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Wilfrid Laurier University Office of Research Services
May 24, 2012
 
 
Canadian Excellence
 


International Migration Research Centre

The International Migration Research Centre is a research centre whose mandate is to serve as a focal point for debate, research, policy analysis, and proposal development related to international migration and mobility at the global, national and regional scale.


Rationale:

Migration is one of the major political and humanitarian challenges facing the world in the twenty-first century. In coping with this enormous challenge, the International Migration Organization identifies four main pillars of migration management: migration and development, facilitating migration, regulating migration, and forced migration. Each of these pillars demands multiple research and policy responses...

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International Migration Research Centre – IMRC

Balsillie School of International Affairs,

67 Erb Street West

Waterloo, ON N2L 6C2

Phone: 226-772 3138

Fax: 226-772 3004 


CIGI Chair Jonathan Crush speaks on Migration and Development

CIGI Chair Jonathan Crush speaks on Migration and Development

Jonathan Crush, the CIGI Chair of Migration and Development and IMRC Research associate of the IMRC speaks to David Welch of the BSIA on the nexus between migration and development.
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Public Lecture by Sucha Singh Gill on Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India
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Diaspora Newsletter "Roots & Routes" Released
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Jenna Hennebry and Janet McLaughlin Appeared on CTV's ProvinceWide Sunday April 15, 2012
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Temporary Foreign Workers Canada Blacklist: Jason Kenney Wants Permanent Ban On Employers Who Abuse Migrant Workers
(Headline - Apr 23)
Gunn Award for Best Historical Essay on International Migration in Canada - $1,000 Award - submission extension moved to May 14, 2012
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Mandate:

The Centre will establish research relationships and seminars encouraging involvement with all Laurier faculties including Arts, Social Work and SBE. Activities conducted under this mandate include sponsoring research, assisting with the development of research proposals, conducting seminars, organizing and conducting conferences, and linking members of the business community, community organizations and governmental actors with academic scholars and scholarship.

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Waterloo Region Migrant Workers Interest group formation

IMRC researchers involved in creation of support group for migrant workers in the Waterloo Region


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