Enhancing Newcomers Integration: Mapping of Social Networks within Toronto East Local Immigration Partnership. A Pilot Project.

The purpose of this project is to explore the dynamics within the Toronto East Local Immigration Partnership (LIP) by creating visual representations of the interconnections between the members involved in the Partnership. This research aims to use social network analysis to assess the relationships within the Partnership in order to identify individuals that are centrally located in the network as well as who is on the periphery. By visualizing the members’ location within the network, the Toronto East LIP will be able to enhance its collaboration, communication flows and overall effectiveness, which will hopefully improve, in turn, the current service delivery of immigration services. Ideally, these improvements should also facilitate the social and economic inclusion of newly arrived immigrants. Since this particular research project is a pilot project, Meta Strategies hopes it has the potential of being replicated in all the other local LIPs across Toronto and even Ontario.

Faculty Supervisor:

Rupaleem Bhuyan

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Sociology

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University of Toronto

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Accelerate