The inaugural launch of a new grant program within the CMS had an excellent response this Fall resulting in eleven grants of $1000 – $3000 being awarded to support faculty-graduate student research and publication collaborations. Designed to encourage graduate students with an interest in migration across all disciplines to work with migration scholars, the new grant program supports 12 graduate students across 8 different departments across the university.
The range of topics is particularly impressive and speaks to the depth of expertise and scholarship on migration taking place at UBC. These research collaborations also provide an opportunity to submit to the CMS Working Paper Series as a way to provide additional graduate student mentorship in preparing research for publication.
Here is the full list of grant recipients and their research topics:
| Topic | Collaborators | Department |
| Data analysis and publication of research findings on the experiences of working international undergraduate students at a large research-intensive university | Alison Taylor & Sameena Jamal | Educational Studies |
| Literary representation of transatlantic trajectories, particularly between the African continent and the US, Brazil, and Canada | Antje Ziethen & Andi Ghaderi | French, Hispanic and Italian Studies |
| Enemy Aliens: Citizenship and Internment in Wartime Canada | Ben Bryce & Lucy Arrington | History |
| Placed/Displaced: from colonialist to POW – home and exile of German POW in Japan during WWI. | Dorothee Leesing & Ai Yamomoto | CENES |
| Examining Vietnamese international students’ occupations (i.e., daily activities) and sense of belonging in both Vancouver, Canada and Paris, France | Gaoheng Zhang & Anne Cécile Delaisse | Italian Studies & Occupational Sciences |
| ‘Ideal’ immigrants: mapping the capital accumulation of international postsecondary students in Canada | Guofang Li & Lisa Brunner | Literacy Education & Educational Studies |
| Evolving approaches to diversity work: Making visible the discursive and practical consciousness of immigrant settlement workers | Hongxia Shan & Yeonjoo Kim and Tony Roberts | Educational Studies |
| Shifting Territory, Shifting Deities: Political, Environmental and Religious Change in Mustang, Nepal | Sara Shneiderman & Emily Amburgey | Anthropology |
| The gig economy and the changing nature of jobs: Critically exploring immigrant gig workers’ experiences and the shifting role of the settlement sector | Suzanne Huot & Atieh Yekta | Occupational Sciences |
| Online dating among Chinese immigrants in Vancouver | Yue Qian & Manlin Cai | Sociology |
| Interethnic and interracial marriages and interethnic friendship groups | Sean Lauer & Brett Matsushita | Sociology |
