Khan Rahi

MA in Sociology of Development and Adjunct Lecturer at University of Toronto

Khan is a Toronto Community-based Researcher ; currently Management Consultant with the Canadian Community-based Research Network (CCRN) and former Executive Director of Access Action Council in Toronto and Manager of BC & Alberta Research Alliance (BALTA).

Khan has extensive research and community development practice on a wide range of settlement and integration topics and has worked nationally and internationally on migration issues through membership in the National and International Metropolis Networks.

Khan is also actively involved with the European based Science Shops Network addressing civic engagement in science, technology and the environment since its inception (2000).

Khan is an Afghan-Canadian living in Toronto.

RESEARCH INTEREST

Settlement and Migration, Civic Engagement in Science & Technology, Community Economic Development

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

1) Temporary Foreign Workers

2) Achieving Integration thru Early Childhood Education : Comparative Review of Policy & Practice in Selected OCED countries

PUBLICATIONS

• “Profiles of CUPE Ontario Trades” A Research Project completed for the Canadian Public Employees Union-Ontario (CUPE), Toronto, (2009)

• Co-Principal Investigator “Voices from the Margins : Visible Minority Immigrant and Refugee Youth Experiences with Employment Exclusion in Toronto”(With Dr. John Shields, Department of Politics, Ryerson University, Policy Matters Publication, Ontario Metropolis Centre (CERIS), Toronto, 2007.

• “Parenting in the Canadian Context : Framing Early Childhood Education Curriculum and Training Modules for Recent Immigrants in York Region.” A Research Report for Social Enterprise Canada & Welcome Centre in York Region (2007)

• Author “Lessons Learned from the Role of the Community Based Research Network (CRN) in the US and Canada” in Advancing Science And Society Interactions, Edited by Norbert Steinhaus, International Science Shops Network, Bonn, Germany, 2005.

• Co-Author “Integrating Community Diversity in Toronto : On Whose Terms”, Chapter (with Dr. Myer Siemiatycki et al) in The World in the City, Edited by Paul Anisef & Michael Lanphier, University of Toronto Press, 2003.

• “Exploratory Qualitative Research on the Experience of Selected Immigrant Worker Enclaves”, a Research Project completed for Workers Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), Toronto (2002).