CARFMS Graduate/Law Student Essay Contest
Winners of the CARFMS Graduate/Law Student Essay Contest
2022
Winner
“The Followers in Chinese Civil War: Diasporic women’s gender roles and motherhood practices in a military village”, Szu-Nuo Chou, University of Ottawa
Shortlisted Essays:
“Forced Migration and Forms of Power: United States Policy on Displacement in the Context of Climate Change”, Vanessa Silva-Roy, Carleton University
“Cosmopolitical Foodways in the Borderlands of El Paso”, Rudi Barwin, Allard School of Law, UBC
2021
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
2020
Winner: “Unpacking knowledge-practices in social movements: The Canadian Rohingya social movement,” Yuriko Cowper-Smith, University of Guelph
Runners up (in no particular order):
- “Fleeing Domestic Violence, Fleeing Transphobia: Examining Intimate Partner Violence Asylum Claims Involving Transgender Claimants,” Shannon Russell, University of British Columbia
- “Deciding Who to Sponsor in Canada’s Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program,” Ian van Haren, McGill University
- “Naples: Sanctuary City?,” Travis Moore, York University
2019
Winner: ” HISTORICALLY SPANISH: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and the changing nature of Suspect Communities vis-à-vis racialization mechanisms,” Angelica Hasbon, York University
Runners up (in no particular order):
- “Balanced reporting? Constructing the refugee in news coverage of the Syrian refugee crisis in Canada and the UK,” Man Xu
- “Social Movement Theory & Italy’s Migrant Question,” Travis Moore, York University
- “Decolonizing Research Ethics in Kakuma Refugee Camp,” Neil Bilotta, McGill University
2018
Winner: “Like a tree without leaves”: Syrian refugee women and the shifting meaning of Marriage”, Dina Taha, York University
Runners up (in no particular order):
- “Limits of Social Capital for Refugee Integration: A Case of Iranian Gay Refugees Integration in Canada“, Aryan Karimi, University of Alberta
- “Canadian Children Behind Bars: How De Facto Detention Violates the Principle of Non-Discrimination“, Lorielle Giffin, Ryerson University
- “Non-Refoulement Obligations under Article 1F(a) of the Refugee Convention“, Jenny Poon, University of Western Ontario
2017
Winner: “Family Reunification in Canada: Towards Authentic Humanitarianism,” (PDF) Tania Dargy, Ryerson University
Runners up (in no particular order):
- “Somali Refugee Students in Canadian Schools: Postmigration Experiences,” Mohamad Ayoub, University of Windsor
- “Sounding the World Imagining ontologies as mobile through sound and song,” (PDF) Emma Bider, Carleton University
2016
Winner: David Suk, McGill University (david.suk@mail.mcgill.ca), for his paper: “Febles v Canada: A plainly wrong plain-text interpretation of Article 1F(b)“
Runners up (in no particular order):
- Jesse Beatson, McGill University (jesse.beatson@mail.mcgill.ca) for his paper: “The Stories We Tell About Refugee Claimants: An analysis of bogus, victim, and rights frames as ways of reckoning healthcare access“
- John Laman, York University (lamanjm@gmail.com) for his paper: “Revisiting the Sanctuary City: Citizenship or Abjection? Spotlighting the Case of Toronto” (PDF)
2015
Winner: Congratulations to Sasha Lallouz for winning the 2015 essay contest for her paper titled “The Credible Claimant meets the Credible Autobiographer“
Runners up (in no particular order):
- Peter Grbac, “Politicizing Protection: India and its 1971 Refugees“, McGill University
- Ecem Oskay, “Conceptualizing Refugee Agency”, McGill University
- Kathryn Dennler, “Undoing Immigration Status in the UK“, York University
2013
La politique d’asile dans l’Union européenne face à l’article 3 de la Convention Européenne des Droits de l’Homme et le principe de non-refoulement: Évolutions, doutes et certitudes – Anaël Aram Tchoulfian, University of Montreal
We also congratulate the shortlisted candidates Tanya Aberman (York University) and Jeewon Min (University of British Columbia).
Runners up (in no particular order):
Surrogate Protection in Canada and Potential Nationality in South Korea: Does a North Korean Asylum-Seeker have a “genuine link” to South Korea? – Jeewon Min, University of British Columbia
Gendered Perspectives on Refugee Determination in Canada – Tanya Aberman, York University
2012
Starting From Refugees Themselves: Sketch for an Institutional Ethnography of Refugee Resettlement – Christophe Sevigny, Carleton University
2011
Exclusion in International Refugee Law: 20th Century Principles for 21st Century Practice? – Justin Mohammed
Runners up (in no particular order):
One Roof, One Right: Refugee Claimants and the Right to Social Housing – Andrea Clegg, McGill University
