Essay Contest

le français suit The Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS) is pleased to share the Call for Submissions for its Student Essay Contest (SEC). This award recognizes the outstanding scholarship produced by students and early-career researchers within the academic field of refugee and forced migration studies.  The finalists for the SEC contest will be awarded a $500 prize for one winning research paper in each of the three categories (for a total of 3 winners): In addition,…

The CARFMS Student Essay Contest adjudication committee is excited to announce the results of the 2025 competition. These are the results in the Graduate/Law category: Winning paper: The Racial Carcerality of Migration Governance, Brianna Garneau, Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, York University These are the results in the Undergraduate category: Winning paper: Passports and Palestine: Talismans of Transnational Trauma, Jonathan Roswell, University of Toronto, Scarborough

The Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS), in collaboration with the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) and the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) project, is pleased to announce the results of the 2024 CARFMS/LERRN Lived Experiences of Displacement Award. There are two winning papers in the Graduate category. Note that we did not receive sufficient submissions in the Undergraduate and Emerging Scholars categories to offer an award this year. Living…

le français suit The Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS) seeks to foster an independent community of scholars dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of Canadian refugee and forced migration research.  The Association aims to engage students as active members of the Canadian refugee research community, and invites undergraduate, graduate and law students to participate in the 2023 CARFMS Student Essay Contest. The CARFMS Student Essay Contest recognizes the most outstanding research…

  Undergraduate / Étudiants de premier cycle   Winner / Gagnant Unaccompanied and Separated Refugee Children in Uganda: Community Based Child Protection Mechanisms, Emily Everett, Carleton University Shortlisted / Présélectionné 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…

Dear CARFMS Members, On behalf of the CARFMS 2020 Essay Contest Committee, I am thrilled to announce the results of the essay contest. The essay contest is held each year to recognize the most outstanding scholarship produced by students in Canada, in the field of refugee and forced migration studies. The winners of the CARFMS 2020 Essay Contest are: “Unpacking knowledge-practices in social movements: The Canadian Rohingya social movement,” Yuriko Cowper-Smith (Graduate/Law category)    “LGBTQ+…