Graduate Student Essay Prize
With a view to supporting graduate students at McGill who are undertaking research related to refugees and forced migration, the McGill Refugee Research Group (MRRG) is accepting submissions for the 2023 MRRG Graduate Student Essay Prizes. MRRG will offer three prizes: 1st place ($1000), 2nd place ($750), and 3rd place ($500). The prizes are supported by the FRQSC Emerging Team Grant on “Refugee protection and struggles for justice: From local to global contexts.”
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Thank you to all those graduate students from across the university who submitted work for consideration for the 2023 McGill Refugee Research Group Graduate Student Essay Prize. It’s wonderful to see such diverse and compelling research on refugee issues being undertaken here McGill.
The adjudication committee is pleased to announce the recipients of prizes for 2023:
1st prize: “‘Those Troublesome Third Genders’: Hijra politics of refusal, refugeehood, and the sex worker movement of 1970-1990 in Kolkata, India”, by Sarah Nandi (PhD candidate, Department of Political Science)
2nd prize: “Chronicles of Disappearance: Palestinian Encampment in the Bekaa Valley”, by Cynthia Kraichati (PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology)
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“Against the Charge of Charity: Revisiting the Colonial Underpinnings of Humanitarianism”, by Merve Erdilmen (PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science)
3rd prize: “Drawing Back: Narrative Resistance to Anti-Refugee Rhetoric in Kate Evans’s Threads: From the Refugee Crisis”, by Martin Breul (PhD Candidate, Department of English)
Congratulations!
Winners from 2022
1st prize: “Of Place and Cement: Syrian Refugees and Laborers in Lebanon”, by Farah Atoui (PhD Candidate, Art History and Communication Studies)
2nd prize: “Of utopia: Congolese refugees and an imagined agrarian future in Rwanda”, by Nicolas Parent (PhD Candidate, Geography)
3rd prize: “Host community participation in local integration of refugees”, by Ricardo John Munyegera (PhD Candidate, Social Work)