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Friday, September 22, 2017

2015-2016 MDS Fellow organizes conference, publishes article in the Journal of Chinese Overseas

This year, Ying-Ying Tiffany Liu, Doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Migration and Diaspora Fellow for 2015-2016 co-organized a conference titled Dialogues with Ethnography: The Lived Experiences of Chinese in Africa and will publish an article titled "Exploring Guanxi in a Cross-Cultural Context: The Case of... More

Thursday, September 21, 2017

Book Launch: Post-Soviet migration and diasporas: from global perspectives to everyday practices

On June 8, 2017, members of the Carleton community gathered to launch the new volume, Post-Soviet Migration and Diasporas: From Global Perspectives to Everyday Practices (Springer-Palgrave 2017) co-edited by Dr. Milana Nikolko and Dr. David Carment. The event brought together young scholars, researchers, and the general public. "The volume... More

Thursday, May 4, 2017

Exodus: Movement, Culture, People

As part of the recent international, interdisciplinary and bilingual conference on Migration/Representation/Stereoptypes, Dr. Henry Daniel, Professor of Dance and Performance Studies in the School for the Contemporary Arts in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology, Simon Fraser University, facilitated a masterclass on movement, migration... More

Monday, April 24, 2017

Cfp for a special PhD Workshop at The Hague, Metropolis

For the first time, the International Metropolis Conference in collaboration with the City of The Hague and the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) at the University of Amsterdam will offer a special program for PhD students. The program will start on Sunday evening, September 17, 2017 and will adjourn just before the... More

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

The UN Joint Migration and Development Initiative Is Looking For A Communications Intern

UNDP is looking for a Communications Intern for their Brussels office. UNDP partners with national governments and people at all levels of society to help build nations that can withstand crises, and drive and sustain the kind of growth that improves the quality of life for everyone. Active in more than 170 countries and... More

Friday, March 31, 2017

Power and Influence in the Global Refugee Regime

A special issue of Refuge on Power and Influence in the Global Refugee Regime has been published. This is one of the results of the workshop hosted at Carleton University in September 2015, with the generous support of Migration and Diaspora Studies. It is an OpenAccess journal, so you can access (and share!) the special... More

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Help Recruit Ontario’s First Chief Science Officer

Ontario is seeking public input on the skills and experience they would like to see in the province's first Chief Science Officer, and how this role could strengthen science and innovation across the province. This may be a good opportunity to indicate the province the desired skills and abilities that this executive position must... More

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

CfP Workshop: Children on the Move from the 20th to the 21st century. A Biopolitics Perspective

An international workshop to be held at the University of Padua, Italy, on 9-10 June 2017 The increased mobility of people across national borders, whether by choice or by force, has become an integral aspect of the modern world. Migration has affected both families and individuals of all ages, including children. Even though the... More

Monday, March 13, 2017

Louise Arbour, a world-renown Canadian jurist, appointed the United Nations special representative of the secretary-general for international migration

By Lynn Desjardins | english@rcinet.ca Thursday 9 March, 2017 Canadian jurist Louise Arbour has been appointed the United Nations special representative of the secretary-general for international migration. Arbour was a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, the chief prosecutor of the international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia... More

Friday, March 10, 2017

CfP: 1st Workshop and Centre Launch Event on Non-Western International Relations

It is widely recognised that the discipline of international relations has traditionally neglected voices and experiences from beyond the West, seeing them as irrelevant or marginal. Yet in recent years, along with the Rise of the Rest, non-Western contributions to international relations – both academic and actual – have become increasingly... More

Friday, March 10, 2017

Visiting Scholar of Practice at the Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, 2017-2018

The Centre for Refugee Studies is pleased to announce a Visiting Scholar of Practice position i at York University for the 2017-2018 academic year.  We invite applicants who have graduate training in their field and work in the non-governmental and intergovernmental sectors related to forced migration (in Canada or abroad) and would like to... More

Friday, March 3, 2017

Visiting Researchers to the Migration & Diaspora Studies Community

Please join us in welcoming Mariana Martins Almeida, Liliane Pereira Braga and Tilmann Scherf, three visiting researchers to our Migration & Diaspora Studies community who look forward to collaborating with faculty, student and practitioner communities to bring research and expertise about the movement of people to audiences at Carleton and... More

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