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RCIS Digital Series, Session 5 – Refugee Resettlement and Integration in Canada: Lived Experience, Lessons Learned, and Promising Practices

Date
February 19, 2021
Time
2:00 PM EST - 4:00 PM EST
Open To
Students, Faculty, Public
Contact
rcis@torontomu.ca


Refugee Resettlement & Integration Series – Session 5

 

Between October 2020 and February 2021, the Ryerson Centre for Immigration and Settlement (RCIS) hosted a six-part digital series focused on Canada’s approach to refugee resettlement and integration. The series 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, policymakers, researchers, and students were brought together to share insights and lessons learned from lived experience, settlement practice, and research.

The fifth session of the series took place on February 19th, 2021 and featured four speakers – Olamide Agboola, Irfan Tarin, Tessy Ojar, and Fahad Amir Nsubuga – discussing their lived experiences of refugee resettlement in Canada. The session was moderated by Sohail Shahidnia, a PhD student in Policy Studies at Ryerson University. 

  • 0:01 (external link) ​ – Opening by Sohail Shahidnia, PhD student in Policy Studies at Ryerson University
  • 0:54 (external link) ​ – Welcome by Dr. Usha George, Director of the Ryerson Centre for Immigration and Settlement


Self-introductions


Question #1 – Tell us about your experience in Canada so far. Where did you stay when you first arrived and how have you built your network?


Question #2 – Who has been the most and the least approachable in your settlement? How useful were the services you accessed? What challenges have you faced, and how have you been able to overcome them?


Question #3 – What is your overall evaluation of your experience in Canada and to what extent do you think that the provincial or federal government provides support?


Question #4 – What resources do communities need to improve refugees’ settlement and how can we ensure the voices of refugees are heard in Canadian society?


 (PDF file)  Read the summary of session 5  (opens in new window) 
View all series sessions

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.