Ne prenez pas les bateaux
L’ancien agent du service exterieur d’immigration, René Bersma, propose ses souvenirs détaillés du début de sa carrière, en mettant particulièrement l’accent sur ses expériences en Asie du Sud-Est (1978-1982).
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Review of Running on Empty
The latest edition of ‘Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees’, from York University, contains a review of ‘Running on Empty’.
UNHCR ID card
A UNHCR ID card issued to a refugee who spent some time in the Pulau Bidong refugee camp in Malaysia before coming to Canada.
Souvenirs du Kosovo
La conférence anniversaire « Opération Parasol » soutenue par le CIHS est désormais en ligne. Nous avons également marqué le 25e anniversaire de l’évacuation vers le Canada de 7 000 Albanais du Kosovo avec un bulletin spécial et la publication de « Souvenirs du Kosovo » (57 Mo), publiés avec la permission et la collaboration d’Immigration, Réfugiés et Citoyenneté Canada.
Perspectives on the Ugandan Asian movement to Canada in 1972
Marking the 50th anniversary of the 1972 arrival in Canada of Ugandan Asian refugees, Jody Bucholtz, head of the Renfrew-Lanark County Local Immigration Partnership, organized a podcast with Ms Noreen Nasim and Ms Bharti Dhir, whose families had been resettled in Britain, and Mike Molloy, who played a key role in the processing of the…
Hector Cowan – Chernobyl
Canadian diplomats carry out many different duties when serving abroad. CIHS member, Hector Cowan, was tasked with helping a group of Canadian students leave the disaster zone of the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear plant explosion.
The Settlement of Indochinese Refugees
The Settlement of Indochinese Refugees: A Preliminary Analysis based on Interviews with Officials of the Canada Employment and Immigration Commission This 1981 report by Meyer Burstein, led the late Kirk Bell, then Immigration Director General of Policy at Employment and Immigration Canada, to call Meyer in for a chat. This work was Meyer’s introduction to immigration matters….