CRS is pleased to welcome Dr. Aderomola Adeola as the CRS Assistant Director for 2021-22. Aderomola specializes in the fields of migration, refugee studies, human rights and internal displacement. She has contributed significantly to discussions in these fields through academic publications, advocacy and policy development. She led the Global Engagement Network on Internal Displacement in […]
The Centre for Refugee Studies is delighted to announce that Michael De Santi has received the 2021 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. Michael De Santi is completing his […]
The RLLR publishes positive decisions from the Refugee Protection Division of Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board. We publish these decisions because the vast majority of Canadian refugee decisions published elsewhere involve refugee claims that were denied at first instance. The disproportionate publication of refugee decisions that involve negative first instance decisions distorts jurisprudence, prevents lawyers […]
CRS-hosted Refugee Law Lab Associate Director Petra Molnar is featured in a Globe and Mail article about the growing prevalence of surveillance technology at Canada’s border. Read More
(Photo: Jeff McIntosh/Canadian Press. Image source: CBC News) Clear safeguards needed around technology planned for border checkpoints | CBC News
Moria 2.0: The EU’s sandbox for surveillance technologies – EURACTIV.com The three camps of Lesvos, Old Moria, Moria 2.0 all tell a story of the multi-layered ecosystem which gives rise to the allure of quick fixes facilitated by technology. Yet the complexity of human movement is nothing but simple, writes Petra Molnar, Associate Director, Refugee […]
The Refugee Law Lab is delighted to announce that we have received funding from The Law Foundation of Ontario to build a legal analytics app for refugee lawyers and others interested in Canadian refugee law decision-making. Read More
கப்பல் (kappal – ship in Thamil) Tamils flee by seaArrive, detain, separateWaiting in limbo Congrats to Harini Sivalingam (PhD candidate, Socio-Legal Studies, York University) whose research examines how Tamil maritime forced migrants from Sri Lanka who arrived to Canada aboard the MV Ocean Lady and MV Sun Sea conceptualize and navigate their experiences prior to and during […]
York collaborates on research that highlights disparities of Toronto housing crisis
New research reveals the racial, social and geographic divides of Toronto’s housing crisis, with racialized communities, newcomers and refugees hardest hit. Read More