CARFMS News

Film Chasing Asylum A Q&A with Director Eva Orner to follow 17 May 4:30 – 6:30pm David Lam Auditorium University of Victoria Chasing Asylum exposes the real impact of Australia’s offshore detention policies and explores how ‘The Lucky Country’ became a country where leaders choose detention over compassion and governments deprive the desperate of their basic human rights. The film features never before seen footage from inside Australia’s offshore detention camps, revealing the personal impact of sending those in search of…

Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies Call for Papers: CARFMS 2016 Conference, Winnipeg, Manitoba Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies invites presenters at the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS) 2016 Conference held in Winnipeg, Manitoba to submit conference papers focused specifically on conflict resolution and international development. The 2016 conference “Freedom of Movement: Exploring a Path from Armed Conflict, Persecution, and Forced Migration…

Issue 8, Winter 2017 (PDF) See more newsletters on the newsletters page.

Tanya Bouchard, Chief Curator at Pier 21, has invited all interested people to share their individual immigration story with the museum where a repository has been set up. Please share widely with your networks. The Museum actively collects oral histories and written story accounts of immigrating to Canada and of coming to Canada as a refugee. https://www.pier21.ca/share http://www.quai21.ca/partagez www.pier21.ca | www.quai21.ca

Forgotten Corridors: Global Displacement & the Politics of Engagement May 15–18, 2017   |   Victoria, BC 10th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies Hosted by the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives’ Migration and Mobility Program, University of Victoria   Never before in modern history have so many people been forced to leave their homes and journey abroad for temporary or permanent settlement. According to the UNHCR Mid-Term June 2015 report, “by…

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…