Immigrant and Refugee Research Institute
The Immigrant and Refugee Research Institute (IRRI) strives to achieve an equal sharing of knowledge and skills between the academic community and newcomer communities. The mutual learning opportunities will ground and enrich research and ensure that scholarship is beneficial to the community.
The vision of IRRI is to create and share practical knowledge on immigrants and refugees and to improve their lives in the region, in the nation and in the world, with a particular focus on refugee issues in collaboration with Western New York newcomer communities. Based on human rights perspectives, the members of the IRRI utilize research as a tool to sustain the dignity of every immigrant and refugee.
The IRRI is a meeting place for all stakeholders interested in developing knowledge, policy and practice related to immigrants and refugees where scholars interested in working with immigrants and refugee populations share and exchange ideas with each other and with newcomer community leaders/members.