Policy

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD): Student Scholarships for African Students to Study Forced Migration at the University of the Witwatersrand,’ 2003-2008, USD 57 100

Centre for Development & Enterprise: Research on Skills, Availability, and the South African Economy, 2007; USD 28 600

Development Bank of Southern Africa: Colloquium on the Challenges of Urban Inclusion in African Cities. 2006; USD 17 650

Centre Français sur la Population et le Développement (CEPED): ‘Immigration, Transit, and Urban Transformation: Migration and Urbanisation in Lubumbashi, Maputo, and Johannesburg’. (Together with Aurelia Wa Kabwe-Segatti, French Institute of South Africa.) 2006-2008; USD 81 000

Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA): ‘Grant to Explore Establishing an African Forced Migration Research and Training Network.’ 2005-2006; USD 21 500

Macarthur Foundation Research and Writing Programme on Migration and Refugees: ‘Forced Migration and the New African City: Transnational Livelihoods and Politics in Maputo and Nairobi.’ (Together with Karen Jacobsen, Tufts University.) 2005; USD 96 000

Andrew Mellon Foundation: ‘Continued Support to the Forced Migration Studies Programme at the University of the  Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.’ 2004-2007; USD 360 000

Alchemy Project, Boston: ‘Support for Refugee Students at the University of the Witwatersrand. 2004- 2005; USD 10 000

Foundation for Human Rights, Pretoria: Publication of Forced Migrants in the New Johannesburg: Towards a Local Government Response.’ 2003-2004

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)

2008. Women in Conflict Zones Network Conference Revisioning and Reimagining the Future, Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 2008 (Principal Investigator), International Development Research Centre (IDRC) ($16,000) 

2008. Towards a Transnational Feminist Understanding of Transitional Justice Processes in Latin America (Principal Investigator) Faculty of Arts Research Grant, York University ($2,645)

2006.The Boundaries of Belonging: Reflections on Migration Policy into the 21st Century (Principal Investigator, with Inter Pares), International Development Research Centre (IDRC), $50,000