Bulletin 112 – May 2025
Main Topics Covered
- An overview of the CIHS’s work over the past 15 years, in partnership with many community,
academic and creative organizations, to tell the stories of the Southeast Asian refugee movements
to Canada from the perspective of the officials managing the governmental activities, and of those
refugees’ experiences coming to and living in Canada. - A visa officer’s experience in implementing a visitor visa requirement on citizens of India and
subsequently on citizens of Sri Lanka. - A reprint from the McGill Daily of Molloy Bursary recipient Madeleine Le’s family’s story of leaving
Vietnam. - A review of Neil Cochrane’s 2025 book Beyond Numbers.
- Letter to the Editor from Dr. John Samuel, who wrote about immigration longitudinal research.
- Part 1 of a former immigration officer’s remembrances of working at the local Canada Immigration
Centre in Kitchener, Ontario. - Remembrances about the late Clifton (Cliff) Shaw, who passed away in February 2025.
