Solidarity Across Borders: Non-status women and access to birthing services

About the project: The goal of this project is to research midwifery and doula birthing services in Montreal as an alternative to attending a hospital for non-status pregnant women. It is an upward $5000 fee to pay upfront in order to give birth in a hospital as a pregnant women without status in Montreal, which [...]

Birth and Marginalized Women in Montreal: Where are the resources?

Project Overview: Women in Montreal have little access to good, non-sexist, non-judgmental, and respectful health care during their childbearing year. Women who belong to a minority of any type, whether she is a recent refugee or immigrant, or a no-status woman, a single mother, a teen, a sex worker, incarcerated, or just poor, have even [...]

Surviving on the Inside-Out

Organization: Life after Life Collective Project Duration: One semester(with the possibility of future collaborations) Project Description: Our first goal achievable for 2013 is to collaborate with formerly and currently incarcerated collective members to create a “Surviving on the Inside-Out Resource Guide” by, for, and about incarcerated girls, women, transgender, and gender non-conforming people.  Life After [...]

Promotional Kit for The Learning Exchange (TLE)

Project Title: Promotional Kit for The Learning Exchange (TLE) Type of project: Informational Pamphlet or Kit, Video or Audio Piece, content   Project Description: We are seeking to create sleek and professional looking materials and/or video to: *promote TLE with potential partners *update our Literacy Awareness Package to sensitize the public to literacy issues *recruit [...]

Trans cultural production inside prisons, Prisoner Correspondence Project

Project title: Trans cultural production inside prisons Organization: Prisoner Correspondence Project Type of project: Research Paper Project Description: Larger (More than One Semester) The student completing this project will conduct primary research on trans cultural production inside prisons. This could be either from the angle of HIV prevention within incarcerated communities (trans cultural production in [...]

Media Monitoring Project, The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, (MIGS).

Project Title: Media Monitoring Project Organization: The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, (MIGS).   About the Project: Smaller (One Semester) The Media Monitoring Project provides early warning of genocide and crimes against humanity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Nigeria, Rwanda, Kenya, Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Cote d’Ivoire, Libya, [...]

The collective is just as important as the cooking: Organizing student and youth based collective kitchen groups

Organizing student and youth based collective kitchen groups Group: Réseau D’Entraide De Verdun  Issues addressed: The project is based on community organizing and food solidarity. It addresses issues such as poverty, food insecurity, isolation, marginalization, class, gender and race. Size of project: We would like to have someone work with us for the duration of a [...]

Trans Access to Shelter in Montreal

This project will consist of a qualitative and quantitative systemic examination of the Montreal shelter system to determine the state of access for transsexual, transgender and gender-variant people in need of shelter and housing (with a possible specific focus on women`s shelters). Furthermore, the research will look at other cities which have successfully adapted their [...]

A Brief History of Incarceration in Canada

We are seeking an overview as to how public policy has influenced incarceration levels in Canada over the past fifty years to help us contextualize other work we are doing on HIV prevention in prisons. This request does not entail primary research but rather the collection and synthesis of a broad range of information on [...]

Drug Laws and Incarceration in Canada

Organization: ReCon Project description: Already there is substantial body of literature which addresses the impact of U.S. drug laws on incarceration. Much less has been written on the issue in Canada. As penal institutions, parole officers, and police “toughen up” their responses to drug infractions, it is crucial that Canadians know how drug laws affect [...]

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