Terhas Ghebretecle and Talha Sadiq Against a backdrop of growing anti-immigrant sentiment around the world, Canada is often portrayed as a model for the successful integration of immigrants. But rising inequality and austerity have changed the context for immigrant settlement in Canada. On February 16, Professor Daniyal Zuberi, RBC Chair and Associate Professor at the…
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Minority Report
Nalisha Asgarali Minority groups globally are considering their changing place in mainstream society as headlines and social media feeds are overwhelmed with highly contested viewpoints about them. The Muslim Question in Canada: A Story of Segmented Integration, Professor Abdie Kazemipur’s latest book on Muslim immigration and integration in Canada, seeks to shed light on the minority question….
The Rise of Islamophobia: What the Federal Government can actually do to support Muslim refugees
Terhas Ghebretecle and Talha Sadiq A tweet by Prime Minister Trudeau went viral after he welcomed refugees to Canada in response to President Trump’s executive order restricting immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries. The following day, a Quebec City mosque was the target of a shooting that left six men dead and 19 wounded. The perception that Canada…
Does Your Opinion Really Matter?
Anna-Kay Russell “Public policy is public good” echoed across a room of first year students at one of the School of Public Policy & Governance’s (SPPG) many plenaries. If public policy is public good, then public good must include the public’s interest. But after examining Prime Minister Paul Martin’s swift approval for gay marriage rights…
Shaking up Complacency: The Immigration Debate
Milica Uzelac In the past year, one report named Canada the best country in the world according to millennials, while another named it the second best country in the world overall. While these rankings are impressive, Joseph Carens, a political science professor at the University of Toronto, presented a captivating lecture on January 11, 2017,…
New Government, New Review: The Temporary Foreign Worker Program
Alyssa Wali The temporary foreign worker program (TFWP) has been a fixture in Canadian immigration policy since 1973. The program was created to fill vacant employment positions throughout Canada, although it initially was limited to allowing only foreign agricultural workers and live-in caregivers entry to Canada. However, the program has been expanded to allow low-skilled…
