Migrant Vulnerability in the Canadian Protection System: The View of Migrants, Public Servants and on-the ground Practitioners
Authors: Dagmar Soennecken
Research report (VULNER Research Report 2), on the experiences of migrants seeking protection in Canada.
Throughout the VULNER project, the Canadian team seeks to answer three questions:
1. How are the ‘vulnerabilities’ of migrants defined in the relevant Canadian legislation, case law, policy documents and administrative guidelines?
2. How do Canadian decision-makers understand and address the ‘vulnerabilities’ of migrants?
3. How do the legal frameworks and the implementation practices concretely affect vulnerabilities as experienced by migrants in Canada?
Question 1 was addressed during the first phase of the project (April-December 2020), where we focused our research activities on compiling and analysing Canadian government documents and court cases pertaining to the vulnerability of migrants. These preliminary research findings were presented in our first report (VULNER Research Report 1). Questions 2 and 3 were addressed during the second phase of the project (January 2021-July 2022), where we conducted interviews with migrants and other key informants (i.e., civil servants from the federal government and ‘on the ground’ practitioners, including lawyers and NGO representatives). In this second report, we present some key results based on this second phase of the project.
Year of book publication: 2022Publisher website