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Friday, February 23, 2018

Zero Draft of the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration is released

We, the Heads of State and Government and High Representatives, meeting in Morocco in 10-11 December 2018, recalling the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants and determined to make an important contribution to enhanced cooperation on international migration in all its dimensions, have adopted this Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and... More

Friday, February 23, 2018

Zero Draft of the Global Compact on Refugees is released

Refugee issues are international in scope and nature, necessitating concerted action by all in a true spirit of international cooperation. Building on the foundation of the international refugee protection regime, the global impact on refugees will strengthen international cooperation to ease pressures on the host countries... More

Friday, February 23, 2018

The 20th National Metropolis Conference is coming to Calgary, March 22-24, 2018

The National Metropolis Conference is an annual forum for researchers, policy makers, representatives from community and settlement organizations to get together to share and exchange knowledge and experience in the field of immigration and settlement in... More

Friday, February 23, 2018

The IOM releases the 2018 World Migration Report

This World Migration Report 2018 is the ninth in the series. Since 2000, IOM has been producing world migration reports to contribute to increased understanding of migration throughout the world. This new edition presents key data and information on migration as well as thematic chapters on highly topical migration... More

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

IOM Becomes a Related Organization to the UN

Member States of the United Nations (UN) today unanimously adopted a resolution approving the Agreement to make the International Organization for Migration (IOM) a Related Organization of the... More

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Measuring well-governed migration: The 2016 Migration Governance Index

Jointly implemented with the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the project involves the development of a policy-benchmarking framework to assess the extent to which national migration policies facilitate orderly, safe and well managed migration, as laid out in SDG Target 10.7. The framework is composed of over 70 indicators grouped under 5... More

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Immediate Release: Metropolis launches Professional Development programme

The Metropolis Project has mobilized top Canadian and international expertise on migration and integration to offer a one of a kind training programme for Canadian and international senior policy makers, practitioners and the business sector. The programme has been developed in close collaboration with an international Experts Advisory Committee,... More

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Summer School in Turkey: “International Migration in the Post-Soviet Space”

The Migration Research Center at Koç University (MiReKoc)  and Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), is pleased to announce that the application period for IV  International Summer School entitled “International Migration in the Post-Soviet Space: Reflections, Patterns and Implications” has started. This year's summer school will be held on 29... More

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Book Release: Afghanistan – 2014 and beyond

The Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior has released a timely publication on the future of Afghanistan, a nation that has been gripped by war and a continual flow of refugees seeking asylum all over the globe. Metropolis is pleased to note that editors of this volume include Peter Webinger, one of Metropolis' Expert... More

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

2014 National Metropolis Conference

The National Metropolis Conference is an annual forum for researchers, policy makers, representatives from community and settlement organizations to get together to share and exchange knowledge and experience in the field of immigration and settlement. The 16th National Metropolis Conference will be held on March 13-15th, 2014 at the Hilton... More

Friday, September 13, 2013

Call for Papers: Post-Soviet Diasporas: Identities, Linkages, and Transformations

Post-Soviet Diasporas:  Identities, Linkages, and Transformations  Conference Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies  Metropolis Migration and Diaspora Studies and The Magna Fund for Russian Studies Carleton University March 20-21, 2014 Call for Paper The Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Metropolis and Migration... More

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Migration Policy Practice – Howard Duncan writes about Immigrant integration as a factor in disaster preparedness

The situation of foreign nationals in large-scale disasters receives comparatively little tention in the emergency response literature. Of note in the case of Japan’s 2011 earthquake and tsunami was the large number of foreigners who left Japan... More

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