Announcing winners of the 2024 CARFMS Essay Contest
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The CARFMS Student Essay Contest adjudication committee is excited to announce the results of the 2024 competition.
These are the results in the Graduate/Law category:
Winning paper:
- A Half-open Door: A Case Study of Canada’s Special Immigration Programs for Afghan Nationals – Neela Hassan, Sociology and Legal Studies, University of Waterloo
Shortlisted papers:
- Climate Coloniality, Border Securitization and Climate Justice: A Critique of Canada’s Approach to Global Climate Displacement – Rahul Balasundaram, Yeates School of Graduate Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University
- Seeking and Sorting Refuge Queerly: Disrupting my Zombie Breeding Grounds on the Stolen Land, aka Canada – Ranjith Kulatilake, Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, York University
- Our Engagement with the “Faces” of the “Other” and the Ethical Quandaries in Refugee Protection – Deepa Nagari, Socio-Legal Studies, York University
We did not receive any submissions in the Undergraduate category this year.
You can read the papers here: https://carfms.org/research-and-papers/carfms-student-essay-contest/
We want to thank the adjudication committee for their thoughtful work:
- Idil Atak, Toronto Metropolitan University
- Nimo Bokore, Carleton University
- Christina Clark-Kazak, University of Ottawa
- Julie Young, University of Lethbridge
Winners will be invited to share their papers at a webinar in Fall 2024. Please stay tuned for details!