Forced Migration in/to Canada
From Colonization to Refugee Resettlement
Offering students, practitioners, researchers, and journalists an insightful overview of historical and contemporary human displacement, both within and to Canada.
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Forced migration shaped the creation of Canada as a settler state and is a defining feature of our contemporary national and global contexts. Many people in Canada have direct or indirect experiences of refugee resettlement and protection, trafficking, and environmental displacement.
Offering a comprehensive resource in the growing field of migration studies, Forced Migration in/to Canada is a critical primer from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Researchers, practitioners, and knowledge keepers draw on documentary evidence and analysis to foreground lived experiences of displacement and migration policies at the municipal, provincial, territorial, and federal levels. From the earliest instances of Indigenous displacement and settler colonialism, through Black enslavement, to statelessness, trafficking, and climate migration in today’s world, contributors show how migration, as a human phenomenon, is differentially shaped by intersecting identities and structures. Particularly novel are the specific insights into disability, race, class, social age, and gender identity.
Situating Canada within broader international trends, norms, and structures – both today and historically – Forced Migration in/to Canada provides the tools we need to evaluate information we encounter in the news and from government officials, colleagues, and non-governmental organizations. It also proposes new areas for enquiry, discussion, research, advocacy, and action.
This book is also available in French.
“This superb volume, notable for its highly intersectional scholarship and accessible prose, sets a new standard in the field of forced migration.” Laura Madokoro, author of Sanctuary in Pieces
“Forced Migration in/to Canada addresses a wide readership in multiple fields, as well as practitioners working in immigration and settlement and journalists looking for briefings on particularly salient, newsworthy issues.” Morgan Poteet, co-editor of After the Flight: The Dynamics of Refugee Settlement and Integration