Canada’s immigration landscape is changing.
Once viewed as a relatively welcoming country to newcomers, Canada has, since 2024, introduced more restrictive immigration policies, reduced financial support for settlement organizations, and increased its focus on enforcement. Yet we know relatively little about how these changes are experienced in everyday life.
Using interviews, stakeholder mapping, and quantitative data analysis, this project asks: How have recent changes to Canada’s context of reception affected migrants, community organizations, and government operations?
Project Team
Project Leads
Dr. Irene Bloemraad
Co-Director, UBC Centre for Migration Studies
Professor, UBC Political Science & Sociology
Dr. Caitlyn Yates
Postdoctoral Fellow, UBC Centre for Migration Studies
Research Assistants
- Subaita Fairooz, Doctoral Student, UBC Political Science
- Naila Rahman, Master’s Student, UBC Political Science
- Emilio Freire Raymond, Master’s Student, UBC Sociology
Ouputs
Work in progress.
Keywords
Precarious migration, out-of-status immigrants, immigration enforcement Canada, settlement organizations, immigration policy Canada, British Columbia, immigration services
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This project receives support from a UBC Hampton Established Scholar Grant, Migrant Integration in the Mid-21st Century: Bridging Divides, and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).
