Migrant geographies of politics, identity and belonging

SSHRC Standard Grant led by Jennifer Hyndman

Towards age mainstreaming? A social age analysis of Canada's international development policy and programming

SSHRC Standard Grant led by Christina Clark-Kazak

Canada’s refugee policies and processes and those who claim refugee status on the basis of sexual orientation persecution

SSHRC Standard grant led by David Murray

Envisioning Global LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) Human Rights

SSHRC CURA grant led by Nancy Nicol with Jennifer Hyndman as collaborator

The Provision of Higher Education for Long-term Refugees Dadaab Camp, Kenya

SSHRC Partnership Development Grant led by Wenona Giles

Intercultural learning through virtual and on-site exchanges between York University students, refugee students on the Thai Burma border and displaced migrant students in Ranong, Thailand

Academic Innovation Fund led by Wenona Giles and Robin Roth

Reaching Higher: The Provision of Higher Education for Long-term Refugees in the Dadaab Camps, Kenya

MasterCard Foundation grant led by Wenona Giles

Strengthening the Development of Social Work in Rwanda

IDRC grant led by Susan McGrath with co-applicants from the National University of Rwanda, St. Thomas University and King’s College at the University of Western Ontario.

Theorizing "Choice" and Voluntary Social Exclusion: A Study of Transnational Livelihoods and Women from Mexico

SSHRC Standard

Luann Good Gingrich is the lead, which seeks to further the study of voluntary social exclusion and meanings of “choice” with the aim of  broadening insights into the nature and dimensions of social inclusion.

A Refugee Research Network (RRN): Globalizing Knowledge

SSHRC Research Cluster grant

Susan McGrath is the lead. The purpose of this project is to mobilize and sustain a Canadian and international network of researchers and research centres committed to the study of refugee and forced migration issues and to finding solutions to the plight of refugees.

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Rebuilding Health in Rwanda 

CIDA AUCC Tier 2 project

University of Western Ontario has the lead; York is an institutional partner with Susan McGrath and Nancy Johnston providing leadership to the mental health component. This is a 6 year project funded in 2005; the Rwandan partner is the Kigali Health Institute.  

East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project

Hassan Shire Sheikh

Funded by International Development Research Centre, Novib, National Endowment for Democracy

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