Author: Michele Millard

Using International Online Learning Modules to Engage Students in the Study of Critical Global Issues

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By James Simeon, Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, York University One of the central challenges for all higher education instructors is keeping their students fully engaged with the course content as part of their program and degree requirements. One sure way to engage your students in your course’s content and their learning is through international online learning modules developed through collaborative efforts with colleagues at universities abroad. The benefits of doing so not only outweigh…

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Upcoming Book Launch: Hearts of Freedom

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Upcoming Book Launch: Hearts of Freedom

First-hand accounts of Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian refugees who settled in Canada, contributing to the wellbeing and strength of their new country. “I rarely have the chance to learn about the journey, experiences, and challenges faced by my parents’ generation. Hearts of Freedom provides new perspectives on childhood memories, answering many inner questions. It is an immensely valuable resource.”SOM PHOUANGPRASEUTH, former president, Lao Association of Ottawa Valley Download the BOOK DESCRIPTION

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Announcing winners of the 2025 CARFMS Essay Contest

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Announcing winners of the 2025 CARFMS Essay Contest

The CARFMS Student Essay Contest adjudication committee is excited to announce the results of the 2025 competition. These are the results in the Graduate/Law category: Winning paper: The Racial Carcerality of Migration Governance, Brianna Garneau, Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, York University These are the results in the Undergraduate category: Winning paper: Passports and Palestine: Talismans of Transnational Trauma, Jonathan Roswell, University of Toronto, Scarborough

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The New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants and its two Global Compacts: Addressing the Symptoms or the “Root Causes” of Forced Displacement?*

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By James Simeon, Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, York University Causes and Consequences: Acknowledging the Roots of Forced Displacement The New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants was adopted unanimously by the United Nations General Assembly on September 19, 2016, nearly a decade ago. At that time, the Declaration noted, that human mobility was at unprecedented levels with more than 244 million people on the move, and with more than 65 million people who are…

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STUDENT ESSAY AND THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF DISPLACEMENT AWARD CONTESTS

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STUDENT ESSAY AND THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF DISPLACEMENT AWARD CONTESTS

The Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS), in collaboration with the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) and the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) project, are pleased to share the Call for Submissions for its Student Essay Contest (SEC) and the CARFMS/LERRN Lived Experiences of Displacement Essay Award (LEDA). These awards recognize the outstanding scholarship produced by students and early-career researchers within the academic field of refugee and forced migration studies. The…

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Left out of the Levels Plan: A Call for Accessible Statistics for the Joint Assistance Sponsorship Program to Facilitate Research and Evaluation

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By Rachel McNally December 2024 With the news in recent weeks highlighting the changes to Canada’s 2025-2027 Immigration Levels Plan (released October 2024), there is one refugee sponsorship program that does not appear in the levels plan: the Joint Assistance Sponsorship Program. In March 2023, I published the paper “Equally Public and Private Refugee Resettlement: The Historical Development of Canada’s Joint Assistance Sponsorship Program” in Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees. In this post, I explore…

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CARFMS2025: Canadian, Regional, and International Responses to Forced Migration

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CARFMS2025: Canadian, Regional, and International Responses to Forced Migration

16th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS) 26 – 29 May 2025 Hosted in collaboration with Toronto Metropolitan Centre for Immigration and Settlement, Toronto Metropolitan University Stay up to date by visiting the conference website: https://site.pheedloop.com/event/carfms25/home

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LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE INDOCHINESE REFUGEE MOVEMENT IN CANADA IN THE 1970s AND 1980s

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LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE INDOCHINESE REFUGEE MOVEMENT IN CANADA IN THE 1970s AND 1980s

Next year, 2025, will be a momentous year for all those in the field of refugees and forced migration studies. It marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, now Ho Chi Ming City, in 1975, and the end of the Vietnam War. At the same time, 1975 marked the start of the Cambodian Genocide when the Communist Khmer Rouge deliberately instigated the death of some 2 million people, about one quarter of the…

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2024 Winners of CARFMS/LERRN Lived Experiences of Displacement Essay Award

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2024 Winners of CARFMS/LERRN Lived Experiences of Displacement Essay Award

The Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS), in collaboration with the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) and the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) project, is pleased to announce the results of the 2024 CARFMS/LERRN Lived Experiences of Displacement Award. There are two winning papers in the Graduate category. Note that we did not receive sufficient submissions in the Undergraduate and Emerging Scholars categories to offer an award this year. Living…

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