CERC Migration

L’immigration transforme-t-elle l’ADN musical d’une ville? À Toronto, des artistes issus de la diversité luttent pour que leur métissage sonore trouve sa place au sein des institutions culturelles canadiennes.

🎵 @jeremiemolho.bsky.social soutient que 🇨🇦 les institutions musicales doivent créer un véritable soutien structurel pour les #artistesimmigrés afin qu'ils atteignent stabilité et reconnaissance, pas juste célébrer superficiellement la diversité.

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Tariffs are reshaping Canadian manufacturing, but not all workers are being impacted the same way U.S. tariffs disrupted Canada’s manufacturing sector in 2025, but their labour-market effects didn’t impact immigrant and Canadian-born workers the same.

U.S. tariffs triggered nearly 43,000 manufacturing job losses in Canada from March-May 2025, with #immigrantworkers hit hardest. In @ca.theconversation.com, Marshia Akbar and Devaanshi Khanzode explore how trade disruptions expose existing vulnerabilities.

🔗 theconversation.com/tariffs-are-...

Join us at Bridging Divides Multiple opportunities in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver

📣 We are accepting applications across multiple opportunities at @bridgdivides.bsky.social! Inviting students, researchers, professionals or migrants looking to engage with migration research and practice, don't miss out: 1/5 🧵

Borders & Belonging

For the latest Borders & Belonging Podcast episode, she is joined by Amanda Cheong whose research on statelessness powerfully expands the conversation by showing how people assert belonging and political agency even in the absence of formal citizenship. 🎧 www.torontomu.ca/cerc-migrati... 2/2

🎙️ From an aspiring rockstar to a leading scholar, Irene Bloemraad (Professor of Political Studies, Co-Director of @migration.ubc.ca) reflects on the personal experiences and turning points that informed her influential framework of citizenship as claims-making.

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Recalibrating Canada’s Immigration Architecture: Insights from Research on Economic Inclusion and Institutional Mediation The 54th Annual Sorokin Lecture is presented by Dr. Rupa Banerjee (PhD)

Immigrants in Canada are increasingly well-educated but persistently underemployed. For the 54th Annual Sorokin Lecture, Bridging Divides researcher Rupa Banerjee will draw on her research and examine this paradox. 🗓️ Feb. 5, 📍 University of Saskatchewan

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Research by @cercmigration.bsky.social Research Fellow Monica Gagnon shows how ON hospitals deny health coverage to 🇨🇦-born babies when their parents lack permanent status, even though children are legally entitled to care.

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#HealthEquity #ImmigrantRights

She challenged attendees to rethink return migration through a new lens: one that recognizes degrees of coercion, non-linear journeys, and evolving categories that traditional frameworks can't capture.

#GAPsProject #ReturnMigration #HorizonEU
Photo credit: Kudbettin Arik

🎤🌍 At the GAPs Project Final Conference hosted this week at Akdeniz University, the plenary sessions opened with a keynote from @triandafyllidou.bsky.social, @cercmigration.bsky.social, @torontomet.bsky.social.

An aerial view of the Toronto Metropolitan University campus at dusk.

Toronto Metropolitan University invites outstanding researchers based outside Canada to apply for nomination to the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs Program. Applications are due by Feb. 21: www.torontomu.ca/research/abo... @arts-tmu.bsky.social @trsmtorontomet.bsky.social @torontometsci.bsky.social

👋 💡 Today, our Research Dialogue audience heard from Scholar of Excellence B. Nadya Jaworsky, @masarykuniversity.bsky.social, and Journalism Fellow Elroi Yee, multimedia journalist and producer. The conversations on decolonizing methodologies brought fresh perspectives to centring migrant voices.

📣 Calling migration researchers! #CFP

The 2026 IMISCOE Research Network Forum, Promoting Afro-European Mediterranean Dialogue: Shifting Geographies of Migration, will take place October 28-30, 2026. The Call for Papers is open. Deadline to submit: Feb. 6, 2026.

🔗 www.imiscoe.org/events/imisc...

Nowhere to stay: Canada needs a rights and responsibility approach to international student housing An intergovernmental student housing task force is needed to work in tandem with universities and colleges to uphold international students’ housing rights.

International students are facing rental scams, overcrowded conditions, discrimination, and exploitation. Zhixi Zhuang @torontomet.bsky.social writes for @ca.theconversation.com on urgent actions needed . 🔗 theconversation.com/nowhere-to-s... #InternationalStudents #HousingCrisis #StudentHousing

From Transit to Settlement? Mapping Secondary Mobility from Gulf States to Europe and North America and Its Policy Implications Mr. Froilan Malit, Jr. Ph.D. Candidate at SOAS - University of London, Visiting Fellow at the American University in Dubai, Fellow at GLMM Dr. Asma Atique Research Fellow at the Global Migration Institute, Toronto Metropolitan University Dr. Françoise De Bel-Air Senior Fellow at GLMM Michael Ewers Associate Professor of Geography in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Geographical Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Dr. Richa Shivakoti Research Lead on Migration Governance at the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration & Integration and a Researcher with the Bridging Divides program at Toronto Metropolitan University Tuesday, January 20, 2026 5:00-6:30 pm KSA - 3:00-4:30 pm CET

How do migration trajectories from the Gulf States to Europe and North America reshape settlement pathways and policy responses?

