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The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: What To Expect From New Canada Immigration Minister Rachel Bendayan, The Government of Canada is investing more than $9.3 million to support Francophone minority communities, Why international students could be a critical factor in bolstering Canada’s economic resilience, and more.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Talent to Win: Employers’ perspectives on immigrant underemployment and the immense upside of solving it, Canada has always had a ‘tap on, tap off’ immigration policy aimed primarily at filling jobs, Canada’s skyrocketing rates of non-permanent residents are the highest they’ve ever been, Majority of immigrants struggle to get ahead in the workplace, one-third face discrimination: OMNI Poll, and more.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Federal Politics: Concern over immigration quadruples over last 48 months, International student enrolment dropping below federal cap, Universities Canada warns, Reverse Immigration From Canada: Why New Immigrants Are Moving Back?, Canada turning away more foreigners amid rise in anti-immigration sentiment, and more.

This report explores how smartphones, viewed as essential lifeline devices, can be designed to better serve individuals in vulnerable, disadvantaged, or transitional contexts. It emphasizes the critical role smartphones play in providing access to resources, services, and vital communication, especially in precarious situations such as natural disasters, migration, and poverty.

This research explores the integration and trends of technology in social work over three decades (1985-2018). It aims to identify how different technologies have been adopted in various social work domains by analyzing a large sample of scholarly literature. It aims to identify how technology has been adopted across various domains of social work practice and to pinpoint the specific types of technologies that have been utilized.

This research is about the use of advanced digital technologies (ADTs) in migration management. It explores how these technologies are being implemented and employed by state and non-state actors to manage migration processes, the types of technologies being used, their purposes, and the implications for migrants' rights, particularly privacy.

This report highlights the language limitations of most digital humanitarian services, leaving millions of crisis-affected individuals excluded. It demonstrates the demand to make services available in the language that people need. Researchers propose a collective approach to language technology development. Researchers analyzed the barriers to inclusion in digital humanitarian services and identified best practices and potential solutions.

Someone wrote that no technology project team is complete without a social worker, because "Social work excels at understanding the entire system while also understanding the needs of the individual." In our sector, no technology project should be considered complete without front line workers and Newcomers present, for the same reason. We must centre staff and Newcomers in all technology-related planning and decision-making.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Ottawa pledges $362 million to provinces, cities to temporarily house asylum seekers, Provinces introducing measures to improve integrity of post-secondary education for international students, The good, the bad and the ugly: who is to blame when policy lacks clarity, coordination and is contradictory? and more.