Asylum policies and resettlement. Insights and lessons from Canada's experience

The resettlement of refugees is an important contemporary issue and several coun-tries responded to the global needs by implementing national pro-grams. This article aims analyze current developments about refugee protection focusing on Canada's experience in resettling integrating through support private sponsors. It elaborates outcomes challenges sponsorship program implemented since late 1970s ex-plores its transferability Europe. authors affirm that, despite program's vulnerabilities, it can be a model for European countries dealing with resettle-ment refugees.