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Research Internships for students at the Lincoln Alexander Law School, TMU

Department: CERC in Migtation and Integration

Contract length: Two Research Intern positions, with a term starting Sept. 2024, ending March, 2025.

Hours of work per week: 12 hours/week, in person (up to a total of 420 hours)

Rate of pay: 25$/hour

About the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration

The Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration program (CERC Migration) is led by Professor Anna Triandafyllidou. The program is producing innovative and usable knowledge on the links between migration and post-migration processes, forced and voluntary mobility, internal and international migration, and the role of countries of origin and transit. CERC Migration pays special attention to Canadian realities while also engaging in comparative research with and among other countries in various global regions. The CERC Migration program at TMU is home to a team of 25 full-time researchers ranging at post-doctoral and senior level positions, over 20 graduate student scholarship holders, as well as part-time research assistants that support the program’s various projects.

The program also hosts internationally recognized researchers, civil society fellows, and early career researchers for research stays throughout the year through its Scholar of Excellence, Global Exchange Fellow, and Civil Society Fellow streams. CERC Migration engages with academic, practitioner, and public audiences through knowledge exchange of webinars, creative storytelling projects, a Policy Brief series, Working Paper series, conferences, and training workshops, reaching more than 8,000 scholars, students, policy-makers and representatives of civil society in Canada and globally. The CERC Migration program is an initiative of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and is administered by the Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat (TIPS).

The opportunity

The CERC Migration is looking for two Research Interns from TMU's Law School to work on the governance of migration and asylum from critical perspectives. We are particularly interested candidates with research interest in the Americas with a focus on the asylum system in Latin America, Central America or the United States but other world regions are not excluded.

Relevant themes for research include: Critical review and analysis of the policy developments in the field of asylum seeking in the United States with a particular focus on the creation of an online system for asylum appointments and the assessment of that; critical analysis of the cooperation between Mexico and the United States in relation to asylum governance; critical analysis of the schemes for international protection / residence rights for Venezuelan migrants in Latin America and in North America; and possibly a review of Canada’s position in relation to asylum governance in the Americas. Similar themes referring to other world regions are also welcome.

The successful candidates would have a solid interest in the global governance of migration and asylum and would provide a socio-legal perspective to the analysis of the above policy and governance issues.

The successful candidates would work in a peer environment of several full-time researchers and would benefit from that as well as from a variety of research training opportunities offered within the context of CERC Migration. The researcher will work under the supervision of Professor Anna Triandafyllidou. The position is based at CERC Migration, within Toronto Metropolitan University, and requires in-person presence.

The successful candidates will spend about 75% of their time in the above research work (precise topic to be discussed with the successful candidate) and 25% of their time in attending/participating in CERC Migration research and training events, meetings, and other team support work.

Qualifications

  • 2nd or 3rd year student at the Lincoln Alexander Law School, TMU.
  • Previous work experience in collaborative projects or teams an asset.
  • Fluent in oral and written English, other languages an asset.
  • International experience is also an asset particularly if in the field of migration or asylum.

How to apply

Candidates are invited to submit a complete application by May 15, 2024 to the job board at the Faculty of Law (external link) ,  with the following documents combined in one file clearly named with the candidate’s last name and first name:

  1. A brief CV (2-4 pages), and a motivation letter (up to 2 pages) explaining what skills you bring to the position and why we should hire you.
  2. Undergraduate transcript as well as the most recent TMU transcript.
  3. A list of 2 potential referees, which may include current or past employers or academic supervisors.

Toronto Metropolitan University’s commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

We encourage all First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples or Indigenous peoples of North America, to self-identify in their applications and also reach out to Tracey King, Indigenous Human Resources Lead for support during the selection process.