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Emily Mooney

Research and knowledge mobilization in the GTA’s immigrant and refugee-serving sector: A needs assessment

The past few years have been a time of great change in migration research and for the immigrant and refugee-serving sector in the GTA. This needs assessment was conducted in an attempt to understand the impact of  the Joint Centre for Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement (CERIS), the effects of COVID-19 on research and knowledge mobilization, and to see how research in the field at Toronto’s largest universities is influencing policy and front-line settlement programs and services.

This report is the result of collecting, analyzing, and synthesizing qualitative and quantitative data from over 80 people in the sector. Methods for data collection included key informant interviews, an online survey, and a focus group. Respondents were policymakers and public servants, academic and community researchers, sectoral leaders, and agency management and front-line staff in the immigrant and refugee-serving sector.

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Emily Mooney

Emily Mooney

Emily Mooney is a registered social worker who has worked in support of immigrant and refugee communities since 2002. In 2016, she received her Master of Social Work, with a focus on social justice and diversity, at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto. She also completed a graduate specialization in ethnic and pluralism studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs. Some of her research has focused on access to services for newcomer communities, and she is the author of OCASI’s Foundations of Settlement Work in Ontario, a comprehensive resource for the immigrant and refugee-serving sector

Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

Revised by the Ceremonial Committee at the University of Toronto Office of Indigenous Initiatives in April 2021.