Clear safeguards needed around technology planned for border checkpoints | CBC News Automated systems can affect decision-making for things like immigration and refugee applications Jamie Liew, Petra Molnar · for CBC News Opinion
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York collaborates on research that highlights disparities of Toronto housing crisis
New research reveals the racial, social and geographic divides of Toronto’s housing crisis, with racialized communities, newcomers and refugees hardest hit. Read More
UN warns of impact of smart borders on refugees: ‘Data collection isn’t apolitical’
Petra Molnar, Associate Director of the CRS Refugee Law Lab, is quoted in this story in the Guardian about a report on new tech and migration by UN Special Rapporteur Tendayi Achiume.
Report: Technological Testing Grounds: Border tech is experimenting with people’s lives
A new report from the Refugee Law Laboratory and EDRi (European Digital Rights) investigates how new technologies are increasingly being used at the border and to manage migration. Technological Testing Grounds is based on over 40 conversations with refugees and people on the move and shows that much of this innovation occurs without adequate governance mechanisms and does […]
York University’s Centre for Refugee Studies awards the 2020 Anthony Richmond Scholarship
The Centre for Refugee Studies is delighted to announce that Dahabo Ibrahim is the inaugural recipient of the Anthony Richmond Scholarship. This new scholarship recognizes promising graduate student research on the intersections of forced migration and environmental changes, such as climate change, flooding, drought, forest fires, and land or sanitary degradation. The scholarship was created […]
York University to grant master’s degrees to first cohort of refugees in Kenya
York University to grant master’s degrees to first cohort of refugees in Kenya
YORK UNIVERSITY PLACES 33rd in Times Higher Education Impact Rankings
The Borderless Higher Education (BHER) project is listed as one of the factors in York’s ranking! Times Higher Education Global Impact Rankings
York PhD student examines the diversity of refugee experiences
York PhD student examines the diversity of refugee experiences
Calls for change at refugee board after woman asked why husband didn’t ‘just kill’ her
Calls for change at refugee board after woman asked why husband didn’t ‘just kill’ her Global News
Refugee judge asks woman why her husband wouldn’t ‘just kill’ her
A Global News investigative report about Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board failing to apply its internal guidelines for vulnerable claimants. https://globalnews.ca/news/6214393/refugee-judge-asks-woman-why-husband-wouldnt-kill-her/ Several CRS affiliated researchers contributed to the story, including Sharry Aiken, who persuasively argues that the problem is not with the guidelines themselves but with oversight for individual decision-makers, and Hilary Evans Cameron whose […]
