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The articles in Volume I deal with the nuts and bolts of integration and settlement questions, drawing on the insights of research and practice in the field from a number of forward-looking studies and pilot projects. [...] These included the need to address acculturative and adjustment-related stress experienced during the settlement process; issues of access to community and municipal supports for both staff and clients; the provision of easier access to supports “closer to home”; the challenges of front-line staff often compelled to go beyond their scope of practice; and the benefits of consistency in approaches. [...] The authors identify the fundamental pillars of social cohesion as the respect for ethnocultural diversity and the importance of a relationship to the other based on an ethic of reciprocity. [...] Many activities have been organized to offer networking and counselling opportunities to stakeholders in the field of labour market policy, with the objective of connecting labour market integration opportunities to people with a migration background in the same region and closing supply gaps.1 At the present time, the Network IQ is working on recruiting projects in the healthcare sector: Pilot pr. [...] With this in mind, we monitored the Arabic and English language and literacy progress of 122 Syrian refugee children and youth between the ages of six and 14 living in Toronto, Edmonton and Waterloo over a period of one year.