Category: sector research

CERIS – The Ontario Metropolis Centre was one of five research centres that promoted policy-relevant research about immigration, settlement, and diversity in Canada. It existed from 1996 to 2013. CERIS maintained a useful virtual library of reports, working papers, and more. When CERIS closed, that repository was lost. I was able to download 408 documents before the repository was lost. While I've been wanting to post them all individually, I haven't been able to, and wanted to share the reports.

In this May 2025 Civic Tech TO session, Aniket Kali reveals how immigrant voting patterns in the GTA have shifted toward the Conservatives. His analysis, using data visualization and mapping, combines electoral results with census data to create visual stories that challenge assumptions about immigrant voting blocs in Canadian politics.

Watch the final presentations from the top 10 semi-finalist teams of the Migration Data Challenge 2025 from the Bridging Divides program at TMU. This was a first-of-its-kind competition in Canada that invited undergraduate and graduate students from across the country to turn raw migration data into meaningful, real-world insight.

This November 2024 Community-Based Research Canada presentation explored research that examines the multifaceted health literacy challenges faced by racialized and immigrant communities.

2024 was not a great year to be a Newcomer to Canada. Beyond the increased racism, discrimination, being scapegoated for Canada's governance and corporate failures, it was also a year of a research pile-on about immigrant employment and "how to help employers get it" that hasn't really moved the needle at all.

In this July 2024 Pathways to Prosperity webinar, speakers explore the questions How do governments use research? How can academics improve the impact of their research? to examine the use of research among provincial and municipal governments.

This May 2024 Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration conference brought together an interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral group of researchers and leaders from Canadian and international civil society, business and government to reflect on the implications of the rapid development of advanced digital technologies (ADTs) for migrant integration in Canada and around the world.

In this August 2021 Building Migrant Resilience in Cities webinar researchers presented a project that documents how access to information influenced collective resilience, settlement, and social inclusion among Yazidi refugees and Turkish-speaking refugee claimants in York Region.

This May 2023 CERC in Migration and Integration workshop brought together scholars from different disciplines to introduce their research on digital technologies and datafication in migration and to discuss its ambivalent and contradictory role for migrants compared to refugees, as well as the unsettling consequences of the use of datafication in bordering and policymaking.