The Impact of Visa Denial in Academia
When your visa applications to attend academic conferences get routinely denied, you lose any enthusiasm for ever responding to a Call for Abstracts. The whole process becomes a waste of time and effort for yourself as well as your supervisors. The most recent visa rejection I experienced, which was a few weeks after completing my PhD, finally made me and my supervisors question the supposed commitments to diversity, freedom to learn and equality of opportunity in academic events. For the second time, the response from the High Commission of Canada was that they were ‘not satisfied that you will leave Canada at the end of your stay’. Although I was on a study permit at the University of Sheffield, with any travel expenses fully sponsored, I was denied a visa to present my PhD research at the 2019 Social Media and Society conference in Toronto – an annual gathering of leading social media researchers from around the world.
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