discrimination, and ongoing colonial violence. The contributions to this volume, 28:2, offer insights to deepen our understanding of the roots of overrepresentation, as well as concrete strategies with the potential to dramatically improve outcomes for children, families, and communities. As with volume 28:1, the contributions here arise from a symposium, Reimagining Child Welfare Systems in Canada, held 21 October 2016 and co-hosted by the JLSP, the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, the African Canadian Legal Clinic, and The Action Group on Access to Justice (TAG) of the Law Society of Ontario. The symposium brought together community members, practitioners, academics, and students to explore how state child welfare systems have failed Indigenous and African Canadian communities and to share alternatives that communities have implemented, planned, and/or imagined. As noted in our Introduction to volume 28:1, a consistent refrain during the Symposium was that communities impacted and harmed by existing child welfare practices must be the ones to lead change, for it is within these communities that the experience of inter-generational trauma is lived daily and where sources of culturally relevant knowledge have been sustained and nurtured. Three of the contributions in volume 28:2, by Naiomi Metallic, Jennifer Clarke et al, and Isaac Yoryor, take up this clarion call, offering community-grounded strategies for change. Naiomi Walqwan Metallic, in "A Human Right to Self-Government over First Nations Child and Family Services and Beyond: Implications of the Caring Society Case," provides a detailed account over time of the role of the federal and provincial governments in the provision of child welfare services on reserve. Through her review of the evolution of the First Nations Child and Family Services Program (FNCFS Program) of the federal government, Metallic catalogues a range of deeply troubling features that have led to the widespread removal of children from their families and communities, undermined community control, and deepened poverty. Turning to the decision of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal in the Caring Society case, Metallic notes that while much of the attention given to this decision has focused on its finding that the federal government's underfunding of child welfare services on reserve constitutes discrimination, critically important are two further propositions: "that, as a matter of human rights, (1) First Nations are entitled to child and family services that meet their cultural, historical, and geographical needs and circumstances; and (2) such services cannot be assimilative in design or effect." 1 As Metallic argues, these propositions in the Tribunal's decision ground a further claim: that First Nations have a human right to self-government, for it is only through community designed and controlled services that the "cultural, historical and geographic needs of First Nations communities" will be appropriately addressed. Moreover, Metallic argues, there is no reason why this logic should apply to child welfare services only; rather it is equally applicable to all First Nations essential services. Consistent with the analysis

This is a complete guide to the workings of the Canadian legal system as it relates to the practi... more This is a complete guide to the workings of the Canadian legal system as it relates to the practice of social work. The book uses the family life cycle as an organizing principle which connects legal procedures to the life of the family as it moves through marriage, parenthood, normal events and specific crises along the continuum from birth to old age. This is the 5th edition of the work. The book has been fully updated and revised to include the latest leading case law and legislation in the area.https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty_books/1347/thumbnail.jp

Welfare reforms over the last decade have sustained, and even enhanced, the power of abusive men.

Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, 2015

For women seeking to extricate themselves from the web of entrapment woven together by the multip... more For women seeking to extricate themselves from the web of entrapment woven together by the multiple threads that make up the coercive control repertoire of their abusive intimate partners, it is often difficult to avoid engagement with legal systems. Yet, the legal systems they encounter—criminal, family, child welfare, immigration among them—are frequently unwelcoming (if not hostile), controlling, demeaning, fragmented and contradictory. While there has been a recent explosion of interest in “access to justice,” little attention has been paid to how we might conceptualize access to justice in a manner that speaks meaningfully to the circumstances of women who experience abuse in their intimate relationships. For such women, access to justice is curtailed not only by lack of representation, delays, costs, and procedural complexities—the obstacles commonly associated with access to justice failings—but by three inter-related phenomena: the enduring hold of an incident-based understa...

Scholarly and Research Communication, 2014

Integral to both knowledge mobilization and action research is the idea that research can and sho... more Integral to both knowledge mobilization and action research is the idea that research can and should ignite change or action. Change or action may occur at multiple levels and scales, in direct and predictable ways and in indirect and highly unpredictable ways. To better understand the relationship between research and action or change, we delineate four conceptualizations that appear in the literature. Reflecting on our experiences as collaborators in a community–university action research project that set out to tackle a “wicked” social problem, we consider the implications of these conceptualizations for the project’s knowledge mobilization plans and activities. The major lessons point to the importance of building capacity by nurturing collaborative learning spaces, of drawing many others – situated differently and with varied perspectives – into dialogue, and of embracing change within the project itself.

The University of Toronto Law Journal, 1994