Our goal is to create a highly active research cluster in the broad area of immigration policy. We aim to develop a diverse interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary program of research related to the factors that affect the political discourse related to international migration and support and/or hinder the way individuals navigate different international migration pathways. These pathways include humanitarian migration, family migration and economic migration.
A comprehensive approach to considering how to structure policies and programs that admit and support the post-migration success of immigrants is ultimately needed in order to ensure the success of any immigration program. In addition, how immigration programs are structured and implemented is ultimately both the outcome of the political process as well as a factor that determines the subsequent politics related to immigration.
Through the Research Group, we will create a new space for immigration policy dialogue and development including researchers, policy-makers, practitioners, community members, representatives of the private sector and other stakeholders to interrogate current policy and identify and articulate new transformative approaches.