CARFMS Webinar: UNHCR’s  Global Trends in Forced Displacement 2025 Report

CARFMS Webinar: UNHCR’s  Global Trends in Forced Displacement 2025 Report

Monday, June 29, 2026 1 pm – 2:30 pm, EDT Zoom:  https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/VRsyOynDQoeXNRmQ9Zc2vw Each year the UNHCR releases its Global Trends in Forced Displacement report, its flagship publication, that presents the latest official statistics and key statistical trends on refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless people worldwide. This CARFMS webinar will review the essential elements and aspects of this year’s report from a number of different perspectives. Speakers  

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Open letter on Afghan refugee protection and resettlement to Canada

Open letter on Afghan refugee protection and resettlement to Canada

August 19, 2021 The Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS) observes with increasing alarm the multiplication of attacks against human rights in Afghanistan, along with the limitations of people’s mobility and reprisals against individuals and their families. Given its mandate, focused on refugee and forced migration issues, CARFMS supports unreservedly the “Open letter on Afghan refugee protection and resettlement to Canada”. This letter calls on the Government of Canada to act urgently…

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2015 STUDENT ESSAY CONTEST

2015 STUDENT ESSAY CONTEST

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 and forced migration research community, and invites students to participate in the fourth annual CARFMS Student Essay Contest. For the first time this year, there will be two categories: one for…

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