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Current Visiting Scholars

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Past Visiting Scholars

Marc Yvan Valade - Ryerson* University

Holding a master’s in Public Administration and a former SSHRC Fellow, Marc is completing a PhD in Public Policy with a focus on immigration and settlement policies. His dissertation focuses on the collaboration and capacity of community stakeholders strategizing to attract immigrants in rural areas. In 2017, Marc spent two months in Brandon as part of his PhD fieldwork. Concurrently involved in various research projects, Marc has participated and operationalized studies on topics such as the impact of ombudspersons on public administration, the integration trajectories of immigrant families, and the dissemination of feminist norms through peace processes in war-torn countries. During the fieldwork phase of the latter study, he interviewed refugees resettled in various European and African countries. Marc was a laureate of Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada National Policy Essay Challenge in 2019. A “Pracademic,” Marc held a General Director position at a regional development planning agency in a rural area north of Montréal, QC. During his decade-long tenure, he negotiated various development accords with the provincial government, among which in immigration.

During his term at the Centre for Aboriginal and Rural Education Studies in the fall, Marc furthered his research on the integration of recent immigrants, particularly through the support of adaptation brokers in the school system. He is developing a resiliency framework that combines elements of nascent social capital and family adaptive systems. A qualitative researcher, Marc has undergone training in social network analysis and is also versed in mixed-method case studies. He prepared various presentation topics drawing on his PhD research and other commitments, such as immigrant integration conceived as a two-way process, the policy capacity of rural communities wanting to attract immigrants, and the advocacy work of Burundian women in the 2000s.

*Ryerson University is currently undergoing a name change