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Record-number of Canada-bound visitors barred from flights on advice of Canada border agents

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 Podcast: Tempest Tossed, with Sean Rehaag

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

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 […]

Canada’s refugee claim acceptance rate falls amid record backlog of asylum seekers

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

York University hosts Borderless Higher Education for Refugees authors’ workshop

https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2019/06/18/york-university-hosts-borderless-higher-education-for-refugees-authors-workshop/

Sixth annual student-led Refugee Awareness Week runs Jan. 28 to Feb. 1 at the Keele Campus

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 […]

Jennifer Hyndman’s discussion with Alex Aleinikoff at the Newschool, Nov 7, 2017

Refugee Protection in the Neo liberal Age https://zolberginstitute.org/missed-jennifer-hyndmans-talk-watch-humanitarianism-not-development-refugee-protection-in-a-neoliberal-age-here/ 

York researchers launch Syrian refugee archive for scholarly use

A team of researchers at York University has developed a web-based archive on Syrian refugee settlement. It is the first web archive at York that is publicly accessible and permanently protected within the library system. Read more Link to archive: https://scalar.library.yorku.ca/syrian-refugee-settlement-in-canada/index

Expecting gratitude from refugees is about bolstering our own saviour complex

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2018/07/04/expecting-gratitude-from-refugees-is-about-bolstering-our-own-saviour-complex.html

York researchers partner in $3.5-million refugee study

Four executive committee members of York University’s Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) are successful co-applicants and collaborators in the Social Science and Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Partnership Grant, titled “Civil society and the global refugee regime: Understanding and enhancing impact through the implementation of global refugee policy.”  The project’s total budget is $3.5 million, with […]