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Toward Principled Governance for Canada’s Immigration Policy

By Gilles Paquet
Categories: Political Science, Social Sciences, Immigration, Emigration & Transnationalism
Publisher: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
Ebook (PDF) : 9780776638478, 189 pages, August 2022
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780776638485, 189 pages, August 2022
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Table of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1 – Dumbfounding Aspects of Canadian Immigration Policy
Introduction
Some stylized facts
The baffling ‘Canadian consensus’ reversal after the mid-1990s
A frontal attack on this wicked problem may be counterproductive
Scheming virtuously on three fronts: a brief sketch
Conclusion
Chapter 2 – Immigration and the Solidarity-Diversity-Security Nexus
Introduction
The SDS nexus
Citizenship and the SDS nexus
Conclusion
Chapter 3 – Toward Fair Play and Hospitality as a New Frame of Reference
Introduction
Moral revolution → social transformation
Frame of reference I
Common public culture under threat
Frame of reference II in the making
Conclusion
Chapter 4 – Toward Principled Governance of the Immigration Regime
Introduction
Basic philosophy
A circumspect appraisal of the state of play by officialdom
Toward a new Canadian immigration regime
The moral contracts with newcomers
Terms of integration and default settings
Conclusion
Conclusion
References

Description

Toward principled governance for Canada’s immigration regime Canada has engaged in an immigration policy experiment of momentous importance over the last 25 years: it has almost doubled the flow of new immigrants. This has not only strained Canada s absorptive capacity and the common public culture, and increased the costs of immigration for Canadians, but it has also led the more recent cohorts of immigrants to experience much greater difficulty integrating into their new homeland, causing them to fall more and more below the level of income of the Canadian-born.
Canadians have been disinformed by officials, the intelligentsia, and the media about the real impact of mass immigration on the economy and about its potential capacity to counter the effect of the aging of Canadian population. Canadians have been hoodwinked into accepting that maximum diversity is optimum diversity.