Carleton launches new research centre on international migration and settlement

On February 1, 2010, the Centre for International Migration and Settlement Studies (CIMSS) was launched at a ceremony hosted by Dr. Roseann O’Reilly Runte, President and Vice-Chancellor of Carleton University, and attended by the Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, and more than 80 other distinguished guests representing research, policy, and service communities.

As part of the launch, a panel discussion was held on international migration and settlement challenges in the 21^st century. Chaired by Dr. Howard Duncan, Executive Head of the Metropolis Project, the panel featured Abraham Abraham, UNHCR Representative in Canada; Peter Showler, Director, Refugee Forum, University of Ottawa; Chris Worswick, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Carleton University; and Hindia Mohamoud, Project Director, Ottawa Local Immigration Partnership. The video of the panel discussion will be available on Carleton University’s Integration-Net website at: http://integration-net.ca/english/media/index.cfm.

As a Carleton University Research Centre, CIMSS will be housed in the School of Social Work, Faculty of Public Affairs. It will build on the 25 years’ work of the Research Resource Division for Refugees.

The new Centre will be an interdisciplinary hub for research, training, and publishing on international migration and settlement. It will focus particularly on the settlement, adaptation, and integration of immigrants and refugees into Canadian society while, at the same time, keeping an international perspective for comparison with other countries of immigration.

For more information on CIMSS, please email to: adnan_turegun@carleton.ca.