CARFMS Undergraduate Student Essay Contest
Winners of the CARFMS Undergraduate Student Essay Contest
2021
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
2020
Winner: “Newcomer Resettlement Insights of a Frontline Worker and Student of Social Work“, Ranjith Kulatilake, York University
Runners up (in no particular order):
- “Who is protecting LGBTI persons of concern? Examining the factors that explain the low level of implementation of the UNHCR’s AGD policy in the MENA region“, Alec Verch, Carleton University
- “Palestinian Refugees in Egypt: the forgotten Refugees“, Rana Kamel-Aly, McGill University
2019
Winner: “Between Haiti and the Dominican Republic: Hispaniola’s Refugee Crisis (Dominican citizenship from thousands of people of Haitian descent)“, Keith Nicholson, Mount Allison University
Runners up (in no particular order):
- “Policy failure: an analysis of the non-implementation of the UNHCR Executive committee’s policy on responsibility sharing in Jordan”, Alexandra Lund-Murray, Carleton university
- “China and the North Korean Refugee Crisis: State Sovereignty and the Dangers of ‘Strategic Ambivalence'”, Suzanne Bonfils, McGill University
- “From Eritrea to the EU: Driven to Security”, Lindsey Swartzman, York University
2018
Runners up (in no particular order):
“Rightless, Stateless and Waiting on Beaches: Failures of the International Community in Refugee Prevention and Protection”, Kelsey Rhude, Carleton University
2017
Winner: “The source of migrant information, the myth of the IOM’s information campaigns and an examination of migrant decision-making processes,” Sanda Ajzerle, Carleton University
2016
Winner: Alathea Enns (t.s.enns@gmail.com) for the paper “Human Trafficking, Illegal Migration and Victim Identification on the Spanish Coast”
Runners up (in no particular order):
- Hillary Geneau (hillarygeneau@dal.ca) for a paper on citizenship and statelessness for Haitians in the Dominican Republic “The Anonymous: An Examination of Statelessness in the Dominican Republic” (PDF)
- Morgan McGinn (mmcginn@mta.ca) for “Canada’s Policy on Climate Refugees: Mass Migration and the Need for a Paradigmatic Shift”
- Richard Boli (richardboli@yahoo.ca), “Refugee Settlement Services in Winnipeg: Approaches, Programs and Organizations” (PDF)
