CERC Migration

📢 Call for papers 🌎 Rethinking Complex Migration: Flows, Frames, and Futures. April 15-17, 2026 at Toronto Metropolitan University. Deadline: November 2, 2025 (11:59 PM). Submit your proposal: www.torontomu.ca/cerc-migrati...

@researchtmu.bsky.social @bridgdivides.bsky.social @arts-tmu.bsky.social @migration.ubc.ca @triandafyllidou.bsky.social

What is Canada? – Call for Proposals Now Open! 🇨🇦 Explore community, belonging, and identity from coast to coast to coast. Seeking teams of 2-3 to co-produce multimedia short films celebrating their communities' stories. Apply by: November 15, 2025. 🔗: www.torontomu.ca/cerc-migrati...

Vote for Borders & Belonging. It only takes a sec and it goes a long way to increase visibility #migration #borders #podcast @signalawards.bsky.social @cercmigration.bsky.social

Vote today! for our Borders & Belonging Podcast - bringing data and analysis on international migration to a broader audience!

The episode also features:

- Linda Oucho, Executive Director, African Migration and Development Policy Center
- Andre Renzaho, Professor of Humanitarian and Development Studies, @westernsydneyu.bsky.social

They unpack the impact of the U.S. foreign aid cuts, the role of corruption and more. 2/2

🎙️ In the latest In Conversation episode, guest Sagar Raj Sharma (Professor of Development Economics, Kathmandu University) challenges our obsession with “growth” and how the term's numerical nature takes away from sustainable development: www.torontomu.ca/cerc-migrati... 1/2 🧵

Apply by Oct. 15! ➡️ Are you a non-Canadian born #entrepreneur in Toronto with a business idea or early-stage venture? Enterprise Bridge Toronto: Community Bootcamp & Mentorship for Immigrant Entrepreneurs is now accepting applications!
🔗: www.torontomu.ca/cerc-migrati... #ImmigrantEntrepreneurs

Politically aggressive social media users are creating most of the anti-immigrant content Being selective about the platforms that we spend our time on, and learning how to handle social media conflict will help the digital ecosystem for all of us.

Social media platforms are fertile ground for online polarization. But as @cercmigration.bsky.social's Nicholas Fraser (@narfraser.bsky.social) writes in the Conversation CA, users are also part of the problem with a small, politically aggressive group amplifying division: tinyurl.com/ycwd4zxu

📰 #NoticiasFLACSO
En Canadá, Gioconda Herrera, directora de FLACSO Ecuador, participó en el Congreso 2025 de Metrópolis-Red Internacional sobre Migraciones, que se celebró en la Universidad Metropolitana de Toronto.

2 more days till the deadline, pls apply if interested...

The H-1B visa fee hike in the United States opens a policy window for Canada Policymakers inside and outside of government can provide ideas on creating targeted policies and pathways to recruit talented workers to Canada in the wake of the U.S. H-1B visa fee hike.

The U.S. government recently announced a $100,000 H-1B visa fee. For @ca.theconversation.com, Researcher @richashivakoti.bsky.social and Scientific Director @triandafyllidou.bsky.social explain how this could have ripple effects on Canada: theconversation.com/the-h-1b-vis...

The H-1B visa fee hike in the United States opens a policy window for Canada Policymakers inside and outside of government can provide ideas on creating targeted policies and pathways to recruit talented workers to Canada in the wake of the U.S. H-1B visa fee hike.

The H-1B visa fee hike in the United States opens a policy window for Canada
theconversation.com/the-h-1b-vis...
@richashivakoti.bsky.social
@jeremiemolho.bsky.social
@cercmigration.bsky.social
@bridgdivides.bsky.social

Listener's Choice Sept 23-Oct 9 Borders & Belonging CERC In Migration & Integration Toronto Metropolitan University Signal Awards 2025 Finalist Vote for Us

🎉 Excited to share that our Borders & Belonging Podcast is a finalist for the 4th annual Signal Awards, including the Listener’s Choice Award! Vote for us until Oct. 9, 2025 under the Activism, Public Service & Social Impact category:
vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting... Stay tuned for season four!

