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Hacking migration: Bringing Silicon Valley’s hackathon vibe to the study of...
I’m the least tech-savvy person I know, next to my mother. I rely on my laptop and Blackberry to get me through the day but the thought of programming code gives me the shakes. I am in awe that there...
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Canada’s guest worker problem: Just not going away
When pundits sit down to write the story of the fall of Stephen Harper’s government, will it include the image of a middle-aged waitress from small-town Canada, fighting back tears after losing her job...
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Canada’s new vision of citizenship: a privilege in two classes
Community Cup 2014. Credit Mark Velichka. Every year, several hundred people from across Ottawa gather in a city park in late June for a day-long festival of soccer (football), sweat, and citizenship....
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When Welcoming Communities Spark Change
In the news of the unaccompanied minors flooding into the United States this year, it would be easy to focus on how the arrival of thousands of children has sparked a backlash from overwhelmed border...
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What are we talking about when we talk about migrants?
As a journalist I’ve long been fascinated by the interplay between public opinion, politics and migration policy, and you can’t unpack the complexities of public opinion without talking about how...
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A Gentleman and a Scholar: Migrationist Community Mourns the Loss of Prof....
Graeme Hugo speaks to students in Ottawa © 2014 Lara Hill, Metropolis It was one of those steamy late June days in Ottawa, blasting sun one minute and drenching rain the next. Inside the minimalist...
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Love, Lies and Borderlines
Part of the Canadian government’s campaign to raise public awareness of the pitfalls of marriage fraud. Many years ago, a friend in Europe told me her brother was about to commit marriage fraud. Only...
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What We Need to Learn from the Tragedy in the Mediterranean: The Migrationist...
Migrants in Lampedusa by Sara Prestianni / noborder network In his day job, François Crépeau is a teacher and researcher. As the Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Professor in Public International Law at...
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‘If we want people to come the legal way, we have to clean up our act’: Part...
A boatload of refugees rescued 20 miles north of Libya by the Italian Navy during Operation Mare Nostrum in 2014. Massimo Sestini’s stunning photograph took second prize in this year’s World Press...
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Alan’s story: You Have the Power
Alan and Galip Kurdi, from a family photo The world awoke today to news that Alan Kurdi, the little boy whose lifeless body was found on a Turkish beach yesterday, was part of a Syrian refugee family...
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Open arms, open hearts: Canada’s (belated) response to Syrian refugees
A forum on refugee resettlement drew a more than 1,500 people to Ottawa City Hall last October. It’s a little over three months since the Government of Canada began expediting the resettlement of...
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