Sri Lanka

Asia Pacific Foundation (2007)
$20,000 – “Diasporic Interventions in Development and Peace Building: Challenges and Opportunities - A Case Study of Canada/Sri Lanka” (principal investigator)

IDRC (Ottawa) – International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo (2007)
$10,000 – “The Impact of Post 9/11 Anti-Terrorism Measures on the Sri Lankan Diaspora in Canada”

Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security, York University (2006 - 2007)
$3,500 – “A Pilot Study on The Impact of the Post 9/11 Security Paradigm on Refugee Diasporas”

Department of Justice Canada, Family, Children & Youth Section (2006 - 2007)
$10,000 – “A Synthesis of the Literature on Family Law Information for Newcomers” (principal investigator)

SSHRC (2005 – 2006)
$25,000 Strategic Research Clusters Grant – Phase 2 “Refugee Integration and Protection” (co-investigator with interdisciplinary team from York University’s Centre for Refugee Studies, University of Alberta and University of Montréal)

Africa and Middle East Refugee Assistance (AMERA) UK/Comic Relief (2005 - 2006)
$22,000 – Project grant to conduct evaluation of the Refugee Law Project, Faculty of Law,
Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

SSHRC (2004 – 2007)
$36,000 – Aid to Research and Transfer Journals Grant for Refuge, Canada’s Periodical on Refugees

SSHRC (2004 – 2005)
$30,000 – Strategic Research Clusters Design Grant: “A Critical Comparison of the Settlement
and Integration Experiences of Refugees and Immigrants in Canada” (co- applicant)

Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management, Berlin (2005)
$10,000 – Publication Grant for Refuge – Special Issue on “Multiple Homes and Parallel Civil Societies:
Transnationalism and Refugee Diasporas”

Law Commission of Canada (2004)
$15,000 – Research Award for a project on the Impact of Global International Informal Banking on
Canada: A Case Study of Tamil Transnational Money Transfer Networks (co-investigator)

2004/2005 EC Community Action Programme to Combat Social Exclusion funding (co-applicant and co-researcher with G. Dona, University of East London). Awarded for the project European Port Cities: disadvantaged urban areas in transition, a collaborative research with the University of Hamburg, Germany, University of Dublin, Ireland, University of Macedonia, Thessalonica, Greece, and University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, as well as several NGO partners. (Total project funding received for year 2004 is €147,147.37, funding available for each academic partner for year 2004/05 is approximately €18,500; the grant is administered through the University of Hamburg).
 
2000/2001 The Hayter Fund small research grant. Awarded for a comparative project on integration of refugees in Italy and the Netherlands – fieldwork/visit to the Netherlands (£1,500). 00/01 The British Council research grant. Awarded for a comparative project on integration of refugees in Italy and the Netherlands - fieldwork/visit to the Netherlands(£1,500).
 
1999/2000 The Oppenheimer Fund small research grant. Awarded for a comparative project on integration of refugees in Italy and the Netherlands (£3, 000)
 
1998/1999 Ford Foundation research grant (co-applicant with W. Giles, York University, Canada). Awarded for a comparative project on the situation of women in the conflict in Sri Lanka and the Post Yugoslav states (US$ 270,000).
 
1997 Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, Professional Partnerships Programme. Award for the project: Workshop on Women in Conflict Zones: Women's Organising Against War and Nationalism. Organised and facilitated at the 6th International Meeting of the Women's Solidarity Network Against War, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, August 7 -11 (CAN$ 1,000).

In 1982, research interests shifted to the study of forced migration, beginning with a three year study evaluating emergency assistance to refugees in Sudan, funded by the UK Overseas Development Administration (ODA). This resulted in Imposing Aid: emergency assistance to refugees, published by Oxford University Press, 1986. Aside from the multi-national study of the Rwandese emergency, this book remains the only long-term, independent study of an emergency operation. (It is now out-of-print, but a scanned copy is available on www.forcedmigration.org.)
 
From 1982, as Founding Director of the Refugee Studies Programme, lectured, conducted research, promoted the development of research/teaching links in universities, and advised governments, inter-governmental and non-governmental agencies on refugee policy. Countries involved included: Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Ireland, Jordan, Kenya, Nigeria, Norway, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Pakistan, Palestine, Russian Federation, South Africa, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, Somalia, Spain, Sudan, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Uganda, United States, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
 
As the Director of the RSP, had responsibility for developing and supervising its entire research programme (see annual reports 1982-1996); personally undertook research designing and evaluating projects concerned with refugees on such issues as women, agriculture, livelihood strategies—for example, in Sri Lanka for the UN University, in Zambia for the EC and Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), in Swaziland for the World Food Programme (WFP), in Palestine for the Society of Austro-Arab Relations, in Uganda for the EU and for Oxfam, and in Tanzania for Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA). Other personal research on refugee issues, funded through academic sources, includes: ‘The impact of NGO assistance on the livelihood of refugees’, Zimbabwe and Malawi (ESRC) and ‘Integration or repatriation of Tamil Refugees’ (Nuffield Foundation). Position papers include ‘Gender sensitivity and food distribution’ (WFP) and ‘Refugees and other forcibly displaced people in Africa’ (Pan African Conference of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies). From 1997-2000 undertook research on refugee health and welfare, an EU-funded project involving three other institutions: Institute of Public Health, Makerere University, Uganda; Centre for Refugee Studies/Medical School, Moi University; and the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.