March 21, 2024
5:30pm - 7:30pm
Onine via Microsoft Webinars
Link to access the Webinar: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/2bdd23dd-ac4f-4e50-a522-83706e11e0d6@60b81999-0b7f-412d-92a3-e17d8ae9e3e0 (with AI generated captions)
Diversity and Equity Committee (DEC) Research Conversation Series
School of Social Work, Dalhousie University, Commemorates Social Work History Month
The research contributes to knowledge on the removal of children and youth from human trafficking and the reintegration modalities that inform and guide the process. Questions abound about the contribution of these modalities to the re-trafficking discourse. Our research prioritizes the narratives of affected survivors as they share about their interations with diverse persons, agencies, and support in their trafficking journey. We hope that the findings promote the integration of multiple voices, approaches, and ways of knowing in shaping support for survivors of human trafficking.
Committee Members:
Ifeyinwa Mbakogu (PhD) is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Work, and Chair of the Diversity andEquity Committee (DEC). Her research interests include human trafficking, child labour, forced migration ordisplacement, health/mental health and displacement, reintegration, African Diaspora studies, health, rage,retention and racism in the academy, explored within anti-racist and anti-colonial lenses.
Buster Ogbuagu (PhD) is a Professor of Social Work at the University of St Francis, Joliet Illinois. Philosophically andpedagogically, he is passionate about intersectionalities and anti-oppressive epistemologies to social work theories,practice and Empowerment, which underscore and inform his teaching and practice. Dr. Ogbuagu is a cofounder ofthe Strangers in New Homelands annual international conference.
Temitope Abiagom is a registered social worker and currently works as a director of advocacy and communityresponse at YWCA supporting inclusive and equitable programs and services for women, girls and gender-diversepeople. She is also a co- organizer of the Immigrant Parents Network.
Lotanna Odiyi is a Nigerian student in her first year of the Master of Social Work program at Dalhousie University.She earned her BA in Political Studies from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST, Ghanaand a PGD in psychology from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. Lotanna's research and educational interestsencompass decolonizing healthcare, Afrocentric social work interventions, and child trafficking and reintegration.
Deborah Dzifah Tamakloe is a first-year Master of Social Work (MSW) student at Dalhousie University,. Her researchand educational interests are centred on the domain of child welfare.
Nadia Haleeb is a second-year Bachelor of Social Work student at Dalhousie University. She earned a Bachelor ofMedicine and Surgery from the University of Khartoum; her research and education interests are Child traffickingand reintegration, refugee resettlement, and second-generation mental health outcomes.
Robin Cunningham is a student in Dalhousie University’s School of Social Work Africentric Cohort. She is committedto bridging gaps in Mental Health services for children and youth and creating spaces for individuals to be who theyare destined to be.
Contact: Dr. Ifeyinwa Mbakogu, Chair of the Diversity and Equity Committee (DEC) sswdec@dal.ca