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

Friday, December 4, 2015

Exceptional/Exceptionable Space

  “Massive global systems — meta-infrastructures administered by public and private cohorts, and driven by profound irrationalities — are generating de facto, undeclared forms of polity faster than any even quasi-official forms of governance can legislate them — a wilder mongrel than any storied Leviathan for which there is studied... More

Friday, December 4, 2015

#Refugees Welcome Ottawa

by Ajay Parasram In the last week of November, #Refugees Welcome Ottawa (RWO), an ad hoc community group comprised of Ottawa folks from diverse backgrounds and experiences, organized three public events concerned with efforts to relocate tens of thousands of refugees in the coming weeks and months. These events were designed to capture a broad... More

Friday, November 20, 2015

MDS Graduate Student Colloquium

by Daniel McNeil One may have harboured concerns about the potential for screwball comedy before the colloquium and half-jokingly asked, ‘what happens when a literary historian, an architect and a political scientist walk into a bar seminar room? Such concerns were unfounded when the colloquium brought together members of research,... More

Friday, November 20, 2015

Remaking the Middle East: The Long Arab 19th Century

Remaking the Middle East: The Long Arab 19th Century (Poster) (Podcast: Part 1 , Part 2) On November 19, 2015, Dr. Seif Da'na presented the Current events stirring the Middle East which can be discerned most easily as a matter of politics, economic, or culture, but steeped in complexity they are much more. In... More

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Kobena Mercer Discusses Art and Diaspora at Carleton University

FASS Distinguished Visiting Professor Kobena Mercer (Yale University) spoke with Carleton faculty and students about the tensions, characteristics and contradictions between World Studies and Diaspora Studies. On October 5, Mercer delivered a lecture in Aboubakar Sanogo’s class on African Cinema from 9:30-11:30, followed by a lunch with grad... More

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

MDS Wins Carleton Research Prize Award

October 5, 2015. The Migration and Diaspora Studies Steering Committee has been awarded a Carleton Research Prize Award for building connections across the university that have had a sustained impact both over time and across research programs. As the world’s refugee population has reached crisis proportions, members of Carleton’s Migration... More

Monday, September 28, 2015

Call for membership: Migration and Diaspora Student Society

Carleton University students interested in migration and diaspora studies are invited to join the newly established Migration and Diaspora Student Society (MDSS). Membership is free of charge and applications are now being accepted for the 2015-2016 academic year (see below). The goal of MDSS is to bring together students and alumni from different... More

Monday, September 28, 2015

Power and Influence in the Global Refugee Regime

Between 23 and 25 September, Carleton University hosted the international workshop “Power and Influence in the Global Refugee Regime.”  This workshop brought together a prominent group of scholars, practitioners and policy-makers to discuss the ability of different actors to influence outcomes within the global refugee regime. Here is a link... More

Saturday, September 26, 2015

Dr. Daniel McNeil discusses cultural identity and Stuart Hall’s legacy at UBC and SFU

Stuart Hall was a Jamaican-born cultural theorist and sociologist and one of the founders of Cultural Studies and the "New Left Review" in Britain. He left a lasting international legacy on discourses on culture, race, identity and media that is particularly resonant at this moment in time. Building on the recent Stuart Hall day... More

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Mobility & Politics: Categorization and Knowledge Production in Migration Management: Transnational Perspectives

Thursday, September 10, 2015 witnessed the first event of the term in the lecture series: Mobility & Politics: Emerging Trends and Common Challenges in Europe and Canada. Two international visitors presented a joint workshop entitled “Categorization and Knowledge Production in Migration Management: Transnational Perspectives”. Kenneth... More

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Europe’s Migration and Refugee Challenge: Germany’s Response

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Thursday, September 24, 2015

A Symposium on the Iranian Baha’i Refugee Movement to Canada, 1981-1989

Monday, September 21, 2015 In the 1980s, Canada was the first country to accept large numbers of Baha’i refugees from Iran in the wake of the Islamic revolution. Although this refugee program successfully settled approximately 3,000 refugees, and later served as a model for a wider settlement of approximately 10,000 Baha’i refugees in 25... More

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Re-Theorising Skilled Migration

Mobility & Politics: Re-Theorising Skilled Migration. Tuesday, September 22, 2015 Dr. Parvati Raghuram, Reader in Human Geography at the Open University, UK, presented a talk entitled “Re-Theorising Skilled Migration”.  "Skills offer one of the most important passports to mobility in the contemporary world. As a result, skilled migration... More

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Master Class with Prof. Gil Loescher

Master Class with Prof. Gil Loescher On 22 September, Carleton graduate students had the opportunity to meet informally with Gil Loescher, hear about the process that led to UNHCR in World Politics, how the book was received, and discuss how this process and work relates to their own research. Gil Loescher is Visiting Professor... More

Friday, September 11, 2015

Graduate student information/brainstorming pizza lunch

The Migration and Diaspora Studies initiative at Carleton organized a graduate student information/brainstorming lunch on Thursday 17 September 2015. Members of the MDS steering committee joined the open conversation. Following is a summary of ideas/future projects that were discussed (in no particular order): Creating a Wordpress blog, where... More

Friday, August 28, 2015

Call For Papers: MDS Graduate Colloquium

Call For Papers: Graduate Student Colloquium in Migration and Diaspora Studies MDS is planning a Graduate Student Colloquium in Migration and Diaspora Studies to be held on Friday November 27, 2015. If you are interested in presenting your Migration and Diaspora Studies related research, please send a proposal (Title + 350 words abstract +... More

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