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The first MIRRA Research/Policy Brief is published by Michelle Lam entitled “Newcomer Integration and Educating Canadians”. This research brief provides an in-depth analysis of the recent board game tool entitled Refugee Journeys: Identity, intersectionality...
Ray Silvius announced that a publications tab has been added to the Community Engaged Research on Immigration (CERI) Network webpage. The first two publications have been posted. Click Here to find the material ...
In summer 2017, SRUC was commissioned by the Scottish Government to undertake research to improve our understanding of the labour market in Scottish agriculture. One of MIRRA Network members, Philomena de Lima, participated in...
Now available from Vernonpress.com – NEW BOOK from Nathan Kerrigan (member of RPLC MIRRA Network), titled, “A Threatened Rural Idyll: Informal social control, exclusion and the resistance to change in the English Countyside.” About the...
The Migration in Remote and Rural Areas (MIRRA) Network of the Rural Policy Learning Commons (RPLC) is launching the MIRRA Policy and Research Briefs Series. We are looking to publish short (1000-1500 words) synopses...
Li, M., Goetz, S. J., & Weber, B. (2018). Human Capital and Intergenerational Mobility in U.S. Counties. Economic Development Quarterly, 32(1), 18–28. With inequality returning to historically high levels, intergenerational mobility has attracted growing...
The Northern Studies Program at Carleton University is a 1 year intensive Master’s program and 2018-19 will be the 2nd year of our program. The purpose of the Northern Studies programs is to provide...
RPLC Co-Lead Appointed as Member of the Order of Canada Dr. Barbara Neis, one of Memorial’s most distinguished social scientists, was named a member of the Order of Canada “for her innovative research on...
ARTICLE Trapped in the Big City? RE-Thinking Regionalization of Immigration AUTHOR Marc Yvan Valade, PhD Candidate Policy Studies, Yeates School of Graduate Studies, Ryerson University ABSTRACT In the 1990s Canada adopted a policy of...
By Bailey White, CBC News “Experts say students can’t keep up with the rest of the province; principal says the gap is closing. Derrick Fewer, the principal at the Mushuau Innu Natuashish School, starts each day...