Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism: Immigration Bureaucrats and Policymaking in Postwar Canada Elrick Jennifer
Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism: Immigration Bureaucrats and Policymaking in Postwar Canada Elrick Jennifer In the 1950s and 1960s, immigration bureaucrats in the Department of Citizenship and…
Specifikacia Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism: Immigration Bureaucrats and Policymaking in Postwar Canada Elrick Jennifer
Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism: Immigration Bureaucrats and Policymaking in Postwar Canada Elrick Jennifer
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. A qualitative content analysis of archival documents, conducted through the theoretical lens of a cultural sociology of immigration policy, reveals 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.