October 26, 2023

We, the members of the Critical Refugee and Migration Studies Network of Canada, join the calls for solidarity in response to the genocide in Gaza–a territory where more than two-thirds of the 2.2 million people are refugees and descendants of refugees. As refugees and people in solidarity with refugees, our scholarship and activism work to amplify the voices of Palestinians who speak and write eloquently about their suffering and survival. We draw inspiration from Palestinian poet and scholar Rafeef Ziadeh who affirms that, in the face of violent oppression, “We Palestinians teach life/after they have occupied the last sky/We teach life/after they have built their settlements and apartheid walls, after the last skies/We teach life.” (Ziadah, 2015) …