The goals of Canada's immigration policy: a historical perspective.
Abstract An examination of the historical development of key institutional features of Canada's immigration policy can provide a basis for interpreting recent policy changes. The history of Canada's immigration policy has been defined by an ongoing battle between proponents of using immigration for long term (economic growth...

Playing for the future: the role of sport and recreation in supporting refugee young people to 'settle well' in Australia.
The Centre for Multicultural Youth Issues (CMYI) held a series of consultations and forums in 2007 to explore the role of sport and recreation in supporting refugee and migrant young people to 'settle well' in Australia. This article presents some of the findings documented in Playing for the future...

Children of refugee families as artists: bridging the past, present and future.
Introduction MORE THAN HALF OF the world's estimated 19 million refugees are children (UNHCR, 2007). Australia's humanitarian immigration program allows for 13,000 new places each year, of which around one in three are for children (Department of Immigration and Citizenship, 2006). As the rate of immigration grows,...

Culture wars: liberalism, hospitality and sovereignty.
This paper offers an exploration of the interrelation of (neo)liberalism, hospitality and state sovereignty. This is done in the context of the 'cultural wars' which, I argue, is the site in and through which the Howard Liberal Coalition government promotes a teleological grand narrative underpinned by whiteness. In this...

The status of Palestinians in Israel: 1948-Oslo.
INTRODUCTION SINCE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE of Israel in 1948 the Palestinian Arab inhabitants have occupied a position increasing in influence and strength. Yet their economic, social, political and legal status has been largely neglected by scholars in the field. The focus of this study is...

Alienhood; citizenship, exile, and the logic of difference.
0816645779 Alienhood; citizenship, exile, and the logic of difference. Marciniak, Katarzyna. U. of Minnesota Press 2006 197 pages $22.50 Paperback PN1995 Marciniak (English, Ohio U.) explores aliens and the construct of...

Constructing a virtual wall: race and citizenship in U.S.-Mexico border policing.
The U.S.-Mexico border wall is not just physical--it is also virtual. Virtual in this instance has two meanings, one narrower and one broader. More narrowly, the virtual wall involves applying advanced surveillance and computer technologies to border law enforcement. Ground-level radar can be used to detect movement; information processed...

Who should get in? The ethics of immigration admissions.
How should the immigration policies of liberal democratic states be constrained, even when one assumes a broad sovereign right to control immigration? One might want to challenge the claim that states are generally entitled to control immigration, and I have done this elsewhere. (1) Nevertheless, since this entitlement is...

Patrolling the borders of sexual orientation: bisexual refugee claims in Canada.
Canada's current definition of a refugee includes those facing persecution on account of sexual orientation. This article demonstrates that the success rates for sexual-minority refugee claims are similar to the success rates for traditional refugee claims. However, one subset of sexual-minority refugee claimants, those alleging a fear of persecution...

Canadian immigration and immigrant adaptation at the millennium. (Introduction).
********** Immigration has built, shaped and re-shaped the Canadian nation. The acceptance of some applicants but not others, the dispersal, placement and settlement of newcomers, their mesh with the perceived needs of the new environment, and the extent to which the Canadian promise is fulfilled for immigrants...