Containing Diversity : Canada and the Politics of Immigration in the 21st Century / Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Ethel Tungohan, and Christina Gabriel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abu-Laban, Yasmeen, 1966- author.

Tungohan, Ethel, author.

Gabriel, Christina, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship--Canada.

Citizenship.

Multiculturalism.

Multiculturalism--Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2023]

Summary:

Containing Diversity presents a novel approach to understanding the politics of immigration in Canada in the twenty-first century.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

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 Citizensamid New Restrictions on Family Immigration Policies

Part III

7 Redefining Membership and Belonging: Contestations over Citizenship and Multiculturalism

8 Towards a Politics of Global and Social Justice

Conclusion and Future Directions

Select Podcast and Documentary Suggestions

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Abu-Laban, Yasmeen Containing Diversity

ISBN:

1-4426-0906-0

1-4426-0907-9

OCLC:

1347029454