Citizenship: “Harder to get and easier to lose” Deck
2015/10/26 2 Comments
For those interested, my deck presented at a workshop at the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association, October 24th (updated and expanded from my May presentation to the Canadian Bar Association immigration lawyers conference).
Citizenship – Canadian Ethnic Studies 24 Oct 2015
Other speakers included John Carlaw on how the Conservatives pragmatically adjusted their ideology and language to be more in favour of immigration, citizenship and multiculturalism, which he calls ‘Kenneyism’ (while making overall policies more restrictive – see his paper A party for new Canadians? The rhetoric and reality of neoconservative citizenship and immigration policy) and Christina Gabriel, who examined the rhetoric and language around spousal immigration.
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Very interesting, Andrew. I wish I could have heard the talk because I have many questions. One that has been at the back of my mind for months now is what exactly does “meaningful” mean in the context of citizenship? 🙂
I use meaningfulness as the counterpoint to facilitation. In my context, it means having a reasonable understanding of the country, gained by having lived-in experience (physical presence). But not in an exclusive sense given the complex and varied identities we have.
Like all concepts, there is a certain plasticity in the term and different interpretations of what meaningfulness means. The previous Conservative government had one interpretation, the incoming Liberal government will have quite a different one, in terms of the values it will emphasize and the language it will use to communicate them.
Best, Andrew