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Event poster for World Refugee Day Symposium featuring Afghan women and children dancing outdoors, with event details and logos from the UBC Faculty of Education and the UBC Centre for Migration Studies.

On #WorldRefugeeDay, join the UBC Faculty of Education & the CMS Borders Research Group for a vital conversation centring on the voices and resilience of Afghan women.

📅 June 20, 8:30 AM - 3 PM
📍 IKBLC, Dodson Room (302)

Program information coming soon!

Register: migration.ubc.ca/events/event...

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📢 Applications are now open for the 2025–26 Graduate Certificate in Migration Studies!

Enhance your UBC degree with a specialization in migration and mobilities studies.
🗓️ Application deadline: June 23, 2025

Learn more & apply: migration.ubc.ca/graduate-stu...

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Canada’s medical system shuts out immigrant doctors, report reveals Despite doctor shortages, Canada blocks many immigrant physicians from practising. A new report reveals the systemic bias

Dr. Kashif Raza, Postdoctoral Fellow at @edstubc.bsky.social and CMS affiliate, highlights how licensing barriers like return-of-service contracts and repeated language tests unfairly block internationally trained doctors in Canada.

Via Canadian Immigrant 🔗 canadianimmigrant.ca/careers/cana...

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CMS Research Conference 2025: Migration, Mobilities, and Changing Political Landscapes - Centre for Migration Studies Join CMS for Research Conference 2025 on May 1-2 at xʷθəθiqətəm, Liu Institute, to explore migration, mobilities, and changing political landscapes.

Join us on May 1-2 at the Liu Institute for Global Issues (UBC Vancouver) for the CMS Research Conference 2025: Migration, Mobilities, and Changing Political Landscapes.

📣 Full program now available!

Register: migration.ubc.ca/events/event...

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EDUC 500 921

Discover the essentials of qualitative and quantitative research in a supportive, hands-on environment. Register today! myworkday.ubc.ca

EDUC 500 921
Research Methodology in Education
Summer Term 1
Mon Wed | 4:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
In person

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EDST 508A 941 Summer Term 2 2025 Moving from Knowing to Research-Informed Collective Action

Explore the hyphens of activist-academic, activist-artist,
activist-professional, and activist-lived experience in this course:

EDST 508A 941
Summer Term 2 2025
Moving from Knowing to Research-Informed Collective Action

Learn more: edst-educ.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2025/0...

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We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Laura Madokoro for our last Speaker Series event! Through a historical lens, she will examine the rising anti-immigrant discourse in North America, focusing on how language reinforces otherness.

📆 March 3, 11:45 AM - 1:45 PM
📍 Hybrid
🔗 migration.ubc.ca/events/event...

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Call for Proposals: 2025 CMS Research Conference   - Centre for Migration Studies Submit your proposal for the 2025 CMS Research Conference on "Migration, Mobilities, and Changing Political Landscapes" in Vancouver, May 1-2, 2025.

📣 Call for Proposals: CMS and UBC Okanagan invite proposals from academic affiliates for the 2025 CMS Research Conference on May 1-2.

Theme: “Migration, Mobilities, and Changing Political Landscapes.”

Learn more: migration.ubc.ca/news/call-fo...

#migrationconference #researchconference

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How do immigrant-serving organizations in the U.S. South shape racial identities and public policy?

Join us on February 10 for our 3rd Speaker Series event with Dr. Jennifer A. Jones, Associate Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University.

Register: migration.ubc.ca/events/event...

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