Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Congratulations Josh!

The Migration and Diaspora Studies (MDS) program congratulates Joshua Hollick-Kenyon on the successful defence of his MA thesis! Well done, Josh! The thesis was supervised by Prof. Laura Macdonald and Prof. Jill Wigle, and was examined by Prof. Jean Daudelin.   Here are the details of the thesis:   Migrants as Residents in São... More

Thursday, July 3, 2025

Collaborative Research on Refugee Education

Congratulations to MDS graduate Goundo Diarra on her collaborative research on refugee education in Kenya! Goundo has been an active contributor to LERRN: The Local Engagement Refugee Research Network, a partnership between academics and civil society partners, primarily in Canada, Kenya, Lebanon and Tanzania. A focus of LERRN since 2018 has been... More

Friday, April 25, 2025

Celebrating Student Research and Community at Routes & Roots

     On April 16, 2025, the Migration and Diaspora Studies (MDS) Student Society hosted its first annual conference, Routes & Roots: Navigating Migration and Identity, at Carleton University. The event brought together students, faculty, and guests for a vibrant day of research presentations, critical dialogue, and community-building. The... More

Friday, April 11, 2025

MDS Student Society 2025 Conference: Itinerary & Speakers List

  The Migration and Diaspora Studies (MDS) Student Society has announced the 2025 Routes and Roots Conference Itinerary and Speakers List. The Student Society's first conference will take place on Wednesday, April 16, 2025 in Dunton Tower room 2017. Tickets are still... More

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

MDS Community Welcomes Dr. Wisdom Tettey

  The Migration and Diaspora Studies Community welcomed Dr. Wisdom Tettey, Carleton University President and newest MDS Faculty Associate, to share his research on race, citizenship and diasporas and to hear about the diverse and compelling research of MDS faculty and... More

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

MDS MA Student Spotlight: Veronika Frydrych

Migration and Diaspora Studies MA Student Veronika Frydrych shared her experience as an intern with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD): Thanks to Quebec's Governmental International Organization Internship Program under the Ministry of International Relations and La Francophonie (MRIF), I had the opportunity to... More

Friday, October 18, 2024

James Milner Speaks with The Charlatan about LERRN

MDS Program Director James Milner, spoke with Carleton University's independent student newspaper, The Charlatan, about how student researchers are working with the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) to make research on refugees more inclusive and equitable. Visit TheCharlatan.ca to read the article and carleton.ca/LERRN/ for more... More

Monday, July 8, 2024

James Milner hosts Canada’s first Sergio de Mello Chair

A momentous first! On June 24, MDS Program Director James Milner was named Canada’s first Sergio Vieira de Mello Chair. As Chair, Dr. Milner will lead a three-year pilot program that includes the intended development of an education pathway to permanent residence in Canada for refugee students. Dr. Milner’s hosting of the de Mello... More

Monday, June 24, 2024

MDS Alumni and World Refugee Day

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Thursday, March 21, 2024

Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award for James Casteel

Congratulations! Prof. James Casteel has won a Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award (FGMA). Graduate students sent in nomination letters to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs (FGPA) supporting their favourite supervisor and the impact they have made. This award is in recognition of faculty who provide exceptional service to graduate... More

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Research Considers Dominican Republic Policies on Women

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Friday, January 6, 2023

Migration and Diaspora Studies at Carleton University welcomes new Program Director

The Migration and Diaspora Studies (MDS) program at Carleton University welcomed Prof. James Milner as its new Program Director on 1 January 2023. Prof. Milner takes over from Prof. James Casteel, who completed his term at the end of December 2022. Prof. Casteel was the founding Program Director for MDS. He was responsible for... More

Thursday, November 10, 2022

Migration and Diaspora Medal Winner: Program’s first master’s student to successfully defend thesis celebrated at Convocation

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Thursday, November 10, 2022

Migrants deserve the right to make decisions about where they live

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Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Save the date! Ugandan Asian conference November 14-16

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Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Why do some asylum seekers make it into the West quickly – while others have to wait more than a decade?

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Thursday, July 7, 2022

MDS student Maryam Sahar one of six 2022 Student EDI Research Award Winners

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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

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Congratulations to Laura Madokoro, MDS Faculty Associate, who was recently named to Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.

https://newsroom.carleton.ca/2020/two-carleton-university-researchers-named-to-the-rsc-college-of-new-scholars-artists-and-scientists/?fbclid=IwAR1j6s7fZ6vqvx5RjY25MZUIJWD0q9aoIdyXUD8ziSjwYhkDiQ_8DVi6QP8... More

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

New Online Migration Teaching Collaboration Between Carleton University and the University of Ottawa

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Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Professor Jeff Sahadeo Wins Taylor and Francis Book Prize in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

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Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture – Recent Faculty Publication

Migration and Stereotypes in Performance and Culture Editors: Meerzon, Yana, Dean, David, McNeil, Daniel Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that delves beneath the media headlines about the “migration crisis”, Brexit, Trump and similar events and spectacles that have been linked to the... More

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Memories of Mogadishu – Online film premiere on May 25, 2020

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Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Daniel McNeil discusses how public-facing humanities research can contribute to the critical discourse on energy and climate change

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