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Falak Mujtaba | Fung Public Seminar Series: Colonial Continuity - Immigration Detention in Canada and the Human Cost

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Thu, Apr 2, 2026

12 PM – 1:15 PM EDT (GMT-4)

Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room 144

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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How has immigration detention become thinkable, and therefore administratively doable and routine, in Canada today? What are the material consequences of this normalization for migrants? In this talk, Falak Mugtaba traces immigration detention as a colonial continuity, rooted in imperial and settler-colonial regimes of containment that persist in contemporary immigration and border control as well as the forms of resistance that contest it.
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Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room 144

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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Falak Mujtaba

Fung Global Fellow 2025-26; Critical studies in Equity and Solidarity , Lecturer, University of Toronto

PIIRS, Princeton University

Falak Mujtaba completed her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto. Her interdisciplinary research and teaching explore the enduring legacies of colonialism and neocolonial relations on immigration detention, migration and citizenship, with a focus on Global North-South power relations. 

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Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies