Decolonizing immigration: addressing missing indigenous perspectives in Canadian immigration policies

Immigration Policy ◽

Settler Colonialism ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Immigration Policies ◽

The Past ◽

Refugee Protection ◽

Canadian Immigration ◽

Indigenous Perspectives ◽

Despite the fact that their presence in the country has long pre-dated immigration, Indigenous people’s views on immigration policy and the impact immigration continues to have on them is rarely discussed in modern day Canada. In this Major Research Paper, I investigate whether or not Canadian immigration policies of the past and present may be written and enacted in ways that contribute to the marginalization of the country’s Indigenous population. By conducting a literature review of works that examine and critique immigration policies and practises as well as by performing a critical discourse analysis on the Immigration Act of 1910 and the 2002 Immigration and Refugee Protection Act considering critiques of settler colonialism and perspectives on decolonization, I explore the ways that inequality may be reproduced in an institutional level through immigration policy.

Resisting a postcolonial construction of historical trauma and healing: Critical discourse analysis of public apologies in Canada

Critical Sociology ◽

10.1177/08969205211052326 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 089692052110523

Author(s):

Eunjung Lee ◽

Marjorie Johnstone

Keyword(s):

Settler Colonialism ◽

Historical Trauma ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Social Responsibilities ◽

The Past ◽

Language And Power ◽

The Subject ◽

Systemic Violence ◽

Public Apologies

The contemporary discourse around historical trauma and healing is site for debate and resistance in public spheres. Guided by critical scholars in language and power as well as post-and settler colonialism, this study analyzes texts and contexts of two public apologies in Canada – Chinese head tax, and residential schools for Indigenous children – to examine how historical trauma and healing were understood, and by doing so how the subject and object were re/constructed to maintain or resist social (dis)orders – postcolonial racial orders – in the past and the present of Canada. Findings included: (1) a split and temporal distance between the wrong past and the benevolent present with governments constructing themselves as the good subject reifying a sincere fiction of a liberal, benevolent, and just white-nation; (2) no acknowledgement of the cause of historical trauma, namely colonial governing; (3) ongoing construction of the other racialized population as victims/burdens/lesser citizens to current Canada; and (4) the explicit demand to collective forgetting of the past/historical trauma as current healing and inclusion. We discuss social responsibilities when historical wounds continue to leave injuries and the risk of perpetuating systemic violence to people with whom we currently share the nation all of us call home.

Fears of Disaster and (Post-)Human Raciologies in European Popular Culture (2001-2013)

Culture Unbound Journal of Current Cultural Research ◽

10.3384/cu.2000.1525.1572363 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 363-385 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Gaia Giuliani

Keyword(s):

Racial Stereotypes ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Whiteness Studies ◽

World War ◽

Social Hierarchies ◽

The Past ◽

The World ◽

Gender Hierarchies ◽

This article aims at mapping the impact of ‘fears of disasters and crisis’ on European self-representations in terms of racial stereotypes, ‘white fantasies’, gender hierarchies, and heteronormativities. Its methodology is a critical discourse analysis of texts – specifically television series such as the BBC’s Dead Set (2009) and the first season of BBC US and UK, In the Flesh, (2013) and movies such as 28 Days Later (2002), L’Horde (2009), and World War Z (2013) – read through the lens of postcolonial theories, critical race and whiteness studies, the concepts of political philosophy and the theoretical insights of post-human feminism. This composite theoretical framework permits a grasp of gendered, racialised and classed fantasies behind the narratives of catastrophe and the visions of the post-apocalyptic world(s) the catastrophe is supposed to bring to life; it also allows an analysis of the meaning and articulations of catastrophe and post-world spatial constructions, and the latter’s relation to actual and imagined social hierarchies (gender, colour and class of the survivors). These are examined in order to understand whose eyes we are expected to imagine and experience the crisis/catastrophe through; the geographies of catastrophe and of post-world(s) (where in the world, and why); the relation between the undead and the living; life amongst the living before the undead threat; and the way protagonists look at the laws, rule, governmentalities, and use of violence in the past, present and future societies. These are a few of the themes that this article discusses in an attempt to uncover what fantasies of the present are hidden behind present memories of the future.

Government Discourses on Entrepreneurship: Issues of Legitimization, Subjugation, and Power

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice ◽

10.1111/j.1540-6520.2005.00075.x ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 173-184 ◽

Cited By ~ 58

Author(s):

Lew Perren ◽

Peter L. Jennings

Keyword(s):

Critical Discourse ◽

Government Policies ◽

Government Power ◽

The World ◽

New Business ◽

Government Involvement ◽

Market Driven ◽

Government Websites ◽

The belief in market–driven ideology and the assumption that new business ventures create jobs and foster innovation has embedded entrepreneurship into political discourse. Academics have analyzed government policies on entrepreneurship, but they have tended to share the same underlying beliefs in the function of entrepreneurs within the economic machine. This article explores selected dimensions of the impact of those beliefs by using critical discourse analysis to show how government websites around the world portray entrepreneurs and their role in society. Discourses of government power and self–legitimization are revealed that manifest themselves in a colonizing discourse of entrepreneurial subjugation. The article concludes by challenging government rhetoric on entrepreneurship and questioning the motives underpinning the agenda of government involvement in supporting entrepreneurs.

