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Anna Triandafyllidou
@triandafyllidou.bsky.social
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration,at Toronto Metropolitan University
Vote today! for our Borders & Belonging Podcast - bringing data and analysis on international migration to a broader audience!
📣 Did you hear? @cercmigration.bsky.social's Borders & Belonging Podcast is a finalist at the fourth annual Signal Awards!

The podcast has been nominated under the Activism, Public Service & Social Impact category. Today is the last day to vote! ➡️ vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...
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October 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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📣 Did you hear? @cercmigration.bsky.social's Borders & Belonging Podcast is a finalist at the fourth annual Signal Awards!

The podcast has been nominated under the Activism, Public Service & Social Impact category. Today is the last day to vote! ➡️ vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...
The Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOU
I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.
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October 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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🆕After years of change, Canada’s #ImmigrationPolicy stands at a critical inflection point. A new @migrationpolicy.bsky.social country profile unpacks where we are and how we got here.

🔗 migrationpolicy.org/article/canada-immigration-policy-inflection-point #Canada #Immigration #CdnPoli #Research
July 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I am proud to co-lead this initiative that is more timely than ever given the escalation of deportation as well as of civil disobedience in the US. Join the network today!
The Migration Scholars Mobilize Network unites scholars, teachers, students and activists to defend academic freedom and stand with migrants and refugees. Join the network today! Sign the petition and connect on Discord.

🔗 migrationscholarsmobilize.org

#MigrationScholars #MigrantRights #Solidarity
June 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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More and more EU laws are harming migrants. With @enareurope.bsky.social, we're raising the issue with the United Nations.

Read our joint letter to UN committees on racial discrimination and on the rights of migrants on picum.org/blog/joint-l...
April 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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For those wondering why we, as a migration charity, are commenting on yesterday's #SupremeCourt ruling, we want to make this very, very clear: migration is not a siloed issue.

Check out our gender, queerness and migration sub-campaign: migrantsrights.org.uk/projects/who...
Who is Welcome: Gender, Queerness + Migration - Migrants' Rights Network
Migration is not a siloed issue. Check out our dedicated sub-campaign on the relationship between gender, queerness and migration.
migrantsrights.org.uk
April 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Check out our new CERC/TMCIS Working Paper by Vivien Bediako
📚 New #WorkingPaper from Vivien Jessica Bediako examines how Ghanaian immigrants in Canada conceptualize "home" and maintain connections to Ghana through Visiting Friends and Relatives (VFR) tourism, analyzing differences between first-generation immigrants and their second-generation children.
April 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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🚨Planning to apply for a #postdoctoral fellowship?
Working on tech & migrant integration in health, cities, work, or civic life? Bridging Divides is supporting select EOIs for externally funded fellowships in Canada.
🗓️ Apply by May 1
🔗 Info: www.torontomu.ca/bridging-div...
#PostdocOpportunity
April 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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🏳️‍🌈 @cercmigration.bsky.social extends a heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined A Queer Panel: Parts 1 & 2. The day consisted of academic presentations, a documentary screening, and a conversation with drag artists to explore the complexity and lived experiences of 2SLGBTQ+ migrants journeys.
April 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Good to see that people at the US are reacting and resisting!!

PROTEST EVERYWHERE — Saturday, April 19 — Every city, every county, every town, everywhere! Freedom Against Tyranny! open.substack.com/pub/michaelm...
PROTEST EVERYWHERE — Saturday, April 19 — Every city, every county, every town, everywhere! Freedom Against Tyranny!
Plus... 36 Brand New Portraits of 'Sad Tariff Loser' Donald Trump
open.substack.com
April 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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🗞️This event also marked the launch of Bridges Magazine, our new platform spotlighting stories where research meets community.

Thank you to everyone who made the day such a success!
#Migration #Innovation #Partnerships

@triandafyllidou.bsky.social @cercmigration.bsky.social @socialmedialab.ca
April 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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🌐 What does it take to turn research into impact?
That’s the question we explored at the inaugural Bridging Divides Connections Lab, hosted in person at TMU. A day for connection, collaboration, and open conversations across research, policy, and practice.

@researchtmu.bsky.social 🧵
April 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Great opportunity - deadline to apply is April 16!
🌎 Fellowship Opportunity: @cercmigration.bsky.social and @bridgdivides.bsky.social welcome applications for the 2025-2026 cohort of the Civil Society & Public Administration Fellowship. ⏳ Deadline: April 16, 2025.
April 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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📣 Seats still available! A Queer Panel: Part 1 – Exploring Transnational 2SLGBTQ+ Migration Journeys
Apr. 16, 2025
9:30 AM-12:15 PM

Explore the complex legal, material, and lived experiences of 2SLGBTQ+ migrants and asylum seekers in their migration trajectories.
www.torontomu.ca/cerc-migrati...
April 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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📣 Bridges Magazine is here! Launched at our first Connections Lab, it shares stories of partnership-driven migration research from across Canada.
Read Issue 1: www.torontomu.ca/bridging-div... #MigrationResearch @researchtmu.bsky.social @triandafyllidou.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Research Conference 2025 | In partnership with @cercmigration.bsky.social, we present WhereWeStand — a national multimedia storytelling initiative pairing Indigenous and non-Indigenous newcomers on Turtle Island (Canada).

🗓 Thursday, May 1
🕓 3:45–5:15 PM PT
📍 Hybrid

Register: shorturl.at/IrT5e
April 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot
Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
April 16, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I signed!
SIGN NOW: stand in solidarity with Mahmoud Khalil before more people are targeted. Tell Democratic leadership to demand Khalil's release now: act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/release...
SIGN NOW: Christians stand with Mahmoud Khalil
Mahmoud Khalil is a legal resident who is currently being held in captivity by the Trump administration for exercising his right to free speech. Christians must stand in solidarity with Khalil before ...
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March 17, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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🍓👩‍🌾 Researcher Erika Borrelli showcases new research in @theconversationca.bsky.social that examines farm certification as an intervention to address #migrantworker vulnerabilities in Canadian agriculture.
Farm certification could make Canada’s farms fairer for migrant workers
Farm certification offers a potential strategy to improve labour standards, uphold rights, and amplify migrants’ voices.
theconversation.com
March 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
SIGN: Thank Georgetown for standing up to Trump: Dean Treaner of Georgetown Law School recently stood up to Trump's illegal DEI crusade. Let's show our support and thanks. act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/georget...
I signed, as a secular person, to defend civil liberties & values thatare dear to us all
SIGN: Thank Georgetown for standing up to Trump
Dean Treaner of Georgetown Law School recently stood up to Trump's illegal DEI crusade. Let's show our support and thanks.
act.faithfulamerica.org
March 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The Orwellian language of Trump in relation to #Ukraine and #Gaza and the 'solutions' proposed reminds me of another 'final solution': Hannah Arendt's analysis in "Eichmann in Jerusalem" about how such 'solutions' come to be.... We all have a responsibility to (re)act
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Trump macht Putin great again
Präsentiert von Facebook Von HANS VON DER BURCHARD Mit RIXA FÜRSEN PRÄSENTIERT VON Schicken Sie uns Ihre Tipps hier oder hier | X @GordonRepinski @vonderburchard | Das Playbook anhören oder online …
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February 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM
I am not a practicing Christian nor a believer but when the church does something good, I support. SIGN: More than 20 organizations and denominations filed a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration's policy of allowing immigration raids at houses of worship act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/Trump-I...
SIGN: Keep ICE out of our churches >>
More than two dozen organizations and denominations just filed a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration's policy of allowing immigration raids at houses of worship. Let's show our support as fellow ...
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February 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM