Housing Refugees: What have We Learned? with Valerie Preston

When:
February 26, 2019 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
2019-02-26T19:00:00-05:00
2019-02-26T20:30:00-05:00
Where:
Civic Centre Resource Library
2191 Major MacKenzie Dr W
Vaughan
ON L6A 4W2
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Mandi Hickman

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Housing Refugees: What have We Learned?

In the GTA, growing numbers of newly arrived refugees and asylum seekers are living in hotels and shelters rather than permanent housing. A shortage of low-cost rental housing and rapid rent increases have exacerbated the difficulties of finding affordable, suitable, and adequate housing for newcomers. Based on interviews with immigrant-serving organizations across Canada, this talk reviews the strategies that helped house Syrian refugees successfully in 2015-16 and evaluates their current relevance for asylum seekers in the GTA.

Presented by: Professor Valerie Preston

Valerie Preston is Professor of Geography at York University where she studies international migration and Canadian cities, especially the housing and employment challenges facing newcomers in suburbs such as York Region. Currently, she leads BMRC-IRMU, a partnership of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers, that is investigating how to improve the social inclusion of newcomers in contemporary cities. In addition to publishing numerous articles, she is co-author of Social Infrastructure and Vulnerability in the Suburbs and co-editor of Liberating Temporariness? Migration, Work and Citizenship in an Age of Insecurity and When Care Work Goes Global: Locating the Social Relations of Domestic Work.

**All sessions held at the Civic Centre Resource Library from 7 to 8:30pm. Attendance is free but registration is required. Refreshments provided. To register, visit alumniandfriends.yorku.ca/vpl-scholars-hub (registration link will become active closer to the event date)

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