Introduction

The Reimagining of Place in English Modernism ◽

10.5949/liverpool/9780990895886.003.0001 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 1-12

Author(s):

Sam Wiseman

Keyword(s):

Aerial Photography ◽

Thomas Hardy ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Strong Sense ◽

The Past ◽

The Common ◽

Section One (Regions, Revenants, Reimaginings) contextualises the book’s approach by locating it within recent critical discourse, and emphasising commonalities between Lawrence, Powys, Butts and Woolf – particularly in terms of their powerful attachments to place and strong sense of the past. It notes that the book’s approach to these writers is underpinned, in part, by a sense that canonical understandings of ‘modernism’ can and should be expanded by their work. The common influence of Thomas Hardy (both in terms of style and themes) is also discussed. Section Two (Cosmopolitan and Technological Perspectives) stresses the impact that certain characteristics of the era have upon the four authors’ work, including the growth of urban cosmopolitanism, aerial photography and railway travel. Again, this section also provides critical context, discussing recent examinations of modernism and cosmopolitanism. Section Three provides a chapter overview.

7. The Impact of Canadian Immigration Policy on the Structure of the Black Caribbean Family in Toronto

Inside the Mosaic ◽

10.3138/9781442676176-008 ◽

2006 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Joe T. Darden

Keyword(s):

Immigration Policy ◽

Canadian Immigration Policy ◽

Black Caribbean ◽

Canadian Immigration ◽

‘It all started here, and it all ends here too’: Homosexual criminalisation and the queer politics of apology

Criminology & Criminal Justice ◽

10.1177/1748895820939244 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (5) ◽

pp. 590-603

Author(s):

Curtis Redd ◽

Emma K Russell

Keyword(s):

Critical Discourse ◽

Theoretical Frameworks ◽

New Politics ◽

Conventional View ◽

The Past ◽

Australian State ◽

The World ◽

Queer Politics ◽

To Come

In recent years, we have witnessed a tide of government apologies for historic laws criminalising homosexuality. Complicating a conventional view of state apologies as a progressive effort to come to terms with past mistakes, queer theoretical frameworks help to elucidate the power effects and self-serving nature of the new politics of regret. We argue that through the discourse of gay apology, the state extolls pride in its present identity by expressing shame for its ‘homophobic past’. In doing so, it discounts the possibility that systemic homophobia persists in the present. Through a critical discourse analysis of the ‘world first’ gay apology from the parliament of the Australian state of Victoria in 2016, we identify five key themes: the inexplicability of the past, the individualisation of homophobia, the construction of a ‘post-homophobic’ society, the transformation of shame into state pride and subsuming the ‘unhappy queer’ through the expectation of forgiveness.

Știrile false: limite și perspective ale analizei lingvistice

Transilvania ◽

10.51391/trva.2020.10.08 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 72-77

Author(s):

Anca-Simina Martin ◽

Simina-Maria Terian

Keyword(s):

Language Processing ◽

Quantitative Methods ◽

Critical Discussion ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Fake News ◽

Proper Understanding ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽

The Past ◽

Processing Techniques

This article sets out to offer an overview and a review of the latest linguistic research into fake news. To this end, the authors put forward a critical discussion of the paradigms and instruments deployed over the past decade to analyze and identify this textual (micro)genre, from natural language processing techniques to critical discourse analysis. The conclusion of our study is that a proper understanding of the fake news phenomenon can only be achieved by bringing together qualitative and quantitative methods.

EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF QUESTIONS AND QUESTIONING TECHNIQUES IN MALAWIAN MAGISTRATE COURTS: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS APPROACH

Researchers World – Journal of Arts Science & Commerce ◽

10.18843/rwjasc/v8i4/16 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol VIII (4) ◽

pp. 133-141

Author(s):

Ephraim Kizito ◽

◽

Wellman Kondowe ◽

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Analysis Approach ◽

Questioning Techniques ◽

'That once romantic now utterly disheartening (former) colliery town': The affective politics of heritage, memory, place and regeneration in Mansfield, UK

Journal of Urban Cultural Studies ◽

10.1386/jucs_00011_1 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 219-240 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jay Emery

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Local Government ◽

Urban Regeneration ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Local Memory ◽

The Past ◽

Shared Practice ◽

Urban Futures ◽

Post Industrial

Abstract This article investigates the affective politics of heritage, memory, place and regeneration in Mansfield, UK. Ravaged by workplace closures from the 1980s, Mansfield's local government and cultural partners have supposedly put heritage at the centre of urban regeneration policies. Principal are ambiguous, and forestalled, ambitions to mobilize the industrial past to build urban futures. Yet these heritages, and their attendant memories and histories, are emotionally evocative and highly contested. The affective politics are played out in the material, embodied and atmospheric remains of the industrial past as Mansfield struggles to make sense of its industrial legacies. Drawing on Critical Discourse Analysis, archival research, observant participation and interview data, this article critiques heritage-based regeneration; examines interrelations between local memory, class, place and history; and interprets tensions between competing imaginaries of what Mansfield is, was and should be. Contributing to work on memory and class in post-industrial towns, the article demonstrates that affect and place should be central to our considerations of heritage-based urban regeneration. In the case of Mansfield, an 'emotional regeneration' will be denied until a shared practice of remembering the affective ruptures of the past is enabled.