Immigration Bureaucracy & Postwar Policymaking
Migration Conversations
English - October 07, 2022 19:00 - 56 minutes - 52 MBDocumentary Society & Culture Government borders citizenship immigration law migration refugees statelessness Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Meet Jennifer Elrick, professor in the Department of Sociology at McGill University. Author of Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism: Immigration Bureaucrats and Policymaking in Postwar Canada, we talk about how bureaucrats in the federal government drove policy making in the area of immigration through their review of who is admissible to Canada in individual decision-making. A fascinating look at how Canada's immigration system was built in the administrative arm and how perceptions of race, skillsets and family are reflected in policy.