After graduating from York this spring, Tegan Hadisi, the daughter of Iranian refugees, will apply what she learned at the University to further study and assist migrants, contributing to a better future for them. Read More
Recent publication co-authored by Profs. Tania Das Gupta (York University) and Yvonne Su (CRS affiliate, York University) The Conversation article on the housing discrimination international students face https://theconversation.com/canadas-costly-housing-market-leaves-international-students-open-to-exploitation-204242
One of the projects incubated at the Refugee Law Lab (Centre for Refugee Studies), The Migration and Technology Monitor launches our first fellowship for five people-on-the-move from all over the globe. The initiative supports projects that document the impact of technology on mobile communities, as well as the transformative potential of innovative projects designed directly by […]
Part of the SSHRC-funded research project: “SPRING: Exploring elements of the Canadian Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program that facilitate refugee settlement”, University of Ottawa, Refugee Hub Podcast with Dr Christopher Kyriakides: https://blubrry.com/spring_research_project/92752496/sponsor-sponsored-pre-arrival-interaction-and-resettlement-success-in-the-context-of-the-private-sponsorship-of-refugees-program/
Geopolitics of Education for Peace (GEP) is a collective project conducted by a group of international scholars and activists with roots in the Global South. This project is part of a multi-year, international SSHRC Insight Grant titled, Subalterity, public education, and welfare cities: Comparing the experience of displaced migrants in three cities [Havana, Toronto, Kolkata] led by Ranu […]
The Centre for Refugee Studies is delighted to announce that Mara Mahmud has received the 2022 Anthony Richmond Scholarship. This scholarship recognizes promising graduate student research on the intersections of forced migration and environmental changes, such as climate change, flooding, drought, forest fires, and land or sanitary degradation. Mara is an MA candidate in the […]
The CRS-co-hosted Refugee Law Laboratory has released new asylum data visualizations, using UNHCR data. The video with the visualizations is available here: The Python code used to make the visualizations is available here: https://github.com/Refugee-Law-Lab/UNHCR-Visualization The UNHCR data is available here: https://api.unhcr.org/docs/refugee-statistics.html
(Photo source) By Brian Hill Global News Many people, including Canadian politicians, are still trying to come to grips with the fact that a family of four with two children froze to death while trying to cross the border from Canada into the United States last week. But those who understand human migration best say it was […]
CRS is pleased to announce the release of this report on access to justice for refugees, produced in collaboration with the CERC in Migration and Integration, and the Canadian Foundation for Civil Justice. The report, which is co-authored by Craig Damian Smith, Sean Rehaag, and Trevor Farrow gathers data from stakeholders, including a survey of […]
(Photo by Reuters/Todd Korol. Image source: Calgary Herald, Nov 25, 2021) Migrant and refugee workers in Alberta’s meat-packing plants face dangerous working conditions and precarious employment, according to new research from York University. The research, conducted by Bronwyn Bragg and Jennifer Hyndman, alongside Calgary advocacy group ActionDignity, involved interviews and surveys with immigrant workers in […]