CPJ’s award-winning book on refugee and migrant issues, A Renewed Canadian Welcome: Eleven Visions from Migrants and Advocates, is featured in a recent review in The Hill Times by Jim Creskey, the publication’s co-founder, former editor, and publisher.
In his review, Creskey highlights how bureaucratic post-war immigration and refugee policy centred (and continues to centre) governments and their needs, rather than keeping refugees and migrants themselves and civil society at the core of policy making. He says that the 11 contributors to A Renewed Canadian Welcome tell a story that is “far more transparent and down to earth than what we are used to hearing”—as indeed, the book focuses on lived experience, human rights, and the often-overlooked realities facing refugees and migrants in Canada.
He writes that religious groups in particular are one of the key societal players who have a “massive but often unseen role” in refugee resettlement in Canada, especially in the now-paused but “exceptional” group of five program.
Order your copy of A Renewed Canadian Welcome through CPJ today to explore these important conversations for yourself and support our ongoing work to make Canada’s refugee and migration policies better.
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