The 2025 Gunn Prize winner is Ms Michelle Faux, a PhD candidate at York University, Toronto. Her essay explores the political and social factors which led members of the Goan diaspora living in Uganda to migrate to Canada as refugees in 1972. The author argues that this pivotal moment in the immigration history of Goans established a Goan diasporic community in Canada and thereafter sparked the chain migration of Goans to Canada, not just from Uganda and East Africa but eventually from other parts of the world as well.