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2022 Mar 17 – report

From Humanitarian to Human: Changing the Way We Welcome Refugee Claimants

• report – nine actionable recommendations, 42 pages, English
• presentation recording – 10 Dec 2021 presentation explores the nine actionable recommendations resulting from participatory research with refugee claimants in British Columbia, Canada

2021 Oct 20 – webinar

Book Launch! Anika Bauman’s Becoming Neighbours

• event recording – readings, faces and stories, and more

2021 Sep 09 – book

Becoming Neighbours: Five Values for a World of Welcome

• book by Anika Bauman
• interview by Clarion Journal with Anika Bauman
• excerpt in Radix Magazine

2021 Jun 24 – webinar

Three Ways Your Church Can Prepare to Welcome Refugee Claimants in the Post-Pandemic World

• hosted by Mission Central
• Resources
  • webinar – 90 mins
  • Three Ways Your Church Can Prepare to Welcome Refugee Claimants
  • Church-Engaged Organizations Supporting Refugee Claimants (Canada – not exhaustive)

2021 Mar 10 – book

Refuge Reimagined:  Biblical Kinship and Global Politics

• book by Mark R. Glanville and Luke Glanville
• review by Loren Balisky

2020 Dec 05 – webinar

Refugees and Borders:  Remapping the World We Think We Know

• Resources:
  • Refugees and Borders Webinar Recording (2 hours)
  • What Now? Actions you can take to to continue your remapping journey
  • Borderstory – interrupted (Dr. Erin Goheen Glanville’s 20 minute film screened at webinar)
  • Event Report

2020 Feb 01 – report

Vancouver Ready Tours and Refugee Claimant Hearing Readiness: Impact and Learnings (An Internal Study)

• Report by Fran Gallo, Derek Chu, and Loren Balisky analyzing 10 years of Ready Tour data collected with thousands of refugee claimant participants at the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada – Refugee Protection Division