Tensions Abound: The US-Canada Border under the new Trump Administration

This timely event brought together three experts in relations between Canada and the United States to discuss the impact of the second Trump administration on migration and borders.

 

Leah Montange is the Bissell-Heyd Lecturer and Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in American Studies at the Munk School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of Toronto.  She is a political geographer and an expert in immigration enforcement and immigration detention in the US interior. Her work is published in journals like the Annals of the American Association of Geographers; Environment and Planning D: Society & Space; Citizenship Studies; Globalizations; and more.

 

Matina Stevis-Gridneff is the Chief of the Canada Bureau of the New York Times.She was previously The Brussels bureau chief for The New York Times, covering the European Union. She joined The Times in 2019 after covering East Africa for The Wall Street Journal for five years. Ms. Stevis-Gridneff was Europe correspondent for The Wall Street Journal between 2011 and 2014, covering the eurozone and the migration crises. She was posted to Nairobi, Kenya, between 2014 and 2019 for The Journal, where she wrote about geopolitics, migration, economics and technology. In that role, she reported on state-building efforts in Somalia, the civil war in South Sudan, the refugee exodus from Eritrea and tumult in Ethiopia and Sudan. While she focused on East Africa, she also reported from multiple countries outside the region, including South Africa, Mozambique and the Gambia. A graduate of the University of Oxford, she received a Masters in Public Administration, Public Policy and Management from the London School of Economics. Ms. Stevis-Gridneff was born and raised in Athens, Greece.

 

Marta Morganrecently retired after a long and distinguished career in the Government of Canada. Her professional experience spans foreign policy, immigration and economic policy, and includes recently serving as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Government of Canada. She has also served as Deputy Minister of Immigration, Citizenship and Refugees, and Associate Deputy Minister in the federal Department of Finance and Industry Canada, and as Vice President, Competitiveness and International at the Forest Products Association of Canada.