COVID-19 has become a major barrier for an Afghan father who left a dozen challenges behind. For him and many other refugees, family reunification in Canada has become a challenge due to ongoing bureaucratic delays.
View More A Refugee Father’s Struggle to Reunite with His Family During COVID-19
With the pandemic moving many offices online, virtual hearings have become a silver lining for refugee claimants. Remote options are showing to be more efficient than the traditional in-person practice.
View More Virtual Hearings Speed Up some Refugee Claims
Columnist Don Curry suggests Canada and its provinces take the long view on immigration, rather than cut back on numbers in light of the economic downturn.
View More Canada May Miss Immigration Target for 2020
As a journalist in Turkey, Seckin Ergun has covered many stories of courage, but none as personal as this one. He turns his focus on his wife, the woman who risked her life so he and their sons could seek refuge in Canada.
View More Unsung Hero: A Woman’s Sacrifice to Bring her Family to Canada
Queer activist Arsham Parsi took a risk when he left Iran and began to help other Iranians escape persecution for being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT). At a reading for his book Exiled for…
View More Queer Author Helps Other LGBT Iranians Seek AsylumKareem doesn’t fit the image of a Syrian refugee often seen in the media. Clean cut, dressed in well-fitting business casual with a young professional’s composure, he sits calmly in a Hamburg café and listens…
View More Escaping Conscription: One Syrian Man’s Story“No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land,” goes a verse penned by Somali poet Warsan Shire. She should know. Shire goes on: no one leaves home…
View More When the Tamil Boat People Came AshoreAs many as 1,200 boat people drowned attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea headed for Europe during a 10-day period last April. The drownings drew media attention to a growing and cyclical phenomenon: the arrival…
View More No Easy Options for Europe’s Refugee Crisis
They come from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Palestine, Somalia, Eritrea, Libya and even West Africa. They walk many thousands of miles, traversing every imaginable landscape, using any possible means of transportation and encountering people, good and…
View More Refugee Numbers Increasing DramaticallyJihoon Lee has come a long way since moving to Toronto two and a half years ago. Born in ideologically repressive North Korea, the teenager has outdone most of his peers at his Scarborough school. In…
View More No Place to Go: Closing the Door on North Korean Refugees