Pathways to Prosperity: Canada

Every year, almost ten thousand temporary agricultural workers from Latin-America arrive, work and live throughout Quebec.  Considered as indispensable, they are invisible to most Quebecers and unknown to scholars who know very little about their experiences during their stay. From the perspective of Emotional Geographies,…

In the last few years, there has been a trend by Western countries, including Canada, to tighten their immigration laws. For example, in 2012, modifications were made to the spousal sponsorship system: the granting of permanent residence is now conditional on two years of cohabitation…

In recent years, there has been increasing attention paid to the role of municipal government on issues related to the settlement of immigrants. The City of Toronto provides a case study for a municipal government that is increasingly involved in the coordination of services across…

My research is in the area of local immigration politics, and my dissertation will evaluate how small Canadian cities such as Windsor, Ontario interpret federal immigrant integration funding and apply funding to suit their own community goals. Through this policy and program review, I investigate…

My dissertation investigates how official language minorities define their identities, envision cultural boundaries, and experience bilingualism in postsecondary institutions. More specifically, this bilingual research project is a qualitative inquiry of Franco-Ontarians and Anglo-Quebecers who attend CEGEPS, colleges and universities in Ontario and Quebec. In order…

Drawing on 31 three-hour sessions of participant-observation and 41 semi-structured interviews with the participants and organizers of an employment and leadership skills program for immigrant women at two Neighbourhood Houses in Vancouver, this enthnographic study examines the influence of Canadian immigration policies and settlement services…

Thousands of people over the world leave their homeland every year to journey to Canada, a country that offers them better opportunities than their countries of origin. The Lebanese are one of the groups that leave their home place every year looking for new places…

This study situates the global trend of South to North migration for international education within historical and contemporary governmental approaches that have come to define the status quo in this field. A review of policies and programs that shaped international education during the colonial period…

This thesis explores the migration pathways and transnational class projects of 72 international students studying in Atlantic Canada. Bourdieu’s concepts of class and capital guide my analysis of the complex relationship between education internationalization and class capital accumulation strategies. I suggest that legal permanent status…

My thesis examines the media consumption and production practices of Ottawa’s Chinese, Spanish speaking Latin American, and Somali communities in order to explore the communicational dimensions of newcomer and immigrant inclusion, integration, and civic participation. Specifically, I identify and compare the ways in which ethno-cultural…