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Refugee Resettlement & Integration in Canada Series

Between October 2020 and February 2021, the Toronto Metropolitan Centre for Immigration and Settlement (TMCIS) hosted a six-part digital series focused on Canada’s approach to refugee resettlement and integration. The series was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and aimed to engage stakeholders to consider Canada’s approach to refugee resettlement and identify changes to policy and practice that will make Canada more inclusive and responsive to refugees’ needs. Over the course of the six sessions, refugees, settlement workers and service providers, researchers, and students were brought together to share insights and lessons learned from lived experience, settlement practice, and research.

Watch the trailer and then check out the six sessions in full!

This series was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).


Series coordinators: Saad El Hakmi and Sohail Shahidnia
Series director: Dr. Usha George
Series producer: Tearney McDermott

TMCIS occupies space in the traditional and unceded territory of nations including the Anishnaabeg, the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples, and territory which is also now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. This territory is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit, as well as the Williams Treaties signed with multiple Mississaugas.