Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism : Immigration Bureaucrats and Policymaking in Postwar Canada / Jennifer Elrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elrick, Jennifer (Jennifer Margaret), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle class--Canada--History--20th century.

Middle class.

Multiculturalism--Canada--History--20th century.

Multiculturalism.

Canada--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--History--20th century.

Canada.

Canada--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2021]

Summary:

Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism re-interprets the historiography of the emergence of Canada's universal immigration policy for skilled workers and family immigrants in the 1950s and 1960s.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

2 Bureaucratic Discretion in the Historical Canadian Context

3 State Actors Shaping the Nation: A Cultural Sociology of Immigration Policy

4 Individual Merit and the Making of Multicultural Skilled Workers

5 Putting the “Class” in “Family Class”

6 Conclusion: The Legacy of Middle-Class Multiculturalism

Methodological Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Elrick, Jennifer Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism

ISBN:

1-4875-2779-9

1-4875-2780-2

OCLC:

1290024456