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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.
List of contents
Preface
Part 1: Reappraising Migration1 Twenty-First-Century Migration: Canada in the New Global Reality
2 Global Migration, International Migrants: Patterns, Perspectives, Paradoxes
Part 2: Immigration Canada3 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 Experiences7 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 Order10 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
About the author
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).
Summary
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.
