Immigration workshop to address issues faced by people with precarious migratory status

There’s a tendency to think that the problems faced by people with precarious status – temporary workers, refugee claimants, failed claimants and people without status – are not Canadian issues, but York sociology Professor Luin Goldring disagrees. To shed light on the emerging body of research in this area, the Research Alliance on Precarious Status, which […]

CERIS and CERLAC to host seminar on challenges faced by immigrant artists

Latin American Artists in Toronto: Immigrants and Artists at Work, the second CERIS seminar on issues related to immigrants and the arts, will feature three panellists. The seminar will take place Tuesday, March 23, from 12:30 to 2pm, in the fifth floor Conference Centre of the York Research Tower, Keele campus. York environmental studies Professor Deborah Barndt, co-ordinator […]

Immigration system hurts more than helps, study finds

The rags-to-riches immigrant stories Canada has been bred on don’t work anymore, say the two professors who led the project that will be released today, wrote the Toronto Star June 18. Luin Goldring, sociology professor in York University’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, and Patricia Landolt of the Centre for Urban and Community […]