Hillary Geneau, “The Anonymous: An Examination of Statelessness in the Dominican Republic” CARFMS Student Essay Contest 2016 Shortlisted Paper
Hillary Geneau, “The Anonymous: An Examination of Statelessness in the Dominican Republic” (PDF)
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John Laman, “Revisiting the Sanctuary City: Citizenship or Abjection? Spotlighting the Case of Toronto” CARFMS Student Essay Contest 2016 Shortlisted Paper
John Laman, “Revisiting the Sanctuary City: Citizenship or Abjection? Spotlighting the Case of Toronto” (PDF)
Read MoreAfter the Flight: The Dynamics of Refugee Settlement and Integration
Editor(s): Morgan Poteet, Shiva Nourpanah ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-9074-8 ISBN-10: 1-4438-9074-X Knowledge of the integration process for refugees is often subsumed under the broader category of “immigrants”. This book focuses on this process for refugees, including the structural and systemic challenges they face as they integrate in their new host societies, and how they respond to such challenges. The book provides a critical analysis of Canada’s approach to integrating refugees with additional chapters focused on refugee integration…
Read MoreNew CARFMS Blog is Launched!
We would like to give CARFMS members an opportunity to have their say on those issues and concerns that are important to you and others. The CARFMS Blog provides you with the opportunity to reach the members of CARFMS, a highly knowledgeable and informed group of scholars, policymakers, practitioners, instructors and students on the issues and concerns in the field of refugee and forced migration studies and a broader public audience who are interested in…
Read MoreUpcoming call for paper submission from CARFMS16
Have you presented at CARFMS16? We would like to let you know of the opportunity for publication. A call will go out end of August / beginning of September for paper submission from CARFMS16 that will be peer reviewed for potential edited volume in a journal or edited volume of a book. Check our website regularly for more updates!
Read MoreFrom one hell to another: Family fled Laos to live in miserable conditions here
The organizer of a national conference on refugees in Winnipeg knows her subject too well. As a child, Stephanie Phetsamay Stobbe and her family fled Laos and ended up in rural Manitoba in the dead of winter in a three-room house with no running water and a wood stove for heat. “We had a terrible experience,” said Stobbe, who was seven in December 1979, when her family arrived in a southern Manitoba town she declined…
Read MoreCARFMS16: Special Exhibits
Bitter Oranges: African Migrant Workers in Calabria An ethnographic photo exhibition (May 12-14) Carole Reckinger, Diana Reiners, Gilles Reckinger Location: Menno Simons College, 2MS12/13 Forced to Flee, Safe Passage: MSF Responds to the Refugee Crisis Photos from MSF sea rescues (May 12-14) Doctors without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières Location: Menno Simons College, 2MS12/13 Making Place for Refugees (May 12-14) A Landscape Architecture Studio Dr Richard Perron, with Scott Irvine Featuring the work…
Read MoreNews Release: REFUGEES and FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT
International conference hosted by Menno Simons College at UWinnipeg explores plight of refugees – May 11 to 14, 2016 WINNIPEG – The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 13) states that everyone has the right to freedom of movement within and across borders. Today, unprecedented numbers of people are being denied this fundamental freedom. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that war, conflict, and persecution have displaced some…
Read MoreWinter Newsletter, 2016, Issue 7
Winter 2016 Newsletter
Read MoreInaugural Address: For whom are EU borders deadly and why?
Inaugural Address: For whom are EU borders deadly and why? (PDF)
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