Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not usual residents or where they do not possess nationality in order to settle as permanent residents. Commuters,tourists,and other short-term stays in a destination country do not fall under the definition of immigration or migration;seasonal labour immigration is sometimes included,however.
The European University Institute (EUI) is an international postgraduate and post-doctoral research-intensive university and an intergovernmental organisation with juridical personality,established by its founding member states to contribute to cultural and scientific development in the social sciences,in a European perspective. Its main campus is located in the hills above Florence in Fiesole,Italy.
Howard Adelman was a Canadian philosopher and university professor. He retired as Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at York University in 2003. Adelman was one of the founders of Rochdale College,as well as the founder and director of York's Centre for Refugee Studies. He was editor of Refuge for ten years,and since his retirement he has received several honorary university and governmental appointments in Canada and abroad. Adelman was the recipient of numerous awards and grants,and presented the inaugural lecture in a series named in his honor at York University in 2008.
The United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) is a Research and Training Institute of the United Nations University (UNU). Based in Bruges,Belgium since 2001,UNU-CRIS specializes in the comparative study of regional integration and the provision of global and regional public goods,including environmental stability,poverty reduction,peace,and justice.
Halleh Ghorashi is an Iranian-born anthropologist who lives in the Netherlands. From 2005 to 2012,she held the PaVEM chair in Management of Diversity and Integration in the Department of Organization Sciences at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. She won the 2008 Triumph Prize.
Migration studies is the academic study of human migration. Migration studies is an interdisciplinary field which draws on anthropology,prehistory,history,economics,law,sociology and postcolonial studies.
Pamela Palmater is a Mi'kmaq lawyer,professor,activist and politician from New Brunswick,Canada. A frequent media political commentator,she appears for Aboriginal Peoples Television Network's InFocus,CTV,and CBC. She is an associate professor and the academic director of the Centre for Indigenous Governance at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Jane Philpott is a physician,academic administrator,and former Canadian politician who represented the riding of Markham—Stouffville in the House of Commons. She was first elected in the 2015 federal election as a member of the Liberal Party and was appointed to the Cabinet of the 29th Canadian Ministry,headed by Justin Trudeau,on November 4,2015. On March 4,2019,she resigned from her cabinet position as President of the Treasury Board over the SNC-Lavalin affair. On April 2,2019,she and Jody Wilson-Raybould were expelled from the Liberal caucus in the aftermath of the controversy.
Jan Rath is a Dutch social scientist who is holding a chair in Urban Sociology in the University of Amsterdam,the Netherlands. His academic studies have focused on the nexus of urban structures and processes on the one hand and their social,ethnic and religious dimensions on the other. His work is highly cited in the sub-fields related to the problematization of immigrant ethnic minorities,and on urban economies,entrepreneurship,and cultural consumption.
Ratna Omidvar is a Canadian politician and academic,who was named to the Senate of Canada to represent Ontario on March 18,2016.
Imogen Ruth Coe is a British-born biochemist. Educated in the United Kingdom,Canada,and the United States,Coe has taught at York University in Canada. She is a professor of biochemistry and founding dean of the Faculty of Science at Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto.
Rosemary Moodie is a Canadian neonatal physician who was appointed to the Senate of Canada on December 12,2018. Moodie is a neonatologist at the Hospital for Sick Children and Professor of pediatrics at the University of Toronto's Department of Pediatrics.
Sieglinde Katharina Rosenberger is an Austrian political scientist. She is Professor of Political Science at the University of Vienna and was president of the Austrian Political Science Association from 2006 to 2007. She is known for her research on issues of democracy,migration and integration,Austrian politics and Europeanisation,governance and diversity,and political participation and protest. She heads the research group "Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion" and is deputy chair of the research platform "Religion and Transformation in European Societies",both at the University of Vienna. She is a member of the Expert Council of the German Foundations on Integration and Migration. She was the vice dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Vienna 2016–2018.
Jacqueline Knörr is a German anthropologist. She is Head of Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Extraordinary Professor at the Martin Luther University in Halle/Saale,Germany. She also works as (political) advisor,consultant,and expert witness in the fields of asylum procedures,human rights issues and (re-)migration and (re-)integration.
British Bhutanese are people of Bhutanese ancestry who are citizens of the United Kingdom or resident in the country. This includes people born in the UK who are of Bhutanese descent,and Bhutan-born people who have migrated to the UK.
Melissa Siegel is an American academic specialising in migration. She is professor of migration studies at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance and UNU-MERIT where she has also been head of the migration and development research section since 2010.
Denise O'Neil Green is an American academic,and currently the Vice-president,Equity and Community Inclusion at Toronto Metropolitan University,Toronto. She took up the position in April 2017,after serving as the inaugural Assistant Vice-president/Vice-provost Equity,Diversity and Inclusion at Toronto Metropolitan University,becoming the first person to hold this rank of senior leadership in Canadian higher education. Ryerson was the first Canadian university to create such a position. Green has been recognized nationally for her leadership in with several honours and awards.
Rainer Bauböck is an Austrian sociologist,political scientist and migration researcher. Bauböck is a former Chair in Social and Political theory at the European University Institute in Florence,Italy,part time professor in the Global Governance Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute and Chair of the Commission for Migration and Integration Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences,Vienna.
Alison Phipps OBE FRSE FRSA FAcSS a University of Glasgow professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies and holds the first UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts. She has been awarded the Minerva Medal of the Royal Philosophical Society and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts,and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Madeleine Sumption is a British political scientist who is Director of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford,which provides analysis of migration in the UK for public and policy audiences. Her research focuses on labour migration and the economic and social impacts of migration policies.
