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A Family Matter : Citizenship, Conjugal Relationships, and Canadian Immigration Policy / Megan Gaucher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gaucher, Megan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immigrants--Government policy.
- Immigrants.
- Immigrants--Family relationships.
- Canada--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
- Canada.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Government policy.
- Immigrants--Family relationships--Canada.
- Immigrants--Government policy--Canada.
- Citizenship--Canada.
- Citizenship.
- Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 236 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- Text in English.
- Summary:
- "What is family? Citing national security and societal welfare, the Harper government adopted a strict definition of family to limit access to citizenship for certain immigrants. Megan Gaucher analyzes the government's assessment of sexual-minority refugee claimants' relationship history, common-law and married spousal sponsorship applications, and marriage fraud, concluding that this narrative of citizenship reinforces racialized, gendered, and sexualized assumptions about the "Canadian family." As many Western governments ponder more restrictive immigration policies, A Family Matter offers a timely examination of the Canadian approach and proposes a course for re-evaluating how family is defined and implementing fairer assessments of immigrants and refugees."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Invisibility of family in the Canadian conversation
- Inside/outside families: the politics of relationship recognition in Canadian law and policy
- The role of relationships in Canadian refugee determination process for sexual minorities
- An education in conjugality: experiences of common-law couples with spousal sponsorship
- Canada's anti-marriage fraud campaign and the production of "legitimate" conjugal citizens
- Rethinking conjugality.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-223) and index.
- Other Format:
- Gaucher, Megan, author. Family matter.:
- ISBN:
- 9780774836425
- 0774836423
- 9780774836432
- 0774836431
- OCLC:
- 1035215788
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