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Major Research Papers by Globalization Studies Students
The Globalization Studies MA program consists of course work plus a major research paper (MRP). During the winter term, students prepare a proposal for their MRP and identify a potential supervisor and second reader. Students complete the MRP in the summer term. The paper has a maximum length of 10,000 words (approximately 40 pages).
Below is a list of Major Research papers completed by Globalization Studies students in previous years.
2010-2011
| Joshua Belick |
Moving Towards a Post-post 9/11 Discourse in Immigration and Security Studies -- Bill C-4; Anti-human Smuggling Legislation and the Detonation of Asylum Seeker Rights in Canada |
| Jillian Curtin |
Conundrum or Corruption: An Analysis of the Industry Fallout and the Regulatory Response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill |
| Kevin Edmonds |
The Power to Impoverish -- The World Trade Organization and the Demise of the St. Lucian Banana Trade |
| Charis Enns |
Neoliberalism Beneath Social Investment Discourses?: A Critical Analysis of the World Bank's Education Sector Strategy 2020 |
| Dona Geagea |
The Tragedy of the Commons becomes a Tragedy for the Commoners: Globalization, Marginalization and Resistance in Rural Regions' Water Policies |
| Tegan Herchenrader |
Orienting the Sojourner: A Study on the Orientation and Reorientation of Exchange Students |
| Jan Korevaar |
Naked in the Camp, Resisting in the City: Coeval Spaces of the City-Camp |
| Sara Loureiro |
Painting the Revolution: A Study of Revolutionary Mural Production in Esteli, Nicaragua from 1979-1990 |
| Maris Lush |
The Contemporary Social Corporation and New Constitutionalism: A Complementary Neoliberal Socio-Economic Hegemony |
| Lauren Murphy |
A Critical Comparison of the Canadian and European Regulatory System for GMOs: Examining the Canadian Shortcomings |
| Shabnam Nikfar |
The Glass Walls among Us: Internationalization of Borders through the Canadian Immigration Regime |
| Andrew Park |
The Politics of Food -- Risk Society and the Neurotic Citizen |
| Shubha Sandhill |
Living in the Shackles of Domestic Violence: The Subjugation of Female Identity in South Asian Communities |
| Zachary Stockhill |
Building Bridges: The Beatle Impact on "India" in the Post Colonial Imagination |
| Andrew Weir |
Paid Crowdsourcing Microtasking: An Individualized Race to the Bottom |
2009-2010
| Franziska Buch | Visualizing the AGW-Battle: Climategate and the New Fronts of Adversarial Framing in the Online Media Discourse |
| Monique Chiotti | The Emergence of Surplus Necessity in the West and its Effect on the Cultural Production of Exploitation in Chinese Special Economic Zones |
| Diana Marina Cooper | China's Increasing Economic Engagement in sub-Saharan Africa: Towards Common Development, or the 'New Scramble for Africa'? |
| Melissa Eberly | The Politics of Humanitarianism in Haiti: Humanitarian Agencies, Neoliberalism and the Global Perspective |
| Dave Heidebrecht | A Sacred Place: Capturing the Story of the Sacred Headwaters Social Movement |
| Ann Henley |
Examining the Feasibility of Immigrant Women Developing Micro Businesses and Accessing Micro Loans in Hamilton |
| Chris Knudson | Recovery or Reorganization? Economic Globalisation's Mixed Effects on the Developing World's Vulnerability to Extreme Weather Events |
| Adam Malloy | India's Experimental Autonomy: Shaping Modernity in "Gorkhaland" |
| Sheliza Merchant | Manipulating US and International Law to Justify Torture Findings from Abu Ghraib |
| Andrew Munroe | Metaphors of the Environment |
| Danielle Pacey | The Cost of Doing Business: Corporatizing Global War |
| Laura Pin | Indigenous Identity in Olympic-supporting and Olympic-resisting discourse concerning the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games |
| Eddy Thai | The Undecidables and the Hybridity of Identity |
| Maja Tuta | Needs and Gaps in Services Available to Women who have been Sex Trafficked |
| Catherine Twizere | Thinking About History: Adopting Critical Thinking Methods in Post-Conflict History Classrooms |
| Jingxian Xu |
