Grants and Contributions:

To achieve a greater knowledge and awareness of the challenges faced by South Asian women in immigrating to Canada.

To identify barriers to women's participation in migration processes.

To document ways in which immigration policies and practices can also consider gender-power imbalances and structural barriers to women in war/post-war violence, persecution, and gender-based violence.

To achieve a better understanding of ways in which Canada and other nation-states mutually-support international feminist policies and practices.

To develop of a policy report collating the data and insights on improving immigration processes incorporating feminist perspectives.

To contextualize the role of national and international institutions, actors, ideas and intentions in international feminist policies and practices.

Recipient's work focusses on examining immigration policies in Canada and violence against immigrant and refugee women, from a transnational perspective.

To provide funding to organizations that are active in the areas of international migration policy development and research and whose independent work as a third party offers a valuable contribution for consideration in Canadian international migration and citizenship policy development and implementation.