{"id":1242,"date":"2026-04-21T17:05:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lisarbrunner\/?page_id=1242"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:02:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:02:37","slug":"immigration-policy-decoded","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lisarbrunner\/immigration-policy-decoded\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Policy Decoded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2026, the UBC <a href=\"https:\/\/migration.ubc.ca\/\">Centre for Migration Studies<\/a> launched <a href=\"https:\/\/migration.ubc.ca\/research\/publications\/immigration-policy-decoded\/\"><em>Immigration Policy Decoded<\/em><\/a>, a new series of policy explainers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lisarbrunner\/files\/2026\/04\/Immigration-Policy-Decoded-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1250 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lisarbrunner\/files\/2026\/04\/Immigration-Policy-Decoded-image-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lisarbrunner\/files\/2026\/04\/Immigration-Policy-Decoded-image-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lisarbrunner\/files\/2026\/04\/Immigration-Policy-Decoded-image-787x1024.jpg 787w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lisarbrunner\/files\/2026\/04\/Immigration-Policy-Decoded-image-768x999.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lisarbrunner\/files\/2026\/04\/Immigration-Policy-Decoded-image.jpg 812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/migration.ubc.ca\/news\/dr-lisa-brunner-and-prof-irene-bloemraad-present-the-new-immigration-policy-decoded-series\/\">This short Q+A<\/a> with CMS Co-Director Irene Bloemraad and myself explains more about the series.<\/p>\n<p>Read the explainers below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>April 2026: <a href=\"https:\/\/migration.ubc.ca\/publications\/explainers\/bill-c-12\/\">How will Bill C-12 impact Canadian immigration and refugee protection?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have a suggestion for future topics, <a href=\"mailto:lisa.brunner@ubc.ca\">get in touch<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2026, the UBC Centre for Migration Studies launched Immigration Policy Decoded, a new series of policy explainers. This short Q+A with CMS Co-Director Irene Bloemraad and myself explains more about the series. Read the explainers below: April 2026: How will Bill C-12 impact Canadian immigration and refugee protection? If you have a suggestion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37888,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1242","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lisarbrunner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lisarbrunner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lisarbrunner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lisarbrunner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lisarbrunner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lisarbrunner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1251,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lisarbrunner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1242\/revisions\/1251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lisarbrunner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}