Migration Working Group: Year-end Symposium

Opening remarks:

Alka Kumar, Senior Research Fellow, Mentorship Program Lead and Bridging Divides Affiliated Researcher

Anna Triandafyllidou, Global Migration Institute Scientific Director and Bridging Divides Scientific Director

Panel 1: Contextualising Immigrant Identities and Communities

Chair: Sharon Broughton

Co-chair: Jihae Yoon

• Beyond the 'Left-Behind' Narrative: Care Arrangements, Educational Performances and Aspirations of Young Caregivers in Indonesian Migrant Communities | Michelle Andrina

• Protection or Precarity: Carceral Protectionism and the Structural Failure of Canada's VTIP-TRP for Labour Trafficking Survivors | Tenzin Khentse

• The “Duality of Care” in South Asian & Muslim families | Rezwana Rahman

• “Nobody gets their sh*t together by 30!”: Queer temporality and service use | Michael Butac
• Belonging as Policy: An Analysis of Bill 84 and Racialized Migrants | Émilie Thibault-Béland

Discussant: Mehrunissa Ali, Toronto Metropolitan University

Panel 2: Approaches for Planning and Building Inclusive Communities and Cities 

Chair: Farzan Moosavi

Co-chair: Yui Matsushita

• A Mixed Qualitative Approach to Understand Top-Down and Bottom-Up Food Systems Planning | Yan Ling (Venus) Cheung
• Access Without Fear: Examining Health Care Barriers for Non-Status Migrants in Canadian Cities | Mishika Khurana
• Racialized Women’s Experiences of Urban Agriculture Across Two Cities and Their Relationship to Access, Belonging, and Wellbeing | Asli Nur
• Immigration, trade and productivity in services: Evidence from U.K. firms | Mohammad Faizus Salehin
• Housing Precarity as a Social Determinant of Health Among Black Immigrants | Suleekha Hirsi

Discussant: John Carlaw, Toronto Metropolitan University

Panel 3: Immigrants, Health and Social Service Inclusion

Chair: Lina Al Waqfi

Co-chair: Praise Kalu

• Culturally tailored lifestyle intervention for cardiovascular health among South Asian immigrant women in Canada | Yamini Bhatt
• Detecting AI-Generated Images in Immigration-Related Social Media Content | Yosef Moustafa
• Connecting Care: Telehealth Access and Preferences Among Immigrants in Ontario | Balikca Visvalingam
• Stories of Mental Health and Care Access Across Displacement: Experiences of Displaced Ukrainians in Ontario, Canada | Kristina Tsvygun

Discussant: Alisson Petrozziello, Toronto Metropolitan University  

Panel 4: Digital Borders and Virtual Pathways: How Technology Shapes the Migrant Experience                    

Chair: Michael Butac

Co-chair: Jane Tran

• Examining intermediary dynamics in international student migrations: association, affect and algorithms | Rica Agnes Castaneda

• Beyond Two-Way Integration: Receiving Communities, Migrant Experience, and the Conditions of Inclusion in Canada | Tazeen Nuwari Anwar

• Responsible AI and Ethics in Migration Studies: Governance, Digital Narratives, and Migrant Experiences | Zarif Masud
• Technology for community-based problem solving | Sara Goswami
• Hidden in Plain Sight: Generative AI and Newcomer Youth Literacy | Raeldri Pazza

Discussant: Atefeh Mashatan, Toronto Metropolitan University

Opening remarks:

Alka Kumar, Senior Research Fellow, Mentorship Program Lead and Bridging Divides Affiliated Researcher

Anna Triandafyllidou, Global Migration Institute Scientific Director and Bridging Divides Scientific Director

Panel 5: Labour Market Access and Inclusive Policy Thinking

Chair: Rica Agnes Castaneda

Co-chair: Balikca Visvalingam

• Strengthening Canada’s Approach to Immigrant Workforce Inclusion: A Drive Towards Sustainable Labour-Market Integration | Jane Amachree

• Employers and the Workforce Integration of Skilled Newcomers | Sharon Broughton
• When home is not an advantage: Refugee entrepreneurs and export destination choices  | Yu Wei Ye
• DT-MAPPO: Modeling Immigrant Labour Market Dynamics Through Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning | Lina Al Waqfi
• Becoming Workers, Not Belonging: International Students and the Canadian Experience Class | Hawa Namiiro-Leonard

Discussant: Rupa Banerjee, Toronto Metropolitan University

Panel 6: Systems of Inclusion: Navigating Policy, Technology, and Design     

Chair: Tareq Alsaleh 

Co-chair: Zarif Masud

• READING THE OFFICER’S MIND: Producing the “Genuine” Relationship in Spousal Sponsorship Decision-Making | Waheed Jalalzada
• Trustworthy AI without centralizing newcomer data | Jamil Arbas
• From Classroom to Community: Practicum Learning in Women-Centred Support Services | Yui Matsushita
• Bill C-12 and the Governance of Refugee Protection in Canada | Yusuf Said Yildirim
• IOM in Johannesburg: Shaping Policy, Missing Practice | Nick Dreher

Discussant: Pedro Seguel, Toronto Metropolitan University

Panel 7: Innovative Storytelling Approaches using Technology  

Chair: Émilie Thibault-Béland

Co-chair: Suleekha Hirsi

• Room for Change: Understanding Structural Barriers and Pathways to Reducing Overcrowding for Recent Immigrants in the GTA | Jane Tran
• Optimistic or Uncomfortable? Examining Privacy Perceptions of Immigrants Towards Blockchain-based Personal Health Record Adoption Intentions | Dane Vanderkooi
• Supporting Multilingual Literacy in the Early Years: An Analysis of Ontario’s Curricula and the Perspectives on their Implementation by Newcomer Caregivers and Educators | Praise Kalu
• What Does the Screen Owe Young Migrants? Explores how creative media representations emotionally shape young migrants’ sense of belonging and identity through animation and visual metaphor | Jihae Yoon
• Public Interior As An Experiential Environment For Immigrant Youth Well-Being And Social Integration | Hadeel Sinjab

Discussant: Anna Triandafyllidou, Toronto Metropolitan University

Panel 8: Urban Systems: Designing for mobility, equity, and well-being

Chair: Michelle Andrina

Co-chair: Venus Cheung 

• Transit Investment, Displacement, and Land Value Capture in Toronto: Exploring Equitable Urban Development | Riley Locke 
• How Immigrants Travel in Canadian Cities: Observing Daily Mobility, Understanding Travel Choices, and Building AI Tools for Better Transit Planning | Tareq Alsaleh
• Scalable Urban Aerial Mobility Infrastructure for On-Demand Services | Farzan Moosavi
• Migrants’ Perception and Lived Experience of Restorativness in Urban Built Environment | Maliheh Nouri

Discussant: Bilal Farooq, Toronto Metropolitan University