As we draw closer to an in-person fall term, many international students are scrambling to get immigration documents, travel and self-isolation requirements in place so they can come to Canada. International Student Services can help.
Students at a new field school learn by visiting the sites where Japanese Canadians were held in internment camps during the Second World War.
Efforts by UVic geographer Dr. David Chuenyan Lai directly resulted in Victoria’s Chinatown being restored and celebrated, rather than demolished.
Political scientist Oliver Schmidtke, director of UVic's Centre for Global Studies, is available to media to discuss implications of the ongoing immigration backlash in Europe in the context of the latest EU summit and possible political repercussions for German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her coalition government.
Asad Kiyani is available to media to discuss the US Supreme Court's June 26 ruling in favour of President Donald Trump's "travel ban" limiting entrance into the US from seven countries.
Immigration and refugee law expert Asad Kiyani is available to media to discuss World Refugee Day‚ June 20. He can comment on Safe Third Country Agreements and people crossing the border from the US
UVic law professor Donald Galloway is available to media to discuss Canadian law professors' renewed call to the government to immediately halt enforcement of the Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement.
President Jamie Cassels has appointed a small working group to assess how the recent US executive order banning entry into the United States from seven Muslim-majority countries is affecting students, faculty and staff at UVic, and how best to meet their immediate needs.
The following University of Victoria faculty members are available to discuss the recent Federal Court decision to overturn the Conservative government’s cuts to refugee health care funding. Donald Galloway (Law) specializes in immigration law, refu…
The following University of Victoria faculty members are available to discuss today’s release of Statistics Canada’s 2011 census report. The results from the National Household Survey include information on religion, immigration and ethnic diversity…
From the movement of the early Homo Sapiens out of the continent of Africa, to the ancient exchanges between Indian and Chinese merchants and monks along the Silk Road, to the boat people who fled the aftermath of the wars in Vietnam and Cambodia in the late 1970s, to Canadian retirees who today are selling their belongings and moving south, the process of human migration is by no means new. It has facilitated exchanges and interactions between people that have powerfully shaped human history, thought, religion, politics, language and more.
The University of Victoria’s Centre for Studies in Religion and Society is part of a $2.5 million federally funded research network aimed at supporting the integration of immigrants into small and medium-sized communities across Canada. Paul Bramada…
Dr. Sajjad Akbar refutes a claim made by the Canadian Bar Association last week that a change proposed by the Immigration Department would limit the number of blue collar workers allowed into Canada. The change would decrease the number of points al…
