PMC Brown Bag Lunch Seminars

EDMONTON

March 23, 2012

• Critical Perspectives on Immigrant Integration poster

Baha Abu-Laban, Founding Director, PMC

Co-hosted with Catholic Social Services

Noon to 1:00 p.m.
Catholic Social Services
10709 - 105 Street, EdmontonStreet

February 23, 2012

• Moving from Conflict to Healing and Resilience, and the Role of Artistic Expression: Case Studies from Zimbabwe, northern Uganda, and Kenya poster

Laurel Boresenko, University of Amsterdam

Co-hosted with Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers

Noon to 2:00 p.m.
Edmonton Mennonite Centre
2-4 11713-82 Street, Edmonton

December 9 , 2011

• The Role of the Employer in Facilitating Improved Communication in the Workplace poster

Tracey Derwing, University of Alberta

Jason Fleming, All Weather Windows

Noon to 1:00 p.m.
Scotia Place Conference Room B (lower level - concourse)
10060 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton

 

May 6, 2011

• Consuming Nationhood: An Investigation of Food, Gender, and Identity among Southern Sudanese Refugees in Brooks, Alberta

Merin Oleschuk, University of Alberta

 

March 18, 2011

• Is it enough to have a job?:  Work-life challenges for secondary migrants and temporary foreign workers in Fort McMurray

Sara Dorow, University of Alberta

 

CANCELLED - TO BE RESCHEDULED

• Migration to Canada through Arranged Marriages: Policy and Community Challenges Distinguishing Between Genuine Relationships and Immigration Fraud

Farah Merali, University of Alberta

 

November 3, 2010

• Getting Things Done at Work: An Evidence Base for Teaching Complex Requests

Lynda Yates, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

 

October 12, 2010

• Occupational Status Recovery Trajectories for Highly-Skilled Immigrants: An Investigation of Ethno-racial Difference

Laura Templeton, University of Alberta

 

September 30, 2010

• Discerning racism: Implications of a focus on culture that obscures the racialized relations of minoritized immigrants’ interfaces with human services

Ruth Wolfe, University of Alberta

 

March 24, 2010

• Immigrants in Prairie Cities: Ethnic Diversity in 20th Century Canada

Royden Loewen, University of Winnipeg

 

February 24, 2010

• Emergency Relief Response: Let the next circus begin

Laurel Borisenko, Consultant to various African Non-Governmental Organizations

 

January 20, 2010

• Putting Immigration Policy in Perspective: An Overview of the History of Canadian Immigration Policy
• Immigration Policy and Immigrant Health

Robert Vineberg, Senior Policy Advisor, Prairie Metropolis Centre & Senior Fellow, Canada West Foundation

 

October 28, 2009

• Community-Based Research for Service Delivery: The EMCN Model

Karen Gabert, Research Coordinator, Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers

 

October 8, 2009

• Supporting EAL Immigrant Youth and Immigrant Teachers in Manitoba

Clea Schmidt, Faculty of Education, University of Manitoba

 

May 22 , 2009

• Preparing Skilled Workers for Integration through Language Instruction: How are we doing?

Tracey Derwing, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta

 

April 20, 2009

• Meeting the Integration Support Needs of Refugee Youth: The Role of Community-based

Participatory Partnership

Ernest Khalema, University of Calgary & George Ishiekwene, Catholic Social Services

 

April 2, 2009

• Temporary Foreign Workers, Permanent Rights?

Delphine Nakache, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta

 

March 5, 2009

• Educational Cultural Brokers and Refugee Children's School Adaptation

Sophie Yohani, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Alberta

 

December 16, 2008

• At-Risk Immigrant and Refugee Youth

Marian J. Rossiter, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Alberta

 

October 24 , 2008

• African Christian Churches & the Integration & Adaptation of African Newcomers

Paulin Mulatris, Campus Saint-Jean, University of Alberta