Migration and Development: A Preliminary Assessment of the "Deskilling" Situation Faced by Chinese Skilled Immigrants in Canada |
2008-2009
| Sarah L. Anstett | The Limitations of Ethical Purchasing: Observations on Communication, Co-Ordination & Comprehension Drawn from the Canadian University No Sweat Initiative |
| Kyinzom Gyalpo | A Study Examining the Impact of Migrant Remittance from a Women Perspective in Nepal |
| Sara Mahmood Hassan | "Acts of Global Citizenship or Global Act(ion)s of Citizenship?" Exploring the Enactment of Global Citizenship in Canada |
| Erin Langs | Environmental Justice: Contemporary Failures in Global Environmental Governance and Valuation |
| Branka Marijan | (Re) Created Borders, Contested Citizenships: Politics of Identity, Belonging and Place |
| Caitlin Patterson | Protection vs. Profits: The Conflict between the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights |
| Leah J. Percy | The Construction of Female Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in Kenya: Gender Mainstreaming or Gender Masking? |
| Veronica Rubio- Vega | Fairtrade Coffee in Latin America: To What Extent does FLO Certification Benefit Small-Scale Farmers? |
| Aaron Saad | Environmental Migrants/Refugees: Identifying Key Developments and Gaps in the Emerging Response to a Potential Crisis |
| Kat Scrivener | Transnational Advocacy Networks and 'Policymaking from Below': The Impact on Trade and Integration in the Americas |
| Sarah Shulist | Revitalizing Through Language: The Role of Language in Indigenous Peoples' Political Projects |
| Victoria Steele | Cosmopolitan Landscapes in the People's Republic of China: Spectrality of Shijian Wenti and New Urban Identities |
| Leah Taylor | A Farmer's Tale: Growing Globalization in Woodville's Fields |
| Huijing Yang | Under the Same Blue Sky? A Preliminary Study of Left-behind Children in Rural China in the Context of Globalization |
| Mingwei Zhang |
The Social Networks of Chinese Elderly Immigrants in Canada: Implications for Public Service Utilization |
| Sonya Zikic |
Acts of Kidizenship: The Reception, Treatment, and Political Agency of Unaccompanied Minors and Undocumented Migrant Youth |
2007-2008
| Phil Abbott | Beyond the Band-Aid: An Examination of the Expanding Role of Food Banks in Canadian Society |
| Jessica Marion Barr | Fraught Perceptions, Fraught Representations: Global Conflict and Art |
| Sarah Batten | Global Flows, Local Profits: Private Sector Involvement in 'Migrant Management' |
| Zainab Boxwala | Practicing Global Yoga: A Reflective Asana and a Meditative Mindset Breathing Life into New Politics |
| Ana Candia | Change the Channel: Latin American Third Film in the Contemporary World Order |
| Frank Castiglione | The European Union and Turkey: Globalization with a Difference?* |
| Kasey Coholan | Frictions in Being and Becoming: Expanding the Political through an Examination of Subaltern Groups and Indigenism |
| Christianne Collantes | Bodies of Currency and Commodification in Cyberculture: Filipino Women's Oppression and Resistance Online |
| Erika Dickenson | World Bank Support of Core Labour Standards: Changing the Direction of Economic Globalization? |
| Hala Hlaibeih | The Misrepresentation of Muslim Women in the Global Mass Media: Case Study: "Submission", a Short Movie |
| Jennifer Ho-Ying Huang | The Impact of Globalization on Intra-Ethnic Relations: The Case of Chinese Sub-communities in the Greater Toronto Area |
| Raghda Ismail | The Identity of the First Generation of Palestinians Born in Canada |
| Daniela Kortan | CSR as Rhetoric or Reality - Lessons Learnt from the Governance Paradigm |
| Todd Leskie | No One Gets Out Alive: Representation of Cosmopolitanism in the Fiction of Rohinton Mistry |
| Eva Lukacsovics | How is the Term 'Orphan' Defined in the Context of HIV/AIDS in 'Sub-Saharan Africa'? |
| Kuthula Matshazi | Comparative Advantage, Liberalized Trade Rules in Agriculture and Developed Countries' Farm Subsidies: The Effects on African Farmers |
| Bryan Purcell | Hard and Soft Food Security Pathways: An Ecological Analysis of the Global Food Crisis and its Policy Implications |
