Sanja Begic – CARFMS/ACERMF

Naomi C Whitbourn’s Working Paper published in the Series

Posted on Wednesday March 28th, 2018Monday October 22nd, 2018 by Sanja Begic

Locked Up in a Liberal State: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Parliamentary Debates on the Detention of Asylum-Seeking Children in the United Kingdom (PDF) Naomi C Whitbourn, a graduate in Migration Studies from the University of Oxford, is a consultant with research interests in governmental policy. Listing of all the Working Papers published in the Series

LCIL Workshop: Complicity and Exclusion from Asylum – Call for Abstracts

Posted on Wednesday February 7th, 2018Tuesday November 3rd, 2020 by Sanja Begic

The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law is hosting a one-day workshop, sponsored by the Refugee Law Initiative (RLI), on the topic of‘Complicity and Exclusion from Asylum’ which is to be held on: Friday 29 June 2018 – 9 am to 5.30 pm The aim of the workshop is to engage in a thorough discussion of this topic through a number of papers selected on the basis of this call for abstracts. The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees provides…

Refugee Resettlement in Canada: Moving Forward from Lessons of the Past

Posted on Tuesday January 30th, 2018Tuesday November 3rd, 2020 by Sanja Begic

Date: Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018 Time: 7:00–9:00PM Venue: Eckhardt Gramatté Hall, University of Winnipeg Panelists: Mike Molloy | former Ambassador to Jordan & Coordinator of Indochinese Refugee Resettlement Program, co-author of Running on Empty: Canada and the Indochinese Refugees, 1975-1980 Peter Duschinsky | former Canadian Foreign Service Officer & Coordinator of Ethiopian Refugee Resettlement Program, co-author of Running on Empty: Canada and the Indochinese Refugees, 1975-1980 Tom Denton | Executive Director of Hospitality House Refugee…

New CARFMS Newsletter – Winter 2018

Posted on Tuesday January 23rd, 2018Tuesday November 3rd, 2020 by Sanja Begic

Issue 9, Winter 2018 (PDF) See more newsletters on the newsletters page.

2018 Student Essay Contest deadline has been extended to January 31

Posted on Tuesday January 9th, 2018Tuesday November 3rd, 2020 by Sanja Begic

2018 Student Essay Contest deadline has been extended to January 31 The Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS) invites students to participate in the seventh annual CARFMS Student Essay Contest. The CARFMS Student Essay Contest aims to recognize the most outstanding research produced by students in the field of refugee and forced migration studies. There are two categories: one for graduate and law students; and, one for undergraduate students. A $500 prize…

CARFMS 2018: Dialogue Beyond Borders

Posted on Wednesday November 1st, 2017Tuesday November 3rd, 2020 by Sanja Begic

Carleton University, May 22-May 25, 2018 Refugee and Forced Migration Studies has strived to foster both disciplinary and multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and co-disciplinary forms of research. It has also been a field that has sought, in various ways, to engage with elements of policy and practice relating to displacement. It also strives to engage with, and often directly involve, the perspectives and experience of individuals and groups that have been displaced. In these ways, is has also…

Call for Papers: Workshop: ‘Terrorism and Asylum’

Posted on Thursday October 26th, 2017Thursday October 26th, 2017 by Sanja Begic

Workshop: ‘Terrorism and Asylum’ Refugee Law Initiative, University of London Friday 8 December 2017 Fears that refugee flows may facilitate the entry of terrorist elements are amply demonstrated by State responses to the refugee crises in Syria and Iraq. Such concerns about the prevalence of terrorism in today’s world have direct consequences for the legal protection of refugees and asylum-seekers. This one-day workshop convened by the Refugee Law Initiative aims to promote reflection on links…

Open Call to Host a CARFMS Annual Conference

Posted on Tuesday September 26th, 2017Wednesday November 1st, 2017 by Sanja Begic

OPEN CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST TO HOST A FUTURE CARFMS ANNUAL CONFERENCE The CARFMS Executive is inviting all those who may be interested in hosting a CARFMS Annual Conference to submit an email outlining the following: What year you would be open to doing so? Please note that CARFMS Annual Conferences are being scheduled for the following years and venues: 2018 Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, from May 21-25, 2018 CARFMS Annual Conferences are held…

Save the date: CARFMS18

Posted on Tuesday September 26th, 2017 by Sanja Begic

Our next conference will be held at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, from May 21-25, 2018. The call for papers is forthcoming. Check back the website regularly for more information.