Description
Book SynopsisAn essential primer for readers interested in tracing the development and dynamics of Canada’s immigration program and understanding the impact of recent federal reforms on Canadian society.
Trade ReviewWith careful attention to the disparate and often contradictory arguments about the usefulness of immigration – and by extension immigrants – to the nation, Immigration Canada rethinks and reframes notions of citizenship and settlement in an increasingly transnational age.
-- Rachel Wong, York University * British Journal of Canadian Studies *
Table of ContentsPreface
Part 1: Reappraising Migration
1 Twenty-First-Century Migration: Canada in the New Global Reality
2 Global Migration, International Migrants: Patterns, Perspectives, Paradoxes
Part 2: Immigration Canada
3 Who Got In? Who Gets In? Continuity and Change in Canada’s Immigration Program
4 Recalibrating Canada’s Immigration Program: Customizing Immigrants, Commodifying Migrant Labour
5 Canada’s Refugee Status Determination Process: Controversies, Challenges, Changes
6 American Exceptionalism: Contesting Immigration, Confounding Immigrants
Part 3: Experiencing Immigration, Immigrant Experiences
7 Assessing Immigration: Costs and Benefits, Impacts and Effects, Perceptions and Realities
8 Immigrant Experiences: The Good, the Bad, and the Hopeful
9 Integrating Immigrants: Inclusive Multiculturalism as Immigrant Governance
Part 4: Repositioning Immigrant Governance – Negotiating a New Global Migration Order
10 Rethinking Immigrant Governance: The Challenges of Complex Diversity
11 Customizing Citizenship: Recalibrating Identity and Belonging in a Postnational Canada
12 Rethinking Immigration, Reframing Immigrants: Evolving Realities, Emerging Challenges, Shifting Discourses
Notes
References
Index