Join the conversation with Bridging Divides researcher @richashivakoti.bsky.social and affiliated researcher @aatique.bsky.social.

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Research Fellow @aatique.bsky.social joins the panel "From Transit to Settlement? Mapping Secondary Mobility from Gulf States to Europe and North America and Its Policy Implications,” on Jan. 20, 2026, with Research Area Lead @richashivakoti.bsky.social moderating.

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Research Affiliate @steinmonteiro.bsky.social explores how pre-arrival job search methods impact immigrants' Canadian labour outcomes, finding social media versus traditional media use leads to different employment results.

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #prearrival #settlementservices #jobs

South Asian Diversity and Employment Experiences in Canada

📣 Inviting South Asian women across Canada: Interested in sharing your lived experiences of diversity and employment integration to help inform community-driven research?

Join @cercmigration.bsky.social for a virtual event this Friday, Jan. 16, 2026, 12-1 p.m. EST 1/2 🧵

#Podcast #Migration #MigrationPodcast #Research #Researcher #Scholar #Asylum #Illegality

In Borders & Belonging Podcast's latest episode, he is joined by Soledad Alvarez Velasco, whose research across Latin America and lived experience migrating from Ecuador inform a powerful conversation on asylum, race, and resistance.

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Influential migration scholar Nicholas De Genova reflects on growing up in Chicago, where racism was a normalized part of everyday life, and how those experiences shaped his groundbreaking work on the production of migrant “illegality” and the cyclical nature of asylum. 1/2 🧵

New research from @lelmek.bsky.social explores how Caribbean festivals like Caribana and Carnival function as powerful sites of cultural preservation and resistance.

🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#DiasporaStudies #CaribbeanCulture #ArtAndActivism

📅 Jan 22, 9:30 AM EEST
📍 Akdeniz University, Antalya
🔗 www.returnmigration.eu/gaps-final-c...

🎤 "Navigating Return Migration: What Next?" conference features keynote speaker @triandafyllidou.bsky.social on "Complex Migration and Coerced Returns". She'll explore non-linear migration trajectories, mixed motivations, and governance challenges in the Mediterranean and beyond.
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🎨 Join CERC Migration + Mabelle Arts on Jan. 29, 12-4pm at East End Arts #Toronto for the report launch of "Leveraging Community Arts for Immigrant Integration".

Learn how arts support #newcomers, plus creative activities & discussions on pathways forward.

FREE: www.torontomu.ca/cerc-migrati...

Join @triandafyllidou.bsky.social at the National University of Singapore as she explores how advanced digital technologies are reshaping work and migration.

📅 Jan. 13, 2026 | 4:00–5:30 PM
❗ In-person only
📍 10 NUS Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore, NUS @ KRC
👉 Register: lnkd.in/edWwHm-m

New research by @richashivakoti.bsky.social and Hari KC questions Nepal's paternalistic migration policies. Are "protective" measures actually restricting women's agency? Authors contrast state discourse with the lived experiences of women migrants.

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How do Kurdish communities in Iran understand elite leadership? Senior Research Fellow Masoud Kianpour and co-authors explore seven distinct categories of eliteness revealing the complex power dynamics facing ethnic minorities in Iran.

🔗: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

More cuts to Canada’s immigration arrivals in 2026 Canada will welcome fewer permanent residents this year, as the federal government moves forward with changes and cuts to its immigration system. Ottawa is expected to admit 380,000 permanent resident...

🇨🇦 is expected to admit 380,000 permanent residents in 2026, 🔽 from 395,000 in 2025, 483,640 in 2024.

@triandafyllidou.bsky.social argues the focus should be maximizing newcomer potential: transnational networks, entrepreneurship skills, and global connections.

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10 years on from Brexit: Did the UK take back control of immigration as promised? 🇬🇧 New #PolicyPaper from Peter William Walsh reveals the gap between Brexit's promises and reality. 🔗 Read the full analysis: www.torontomu.ca/content/dam/...

#Brexit #UKPolitics #Immigration #PolicyResearch

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🚨 #CFP: Researchers are invited to submit manuscripts to the Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques for a special issue: Foreign Qualification Recognition at Twenty: Legislative Evolution, Regulatory Change, and Pathways Forward. 🗓️ Apply by: July 15, 2026 🔗 www.cpp-adp.ca/english-menu 1/2 🧵