John Yaremko Award in Human Rights to be awarded to an outstanding student in any year who, in the opinion of the faculty, merits special recognition for academic achievement in the area of human rights

John Yaremko Award in Human Rights

Ting Sum Tang Memorial Prize in Canadian or International Human Rights Law to be awarded to the student taking the highest place in a course relating to Canadian or International Human Rights Law

Ting Sum Tang Memorial Prize in Canadian or International Human Rights Law

Awarded by the Faculty of International Development at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford

University of Oxford Bob Johnson Graduate Scholarship

Diploma in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies

Canadian Association for Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS), Executive Committee

Refugee Research Network - Asylum and Detention Research Cluster

Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic

ESPMI Network Advisory Committee

Refugee Law Lab, Osgoode Hall Law School

Discretion to Deport: Intersections between Health and Detention of Syrian Refugees in Jordan

The Boy On The Beach: The Fragility Of Canada's Discourses On The Syrian Refugee 'Crisis'

Immigration Detention

Refugees

Everyday Injustices: Barriers to Access to Justice for Immigration Detainees in Canada

On Vulnerable Ground: Syrian Refugees At Risk of HIV in Turkey and Jordan – Recommendations for Canada’s Response

Refugee Review: Reconceptualizing Refugees and Forced Migration in the 21st Century

Unshackled Discretion – Barriers to Procedural Justice in the Canadian Immigration Detention System

The “Bogus” Refugee: Roma Asylum  Claimants and Discourses of Fraud  in Canada’s Bill C-31

Refugees and ICTs

Refugee Review: Social Movements

Welcome to the second volume of Refugee Review, the open access, multidisciplinary, multimedia, and peer-reviewed journal of the ESPMI Network. We are delighted to be able to share with you another rich edition of varied and challenging articles, opinion pieces, practitioner reports, discussions, and interviews from emerging scholars and practitioners around the world.

The ESPMI Network connects emerging scholars, practitioners, policymakers, journalists, artists, and all those involved in the study and work related to forced migration though meaningful work, professional connections, and opportunities to publish and access research. ESPMI is a cluster of the Refugee Research Network (RRN), the largest international research initiative in the field of refugee and forced migration studies.

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The purpose of this research study is to identify how various actors in the asylum and refugee system use information and communication technologies (ICTs). In a globalized world where communications increasingly take place over smarthphones, internet, and social media, how are ICTs best used by refugees when seeking asylum in Canada, as well as by refugee serving organizations (RSOs) that provide services to asylum seekers? This paper is part of an international study commissioned by SINGA Fran

I am a migration researcher and lawyer in Toronto, Canada and Athens, Greece. I focus on the issues of technology and human rights; immigration detention; and the politics of refugee, immigration, and international human rights law. I am a current fellow at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center and am working on my book Artificial Borders (The New Press 2024).

I hold a Juris Doctorate from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and an an LL.M in International Law from the University of Cambridge.

Technology and human rights

Anthropology of Migration

Ethnography and Ethnographic Writing

Women's Rights

Refugee and Human Rights Issues

International Law of Human Rights

Migration/Immigration

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Surveillance Won't Stop the Corona Virus

Trump's Immigration Policy and Child Separation

US Immigration Policy Debate and Family Separation

World Refugee Day - What does it all mean? (Syndicated radio)

Refugee advocates deliver ‘toy pile of shame’ to Canadian immigration minister’s office

Trump's Rise Obligates Us To Question So-Called Canadian Values

Research Findings from Immigration Detention: Arguments for Increasing Access to Justice

Excluded from Justice? Immigration Detainees in Canada

Sir Elton John funds probe into Canada’s treatment of refugees with HIV

"Our Tour of Shame"

Does Canada Border Services Agency need oversight?

Architectures of Trauma: The Impacts of Immigration Detention on the Psychosocial Wellbeing of Migrants in Canada

Living on the Margins: Analyzing Security, Safety, and Precarious Migration Status in 	the Canadian Context

Human Right to Health, Law, Medicine, and Advocacy

Economic Migrant, Temporary Foreign Worker, or a Refugee? Conceptual Failures in Canada’s Protection Regime

Protecting Women: Culture-Based Reasoning and Forced Marriages in Canada

Many “Moving” Parts: Rethinking Refugees, Relief, and Knowledge Production on Migration in the Middle East

Canada’s Response to the Global Refugee Crisis: Taking Stock and Moving Forward

Access to Justice in the Immigration Holding Centre: A Discussion of the Obstacles to Fair and Equal Treatment Facing Canadian Immigration Detainees

Information and Communication Technologies and Refugee Resettlement: An International Comparative Approach

“Bogus Refugee: Bill C31 and the Discourses of Fraud in Canadian Immigration Policy”

"None is Too Many": Geographic and Legislative Segregation of Roma Refugee Claimants"

International Refugee Law and HIV/AIDS

Health Rights, Security, and Stigma: Syrian Refugees in Turkey and Jordan

Changes to Canada's Citizenship Act: A Primer

"Multiculturalism and Barriers to Citizenship,"

CTV News Interview, June 22, 2018

Immigration detention falls under the framework of administrative law - the person being detained has not committed a crime under Canada's Criminal Code, but is being detained for immigration reasons. Due to the largely discretionary nature of immigration detention and the lack of oversight of Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) detention mechanisms, serious issues have been raised by migrant rights groups, lawyers, and refugee advocates about the treatment of migrants in detention. These real world barriers impede access to justice for the thousands of migrants detained in Canada every year, such as access to counsel, information, and community support as they prepare their refugee claims or gather evidence for their detention review hearings. Immigration detention also adversely affects vulnerable migrants, such as children or people with mental health issues. Canada’s immigration detention regime is a costly, ineffective, and discretionary system which violates the human rights of migrants, including the right to a fair trial, the right not to be arbitrarily detained, and the right of life, liberty, and security of person.

The Dangers of Discretion: Dilemmas, Developments, and Ongoing Challenges in Canada’s Immigration Detention Regime

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Petra Molnar of Trump's Executive Orders and Family Reunification (June 24, 2018)

The "Votes not boats" conundrum, cuts to refugee health benefits, Roma refugees in Canada and a lot more in our show on "Asylum seekers to Canada, are attitudes hardening or softening, borders closing or opening?" Manjula Selvarajah spoke with Jennifer Hyndman and Petra Molnar Diop.

OUR GUESTS

Jennifer Hyndman is a Professor in Social Science and Geography at York University, and Director of Research at the Centre for Refugee Studies. She is the author of the books Dual Disasters: Humanitarian Aid after the 2004 Tsunami and Managing Displacement: Refugees and the Politics of Humanitarianism, and co-editor of Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones among other publications.

Petra Molnar Diop is a researcher and refugee advocate. She has worked with the Roma community and has researched how they have been affected by recent changes in Canadian refugee legislation. She has been affiliated with a number of refugee settlement organizations in Toronto, the Canadian Council for Refugees, and is a researcher for the SINGA project. She is currently completing her law degree at the University of Toronto.

Asylum seekers to Canada, are attitudes hardening or softening? - Crossroads Jan 05 2014

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