CARFMS Undergraduate Student Essay Contest

Past Winners of the CARFMS Undergraduate Student Essay Contest

2024

There was no winner in the Undergraduate category this year due to insufficient entries.

2023

• Restaurants and Resettlement: Cambodian Refugees Finding Success in the American Food Industry Lilly Neang, Global and International Studies, Carleton University
• ‘Almost a City’: Understanding and Planning for Refugee Movement to the City Informed by the Context of Nairobi, Kenya Lawrenz Decano, Urban and Regional Studies, University of Lethbridge

2022

Winner:

• “The Morality of Border Controls: The Communitarianism and Cosmopolitan Debate: On The Freedom of Association to Exclude or Include an Immigrant”, Karli Woods, Brock University 

2021

Winner: Unaccompanied and Separated Refugee Children in Uganda: Community Based Child Protection Mechanisms, Emily Everett, Carleton University

Runners up (in no particular order):

• Island Psyche and the Living Dead: A critical analysis of Australia’s Nauru and Manus Island Detention Centres, Jed Chown, Carleton University
• From Humanitarianism to Securitization: The Shift in Political and Media Discourse on Tamil Refugees Arriving by Sea in Canada, Rahul Balasundaram, University of Ottawa
• Discourse and the Securitization of Asylum Seekers to Canada, Ryan Dean, Carleton University  

2020

Winner: “Newcomer Resettlement Insights of a Frontline Worker and Student of Social Work“, Ranjith Kulatilake, York University

Runners up (in no particular order):

• “Who is protecting LGBTI persons of concern? Examining the factors that explain the low level of implementation of the UNHCR’s AGD policy in the MENA region“, Alec Verch, Carleton University
• “Palestinian Refugees in Egypt: the forgotten  Refugees“, Rana Kamel-Aly, McGill University

2019

Winner: “Between Haiti and the Dominican Republic: Hispaniola’s Refugee Crisis (Dominican citizenship from thousands of people of Haitian descent)“, Keith Nicholson, Mount Allison University

Runners up (in no particular order):

• “Policy failure: an analysis of the non-implementation of the UNHCR Executive committee’s policy on responsibility sharing in Jordan”, Alexandra Lund-Murray, Carleton university
• “China and the North Korean Refugee Crisis: State Sovereignty and the Dangers of ‘Strategic Ambivalence'”, Suzanne Bonfils, McGill University
• “From Eritrea to the EU: Driven to Security”, Lindsey Swartzman, York University

2018

Runners up (in no particular order):

“Rightless, Stateless and Waiting on Beaches: Failures of the International Community in Refugee Prevention and Protection”​, Kelsey Rhude, Carleton University

2017

Winner: “The source of migrant information, the myth of the IOM’s information campaigns and an examination of migrant decision-making processes,​” Sanda Ajzerle, Carleton University

2016

Winner: Alathea Enns (t.s.enns@gmail.com) for the paper “Human Trafficking, Illegal Migration and Victim Identification on the Spanish Coast”

Runners up (in no particular order): 

• Hillary Geneau (hillarygeneau@dal.ca) for a paper on citizenship and statelessness for Haitians in the Dominican Republic “The Anonymous: An Examination of Statelessness in the Dominican Republic” (PDF)
• Morgan McGinn (mmcginn@mta.ca) for “Canada’s Policy on Climate Refugees: Mass Migration and the Need for a Paradigmatic Shift”
• Richard Boli (richardboli@yahoo.ca), “Refugee Settlement Services in Winnipeg: Approaches, Programs and Organizations” (PDF)