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CERLAC & CALACS collaborate on new 3-year IDRC project

In 2011, CERLAC completed one IDRC-funded partnership project undertaken jointly with the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS), and commenced a second. The completed Networking and Research Project (2010-2011) partnership project was initiated in May 2010, when CALACS celebrated its 40th anniversary, as past of a longer-term process of renewal that built […]

Project update: Understanding Women's Struggles for Justice, Healing & Redress

"… [I am] old, without suffering, without fear and without shame. Today I am capable of doing all that I can. I am like a bird. I can fly with large wings." -Chuj Maya woman, July 2011 Over the past year, as part of the on-going SSHRC- and IDRC-funded project "Understanding Women's Struggles for Justice, […]

Viviana Patroni leads initiative on precarious employment

Prof. Viviana Patroni, CERLAC Fellow and former Director, is spearheading a collaborative CERLAC research initiative tentatively titled "Poverty, Inequality and Economic Insecurity in Latin America: Deciphering the Political Economy of Precarious Employment". The initiative's lead partners are based in York, Clark and Concordia Universities, but it engages a broader community of interested scholars throughout the […]

New project addresses youth violence in Jamaica and Canada

CERLAC Deputy Director Andrea Davis leads new project initiative In recent months, CERLAC Deputy Director Andrea Davis has been leading an effort to develop a new project initiative on youth violence in Canada and Jamaica. Her effort has thus far resulted in the submission of a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant proposal requesting $174,053 for a […]