Canadian Immigration Architectures of Inspection, Detention, and Deportation

2021 ◽  
pp. 204-278
Keyword(s):  
Canadian Immigration

Dancing across Borders: ‘Exotic Dancers,’ Trafficking, and Canadian Immigration Policy

2003 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 464-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey Macklin
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
Temporary Work ◽  
Labor Migrants ◽  
Exotic Dancers ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Canadian Immigration ◽  
The Government

This article analyzes a Canadian immigration program that authorizes issuance of temporary work visas to ‘exotic dancers.’ In response to public criticism that the government was thereby implicated in the transnational trafficking of women into sexual exploitation, Citizenship and Immigration Canada retained the visa program de jure but eliminated it de facto. Using a legal and discursive analysis that focuses on the production of female labor migrants variously as workers, as criminals and as bearers of human rights, the article argues that the incoherence of Canadian policy can only be rendered intelligible when refracted through these different lenses. The article concludes by considering policy options available to the state in addressing the issue.

Double Standard: The Secret History of Canadian Immigration.

1989 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 124
Author(s):  
C. Michael Lanphier ◽  
Reg Whitaker
Keyword(s):  
Double Standard ◽  
Canadian Immigration ◽  
History Of ◽  
Secret History

Nostos and Nineteenth-Century Italian-Canadian Immigration: Mapping the Earliest Latin Quarters

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 71-77
Author(s):  
Roberta Cauchi-Santoro
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Canadian Immigration ◽  
Italian Immigrants

In this article, I examine the formation of the first Latin Quarter in London (ON) at the end of the nineteenth century, and thus at the dawn of modernity. I analyse how these first (mostly Southern) Italian immigrants attempted to soothe their need for a sense of belonging, how they negotiated their collective nostos and, concomitantly, how they dealt with the palpable nostalgia for a return to their Mediterranean homeland.

scholarly journals Migration and art: exploring experiential and theoretical connections

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Hellreich
Keyword(s):  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Social Construction Theory ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Canadian Art ◽  
Exploratory Investigation ◽  
Canadian Immigration ◽  
Immigration And Settlement ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Migratory Experience ◽  
The Impact

How can arts-based methodologies offer unique insights into contemporary migration and settlement experiences? Informed by qualitative research and a literature review which analyzes identity theory, social construction theory, and Canadian art organizations which support newcomer artists, this paper explores the potential for the intersection of the arts in immigration and settlement assessment. An exploratory investigation of the theory of art as linked to migration is illuminated by the experiences of a group of artists who have gone through a significant migratory experience and share their reflections on being artists in Canada. This paper argues that analyzing art created by immigrant artists offers insight into the contemporary Canadian immigration experience which quantitative data is unable to capture. Learning about the barriers which immigrant artists face through using arts-based research includes the subject in the research, thereby empowering and validating their lived experiences as valuable epistemologies and ontologies. Findings reveal the impact of acculturation on the identities of and opportunities available to immigrant artists in Canada. Key Words: Immigrant Art; Immigration and Toronto; Place-making; Acculturation; Hybridity; Identity

scholarly journals Proving it: experiences of sexual minorities in the Canadian refugee determination system

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Casey Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Sexual Minority ◽  
Sexual Minorities ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Canadian Immigration ◽  
Determination System ◽  
And Gender

This paper explores refugee claimant’s experiences negotiating the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB). Focusing on claims based on sexual orientation and gender identity, this paper investigates how claimants are made to ‘prove’ their sexual orientation and gender identity. The IRB and its decision makers require that claimants prove their identity as a refugee as well as a member of a sexual minority. Through an analysis of the existing literature and by integrating queer and feminist theoretical concepts on gender, sex, performativity and representation, it is apparent that the Canadian IRB functions as a heteronormative system in which the understanding of sexual orientation and gender identities are essentialized.

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