/channels/taxonomy/term/6585/all en /channels/channels/news/fixing-immigration-policy-strengthen-nonprofit-sector-policy-magazine-357404 <p>May 21, 2024 | In Policy Magazine’s Emerging Voices series each year, Max Bell School MPPs are asked to write articles on issues important to them. In the sixth article for 2024, Jamil Tanimu emphasizes the critical importance of effective social services that would build and diversify the Canadian workforce. With over six years of experience in International Development, Jamil's passion for promoting the welfare of displaced people comes from his own upbringing in a conflict zone. He's dedicated to improving access to public services and making a difference in people's lives.</p> Wed, 22 May 2024 14:01:30 +0000 webfull 200134 at /channels /channels/channels/news/deputy-minister-immigration-refugees-and-citizenship-speaks-max-bell-students-351595 <p>October 3rd, 2023 | The Max Bell School of Public Policy was honoured to receive Christiane Fox, Deputy Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship. During this session planned by <a href="/maxbellschool/our-people/visiting-professors-and-scholars/olivia-smith" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Visiting Scholar Olivia Smith</a>, the Deputy Minister spoke to the fifth cohort of MPP students and gave an overview of the immigration policy process in Canada.</p> Tue, 03 Oct 2023 17:47:32 +0000 webfull 193501 at /channels /channels/channels/news/does-immigration-really-increase-crime-347099 <p>Many people who oppose immigration say that it increases crime. But does immigration really affect crime? Studying a country whose proportion of migrants has tripled in less than ten years, researchers find immigration significantly impacts people’s perceptions of crime but has no effect on actual crime.</p> <p>The research, led by <a href="//www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/nicolas-ajzenman">Nicolas Ajzenman</a>, a professor of economics at ±«ÓãÖ±²¥, shows that while migrants don’t cause crime rates to increase, false perceptions endure anyway.</p> Wed, 29 Mar 2023 13:50:30 +0000 webfull 188648 at /channels /channels/channels/news/pearl-eliadis-reproductive-and-sexual-health-services-vulnerable-women-quebec-339438 <p>There is a glaring gap in Quebec's healthcare system: Women whose immigration status is precarious are systematically denied access to critical reproductive and sexual health services. This, says Max Bell School professor <a href="//www.mcgill.ca/maxbellschool/our-people/mpp-teaching-faculty/pearl-eliadis">Pearl Eliadis</a>, must change.</p> Tue, 03 May 2022 15:51:15 +0000 webfull 179965 at /channels /channels/channels/news/professor-francesco-amodio-health-care-staff-shortages-336112 <p>Professor Francesco Amodio of ISID has penned an op/ed piece in the Montreal Gazette, discussing how the shortage of health care workers has not prompted the Quebec government to implement policies which will attract, admit and retain health-care workers.</p> Tue, 11 Jan 2022 16:11:08 +0000 webfull 176121 at /channels /channels/channels/event/international-student-services-visa-work-permit-info-session-grad-hive-edition-296839 <p><strong>June 3rd 1:00-1:30pm, Brown Building Room 5001 - <a href="https://caps.myfuture.mcgill.ca/students/index.php?mode=form&id=a14c6fb7efb4ed1d5e29f2a03b16d868&s=event&ss=ws" target="_blank">RSVP in myFuture</a></strong></p> Fri, 03 May 2019 04:44:19 +0000 webfull 148962 at /channels /channels/channels/news/amnesty-caribbean-immigrants-britain-question-moral-and-human-rights-protection-286654 <p>Prime Minister Theresa May has apologised to Caribbean leaders over the Windrush generation controversy, at a Downing Street meeting. She said she was "genuinely sorry" about the anxiety caused by the Home Office threatening the children of Commonwealth citizens with deportation. The UK government "valued" the contribution they had made, she said, and they had a right to stay in the UK. It comes amid reports some are still facing deportation. (source BBC News)</p> <p> </p> Wed, 18 Apr 2018 17:36:10 +0000 webfull 137394 at /channels /channels/channels/news/experts-daca-and-tps-283863 <p>Jose Mauricio Gaona, O’Brien Fellow at the ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism</p> <p>Under US law, immigration authorities may exercise discretionary powers to allow otherwise inadmissible or removable aliens to enter or remain in the country. Such powers include, but are not limited to: (i) deferred actions, 8 U.S.C. § 1227(d)(2), e.g., DACA, (ii) parole to enter the U.S. on humanitarian grounds, 8 U.S.C. § 1182(d)(5)(A), and (iii) Temporary Protected Status for foreign nationals of designated states and circumstances, 8 U.S.C. § 1254(a), e.g., El Salvador, Haiti.</p> Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:15:15 +0000 webfull 134075 at /channels /channels/news/international-holocaust-remembrance-day-january-27-241340 Mon, 26 Jan 2015 19:32:14 +0000 webfull 107769 at /channels /channels/news/leurope-doit-respecter-la-mobilite-des-migrants-254740 <p> Tue, 25 Aug 2015 19:25:53 +0000 webfull 111915 at /channels