Excited to share that the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies has released a special issue: "Decentring Migration Governance: The Role of Narratives." Featuring contributions from several CERC Migration Researchers. 🔗: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How the arts strengthen newcomer settlement in Canada Historically, we’ve understood immigration settlement as something that happens after a hierarchy of needs are met - new research suggests this logic is flawed.

New research from Senior Research Associate Jérémie Molho and the Toronto Arts Council showcases how the Program for Newcomers and Refugees arts programs deliver concrete integration outcomes. 🔗: https://theconversation.com/how-the-arts-strengthen-newcomer-settlement-in-canada-265462

🌍 The Metropolis International 2025 Summit, co-hosted with
@metropolisintl.bsky.social wrapped up after two days of global dialogue on migration & integration. Thank you to all who joined and for bringing the energy. Join the network + get discounts on future events: metropolisintl.org/membership

Chair Anna Triandafyllidou wraps up Metropolis International 2025 Summit Day 2 with a brief keynote.

A huge thank you to all panelists, moderators and participants for showing up with your questions, insights and energy!

#Metropolis2025

Panel 5: Leveraging Advanced Digital Technologies for Supporting Migrants begins! Speakers:

-Elana Wong, Civil Action Committee
-Violet Roumeliotis, Settlement Services International
-Chantal Goyette, Immigration Refugees Citizenship Canada
-Marla Asis, Scalabrini Migration Center

Panel 4: Migration Data in the Era of Advanced Digital Technologies begins!

-Jean-Christophe Dumont, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
-Maegan Hendow, International Centre for Migration Policy Development
-Meghan Benton, MPI
-Felicitas Hillmann, Technical University Berlin

Kicking off Day 2 of Metropolis 2025, cohosted with
@metropolisintl.bsky.social at @torontomet.bsky.social.

We begin with a keynote speech from Ambassador Amma Twum-Amoah, Commissioner for Health, Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development, African Union.

#Metropolis2025

Day 1 of Metropolis International 2025 concludes. Thank you to all the moderators, panelists and participants that joined us in person and online.

We are looking forward to an eventful last day tomorrow!

#Metropolis2025

Panel 3: Roundtable on Migration Governance in Challenging Times beginning now! Speakers:

-Eva Millona, Immigration Initiative at Harvard University
-Silvia Nunez, Center for Research in North America, UNAM, Mexico
-Naika Foroutan, German Center for Integration and Migration Research

Keynote Speaker Alejandro Portes presents his talk on “Autarchy and immigration: The new American model of development and its consequences,” at Metropolis International 2025 day 1!

Panel 2: Mobilising Diaspora Finance is beginning now! Speakers include:

-Stephen Gelb, Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies, New School for Social Research
-Dane Rowlands, Carleton University
-Mary Setrana, University of Ghana, Accra

Panel 1: Solidarity Cities – Policy Frameworks, Coalitions & Challenges in the Americas begins. Speakers:

-Els de Graauw, City University of New York
-Pablo Ceriani, United Nations Committee on the Rights of Migrant Workers and their Families
-Anne Güller-Frey, Tür an Tür e.V.
-Harald Bauder, TMU

Keynote Speaker Alejandro Portes presents his talk on “Autarchy and immigration: The new American model of development and its consequences,” at Metropolis International 2025 day 1!

Vice Chair Violet Roumiotis and CEO of Settlement Services International welcomes the audience to engage with constructive dialogue on migration while being cognizant of our relationship to the land as settlers, in both her home country of Australia and here in Canada.

Kicking off Metropolis 2025, cohosted with
@metropolisintl.bsky.social at @torontomet.bsky.social. Chair Anna Triandafyllidou begins with remarks.

Today, we wrapped up the Global Skills Partnership event, hosted with @bridgdivides.bsky.social. Together, we explored equitable ways to tackle skill shortages and strengthen health systems within global partnership initiatives.

🤝 A huge thank you to all participants for your insights!