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Refugee Family Reunification Conference
- Date
- December 14, 2022 - December 15, 2022
- Time
- 9:30 AM EST - 4:30 PM EST
- Location
- POD-250 and Virtual
- Open To
- Public, Students, Faculty, Researchers
On December 14-15th, 2022, TMCIS hosted a two-day multilingual (Arabic, Dari, Pashto, and English) hybrid conference that focused on the family reunification trajectories of refugees in Canada. The conference was held in collaboration with the City of Toronto's Newcomer Office, the Private Refugee Sponsor Network (Ontario), the Syrian Canadian Foundation, Afghan Women's Organization Refugee and Immigrant Services, and Muslim Children's Aid and Support Services.
The two-day event brought together refugees from past and recent cohorts, refugee sponsors, settlement workers and service providers, researchers, and students who shared insights from lived experiences, settlement practices, and research activities related to refugees and family reunification.
The conference was funded by SSHRC.
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.