CARFMS Undergraduate Student Essay Contest

Past Winners of the CARFMS Undergraduate Student Essay Contest

2023

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

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2020

Winner: “Newcomer Resettlement Insights of a Frontline Worker and Student of Social Work“, Ranjith Kulatilake, York University

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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”

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