Calls for change at refugee board after woman asked why husband didn’t ‘just kill’ her Global News
A Global News investigative report about Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board failing to apply its internal guidelines for vulnerable claimants. https://globalnews.ca/news/6214393/refugee-judge-asks-woman-why-husband-wouldnt-kill-her/ Several CRS affiliated researchers contributed to the story, including Sharry Aiken, who persuasively argues that the problem is not with the guidelines themselves but with oversight for individual decision-makers, and Hilary Evans Cameron whose […]
A feature story the UNHCR did on one of the BHER project's students: https://www.unhcr.ca/news/technology-connects-somali-refugee-with-canadas-york-university/ His story is also highlighted in the third chapter of the new UNHCR education report https://www.unhcr.org/steppingup/
Obiora Chinedu Okafor, CRS Scholar and UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity, reflects on the international commitment to protecting refugees https://twailr.com/cascading-toward-de-solidarity-the-unfolding-of-global-refugee-protection
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2019/07/17/record-number-of-canada-bound-visitors-barred-from-flights-on-advice-of-canada-border-agents.html
Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility Public Seminar Tempest Tossed Is the US a 'safe country' for asylum-seekers?: A conversation with Professor Sean Rehaag on new challenges to the US-Canada http://www.publicseminar.org/2018/10/tempest-tossed-3-4/
Sean Rehaag is an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. His academic research focuses on empirical studies of immigration and refugee law decision-making processes. Sean, Deanna, Peter and Steven discuss his quantitative research which has used large data-sets to study extra-legal factors that influence outcomes in Canadian refugee adjudication. Does immigrating to Canada, getting […]
Incoming CRS Director Sean Rehaag compiled the annual asylum report based on raw data from the Immigration and Refugee Board: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/06/19/canadas-refugee-acceptance-rate-falls-amid-record-backlog-of-asylum-claims.html
https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2019/06/18/york-university-hosts-borderless-higher-education-for-refugees-authors-workshop/
This year marks the sixth year that the student-led Refugee Awareness Week at York University’s Keele Campus will take place. Refugee Awareness Week will take place Jan. 28 to Feb. 1 and will feature keynote talks, a film screening and refugee advocacy training with leading experts in refugee and human rights. The coalition of participating […]