About Us
The Newcomers is a media publication where we try to make sense of the Canadian immigrant experience.
The immigrant experience is a layered one. It involves paperwork and grief, ambition and loneliness, reinvention and loss, sometimes all in the same week. The dominant stories about immigrants tend to flatten all of this into two categories; the struggling victim or the inspiring success story. I don’t think either version is honest or useful.
At The Newcomers, we try harder.
We publish original analysis on Canadian immigration policy. We tell the stories of immigrants building lives, businesses, and communities across Canada. We produce practical guides on money, careers, and the hundred small decisions that define your first two to ten years in a new country. And we host conversations with the people shaping what immigration looks like on the ground.
Some of what we cover has clear and definitive answers. How to file your taxes as a newcomer. What the latest Express Entry draw means for your bid to go from a working permit holder to a permanent resident. How to read a Canadian pay stub. We make sense of those things so you don’t have to figure them out alone.
Other things we cover don’t have clear answers at all. What it means to raise children between two cultures. How to carry an identity that was shaped in one country while building a life in another. Whether belonging is something you earn or something you decide.
We try to make sense of those things too, knowing we won’t always get there. The trying is the point.
What started as a podcast in March 2023 has grown into a publication with thousands of subscribers, over 100 podcast episodes, and an expanding library of guides, essays, profiles, and policy analysis.
We are building the most trusted source for understanding the Canadian immigrant experience. If you’re a newcomer or an immigrant, we’re here to help you go from settling to integrating into Canada. If you’re a Canadian, we’re here to show you the country through the eyes of the people choosing it everyday.
Come make sense of it with us.
Dozie Anyaegbunam,
Managing Editor, The Newcomers
