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- Title: Informing Integration: Assessing What We Know, Admitting What We Don't Know (Essay)
- Author : Refuge
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 175 KB
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Two things weigh on my mind as the process of getting this volume to press draws to a close. The first is that the response to our call for papers demonstrates how important this call truly is, and how far we still have to go as a community of knowledge to fully answer it. The second is that public debate about refugee integration flourishes despite the lack of knowledge, in ways that ought to alarm us. The opportunity of introducing this collection allows me to address both of these concerns. I will do so in reverse order. In mid-October I was mulling over some (different) introductory remarks when I happened upon Martin Collacott's comment in The Globe and Mail (15 October 2007, p. A17). Collacott's subject was the appropriate role for Canada in responding to massive population displacement in and around Iraq. The thesis he was pursuing was that Canada should be wary how many of these people (many of whom are refugees--which is not my point, just yet) should be resettled in Canada because, in Collacott's view, they will face integration problems.