JHI Undergraduate Fellow
Elizabeth is an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto majoring in Diaspora and Transnational Studies and Ethics, Society, and Law. She was previously an undergraduate research fellow at Victoria College's Northrop Frye Centre, and she is currently a work-study student at the Centre for Ethics. Her work is interdisciplinary, often drawing on philosophy, anthropology, and cultural studies to analyze the intersections of race, culture, and colonialism in Toronto and abroad. She has published research on gentrification in Toronto’s Little Jamaica, Stuart Hall’s positionality and human rights at the 1955 Bandung Conference, and Indigenous erasure and resistance in the Caribbean.
Fellowship Research Project—Climate Mobilities: Ethical Considerations for Law and Policy Responses
Climate migrations are already occurring worldwide, and they are expected to intensify (Kelly 2018). Absence is manifest in the empty spaces produced by climate migrations and in the gaps in law regulating such movements. How does these absences shape the responsibilities that we bear to others in our local and global communities? My project will produce an ethics of climate migration centred on the notion of climate mobilities––the multiple, uneven ways that people move and settle according to climatic changes (Boas et al. 2022). This ethics will foreground the colonial and racial implications of climate migration, which have been obscured in dominant discourse.