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.

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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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Tuesday, April 14, 2020

PhD Student Wins Pierre Elliott Trudeau Award

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Monday, April 13, 2020

Q&A: TD Fellow Winner Studies the Payments Immigrants Send Home

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Monday, March 16, 2020

COVID-19 Update

Carleton University has closed all non-essential services in order to follow recommendations from Ottawa Public Health.  Migration and Diaspora Studies is therefore operating online and staff are working remotely.  For assistance, please contact the office at:  mds@carleton.ca, and your email will be redirected to the appropriate contact. ... More

Monday, December 9, 2019

Why Refugees are Walking Across the Canadian Border

Roxham Road is a quiet country road that straddles the border between New York state and Quebec. Over the last two years, nearly 50,000 people have crossed the Canada-US border on foot—most of them using this country path. They are asylum seekers—from countries such as Colombia, Haiti, Pakistan, Turkey, Yemen, and Nigeria—who are bypassing... More

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Art’s Role in Changing How We Think About the World

“Worlding the Global: The Arts in the Age of Decolonization,” a three-day international conference was held from Nov. 8 to 10, 2019 co-organized by Carleton faculty members Birgit Hopfener, Carmen Robertson, Ruth Phillips and Ming Tiampo with graduate student collaborators Victoria Nolte, Emily Putnam and Eui-Jung... More

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Prof. Martin Geiger Invited to Paris Peace Forum to Discuss Global Talent Mobility

Carleton University’s Martin Geiger and his international project partners have been invited to this year’s Paris Peace Forum (Nov 12-13). Created by French President Emmanuel Macron, the forum features world leaders, representatives of international organizations and leading think tanks. The forum aims to foster global co-operation in... More

Saturday, October 12, 2019

Carleton’s Migration Policy Research Group Expands Partnerships

A new network of Carleton University researchers is looking at international migration issues through policy and politics research. The Migration Policy Research Group is comprised of 20 academics from the Faculty of Public Affairs (FPA), as well as researchers from the Sprott School of Business and faculties of Engineering and Design, Arts and... More

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Reflections on Canada and the Global Refugee Regime: Opportunities for Partnered Research

On 3 October 2019, the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) organized a panel discussion with partners from research, policy and practice to discuss how partnered research could engage with Canada’s role in the global refugee regime. The panel was part of the two-day conference “Informing Migration Policy Through International... More

Saturday, September 21, 2019

Archive and Display: Five conversations on Lebanese forced migrations

Historians Dr. Laura Madokoro and Dr. Dominique Marshall are welcoming Lebanese filmmaker and oral historian Hicham Kayed to Ottawa during October... More

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Art History Special Topics course with MDS content

ARTH 4809D: Topics in Art History and Criticism: Contemporary art in the global context Instructor: Birgit Hopfener Winter term Contemporary art in the global context: art practices, discourses, histories, and institutions What is contemporary art in the global context? How to examine and interpret art beyond conventional national frameworks of... More

Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Call For Papers: 6th Ruppin International Conference on Immigration and Social Integration

The 6th Ruppin International Conference on Immigration and Social Integration: Migration and Diasporas Ruppin Academic Center, Israel May 18-20, 2020 Call-for-papers In the global era, the concept “diaspora” in migration movements has become a major topic of interest for social scientists. The 2020 Ruppin International Conference will focus on... More

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