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

Friday, March 3, 2017

William Walters Wins a 2017 Research Achievement Award

William Walters, professor of the Department of Political Science/ Department of Sociology and Anthropology, has just won a 2017 Research Achievement Award here at Carleton University. The Carleton University Research Achievement Awards are administered by the Office of the Vice-President (Research and International). The purpose of these awards... More

Monday, February 27, 2017

The State of Private Refugee Sponsorship in Canada: Trends, Issues, and Impacts

By Jennifer Hyndman, William Payne, York University & Shauna Jimenez, East Kootenay Friends of Burma [RRN/CRS Policy Brief Submitted to the Government of Canada, December 2, 2016]   Executive Summary From academic, policy, and sponsors’ perspectives, what is known about the private sponsorship of refugees in Canada? Since its inception... More

Saturday, February 25, 2017

CfP for Book: The Digital Black Atlantic Anthology

Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs, Editors Deadline for 500-Word Abstracts: April 1, 2017 Part of the Debates in the Digital Humanities Series A book series from the University of Minnesota Press Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Series Editors As digital humanities has expanded in size and scope, a growing number of... More

Saturday, February 25, 2017

Rethinking the Afropolitan: The Ethics of Black Atlantic Masculinities on Display

College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA Friday, October 20th and Saturday October 21st, 2017   Workshop Conveners: Rosa Carrasquillo, College of the Holy Cross (rcarrasq(at)holycross.edu) Lorelle Semley, College of the Holy Cross (lsemley(at)holycross.edu)                                 (Credit: Héctor... More

Saturday, February 25, 2017

Environmental Displacement and Environmental Migration: Blurred Boundaries Require Integrated Policies

Introducing a policy brief prepared by Michaela Hynie (York University), Prateep Nayak (University of Waterloo), Teresa Gomes and Ifrah Abdillah (University of Toronto) under the auspices of the Refugee Research Network and the Centre for Refugee Studies (York University). Executive Summary As the pace and severity of environmental change... More

Thursday, February 23, 2017

The Humanitarian-Development Nexus: Opportunities for Canadian Leadership. Policy Brief

Kevin Dunbar, from CARE Canada, and James Milner, from MDS/Carleton University, submitted a policy brief -through the Refugee Research Network- to the Government of Canada on December 2, 2016. The executive summary and the link to the full brief follows.   Executive Summary A prominent feature of recent global policy discussions has been the... More

Thursday, February 23, 2017

New Report: Invisible Citizens: Canadian Children in Immigration Detention

The International Human Rights Program of the University of Toronto has just released a new report on the detention of children in Canada, urging alternatives to detaining children and family separation. The 57-page report, Invisible Citizens: Canadian Children in Immigration Detention, is a follow-up to the IHRP’s September 2016 report on... More

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

CfP Memory, Migration, and Decolonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond, 1804 to the Present

Institute of Latin American Studies, Senate House, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, 23rd–24th May 2017.  We invite papers that interrogate the intersections between memory, migration, and decolonisation across the Caribbean and its diasporas. The conference seeks to explore how ideas about decolonisation have resonated in the... More

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Prolonged Precarious Status in Canada: Generating Policy Directions for the New Federal Government

On Monday, January 16, 2016, Profr. Amrita Hari (Assistant Professor, Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies, Carleton University) and Prof. Chai Yun Liew (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa), organized a one-day workshop entitled Prolonged Precarious Status in Canada: Generating Policy Directions for the New Federal... More

Sunday, February 12, 2017

International Policy Ideas Challenge

  Global Affairs Canada (GAC), in collaboration with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), is pleased to announce the second edition of the International Policy Ideas Challenge designed to identify concrete innovative solutions to emerging international policy challenges faced by Canada. The objective of the program is... More

Friday, February 10, 2017

Salina Abji , SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow at Carleton, Receives the 2016 Dennis William Magill Canada Research Award for Best Dissertation

Congratulations to Salina Abji, whose dissertation was recently awarded the Department’s 2016 Dennis William Magill Canada Research Award for best dissertation or published paper on Canadian society by a PhD student (Sociology) at the University of Toronto. Salina defended her dissertation, entitled Emerging Logics of Citizenship: Activism in... More

Friday, February 10, 2017

Call for Proposals: International Metropolis Conference, The Hague – Netherlands

Call for Proposals          We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting proposals for workshops and individual papers/presentations for the 2017 International Metropolis Conference. The World Forum in The Hague, Netherlands, will host us from September 18th to September 22nd, where professionals from different sectors (i.e.... More

