How climate change is affecting people's movements around the planet
CRS affiliate Yvonne Su on CBC Radio: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-91-the-early-edition/clip/15999203-how-climate-change-affecting-peoples-movements-around-planet
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York student seeks to improve lives of refugees
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
Canada’s costly housing market leaves international students open to exploitation
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
Fellowship for Refugees on Surveillance Technologies
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 […]
Refugee Hub Podcast: Christopher Kyriakides on sponsor-sponsored pre-arrival interaction
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: Spaces of Struggle & Resistance
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 […]
Announcement: Recipient of the 2022 Anthony Richmond Scholarship
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 […]
Visualizing Asylum Applications (Canada 2000-2020)
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
Why migrants risk everything to cross borders in unsafe conditions
(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 […]
Access To Justice for Refugees: How Legal Aid and Quality of Counsel Impact Fairness and Efficiency in Canada’s Asylum System
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 […]