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On Thursday at 5:30 p.m., Désirée Rochat and Sean Mills will lead a talk about the many ways that Haitian migrants have shaped Quebec society by opening debates and exposing tensions.

They say migrants tend to be viewed as peripheral to Quebec history, but this isn’t so. Hear their full thoughts at the discussion being held at Concordia University, in the Henry F. Hall Building, 1455 De Maisonneuve W., in Room H-1220.

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They will explore the relationship between migration, politics and historical perspectives in Quebec.

Désirée Rochat is a community educator, youth worker and graduate student at McGill University at the Department of Integrated Studies in Education. She is the main author of Caribbean Life in Québec: a Pictorial History of the 60s, 70s and 80s(CIDIHCA, 2014).

Sean Mills is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto and historian of post-1945 Canadian and Quebec history. He is the author of A Place in the Sun: Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of Quebec(McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016).

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