Immigration Canada
Evolving Realities and Emerging Challenges in a Postnational World
Will be published approx. on 5. December 2014
Book
Hardback
544 pages
978-0-7748-2679-2 (ISBN)
Description
Beyond the romanticized image of newcomers arriving as a "huddled mass" at Halifax's Pier 21, understanding the reality and complexity of immigration today requires an expert guide. In the hands of scholar Augie Fleras, this intricate and ever-changing subject gets the attention it deserves with analysis of all aspects, including admission policies, the refugee processing system, the temporary foreign worker program, and the emergence of transnational identities. Given the unprecedented number of federal policy reforms of the past decade, such a roadmap is essential.
Immigration Canada describes, analyzes, and reassesses immigration in a Canada that is rapidly changing, increasingly diverse, more uncertain, and globally connected. Drawing on the best Canadian and international scholarship, Fleras investigates related topics such as integration, identity, and multiculturalism, to consider immigration in a wider context. By thoroughly capturing the politics, patterns, and paradoxes of contemporary migration, this book rethinks the thorny issues and reframes the key debates.
Immigration Canada describes, analyzes, and reassesses immigration in a Canada that is rapidly changing, increasingly diverse, more uncertain, and globally connected. Drawing on the best Canadian and international scholarship, Fleras investigates related topics such as integration, identity, and multiculturalism, to consider immigration in a wider context. By thoroughly capturing the politics, patterns, and paradoxes of contemporary migration, this book rethinks the thorny issues and reframes the key debates.
Reviews / Votes
With 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)
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Vancouver
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
920 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7748-2679-2 (9780774826792)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Augie Fleras is an adjunct professor of sociology at the University of Waterloo. He has authored twenty-five books, including The Media Gaze: Representations of Diversities in Canada (UBC Press, 2011).
Content
Preface
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
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