Containing diversity Canada and the politics of immigration in the 21st century / Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Ethel Tungohan, and Christina Gabriel.
| Author/creator | Abu-Laban, Yasmeen, 1966- |
| Other author | Tungohan, Ethel. |
| Other author | Gabriel, Christina. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2023] |
| Description | x, 336 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Mapping Containing Diversity -- Contextualizing Containing Diversity: Historic and Contemporary Policies -- Controlling 'Global Citizens': Refugees, International Obligations and Security -- Seeking Citizens: 'Skilled' Immigrants as Ideal Neoliberal Citizens -- Making Non-citizens: Temporary Workers and the Production of Precarity -- Family Migrants as 'Undesirable'? Sponsoring New Citizens Amid New Restrictions on Family Immigration Policies -- Redefining Membership and Belonging: Contestations over Citizenship and Multiculturalism -- Towards a Politics of Global and Social Justice. |
| Abstract | "Although Canada is known internationally as a leader amongst industrialized countries for inclusive practices towards immigrants and refugees, the twenty-first century has witnessed a rise in the number of refugees and temporary migrant workers who are often denied citizenship, and may also experience detention and deportation. Containing Diversity examines whether and to what extent Canada's long-standing support for immigration, multiculturalism, and citizenship has shifted in favour of discourses, policies, and practices that "contain" diversity. This book reflects on how diversity is being "contained" through practices designed to insulate the Canadian settler-colonial state. In assessing the Canadian government's policies towards refugees and asylum seekers, economic migrants, family-class migrants, temporary foreign workers, and multiculturalism, the authors show the various contradictory practices in effect. Containing Diversity reflects on policy changes, analysed alongside the resurgence of right-wing political ideology, and the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ultimately, Containing Diversity highlights the need for a re-imagining of new forms of solidarity that centre migrant and Indigenous justice."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Other forms | Issued also in electronic format. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023393122 |
| ISBN | 9781442609051 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 1442609052 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 9781442609044 (paper) |
| ISBN | 1442609044 (paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |