Assessing the Impact of the Program Integrity Framework: Engaging Family-Links in the Private Sponsorship of Refugees (PSR) Program in the Context of Program Assurance

Canada’s Private Sponsorship of Refugees (PSR) program has gained a lot of international attention from countries around the world. Since the program’s inception, emerging literature has appropriately captured the increasing shift from the ‘welcoming the stranger’ model to ‘kin-linked’ based sponsorships. Today, linked-sponsorships make up the majority or private sponsorships. Further, in the Fall of 2022 implementation of the Government of Canada’s new Program Integrity Framework (PIF) will begin. While unclear what the implementation of the PIF will mean in practice, many sponsors are skeptical about the framework’s intentions and how it will impact sponsor engagement. This research considers the necessity of program integrity monitoring and the challenges and complexities of monitoring within the context of kin-linked sponsorship.

Faculty Supervisor:

Luisa Schwartzman

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Partner:

Canadian Unitarian Council

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration); Public administration

University:

University of Toronto

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