- Left out of the Levels Plan: A Call for Accessible Statistics for the Joint Assistance Sponsorship Program to Facilitate Research and Evaluation
- CARFMS2025: Canadian, Regional, and International Responses to Forced Migration
- LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE INDOCHINESE REFUGEE MOVEMENT IN CANADA IN THE 1970s AND 1980s
- 2024 Winners of CARFMS/LERRN Lived Experiences of Displacement Essay Award
- The Most Fundamental Human Right to Peace and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) the Forcibly Displaced
CARFMS Undergraduate Student Essay Contest
Past Winners of the CARFMS Undergraduate Student Essay Contest
2023
- Restaurants and Resettlement: Cambodian Refugees Finding Success in the American Food Industry Lilly Neang, Global and International Studies, Carleton University
- ‘Almost a City’: Understanding and Planning for Refugee Movement to the City Informed by the Context of Nairobi, Kenya Lawrenz Decano, Urban and Regional Studies, University of Lethbridge
2022
Winner:
- “The Morality of Border Controls: The Communitarianism and Cosmopolitan Debate: On The Freedom of Association to Exclude or Include an Immigrant”, Karli Woods, Brock University
2021
Winner: Unaccompanied and Separated Refugee Children in Uganda: Community Based Child Protection Mechanisms, Emily Everett, Carleton University
Runners up (in no particular order):
- 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 of Asylum Seekers to Canada, Ryan Dean, Carleton University
2020
Winner: “Newcomer Resettlement Insights of a Frontline Worker and Student of Social Work“, Ranjith Kulatilake, York University
Runners up (in no particular order):
- “Who is protecting LGBTI persons of concern? Examining the factors that explain the low level of implementation of the UNHCR’s AGD policy in the MENA region“, Alec Verch, Carleton University
- “Palestinian Refugees in Egypt: the forgotten Refugees“, Rana Kamel-Aly, McGill University
2019
Winner: “Between Haiti and the Dominican Republic: Hispaniola’s Refugee Crisis (Dominican citizenship from thousands of people of Haitian descent)“, Keith Nicholson, Mount Allison University
Runners up (in no particular order):
- “Policy failure: an analysis of the non-implementation of the UNHCR Executive committee’s policy on responsibility sharing in Jordan”, Alexandra Lund-Murray, Carleton university
- “China and the North Korean Refugee Crisis: State Sovereignty and the Dangers of ‘Strategic Ambivalence'”, Suzanne Bonfils, McGill University
- “From Eritrea to the EU: Driven to Security”, Lindsey Swartzman, York University
2018
Runners up (in no particular order):
“Rightless, Stateless and Waiting on Beaches: Failures of the International Community in Refugee Prevention and Protection”, Kelsey Rhude, Carleton University
2017
Winner: “The source of migrant information, the myth of the IOM’s information campaigns and an examination of migrant decision-making processes,” Sanda Ajzerle, Carleton University
2016
Winner: Alathea Enns (t.s.enns@gmail.com) for the paper “Human Trafficking, Illegal Migration and Victim Identification on the Spanish Coast”
Runners up (in no particular order):
- Hillary Geneau (hillarygeneau@dal.ca) for a paper on citizenship and statelessness for Haitians in the Dominican Republic “The Anonymous: An Examination of Statelessness in the Dominican Republic” (PDF)
- Morgan McGinn (mmcginn@mta.ca) for “Canada’s Policy on Climate Refugees: Mass Migration and the Need for a Paradigmatic Shift”
- Richard Boli (richardboli@yahoo.ca), “Refugee Settlement Services in Winnipeg: Approaches, Programs and Organizations” (PDF)
