CERC Migration Policy Briefs

CERC Migration Policy Brief series is curated by Naomi Alboim, Senior Policy Fellow, CERC Migration, and Anna Triandafyllidou, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration. The series provides background and policy advice on critical issues facing policy decision makers located in Canada and internationally.

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(PDF file) Ensuring the success of the new care-worker pilots: Applying lessons from the past. CERC Migration Policy Brief 22, Sept. 2024.

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(PDF file) Durable Solutions for Syrian Refugees: Safe, Voluntary Returns and Beyond. CERC Migration Policy Brief 21, May 2024.

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(PDF file) Essential but unprotected: Migrant farmworkers in Canada. CERC Migration Policy Brief 20, April 2024.

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(PDF file) Reframing Migration: The Use of Visual Communication by Government Institutions. CERC Migration Policy Brief 19, March 2024.

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(PDF file) Ontario Colleges and International Students: A Pivotal Time. CERC Migration Policy Brief 18, Feb. 2024.

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(PDF file) Rethinking EU-Africa Migration Cooperation. CERC Migration Policy Brief 17, Jan. 2024.

(PDF file) Saving lives at sea: Learning through failure or failing to learn?. CERC Migration Policy Brief 16, Aug. 2023.

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(PDF file) What Canada gets right (and wrong) in economic pathways for displaced talent. CERC Migration Policy Brief 15, July 2023.

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(PDF file) Improving outcomes for displaced populations in Mexico. CERC Migration Policy Brief 14, June 2023.

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(PDF file) Towards a better implementation of the UNHCR urban refugee policy. CERC Migration Policy Brief 13, May 2023.

(PDF file) Out of the shadows: A proposal for the regularization of migrants without status in Canada CERC Migration Policy Brief 12, Feb. 2023.

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(PDF file) Régularisations de migrants sans statut en Europe : Étendue, effet et leçons tirées. CERC Migration Bulletin Politique 11, février 2023.

(PDF file) Regularizations of migrants without status in Europe: Scope, impact and lessons learned. CERC Migration Policy Brief 11, Feb. 2023.

(PDF file) Agri-food systems, migrant labour and exploitation in Southern and Northern Europe. CERC Migration Policy Brief 10, Jan. 2023.

(PDF file) Migration Governance and Data Saturation: Is Less More? CERC Migration Policy Brief 09, Sept. 2022.

(PDF file) Ensuring the Success of International Students: A collaborative model between governments, post-secondary institutions and the settlement sector. CERC Migration Policy Brief 08, Aug. 2022.

(PDF file) Globally Trained Local Talent: Opening pathways for internationally educated professionals to strengthen Ontario’s health care system. CERC Migration Policy Brief 07, Mar. 2022.

(PDF file) Improving the Attraction and Retention of Internationally Educated Healthcare Professionals in Small and Rural Communities. CERC Migration Policy Brief 06, Jan. 2022.

(PDF file) Expanding Refugee Pathways to Canada: Strategies for welcoming Afghan and other refugees. CERC Migration Policy Brief 05, Nov. 2021.

(PDF file) Towards a Unified Model of Refugee Resettlement. CERC Migration Policy Brief 04, Sept. 2021.

(PDF file) Equitable Access: Implementing the Temporary Resident to Permanent Resident Pathway CERC Migration Policy Brief 03, Jun. 2021.

(PDF file) Leveraging human resources for long-term prosperity: Expanding pathways to permanence for lower-skill temporary workers in Canada. CERC Migration Policy Paper 02, May 2021.

(PDF file) How Canada can address skills shortages by improving access to economic pathways for refugees and displaced people in Latin America. CERC Migration Policy Brief 01, Apr. 2021.