We are delighted to invite you to the first event in the 2023-24 Migration and Diaspora Studies Speakers Series!

Monday, 25 September 2023:

Time: 12pm to 1:30pm

Where: Richcraft Hall, Room 2420R

Format: Hybrid

“The Politics of Solutions for Refugees: Lessons from the Naturalization of Rwandese and Burundian Refugees in Tanzania.”

Speaker: Deo Mwapinga, PhD candidate, Department of Political Science, ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University

Abstract:

Finding solutions for refugees is a global challenge, with the average duration of a refugee situation now being 20 years. There are three traditional solutions for refugees: repatriation, resettlement in a third country, and integration in their host country. Local integration is seen as the least likely solution, given that the vast majority of the world’s refugees are in the global South, and host countries are reluctant to have new citizens imposed on them. This makes the case of Tanzania all the more interesting, as it has twice given citizenship to large groups of refugees: Rwandese refugees in the 1980s and Burundian refugees in the 2010s. However, the experience of Rwandese refugees has been seen as the most successful. How can this variation be explained? This presentation answers this question by drawing on the results of recent fieldwork in Tanzania and the author’s own positionality as a former Tanzanian government official.

Speaker:

Deo Mwapinga is a PhD student in Political Science at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University. He is also a research assistant, and Tanzania Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN) contributor. In 2014, he was part of the team of officials from the Government of Tanzania that issued citizenship certificates to the former Burundian Refugees in the Old Settlements of Katumba, Mishamo, and Ulyankulu in Tanzania. This remarkable exercise led to his interest in further studying the impact of their new citizenship status they have in daily life. At the heart of his research project is the question of the relationship between their new legal status vis-à-vis membership in the political community and significantly, the perception of in(security) resulting from the out-groups.

Save the date for future events in the Speakers Series* (all on Mondays from 12pm to 1:30pm):

30 October 2023: Ming Tiampo, ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University

20 November 2023: Goundo Diarra, ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University

22 January 2024: Samer Abboud, Villanova University

12 February 2024: Malini Guha, ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University

18 March 2024: Laura Madokoro, ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University

*Full details of titles and abstracts for upcoming events to follow shortly.

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** Webinar Info Session: Migration and Diaspora Studies MA and Graduate Diploma Programs **

When? – Thursday, December 8, 2022, 7 pm -8 pm (Eastern Standard Time) via Zoom

Are you interested in applying to graduate studies at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´? Join us for an informal presentation by the Migration and Diaspora Studies Program Director, James Casteel, and MDS Program Administrator Marcel Regenberg  about ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University’s  innovative, interdisciplinary Master of Arts in Migration and Diaspora Studies. We are currently accepting applications for the 2023-24 academic year, Canadian and International due date Feb. 1, 2023. This  MA program allows you to study the social, cultural, political, and economic implications of the movement and transnational settlement of people. The program also offers valuable experiential learning opportunities including co-op and practicum placement options.  MDS also has collaborative specializations with African Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Climate Change. The program builds on the expertise of over 45 faculty associates in Migration and Diaspora Studies and their extensive research and practitioner networks that have made ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ a national and international leader in these fields.

Migration and Diaspora Studies also offers a Graduate Diploma that can be combined with another ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ MA or PhD program or as a stand-alone diploma.

We hope to see you there! For registration please email mds@carleton.ca

For more information:
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MDS Graduate program FAQ: /mds/faqs/

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Photograph: BFI

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, ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University)

On February 11, the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery at Concordia University presented a screening of Toronto-based Deanna Bowen’s sum of the parts: what can be named alongside British artist John Akomfrah’s portrait of the late sociologist and theorist Stuart Hall,The Stuart Hall Project. This program examined how the biographic, autobiographic, and documentary forms must navigate the entanglements of memory, lacuna, event and experience.

Bridging these two works, Daniel McNeil discussed how Bowen and Akomfrah invite us to play more carefully with history, memory and cultural politics. In doing so, he framed their politically infused acts of pleasure as critical resources in a living archive of diaspora and dissidence – provocative, suggestive and explorative works that not only provide tools to address how racism and resistance articulate with each other in translocal contexts, but also offer content and a cutting edge to ongoing fights against the violence of nation-states and corporations that have been selling ‘multicultural snake oil’ to the world for years.

A video of McNeil’s presentation is available .

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