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Lunch and Learn - Dr. Ashraful Alam
- Date
- March 29, 2023
- Time
- 12:00 PM EDT - 2:00 PM EDT
- Location
- CERC Migration office (in the Toronto Eaton Centre)
- Open To
- Public, Students, Faculty, Researchers
Thank you for joining us for the Lunch & Learn event, co-hosted by TMCIS and CERC Migration, that showcased a study conducted by Dr. Ashraful Alam (external link) from the University of Otago (external link) in New Zealand and a co-applicant in the Beyond the Metropolis research project. Beyond the Metropolis aims to better understand the factors and dynamics influencing immigrant attraction and retention by comparing eight small and mid-sized cities in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
During the Lunch & Learn, Dr. Alam presented a study that aimed to understand how localized small-town realities and constraints shape newcomer support infrastructures in New Zealand's small towns.
Dr. Melissa Kelly and Dr. Zhixi Zhuang from Toronto Metropolitan University co-chaired this presentation.
ASHRAFUL ALAM is a Senior Lecturer in Planning and Urbanism at the University of Otago, New Zealand, where he leads the Master of Planning Programme. He is interested in migrant politics of housing and belonging in receiving cities in Australasia and South Asia. He often uses experimental user-centred methodologies to empower his research participants. He is one of the co-applicants in the SSHRC-funded project, Beyond the Metropolis, exploring migrant retention capacities of small- and mid-sized cities in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
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.