Containing Diversity

Yasmeen Abu-Laban is the Canada Research Chair in the Politics of Citizenship and Human Rights and a professor of political science at the University of Alberta. Ethel Tungohan is the Canada Research Chair in Canadian Migration Policy, Impacts, and Activism and an associate professor of politics at York UniversityChristina Gabriel is a professor of political science at Carleton University.

• IntroductionPart I1. Mapping Containing Diversity2. Contextualizing Containing Diversity: Historic and Contemporary PoliciesPart II  3. Controlling "Global Citizens": Refugees, International Obligations, and Security4. Seeking Citizens: "Skilled" Immigrants as Ideal Neoliberal Citizens5. Making Non-citizens: Temporary Workers and the Production of Precarity6. Family Migrants as "Undesirable"? Sponsoring New Citizens amid New Restrictions on Family Immigration PolicyPart III7. Redefining Membership and Belonging: Contestations over Citizenship and Multiculturalism8. Toward a Politics of Social and Global JusticeConclusion and Future DirectionsSelect Podcast and Documentary Suggestions about Canada

"In addition to both its new arguments and impressive synthesis of existing literature that will appeal to both new and senior scholars, it is easy to envision how this volume will be an excellent teaching resource for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses. Containing Diversity would work well as a core text addressing the politics or sociology of migration in Canada whose chapters each address a core theme, or as an assigned book for students to review and contend with its framework." - John Carlaw, Toronto Metropolitan University (Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies) "One of the most exciting contributions to the immigration literature in the last few years, Containing Diversity is a valuable resource not only for migration scholars, but also for policy analysts, as well as immigrants themselves who wish to learn about Canadian immigration policies." - Deniz Cevik (École nationale d’administration publique, International Journal) "Containing Diversity makes what is often invisible, visible, shedding new and substantial light on the struggles of im/migrant groups who are at once essential to national economies, yet multiply marginalized on intersecting grounds of oppression." - Alexandra Dobrowolsky, Saint Mary’s University (Canadian Ethnic Studies) "With Containing Diversity, Abu-Laban, Tungohan, and Gabriel not only offer a convincing and disconcerting appraisal of the politics that shape 21st century immigration policy in Canada, but also a carefully articulated ethical path forward – one that supports a politics of social and global justice" - J. Adam Perry, St. Francis Xavier University (Canadian Ethnic Studies)