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While everyone has the right to declare refugee status in Canada, not all refugees are perceived as equal. Harini Sivalingam is a PhD candidate in Socio-Legal Studies. She is currently working on a dissertation about the public, legal, and political discourses surrounding the arrival of asylum-seekers n Canada. In a recent op-ed for the Toronto Star, she used the case of a boat called the MV Ocean Lady to explain some of her ideas…Read Harini's op-ed here: https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2019/10/08/refugees-are-not-all-in-the-same-boat.html
