The focus on “active citizenship” in income assistance policy reform has increasingly attempted to cleave the “able” from the “not able” through multiple regulatory axes. One of the potential implications is an increasingly fragmented milieu [...]
bell hooks (2000) writes, “to experience solidarity, we must have a community of interests, shared beliefs and goals around which to unite…solidarity requires sustained, ongoing commitment” (63).This session asks: What ethical and political commitments are [...]
Automobility – or the complex and expanding system associated with, and foundational to, motor vehicle transportation – is fundamental to heterogeneous contemporary social and spatial practices. In recent years, critical scholars have increasingly problematized the [...]
Using a gender lens, this session will examine what citizenship means to immigrants in Canada and to trans-border migrants, including those migrants whose status is either precarious or non-existent. In Canada, nearly all forms of [...]
Recently, federal government policies regarding international migration changed in three fundamental areas: a) in provincial allocations of settlement funding with shifts away from Ontario towards Prairie provinces and British Columbia; b) in the immigration policy [...]