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		<title>What&#8217;s next for immigrantchildren.ca?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tweetimmigrantchildren.ca wants to know what you want to know! Please take our very short poll on the future of immigrantchildren.ca. Thank you for your participation. It is greatly appreciated!]]></description>
		<link>http://immigrantchildren.ca/2012/05/22/whats-next-for-immigrantchildren-ca/</link>
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		<title>ANCIE Bulletin: Gender roles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetThe latest e-Bulletin from AMSSA&#8216;s (Affiliation of Multicultural Societies and Services Agencies of BC) ANCIE (AMSSA&#8217;s Newcomer Child Information Exchange) explores gender roles. The bulletin discusses sex vs. gender, introduces the concept of gender analysis, and how gender and migration intersect for children and youth and results in inequalities &#8211; and offers research on gender [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://immigrantchildren.ca/2012/04/24/ancie-bulletin-gender-roles/</link>
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		<title>Immigrant parent-child separation, York University study call for participants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetYork University&#8217;s Infant and Child Mental Health Lab, in collaboration with Aisling Discoveries Child and Family Centre are conducting a study to better understand the needs and issues related to parent-child separation. The study is inviting GTA African, Caribbean, Chinese and South Asian mothers and children to participate in a home visiting program. Parents and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://immigrantchildren.ca/2012/04/03/immigrant-parent-child-separation-study-york-university/</link>
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		<title>The language challenge from Maytree Canada</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetYesterday I attended a local community forum, Dialogue on Diversity: Immigrant Civic Participation, sponsored by the Waterloo Immigration Partnership, Regional Municipality of Waterloo. The event was MC&#8217;d by Lucia Harrison, ED of the Kitchener-Waterloo Multicultural Centre. The keynote speaker was the President of the Maytree Foundation, Ratna Omidvar. Omidvar used her time well, bringing Alan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://immigrantchildren.ca/2012/03/23/the-language-challenge-from-maytree-canada/</link>
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		<title>Call for papers: Children and war</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetCall for Papers: &#8220;Children and War: Past and Present&#8221;. 2nd international and multidisciplinary conference, July 10-12, 2013 at the University of Salzburg, Austria. Organized by the University of Salzburg and the University of Wolverhampton, in association with the United Nations Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict. From the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://immigrantchildren.ca/2012/03/16/call-for-papers-children-and-war/</link>
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		<title>Update: On new shores immigrant children conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetThe deadline for papers has been extended to March 30th for Dr. Susan Chuang&#8217;s fifth On New Shores conference. It will be held October 25-26 in Toronto. From the call for papers: &#8220;The goal of the conference is to bring together various stakeholders (academia, community, and governmental sectors) to collectively examine and discuss the various [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://immigrantchildren.ca/2012/03/15/update-on-new-shores-immigrant-children-conference/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;I don&#8217;t feel human&#8221; ~ The plight of young refugees and migrants in the UK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetThe Children&#8217;s Society is a UK-based charity that is &#8220;committed to helping vulnerable and disadvantaged young people, including safeguarding children in care and young runaways&#8221;. The Children&#8217;s Society campaigns and research seek to influence policy on and give voice to marginalized children, including young refugees. In February, they released a report on the state of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://immigrantchildren.ca/2012/03/15/i-dont-feel-human-the-plight-of-young-refugees-and-migrants-in-the-uk/</link>
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		<title>Jason Kenney’s Convoluted Contradictions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetAmong other avenues, the 1977 Citizenship Act grants the right to citizenship to persons born in Canada. But if immigration and citizenship minister Jason Kenney gets his way, that right may soon be quashed. Kenney is proposing that there be no more automatic citizenship status for babies born on Canadian soil to foreign mothers. Jason [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://immigrantchildren.ca/2012/03/03/jason-kenney%e2%80%99s-convoluted-contradictions/</link>
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		<title>The Drummond Commission recommendations on immigration (and the missed opportunities to address immigrant children/families)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetThere has been much examination and discussion of the recommendations of the recently released Drummond Commission on the Reform of Ontario’s Public Services (struck by Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and Finance Minister Dwight Duncan). immigrantchildren.ca notes that the Commission has lost the opportunity to highlight and promote the importance of addressing both the needs of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://immigrantchildren.ca/2012/02/22/the-drummond-commission-recommendations-on-immigration-and-the-missed-opportunities-to-address-immigrant-childrenfamilies/</link>
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		<title>Feb 21st is International Mother Language Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tweet February 21st marks the UNESCO International Mother Language Day (IMLD). International Mother Language Day (IMLD) was first proclaimed in 1999. It has been recognized since 2000 to promote languages of the world and is of special note to immigrantchildren.ca who see the day as recognition of the importance of maintaining a child&#8217;s first, or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://immigrantchildren.ca/2012/02/18/feb-21st-is-international-mother-language-day/</link>
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