| Meaghan Ross | Social Work Activism Amidst Neo-Liberal Policies: How are Social Workers Maintaining Resistance? |
| Alisha Ticku | Negotiating Spaces of Exclusion: Interrogating Hierarchies of Entitlement through the Experiences of Female Migrant Domestic Workers |
| Kristian van der Lee | Pursuing Social Justice through the Market: An Investigation of the WTO and Fair Trade Coffee Initiatives in Latin America |
| Renée Wetselaar | Social Location, Mobilization and Globalization: The Role of Art in Creating Social Change in Hamilton, Ontario |
| Narges Valibeigi | Media as an Anti-Peace Making Tool in the Context Globalization: How are Shiite Muslims Represented in Western Media? |
2006-2007
| Duncan Butcher |
Who Made Who: The Enabling of Global Cities |
| Fabiola De Vierna | The Impact of Economic Globalization in Case Study Aguascalientes, Mexico |
| Dan Grace | Frame that Suffering: Manufacturing and Mediatizing the 'Cy-sufferer' |
| Matt Gravelle | Globalization, Social Compacts, and the New "New Regionalism": Towards an ASEAN 2.0 |
| Ahmed Ismail | Options of Reconciliation in War-torn Societies: Case-study Darfur Conflict |
| Xiaoxin Ji | The Integration of Chinese Immigrants in the Canadian Labour Market |
| Rob Joustra | The Lullaby of Argus Panoptes: Towards a Conversation on Cosmology in Universal Human Rights |
| Afreen Khan | A Comparative Perspective on the Working Conditions of Women in the Global Garment Industry |
| Xieqing Lin | Constructed Globalization: How Media Functions as a Channel to Introduce the Concept of 'Globalization' into China |
| Aaida Mamuji | Canada's Official Development Assistance: Policy Shortfalls and Possible Improvements |
| Dave Nolan | Academic Impact: A Call for More Reflexive Scholarship in a Globalizing World |
| Heather Picotte | Where the Olympics Meet the Inner City: Discourses of Globalization and Community in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver |
| Tanya Reimer | Global Forms and Functions of Property: Towards a Concrete Understanding of Globalization |
| Natasha Sawh | Negotiation on the Ground: Realizing Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in South Africa, Nigeria and Peru |
| Anna Seifried | Patently Ineffectual: Why Canada's Access to Medicines Regime has Failed to Meet its Objective |
| Alexandre Sheldon | Seeing the World: A Critical Exploration of the Cartographic Nature of European Modernization and Globalization |
| Kelsey Wagner | Reformasi: Race and Identity in Malaysian Politics in a Globalized Era |
| Meaghan Willis | (In)Voluntary Return and 'the Refugee': Challenging Convention, (Re)Assigning Agency, and (Re)Defining the Terms of Return |
2005-2006
| Rosette Adera | Gender Roles and Pedagogies of Mobilization in the Rwandan Genocide |
| Laura Bolton | Globalization and Conscious Organization Perspective: The Need for a New Outlook on Organizational Change |
| Mark King | Between Tears and Elation |
| Mauricio Martinez | Global Marketing and its Implications for the Study of Ideology |
| John McCurdy | Conflicting Interpretations of the Origin, Development and Character of Al Qaeda: An Historiographical Reading of the Ongoing Debate between Orientalists and Modernists |
| Genevieve Meisenheimer | The Citizen and the Stranger: An Opportunity for Responsibility |
| Jill Mills | Corporate Social Responsibility: A Global Momentum for Sustainable Business |
| Angie Zan | Integration of Chinese Immigrants into Canadian Society |
| Amy Zhang | Echoes of Memory: Visual Culture, History, and Resistance in Contemporary Chinese Photographic Practice |
2004-2005
| Alex Diceanu | The Politics of Hegemony and Counter-hegemony within the Global Labour Standards Struggle |
| Bryn Gay | Tragedy of Anti-Commons in Kalahari |
| Candida Hadley | Astrobiology, Globalization and the Myth of Technological Utopianism |
| Max Haiven | Creativity, Globalization and Empire |
| Julianna Hobbs | Guatemalan Testimonios: Redefining Knowledge, Challenging 'Official' History and Destabilizing the Selective Permeability of Globalization |
| Heather Johnson | The Borders of Asylum |
| Risa Mandzuk | Local Narratives of Globalization: A Preliminary Exploration of the Imaginative Landscape of McMaster University |
