Diabetes is a chronic and complex disease that is influenced by many factors, including social, economic, cultural and historic factors. We want to understand why this is happening. We want to understand how social factors, like moving to Canada from another country, might be related to these high rates of diabetes. Through interviews and qualitative analysis, we would like to explore the experiences of migration and developing diabetes among Tamil immigrants from Sri Lanka living in the Greater Toronto Area. A group of Tamil and non-Tamil researchers, students, community members and clinicians are leading this project.