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The Toronto Metropolitan Centre for Immigration and Settlement (TMCIS) aims to be a leader in the transdisciplinary exploration of international migration, integration, and diaspora and refugee studies. In addition to supporting research in these areas, the Centre’s mission includes mentoring students and consolidating Toronto Metropolitan University’s reputation as the pre‐eminent site of knowledge development and exchange with governments, community organizations, and other academics.
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We are pleased to announce the release of the Toronto Metropolitan Centre for Immigration and Settlement's Annual Report for the 2023-2024 year!
This event is co-convened by Dr. Henry Parada, Immigration & Settlement Studies MA Program Director and Dr. Zhixi Cecilia Zhuang, Toronto Metropolitan Centre for Immigration and Settlement (TMCIS) Academic Director.
Description: Join us for the 20th anniversary of the Immigration & Settlement Studies MA Program program featuring prominent program alumni and authors. Discussions will explore the authors’ unique insights and experiences that have profoundly shaped their approach to storytelling, delving into prominent themes from their novels, including the distinct challenges that shape different migrant experiences, cultural identity and belonging, intergenerational displacement and trauma, familial reunification, and resilience within the context of Canadian and British colonialism and transnational sociopolitical dynamics that influence and shape diasporic identities.
Panelists:
Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio - ISS Alumni, Author of Reuniting with Strangers
Sheila Murray - ISS Alumni, Author of Finding Edward
Janika Oza - ISS Alumni, Author of A History of Burning
Location: Yeates School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (YSGPS) Interdisciplinary Program Study Space, Daphne Cockwell Centre, 288 Church Street, 7th floor
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact tmcis@torontomu.ca
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We are delighted to share that TMCIS will be hosting the 16th Annual Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS) Conference at Toronto Metropolitan University in May 2025. The conference is entitled 'Canadian, Regional, and International Responses to Forced Migration' and CARFMS is currently accepting proposal submissions that align with conference themes including:
- Research presentations
- Panels, roundtables, or workshops (90 minutes) – please indicate the overall theme and the individual contributors and contributions in your submission
- Film screenings, art exhibits, or other multimedia presentations.
This is an excellent opportunity for emerging scholars and established researchers alike to showcase their work and engage with a broader audience of national and international academics, non-governmental and community organizations, practitioners, and people with lived experiences of displacement.
Submit your application here: CFP Submission Portal (external link, opens in new window)
Latest Publications
Working paper no. 2024/08
Polonization of the British Soil and Home-Making Through Deathscapes: The Far-Right’s Reluctant Transnational Adventures
Rafał Soborski, Michał P. Garapich, and Anna Jochymek (London Metropolitan University, Centre for Global Diversities and Inequalities)
Working paper no. 2024/07
Pathways to Permanence and Immigration Levels: A Critical Policy Discourse Analysis (CPDA) of Struggles and Limits to Societal Membership for Migrants Amidst and Emerging from COVID-19 (2020-2022) in Canada
John Carlaw (Toronto Metropolitan University), Kushan Azadah (York University, Toronto Metropolitan University)
Working paper no. 2024/06
Is Multicultural Nationalism Possible? If it is, what benefits follow?
Tariq Modood (University of Bristol)
Working paper no. 2024/05
Big Pictures: Capitalism, Imperialism, Climate Change, War, and Migration
Stephen Reyna (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
Working paper no. 2024/04
Ethnic Diversity, Immigrant Settlement and Integration, and Municipal Planning in a Small Canadian City: The Case of Brooks, Alberta
Ryan Lok (University of Waterloo), Dr. Zhixi Zhuang (Toronto Metropolitan University)
Research brief no. 2024/02
Picturing the ambiguity of refugees hosting: A photovoice exploration of Ukrainian refugee women’s experiences with their Canadian hosts in the Greater Toronto Area
Dr. Areej Al-Hamad, Dr. Yasin M. Yasin, Dr. Kateryna Metersky, Dr. Sepali Guruge
Research brief no. 2024/01
Unpacking the mystery of the Canadian healthcare system: Ukrainian refugees and healthcare system navigation
Dr. Kateryna Metersky, Dr. Areej Al-Hamad, Dr. Yasin Yasin, Dr. Margareth Zanchetta, Valerie Tan, Tetiana Podobailo
Researcher Highlight 05/2024
Dr. Areej Al-Hamad, Assistant Professor, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing; Research Ethics Board Member, Toronto Metropolitan University
Affiliate Highlight 04/2024
Dr. Kateryna Metersky, Assistant Professor, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing
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.