Based in Manitoba, the MIRRA Network is a collective team of researchers who work to build and facilitate connections with other researchers, communities, and policymakers within Canada and internationally.

The MIRRA Network fosters collective research and dissemination capacity on intersecting research and policy topics associated with migration in rural and remote areas. These topics include – but are not limited to:

• Housing and home
• Settlement and integration
• Temporary, cyclical and permanent migrant labour in rural and remote political economies
• Indigenous, settler, and newcomer relations
• Welcoming Communities and community well-being
• Demographic challenges within, and the changing demographic composition of, rural and remote communities
• Inequality and marginalization
• Racism and race-based exclusions
• Health and well-being

• Strengthen community-engaged research and community research capacity on matters pertaining to immigration in remote and rural areas
• Develop the capacity for international comparative research on migration in rural and remote areas
• Connect scholars, policy-makers, and community-based practitioners engaged with immigration in remote and rural areas
• Support students and early career scholars in developing their research activities and promoting their research
• Make research findings and supportive tools widely and freely available to communities, researchers, and policymakers

For more information, please contact Ray Silvius at r.silvius@uwinnipeg.ca