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Refugee judge asks woman why her husband wouldn’t ‘just kill’ her

Posted on 27 November 2019

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 […]

Technology connects Somali refugee with Canada’s York University

Posted on 4 September 2019

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/  

Zolberg Podcast: Tempest Tossed, with Sean Rehaag

Posted on 2 July 2019

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/

Borderlines Podcast: How Much Does Immigrating Matter on Which Officer or Judge You Get? with Sean Rehaag

Posted on 2 July 2019

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 […]