Unprecedented numbers demand new research
Mireille Paquet
In addition to its empirical work and research partnerships, CIPE is quickly growing in scope and visibility, hosting summer schools and special schools, research workshops and numerous public lectures.
And there’s more to come. In winter 2019, CIPE will run a special course on sanctuary cities and hospitality, in a new format that will include practitioners and academics as students.
Additionally, CIPE will welcome international visitors such as Belgian scholar Catherine Xhardez, and it plans to further expand both its national and international collaborations.
These partnerships will be key to advancing CIPE’s mission. According to Paquet, the subject has never been timelier, at home and abroad.
“In 2017, 258 million people lived in a country other than the one of their birth. This unprecedented number demands new research supporting public and social interventions on the causes and consequences of immigration,” she says.
“These trends increase the demands for research allowing states to maximize the benefits associated with immigration while also ensuring the maintenance of positive social relations and outcomes amongst citizens.”
In addition to seeing CIPE officially recognized, Paquet is also celebrating being named a Concordia University Research Chair, New Politics of Immigration (New Scholar category).
Paquet says she hopes to use this position to explore the new ways governments respond to immigration, in a context of increased political tension, technological developments and growing demands for novel policy solutions.
“It is an honour and signals Concordia’s commitment to advancing next-generation research on immigration.”
Learn more about Concordia’s Centre for Immigration Policy Evaluation.