Social Studies

This site provides information about issues relating to refugee protection and newcomer settlement.

This magazine aims to connect with and support immigrants to Canada, on topics from careers to education to settlement.

How can teachers support the learning of students who come as immigrants and refugees to Canada, and advance intercultural understanding in an inclusive education environment?

Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.

ECRE’s mission is to protect and advance the rights of refugees, asylum-seekers and other forcibly displaced persons in Europe and in Europe’s external policies.

The global bilateral migration flows estimated from sequential stock data in 5-year intervals.

A site that provides verified, consolidated and multi-sourced estimates of the number of people internally displaced or at risk of becoming displaced by conflict, violence, disasters and development projects across the world.

This documentary tells the stories of 5 asylum seekers who flee their countries to escape homophobic violence.

If you had to quickly flee, what one possession would you make sure you take with you?

A talk about our collective and personal responsibility to help refugees.

An interactive data visualization project that the collapse of order and stability in the international landscape.

One of every 107 people on the planet is a refugee.

Organization focused on refugees, displacement, humanitarian, and human rights issues.

Information from the Ontario government for newcomers to Canada

A site from Brown University that presents the stories of Syrian refugees in a series of comics

Learn why the UN believes that every person has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in outside of their country.

A 5 minute Ted Talk focused on explaining what a refugee is according to our modern definition