Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism: Immigration Bureaucrats and Policymaking in Postwar Canada

In the 1950s and 1960s, immigration bureaucrats in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration played an important...
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Author: Jennifer Elrick
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Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism: Immigration Bureaucrats and Policymaking in Postwar Canada by Elrick, Jennifer

Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism: Immigration Bureaucrats and Policymaking in Postwar Canada

€63,70

Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism: Immigration Bureaucrats and Policymaking in Postwar Canada

€63,70
Author: Jennifer Elrick
Format: Paperback
Language: English

In the 1950s and 1960s, immigration bureaucrats in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration played an important yet unacknowledged role in transforming Canada's immigration policy. In response to external economic and political pressures for change, high-level bureaucrats developed new admissions criteria gradually and experimentally while personally processing thousands of individual immigration cases per year.

Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism shows how bureaucrats' perceptions and judgements about the admissibility of individuals - in socioeconomic, racial, and moral terms - influenced the creation of formal admissions criteria for skilled workers and family immigrants that continue to shape immigration to Canada. A qualitative content analysis of archival documents, conducted through the theoretical lens of a cultural sociology of immigration policy, reveals that bureaucrats' interpretations of immigration files generated selection criteria emphasizing not just economic utility, but also middle-class traits and values such as wealth accumulation, educational attainment, entrepreneurial spirit, resourcefulness and a strong work ethic. By making middle-class multiculturalism a demographic reality and basis of nation-building in Canada, these state actors created a much-admired approach to managing racial diversity that has nevertheless generated significant social inequalities.



Author: Jennifer Elrick
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 01/10/2022
Pages: 242
Binding Type: Paperback
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781487527785


Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2022

About the Author
Elrick, Jennifer: - Jennifer Elrick is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at McGill University.


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