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POL2391H1S L0101
Undergraduate Course Code: POL410H1S L0101
Topics in Comparative Politics III
The Politics of Immigration in Europe and North America
Themes
International migration prompts policy questions of the highest order: Who shall be admitted? According to what criteria? And toward which ends and to whose advantage? And, once admitted, what if any access should migrants have to citizenship? This course aims to provide students with the theoretical and empirical knowledge needed to grapple with these questions intelligently. We will critically review literature from multiple disciplines with an eye to better understanding both why immigration has become such a dominant issue in contemporary politics and governance in Europe and North America. After surveying theories of immigration policy-making, we consider responses to different modes of international migration, including refugee flows, temporary foreign workers, and highly skilled immigrants. The final part of the course considers debates sparked by the pluralization of industrialized societies after WWII, including: the regulation of citizenship and naturalization, the accommodation of religious minorities, and the fierce battle over multiculturalism and competing modes of immigrant integration.
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April 22, 2021
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August 6, 2020
Q&A with 2020 Vanier Scholar Yojana Miraya Oscco Congratulations to PhD student Yojana Miraya Oscco who has won a prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC). Launched in 2008, the program enables...
April 30, 2020
Congratulations to our graduate student Kevin Edmonds who has won New College's June Larkin Award for Pedagogical Development. A PhD candidate specializing in Caribbean political economy, histories of alternative/illicit development, foreign intervention and...