Pre-Conference Workshop: Big Data and Migration Research

The Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration is the first ever CERC awarded to Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), building on the university’s strengths and commitments in the area of immigration and settlement studies.The CERC in Migration and Integration is producing innovative and usable knowledge on the links between migration and post-migration processes, forced and voluntary mobility, internal and international migration, and the role of countries of origin and transit. The CERC pays special attention to Canadian realities while also engaging in comparative research with and among other countries in various global regions.

Global Migration Institute

Pre-conference workshops that offer in-depth engagement with the core themes of the Rethinking Complex Migration conference.

Oakham House

Big Data and Migration Research: Concepts, Data Infrastructures, and Analytical HorizonsDate: Wednesday, April 15, 2026Time: 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM (ET)Location: Oakham House, 63 Gould Street, Toronto, ON M5B 1E9About the workshopThis workshop offers a structured and critical introduction to the use of big data in migration research. Rather than focusing on coding or technical implementation, the session provides a conceptual and methodological deep dive into the types of digital trace data currently transforming the field, their analytical potential, and their epistemic and ethical implications.Migration is increasingly studied through data sources that were not originally produced for research purposes: mobile phone metadata, social media content, platform-based administrative data, satellite imagery, digital remittance traces, online search queries, and platform labour data. These sources promise scale, granularity and temporal depth, but they also raise fundamental questions about representation, bias, inference, and power.Refund policy: Refunds minus any transaction fees are available up to April 1, 2026. After this date no refunds are available.

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