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The Quebec node has started two projects that reflect the interests of researchers and partners. The first project focuses on the analysis of practices employed by organizations involved in the regionalization of immigration: modeling and transfer. The second project analyses the role and representations of regional actors with respect to temporary foreign workers.
For the first project, the research-action-training team includes: Michèle Vatz-Laaroussi, University of Sherbrooke, Pascale Chanoux (TCRI, RORIQ), Lauran Anson (RIFE), Éric Quimper (PROMIS) and Carline Duteau (Masters student in social work, University of Sherbrooke).

The goals of the project include:

• Conducting the first stage of research-action-training focusing on the practices of organizations dealing with the regionalization of immigration in Quebec.
• Identifying and modeling, with practitioners, the practices of organizations upstream and downstream of the regionalization process.
• Introducing and initiating knowledge transfer in various reception and integration environments, relying on the RORIQ and TCRI.

This working project will be implemented in five stages starting with an analysis of the organizational grey literature and a review of the extant literature on the topic, up to the submission of the grant application to the MELS (Ministry of Education, Leisure and Sports).
The research team for the second project includes: Michèle Vatz-Laaroussi, University of Sherbrooke; Danièle Bélanger, Laval University; Caroline Jacob, Solidarité Rurale Québec (SRQ); Linamar Campos-Flores, PhD candidate at the University of Montréal and Guillermo Candiz, PhD candidate at Laval University.
The goals of this project include:

• Developing the first step of the research-action project aimed at promoting welcoming commu-nities for temporary foreign workers.
• Identifying two regions in Quebec which receive temporary foreign workers and then describing these territories in order to better understand the dynamics that may be established between the local population and the temporary foreign workers.
• Producing an analytic monograph that could be used for a deeper research project and could be compiled and contrasted with other similar projects elsewhere in Canada.

This project will be conducted in four stages starting with documentary research of past and current initiatives and extending to the analysis of results and formulation of recommendations on potential project orientations.
Both projects are being undertaken with a view to fostering partnerships by the Quebec node and to establish a baseline for comparisons and discussions with other P2P nodes. We would like to receive feedback from the other nodes about their interest in these issues and possible comparative projects.