Winner: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dina Taha, York University<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00ab\u00a0Like a tree without leaves\u201d:\u00a0Syrian refugee women and the shifting meaning of Marriage\u200b\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n This paper is part of a broader study that I conducted during my fieldwork in Egypt summer of 2017 where I interviewed Syrian refugee women who escaped the conflict in Syria and married Egyptian men after 2011 once they settled. I aim to reveal those women\u2019s resourcefulness and complex understanding of marriage as a survival mechanism against displacement and highlight how the latter, in turn, has reshaped the Syrian refugee woman\u2019s perceptions of marriage and survival. Particularly, I use an anticolonial feminist framework to pinpoint some conceptual challenges that their narratives impose on notions central to liberal feminist analysis such as agency, marriage, and victimhood. I propose that a theoretical de-coupling of notions such as agency and resistance as well as vulnerability and victimhood are essential for more nuanced understanding of the gendered refugee experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Runners-up:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Aryan Karimi, University of Alberta<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00ab\u00a0Limits of\nSocial Capital for Refugee Integration: A Case of Iranian Gay Refugees\nIntegration in Canada\u200b\u200b\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n Each year thousands of refugees, including racialized Sexual-Orientation-Gender-Identity refugees are resettled in Canada. Currently, economic-independence is the foremost policy goal in integrating refugees in Canada. These policies, informed by market-citizenship, rely on social capital as a non-economic solution to integration. I draw on 32 interviews with Iranian gay refugees and their experiences of resettlement in Canada to argue that overreliance on refugees. deployment of social capital for integration has grave shortcomings for refugees mental health and senses of belonging. I suggest that examining racialized-SOGI refugees. integration strategies best reveals social capital.s flaws at intersections of sexuality, gender, race, class, and migration background. I draw on Bourdieu\u2019s writings on social capital to underline internal group differences, social inequalities, and the vital convertibility between financial, social, and cultural capital in building transferrable resources for refugee integration. I will conclude by urging for pragmatic-empirical studies based on bottom-up intersectional analyses of modalities of forming social capital and for states. intervention in facilitating\nintegration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lorielle Giffin, Ryerson University<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00ab\u00a0Canadian Children Behind Bars: How De Facto Detention Violates the Principle of Non-Discrimination\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Canada, immigration detention is used to detain migrants\u2014sometimes indefinitely\u2014pending the deportation process. This detainment occurs despite the fact that these migrants have not been charged with a criminal offence. In recent years, Canadian children have been subjected to immigration detention while being held with their migrant parents. This paper examines the de facto detainment of Canadian children in immigration detention using a human-rights lens. Specifically, it is argued that the de facto detainment of Canadian children violates the principle of non-discrimination found in domestic and international human rights instruments. A connection between this rights violation and subsequent harms experienced by detained Canadian children is made. The theory of \u2018crimmigration\u2019 proposed by Juliet Stump (2006) is used to critically analyze the violation of the human rights of Canadian children in immigration detention. This paper concludes with a discussion concerning the implementation of alternatives to detention for children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jenny Poon, University of Western Ontario<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00ab\u00a0Non-Refoulement Obligations under Article 1F(a)\nof the Refugee Convention\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n This paper explores the intersection between\ninternational criminal law and international refugee law by examining the\nthreshold necessary to establish culpability under Article 1F(a) of the Convention Relating to the Status of\nRefugees<\/em> for an asylum claimant who has committed \u201ca crime against peace, a\nwar crime, or a crime against humanity\u201d. The definition of \u201ca crime against\npeace, a war crime, or a crime against humanity\u201d as defined under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal\nCourt <\/em>as well as jurisprudence from international courts and tribunals will\nbe discussed. Given the wide-ranging implications of excluding an asylum\nclaimant from refugee status, it is important to bring clarity to the law on\nwhat constitutes \u201cserious reasons for considering\u201d culpability threshold so\nthat those deserving of international protection are not excluded from refugee\nstatus, which may heighten the possibility of them being sent back to\npersecution violating the principle of non-refoulement.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Winner: Dina Taha, York University \u00ab\u00a0Like a tree without leaves\u201d:\u00a0Syrian refugee women and the shifting meaning of Marriage\u200b\u00a0\u00bb This paper is part of a broader study that I conducted during my fieldwork in Egypt summer of 2017 where I interviewed Syrian refugee women who escaped the conflict in Syria and married Egyptian men after 2011 once they settled. 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