Call for Proposals – addressing the research needs of civil society organizations

The CERC Migration program aims to produce innovative and usable knowledge exploring the challenges and opportunities involved in processes of settlement and integration of newcomers in Canada. For the purposes of its research, the CERC Migration sets up a Data and Methods Lab, the aim of which includes serving the research needs of civil society stakeholders. The Lab gathers and generates quantitative and qualitative data to map the new realities of global migration and contributes to answering relevant policy questions.

Thematic Areas

We are inviting interested stakeholder organizations to submit specific research questions that arise from their work by 30 June 2020.

The research questions should broadly relate to the following thematic areas:

1. The use of pre- and post-arrival settlement services by newcomers to Canada (either as permanent residents, as temporary migrants, or their transition to permanent status), and the impact of service on migrants’ employment and overall integration trajectories in Canada. We welcome research questions that focus specifically on women, youth, families, education, language, training and employment. We also welcome research that refers to specific provinces or cities.  The CERC team will seek to answer research questions using online surveys, interviews/focus groups, and the Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB) – Settlement Services Module.
2. Social media use among newcomers to Canada, during the first five years of their residence; or social media use among stakeholder organizations and the lessons learned on the processes of settlement and integration for newcomers to Canada. We welcome specific research questions that relate to labour market insertion and entrepreneurship, information sharing, building networks and overall socio-cultural integration, or issues of political participation, whether in Canadian or homeland politics. The CERC Migration Data and Methods Lab is implementing advanced techniques of collection and analysis of social media data for the purposes of studying migration.