Settlement Without Boundaries – SWB+08

The Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants (OCASI), in collaboration with CERIS -The Ontario Metropolis Centre and Ryerson University, presents Settlement Without Boundaries, a one-day symposium for settlement service providers, staff from community organizations and public institutions, funders, the academic community and immigrants and refugees. The symposium will promote and provide a spotlight for new scholarship in immigration, settlement and refugee issues in Ontario and Canada. This is an opportunity for new voices to be heard and for traditional perspectives to be challenged.

The primary goal of Settlement Without Boundaries - SWB+08 is to begin a dialogue that will articulate a new vision for the settlement of immigrants and refugees in Ontario and seek to move forward the discourse and dialogue on immigrant and refugee settlement, within an academic conference setting. 

When: June 26, 2008, from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Where: Ryerson University, Jorgenson Hall, located at 350 Victoria Street in Toronto

This dialogue is necessary to move settlement service providers, community organizations, funders, public institutions, the academic community and immigrants and refugees to the intentional consideration of new models of community organizing, development and services in order to achieve equality, access and full participation for immigrants and refugees in every aspect of Canadian life.

For more information about the symposium and speakers, please visit http://www.ocasi.org/30th/. To RSVP, please send a message to SWB08@ocasi.org. Admission for this event is free but spaces are limited.