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"Containing Diversity presents a novel approach to understanding the politics of immigration in Canada in the twenty-first century. Although Canada is known internationally as a leader among industrialised countries for inclusive practices towards immigrants and refugees, the twenty-first century has witnessed a rise in the number of refugees and temporary migrant workers who are often denied citizenship and may also experience detention and deportation. Containing Diversity examines to what extent Canada's long-standing support for immigration, multiculturalism, and citizenship has shifted in favour of discourses, policies, and practices that ""contain"" diversity. This book reflects on how diversity is being 'contained' through practices designed to insulate the Canadian settler-colonial state. In assessing the Canadian government's policies towards refugees and asylum seekers, economic migrants, family-class migrants, temporary foreign workers, and multiculturalism, the authors show the various contradictory practices in effect. Containing Diversity reflects on policy changes, analysed alongside the resurgence of right-wing political ideology and the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ultimately, Containing Diversity highlights the need for a re-imagining of new forms of solidarity that centre migrant and Indigenous justice."

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Containing Diversity critically examines recent shifts in Canadian migration, citizenship, and multiculturalism policies and practices. By exposing profound policy contradictions and rising precarity, the book complicates conventional understanding of Canada as an inclusive and immigrant-welcoming state and society. In centeering questions of social justice, this book makes an invaluable contribution to both scholarly and policy discussions on Canadian immigration and multiculturalism policy. - Antje Ellermann, Professor of Political Science and Founding Director of the Centre for Migration Studies, University of British Columbia This is a much needed and timely volume discussing the shadows and lights of Canada's engagement with migration and diversity and the tensions that characterizse Canada's multicultural citizenship in the 21st twenty-first century. The book offers a rich set of empirical analyses and a significant review of relevant theoretical approaches in discussing how Canada's immigration and refugee policies have evolved in the past 20 twenty years, showing that while the overall trend is pro-immigration, both discourses and policies have sought to contain rather than embrace diversity. - Anna Triandafyllidou, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University

Containing Diversity critically examines recent shifts in Canadian migration, citizenship, and multiculturalism policies and practices. By exposing profound policy contradictions and rising precarity, the book complicates conventional understanding of Canada as an inclusive and immigrant-welcoming state and society. In centeering questions of social justice, this book makes an invaluable contribution to both scholarly and policy discussions on Canadian immigration and multiculturalism policy. - Antje Ellermann, Professor of Political Science and Founding Director of the Centre for Migration Studies, University of British Columbia This is a much needed and timely volume discussing the shadows and lights of Canada's engagement with migration and diversity and the tensions that characterizse Canada's multicultural citizenship in the 21st twenty-first century. The book offers a rich set of empirical analyses and a significant review of relevant theoretical approaches in discussing how Canada's immigration and refugee policies have evolved in the past 20 twenty years, showing that while the overall trend is pro-immigration, both discourses and policies have sought to contain rather than embrace diversity. - Anna Triandafyllidou, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University

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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 University Christina Gabriel is a professor of political science at Carleton University.

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