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AMSSA Research Connections E-Symposium - Immigration: The Next Generation
Date: 2009-09-02
Location: SFU Harbour Centre, Vancouver
AMSSA organized and hosted this webcast research symposium to help connect frontline immigrant settlement workers across the province with current research in the field. The topic, Immigration: The Next Generation, exploring issues relating to the children of immigrants, was selected by our members at Regional Meetings held in Spring 2009. Many thanks to our presenters, Lee Gunderson of the University of British Columbia, and Miu Chung Yan, Acting Co-Chair of Metropolis BC.
Welcome and Introduction
Timothy Welsh, Program Director, AMSSA
Very Young Immigrant Students’ Long Term Success in Vancouver Schools
Lee Gunderson, Professor of Language and Literary Education, UBC
Bridging and/or Bonding: Studies of New Generation Immigrant Youth, Social Capital and Job Search
Miu Chung Yan, Acting Co-Chair of Metropolis BC
Question and Answer Session
Questions from Settlement Workers
AMSSA Research Connections E-Symposium - Economic and Housing Security Issues for Newcomers
Date: 2009-06-10
Location: SFU Harbour Centre, Vancouver
AMSSA organized and hosted this webcast research symposium to help connect frontline immigrant settlement workers across the province with current research in the field.
The topic, Economic and Housing Security for Newcomers, was selected by our members at Regional Meetings held in Spring 2009.
Many thanks to our presenters, Peter Liang of Statistics Canada, Daniel Hiebert of Metropolis BC, and Jennifer Jihye Chun of the UBC Department of Sociology.
Welcome and Introduction
Timothy Welsh, Program Director, AMSSA
Immigrants' Perspectives of the First Four Years in Canada: Highlights from the Longitudinal Study of Immigrants to Canada
Peter Liang, Statistics Canada
Immigrants and the Housing and Labour Markets of Vancouver
Daniel Hiebert, Metropolis BC
Organizing the Low-Wage Immigrant Workforce: A Case Study of the Vancouver Living Wage Campaign
Jennifer Jihye Chun, Professor of Sociology, UBC
Question and Answer Session
Questions from Settlement Workers