Immigration Canada: Evolving Realities and Emerging Challenges in a Postnational

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An 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.

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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.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

PrefacePart 1: Reappraising Migration1 Twenty-First-Century Migration: Canada in the New Global Reality2 Global Migration, International Migrants: Patterns, Perspectives, ParadoxesPart 2: Immigration Canada3 Who Got In? Who Gets In? Continuity and Change in Canada's Immigration Program4 Recalibrating Canada's Immigration Program: Customizing Immigrants, Commodifying Migrant Labour5 Canada's Refugee Status Determination Process: Controversies, Challenges, Changes6 American Exceptionalism: Contesting Immigration, Confounding ImmigrantsPart 3: Experiencing Immigration, Immigrant Experiences7 Assessing Immigration: Costs and Benefits, Impacts and Effects, Perceptions and Realities8 Immigrant Experiences: The Good, the Bad, and the Hopeful9 Integrating Immigrants: Inclusive Multiculturalism as Immigrant GovernancePart 4: Repositioning Immigrant Governance – Negotiating a New Global Migration Order10 Rethinking Immigrant Governance: The Challenges of Complex Diversity11 Customizing Citizenship: Recalibrating Identity and Belonging in a Postnational Canada12 Rethinking Immigration, Reframing Immigrants: Evolving Realities, Emerging Challenges, Shifting DiscoursesNotesReferencesIndex

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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 *

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Required reading for those keen to decipher Canada's complex and ever-changing immigration policies.

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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.

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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.

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Required reading for those keen to decipher Canada's complex and ever-changing immigration policies.

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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, he considers topics of major importance, including: theories of international migration the redesign of Canada's immigration program along neoliberal lines the global refugee crisis and Canada's response by means of the refugee status determination program a comparison of the Canada immigration model to that of the US and Australia the role of an official multiculturalism the contributions of both mainstream and alternative media in influencing the "warmth of the welcome" the gendered nature of immigration and immigrant experiences the centrality of transmigration/transnationalism in rethinking the immigration paradigm the customization of an inclusive Canadian citizenship to reflect the realities of multiversal and transmigrant diversities within a postnational Canada. By thoroughly capturing the politics, patterns, and paradoxes of contemporary migration, this book rethinks the thorny issues and reframes the key debates.

Details ISBN0774826800 Author Augie Fleras Short Title IMMIGRATION CANADA Language English ISBN-10 0774826800 ISBN-13 9780774826808 Media Book Format Paperback Birth 1947 Year 2015 Subtitle Evolving Realities and Emerging Challenges in a Postnational World Publication Date 2015-05-01 UK Release Date 2015-05-01 Imprint University of British Columbia Press Place of Publication Vancouver Country of Publication Canada Pages 544 Publisher University of British Columbia Press DEWEY 325.71 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this

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