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Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Congratulations to MDS Master student Danett VanTassel! Winner of the Graduate Co-op Student of the Year Award

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Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Congratulations! Rabbi Hossain

Congratulations to Rabbi Hossain, one of the Migration and Diaspora Studies program’s very first M.A. graduates! Always interested in studying migration issues, Rabbi had been looking for a suitable program in recent years. When he learned about the MDS program through the Faculty of Public Affairs, Rabbi reached out to the Program Director and... More

Monday, November 8, 2021

Congratulations! Farah Ismail

This November, the Migration and Diaspora Studies will celebrate one of its very first M.A. graduates, Farah Ismail. Congratulations to her! “I came across the MDS Program and immediately knew this was the right program for me,” she said, “I saw myself benefitting from the faculty’s expertise and from the list of courses offered... More

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

The Disaster Lab: Understanding the Links between Disasters, Humanitarianism and Migration

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Friday, July 16, 2021

MDS graduate student Maryam Sahar in interviews with CBC about Afghan interpreters who served with Canadian and U.S. military.

As the Taliban re-emerges in Afghanistan, former interpreter Maryam Sahar understands the fear many Afghans are experiencing. Sahar began working as an interpreter with the Canadian Armed Forces when she was just 15 years old. Two years later, she was brought to Ottawa under a special program for interpreters who supported Canadian soldiers and... More

Monday, July 5, 2021

Congratulations! David Matta Jerias

As one of the few international students in MDS’ first cohort and one of its first graduates, David Matta Jerias celebrates his completion of the GDip program this June. He described his one-year MDS journey as “amazing” and “the best choice” he had ever made. As a Chilian diaspora in Brazil, the exploration of... More

Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Congratulations! Regine Cirondeye

Launched in 2020, the graduate program of Migration and Diaspora Studies will be celebrating its very first graduates this June. Regine Cirondeye is one of the two graduates from the MDS’s Graduate Diploma program. Congratulations to her! As a Carleton alumni with an Honours Bachelor’s degree in Social Work and a Minor in Law,... More

Friday, June 11, 2021

Graduation 2021: A Carleton First

Congratulations! Regine Cirondeye will be one of the first students to graduate from Carleton’s Graduate Diploma in Migration and Diaspora Studies (GDip) this June 2021. Read Regine's... More

Thursday, March 4, 2021

International Affairs and Canadian Migration Policy: An Interview with Howard Duncan

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Friday, February 19, 2021

Helping Refugees to Feel at Home in Canada – Nimo Bokore, Professor in the School of Social Work and associate in Migration and Diaspora Studies

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Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Carleton’s Melanie Adrian Appointed to Order of Ontario

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Thursday, October 15, 2020

Carleton and UOttawa Instructors Bring Migrant Voices into the Classroom with Funding from the Shared Online Projects Initiative

When COVID forced the fall semester to move online, a group of Political Science and Law instructors from Carleton and University of Ottawa saw an opportunity to bring migrant voices into the classroom and to share resources for the benefit of hundreds of students at the two universities and beyond. Earlier this summer, the... More

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