Monday, November 14, 2016

MDS Welcome Event 2016

On November 4th, the Migration and Diaspora Studies (MDS) initiative hosted its annual Welcome Event at Carleton University Art Gallery. Daniel McNeil (History) welcomed new and returning faculty and students to the event and shared a presentation from Johnny Alam, President of the Migration and Diaspora Student Society. Sarah Casteel (English... More

Saturday, October 29, 2016

Symposium and Exhibition on Migration and Intersectionality

  On October 28th, 2016 Carleton University hosted a collaborative symposium between the African Centre for Migration and Society (University of the Witwatersrand) and Carleton’s Migration and Diaspora Studies Initiative to provide a critical understanding of how social identities shape migrants’ work experiences in South Africa, South... More

Monday, July 18, 2016

MDS Researcher Urges UN to Respond Holistically to the Global Refugee Crisis

There are more refugees and migrants crossing international borders today than any other time since the Second World War, and the average displacement lasts 20 years. James Milner, a political science professor at Carleton and one of the architects behind the university’s Migration and Diaspora Studies Initiative, believes that this... More

Friday, May 13, 2016

MDS at the National Student Commonwealth Forum (NSCF)

During the first week of May, MDS scholars Daniel McNeil and Louise de la Gorgendière delivered presentations to over 100 high-school students from across Canada as part of the National Student Commonwealth Forum (NSCF), a conference held annually in Ottawa since 1973. The NSCF is dedicated to exposing students to the role of the Commonwealth... More

Friday, May 6, 2016

Passages: The Magazine of the Migration and Diaspora Studies Initiative

Passages: The Magazine of the Migration and Diaspora Studies Initiative features reflections from our award-winning faculty and students about some of the events relating to movement, mobility and memory that MDS has hosted over the course of the academic year. Special thanks to: Johnny Alam, one of the 2014-15 TD Graduate Fellows in MDS, who... More

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Daiva Stasiulis Awarded Marston LaFrance 2016-17 Research Fellowship

The 2016-17 Marston LaFrance Research Fellowship has been awarded to MDS scholar and Professor of Sociology Daiva Stasiulis. The fellowship was established in 1979 in memory of Marston LaFrance, former Carleton Dean of Arts, and is intended as the “senior” award for faculty in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences with a very significant... More

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

New SSHRC post-doc to join Carleton’s MDS community

Salina Abji will be joining the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University in the Fall of 2016 as a SSHRC postdoctoral scholar (2016-2018). Working under the supervision of Dr. Daiva Stasiulis, Salina’s research will study social activism in response to immigration detention practices in Canada, focusing on the role of... More

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Carleton hosts one of the most influential figures in World Cinema

Med Hondo is not only one of the foundational figures of African cinema, but also one of the most talented, radically versatile and profoundly influential directors from the continent. A retrospective and international symposium on his cinema recently brought the pioneering filmmaker to Carleton and the National Gallery of Canada. Aboubakar... More

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Migration Workshop Tackles Pressing Global Issues

On March 10-11, Carleton faculty and students will present their research at an international conference on Managing Migration in World Society.   The opening event at the Ottawa Hub will focus on refugee resettlement and its implications for Ottawa and Canada. The Friday research workshop takes place in the River Building Atrium and... More

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Diversity, Art and the Academy: The Revolution Will Be Live

Why did Carleton’s special film screening and Q&A on the roots of hip-hop culture attract such a diverse audience, which included students and faculty, poets and artists, Muslim and Indigenous activists, as well as fans of 70s music who heard about the event on CBC radio? Because it’s 2016 Because hip-hop culture was born in... More

Saturday, February 13, 2016

New TD Graduate Fellow in Migration and Diaspora Studies

MDS has a new TD Graduate Fellow in Migration and Diaspora Studies: Ying-Ying Tiffany Liu! To learn more about Tiffany’s fascinating research on diasporic identities and the ‘intra-migrant economy’, as well as her striking depictions of graffiti art and convivial cultures in South Africa, please visit this article on the Carleton University... More

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

360 Memoires: The Children of Migrants

On Thursday, December 3, MDS and the Bachelor in Global and International Studies (BGInS) brought a team of academics and activists  to Carleton in order to explore issues of migration, belonging, and citizenship in contemporary Europe. Migration has become the focus of many headlines throughout the world. In Europe, the ongoing arrival of... More

Sunday, December 6, 2015

Visiting Researcher in Migration and Diaspora Studies

Migration and Diaspora Studies is delighted to announce that Dr. Zaheera Jinnah will be visiting Carleton during December in order to explore teaching and research collaborations between the University of the Witwatsersrand and Carleton. Dr. Jinnah is an anthropologist and researcher at the African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS) at Wits,... More