From its very beginnings, Carleton University has welcomed the world, explored it in many fields of study and embraced the obligations of national and international citizenship. Our Migration and Diaspora Studies (MDS) initiative offers Canada’s first and only undergraduate degree program to bring together a broad spectrum of academic understandings of human mobility from the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Students, faculty, and professionals affiliated with MDS are leading participants in local, national and international debates about citizenship, cosmopolitanism, diversity, exile, integration and pluralism. They contribute to established disciplines and burgeoning research centres, as well as innovative urban laboratories and creative CultureHubs that bring the transnational study of arts, culture and education into productive dialogue with Carleton’s expertise in fields such as public policy, diplomacy, refugee studies, and state security.