Full 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.
Contents
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
