Valerie Preston Archives - Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change Tue, 12 May 2026 15:12:45 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Building migrant resilience across the cities of Ontario and Quebec /euc/research-spotlight/building-migrant-resilience-across-the-cities-of-ontario-and-quebec/ Fri, 18 Nov 2022 03:02:00 +0000 https://euc.yorku.ca/?post_type=research-spotlight&p=21709 How do migrants settle in different local contexts and develop capacities to overcome settlement challenges? Why do particular migrants do better than others even when compared to their peers from the same background? How can institutions facilitate and support migrant settlement and integration in urban areas across Quebec and Ontario? These are some of the […]

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]]> The future of cities in the wake of the pandemic: What will change? What should change? /euc/research-spotlight/the-future-of-cities-in-the-wake-of-the-pandemic-what-will-change-what-should-change/ Sun, 14 Mar 2021 17:45:27 +0000 http://euc.yorku.ca/?post_type=research-spotlight&p=4618 In late spring 2020, the premier of Ontario, alongside the mayor of Toronto, lifted the first COVID-19 lockdown in this city. Stores re-opened, restaurants re-gained some business via patio dining. The warm weather spurred Torontonians, tired of being cooped up in their homes, to venture outside. In fact, they flooded the streets. But the virus […]

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]]> The future of cities in the wake of the pandemic: What will change? What should change? /euc/news-story/the-future-of-cities-in-the-wake-of-the-pandemic-what-will-change-what-should-change/ Mon, 08 Mar 2021 21:25:19 +0000 http://euc.yorku.ca/?post_type=news-story&p=4396 In late spring 2020, the premier of Ontario, alongside the mayor of Toronto, lifted the first COVID-19 lockdown in this city. Stores re-opened, restaurants re-gained some business via patio dining. The warm weather spurred Torontonians, tired of being cooped up in their homes, to venture outside. In fact, they flooded the streets. But the virus […]

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]]> Social characteristics of international students in Ontario and Quebec /euc/research-spotlight/social-characteristics-of-international-students-in-ontario-and-quebec/ Thu, 10 Dec 2020 20:01:19 +0000 http://euc.yorku.ca/?post_type=research-spotlight&p=3213 By Valerie Preston and Marshia Akbar The number of foreign students in Canada continues to grow rapidly. Canada was the destination for 7% of the world’s international students in 2017, one of the top three countries that host large shares of international students in comparison to their total higher education populations. The flow of international […]

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]]> Migration and Resilience in Urban Canada /euc/research-project/migration-and-resilience-in-urban-canada/ Tue, 01 Sep 2020 13:43:00 +0000 http://euc.yorku.ca/?post_type=research-project&p=5531 Principal Investigator: Valerie Preston. Collaborator: Lucia Lo. Funding: SSHRC Partnership Grant. Term: 2016-2022. Established in 2016, Building Migrant Resilience in Cities (BMRC-IRMU) is a research partnership and a multi-sector collaboration. It draws on over 20 years of experience in bringing together a range of key actors working on issues of immigration and settlement through CERIS, a leading Ontario […]

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