Saturday, June 9, 2018

Carleton Professor Receives $3.6 Million to Study Global Refugee Policy

Carleton University’s James Milner, professor in the Department of Political Science, will receive $2.5 million from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), in addition to funds from other partners, for a total of $3,676,103 to research refugee policy. “Responding to the needs of refugees is a global challenge,” said... More

Friday, May 4, 2018

Ruminations on artists, activists, and the power of creative imagination

By Sarah Waisvisz I often describe myself as working “At the Intersection,” as if it is an actual physical place in the world. I imagine this Intersection to be alternately a bustling port where a river meets the sea, an urban crossroads at the border of four countries, and a desert tent with the... More

Monday, April 16, 2018

Metropolitan Nomads exhibit moves to MacOdrum Library

Using photography and an ethnographic approach, the library’s newest exhibit Metropolitan Nomads: A Journey through Joburg’s Little Mogadishu takes an intimate look at the everyday life of Somali migrants in Johannesburg, where collective stories of migration and survival interweave with the individual desires and hopes of seeking a better... More

Friday, April 6, 2018

Immigration Futures: the 2018 National Metropolis Conference

The annual Metropolis Conference in Canada for 2018 took place in Calgary from March 22-24 at the Westin Calgary Hotel. The overall theme to this year’s gathering was Immigration Futures: Marking 20 years of the National Metropolis Conference. The conference included plenary sessions, over 60 workshops and roundtables, poster sessions, and... More

Monday, February 26, 2018

Documentary Film Screening: Home in a Foreign Land

The Canadian Premiere of the documentary film “Tierra en Casa Ajena” (or Home in a Foreign Land), which explores the root causes that lead Central American migrants to attempt to get to the U.S., the dangers that migrants face during their journeys, and the hope and solidarity that is created among migrants, was held... More

Friday, February 16, 2018

From Old to New African Diasporas: The Multiple Difficulties of Entangling Displacements and Identies

The 2018 Black History Month event was a great success.   There were close to 100 persons in attendance.  In his lecture « From Old to New African Diasporas: The Multiple Difficulties of Entangling Displacements and Identies », Professor Pablo Idahosa (York University) discussed the ways in which Diasporic identities were being... More

Thursday, February 8, 2018

Akomfrah/Bowen/McNeil: History, memory and diasporic cultures

Photograph: BFI   AKOMFRAH | BOWEN | MCNEIL Screening / Lecture John Akomfrah, The Stuart Hall Project, 2013 Deanna Bowen, sum of the parts: what can be named, 2010 Daniel McNeil (Professor of History, Migration and Diaspora Studies, Carleton University) On February 11, the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery at Concordia University... More

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Carleton celebrates 45 years with the Chilean diaspora through the art of muralist Jose Venturelli Eade

On December 4, 2017 the Department of History, the Migration and Diaspora Studies Initiative, and the Carleton Centre for Public History hosted a launch for an exhibition of murals by Jose Venturelli Eade. The evening featured discussions and reflections about the activism of Chilean exiles in Canada, the importance of mural art in creating... More

Friday, November 24, 2017

Congratulations to Valerie Stam, 2017-18 TD Graduate Fellow in Migration and Diaspora Studies

This article was originally published here. As part of her research, Sociology PhD student Valerie Stam created a 14-week participatory theatre project in the Netherlands entitled Theatre School on Resistance.   Developed and delivered in partnership with a local, youth-based creative arts organization in Rotterdam, the Theatre School drew on... More

Saturday, September 30, 2017

Mapping a Pluralist Space in Ismaili Studies

Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam hosted the second international Ismaili Studies conference "Mapping a Pluralist Space in Ismaili Studies" on March 9 and 10, 2017 in Richcraft Hall at Carleton University. The conference was a major success, bringing together 63 speakers from 12 countries and another 150 participants from across... More

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

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

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