The collection includes photocopied articles, passenger lists and corresponce reproduced for Mr. Asher's research into the Serpa Pinto and his Montreal Memories project. In addition to this secondary research material, the collection includes a fellowship application and accompanying correspondence.

Contains correspondence, notes, bulletins, etc

Contains research on "Family Motel" NFB refugee film, as well as "Family Motel" budget, and printed email correspondence pertaining to her own refugee film project.

Contains research on church sanctuaries for refugees, particularly as they pertain to Ethiopian activists seeking political asylum in Canada (with focus on a subject named Moti). Also contains printed emails on the subject, loose leaf notes, and printouts of articles pertaining to torture in Ethiopia.

Contains research and correspondence related to Canadian refugees for a film project, including notes on several refugees' cases and causes for denial of refugee status, correspondence with a man named Peter Showler related to refugees and immigration, a script of a dramatization of a refugee's experience, and a DVD entitled "Legal Aid Refugee Law Office." Also contains correspondence with Canadian immigrants whose stories were not chosen as subjects of Beverly Shaffer's film.

Contains correspondence pertaining to a film proposal on refugees, loose leaf notes, a director's statement, a budget, and research on El Salvador in addition to proposal.

Contains loose leaf notes on meetings with immigration lawyer Annick Legault, who represented a refugee Beverly Shaffer was to interview. Also includes research on Angola and Cabinda, and newspaper clippings on attitudes toward refugees in Montreal.