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Talent Is Ready: Promising Practices for Helping Immigrant Professionals Establish Their American Careers
IMPRINT
This toolkit provides a snapshot of the current state of skilled immigrant workforce integration in the United States and opportunities for action.
Posted on: May 7, 2012

Working on Integration at Local Level
European Network Against Racism (ENAR)
The European Network Against Racism (ENAR)'s new toolkit is for organizations working with migrant communities to support their integration, primarily at local and regional levels.
Posted on: May 4, 2012

CLB-OSA: Assess Your Canadian English Online
Centre for Education and Training
This is an online self-assessment (OSA) tool for people who are interested in assessing their English as a second language. These tests are based on the Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB) and will assess your language proficiency in reading and listening.
Posted on: May 2, 2012

Tackling the Policy Challenges of Migration: Regulation, Integration, Development
Jason Gagnon; David Khoudour-Castéras
This book addresses how a better comprehensive governance framework can help tackle three complementary policy challenges: the regulation of migration flows, the integration of immigrants (particularly in the South), and the development of migrant-sending countries.
Posted on: April 27, 2012

L'impact psychosocial du sous-emploi sur la vie des femmes migrantes qualifiées travaillant à Genève (Suisse)
Luisa E. Marin-Avellan; Blandine Mollard
In its objective to give more visibility to the under-researched topic of underemployment of migrant women, this report aims to take stock of the existing literature on the topic, especially in the Swiss context, to present primary research findings about the psychological and social impact of underemployment in migrant women in the Swiss city of Geneva and to draw policy recommendations to facilitate women's integration into the labour market.
Posted on: April 25, 2012


Events >>


Fifth Annual National Immigrant Integration Conference
September 22 - 25, 2012
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Organized by the National Partnership for New Americans, this conference will discuss innovative and effective ways to expand and improve immigrant and refugee integration at the local and national levels.

Telling Transformative Stories
June 5, 2012
Toronto, Ontario
Organized by Pioneers for Change at Skills for Change, this event features the stories of five accomplished Canadians who have immigrant experience including survival, connectedness, acceptance, belonging, and adaptation.

Understanding the Migrant Experience
June 25 - 26, 2012
United Kingdom
This postgraduate research conference is organized by the Centre for Migration Policy Research at Swansea University, Wales.

Recognizing Learning, Skills and Competencies: Strengthening Today's Workplace for a Better Tomorrow
October 21 - 23, 2012
Halifax, Nova Scotia
The focus of the 2012 Recognizing Learning Conference will be on employer engagement and how the recognition of prior learning can be used strategically to establish a stronger match between job requirements and the knowledge, skills, and abilities of the job seeker.

Migration and Well-Being: Research Frontiers
January 8 - 10, 2013
Tel Aviv, Israel
This conference aims to draw attention to the broad issue of well-being associated with migration, including diverse topics such as the impact of xenophobia and exclusion on the well-being of immigrants; facing ill health and poverty in host societies; the well-being of children; and the growing role of immigrants in care-providing industries.
 


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IMPRINT: Immigrant Professional Integration
IMPRINT is a national coalition of non-profit organizations with decades of collective experience in immigrant professional integration services.

Centre for Migration Policy Research, Swansea University
The centre aims to encourage the exchange of ideas about asylum and migration and ensure that policy making is underpinned by empirical evidence about the nature and causes of migration, the impacts on different countries and communities, and the effects - both intended and unintended - of policy responses.

Men Against Sexual Trafficking
This is a group of committed men of all ages, races, and religious affiliations who are dedicated to stamping out sexual trafficking through education and activism.

Bradford Immigrant and Community Services
The organization serves the immigrant communities of Simcoe County and York Region, Ontario.

Gladwin Language Centre
The centre provides English as a second language classes in Abbotsford, Aldergrove, Langley, Chilliwack, and Mission, British Columbia.

 

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