Full Description
Although Canada is known internationally as a leader among 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 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.
Contents
Introduction
Part I
1. Mapping Containing Diversity
2. Contextualizing Containing Diversity: Historic and Contemporary Policies
Part II
3. Controlling "Global Citizens": Refugees, International Obligations, and Security
4. Seeking Citizens: "Skilled" Immigrants as Ideal Neoliberal Citizens
5. Making Non-citizens: Temporary Workers and the Production of Precarity
6. Family Migrants as "Undesirable"? Sponsoring New Citizens amid New Restrictions on Family Immigration Policy
Part III
7. Redefining Membership and Belonging: Contestations over Citizenship and Multiculturalism
8. Toward a Politics of Social and Global Justice
Conclusion and Future Directions
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