The National Metropolis Conference will be held in Vancouver, 23-26 March 2011. The theme is "Immigration: Bringing the World to Canada." Topics of plenary sessions include "Contemporary Trends in Refugee Movements" and "Migration, the Environment and Climate Change". A number of workshops/roundtables will focus on refugees and asylum-seekers.The Metropolis centre in British Columbia offers a working paper series. Relevant titles published in 2010 include:
- Aceh-Malaysia-Vancouver: Settlement Among Acehnese Refugees Five Years On, Working Paper, no. 10-12 (Nov. 2010) [text]
- (Dis)Advantages of Illegality: The Refugee Claimant Trajectories and Housing Experiences of Non-Status Migrants in Vancouver and Toronto, Working Paper, no. 10-11 (Oct. 2010) [text]
- Religious Organizations and the Integration of Immigrants, Refugees, and Temporary Foreign Workers: An Annotated Bibliography and List of Community Organizations, Working Paper, no. 10-01 (Jan. 2010) [text]
- Trafficking in Persons & Transit Countries: A Canada-U.S. Case Study in Global Perspective, Working Paper, no. 10-05 (April 2010) [text]
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