CARFMS Student Essay Contest

2021 STUDENT ESSAY CONTEST  WINNERS

Undergraduate

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     

Graduate/Law

Winner

Mutual aid amongst refugees: Organized abandonment and anarchic places, Nicolas Parent, McGill University

Runners up (in no particular order):

Migration as climate adaptation: Insights from Mesoamerica, Benjamin Keenan, McGill University

Displaced Venezuelans and the Politics of Asylum: The case of Brazil’s Group Recognition Policy, Luiz Leomil, Carleton University