Patricia Landolt
Biographic Data
| ID | 106475 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Landolt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Landolt |
| SIGNATURE | LANDOLT P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1617 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Assembling the legal status precarity of teen girls: Family Practices, Kinning and Dekinning as the Fragile Work of Legal Status
The contact point between the family and the state is a key site in the production of youth legal precarity. The family has become an essential component of youth migration projects in light of the violence and precarities that cut through global migration politics and policy. As family and kin navigate a securitized global migration system that criminalizes movement, they are engaging, contending, interpreting and navigating state power. Concept…
From illegalised migrant toward permanent resident: Assembling precarious legal status trajectories and differential inclusion in Canada
Precarious legal status trajectories (PLSTs) are marked by periods without state authorisation and/or forms of temporary authorisation. They are temporally prolonged and directionally unpredictable, and may be spatially, juridically and substantively discontinuous. Their complexity poses challenges for researchers interested in the relationship between changes in legal status and differential inclusion. We examine the trajectories of illegalised …
Assembling the Local Politics of Noncitizenship: Contesting Access to Healthcare in Toronto-Sanctuary City
The article presents a case study of precarious noncitizen healthcare politics based on participant observation and interviews conducted between 2009 and 2012, as well as on documentary evidence collected during this period and up to 2016. It examines how state regulations, social networks, cultural narratives, and discretion come together to assemble the terms of access to healthcare for migrant noncitizens. Analysis shows how local contestation…
Contesting Settler Colonial Accounts: Temporality, Migration and Place-Making in Scarborough, Ontario
The paper considers how the logic of settler colonialism, the active and ongoing dispossession of Indigenous peoples, shapes scholarship on migration, race and citizenship in Canada. It draws on the insights of settler colonial theory and critiques of methodological nationalism to do so. The concept of differential inclusion and assemblages methodology are proposed as a way to understand the relationship between Indigeneity and migration in a set…
Mechanisms of migrant exclusion: Temporary labour, precarious noncitizenship, and technologies of detention
‘Mechanisms of Migrant Exclusion’ focuses on the exclusionary measures that migrant workers confront. Although migration studies have long attended to various social and structural systems of exclusion, for instance, xenophobia and nativism (De Genova, 2005, https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822387091 ; Golash‐Boza, 2011, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203123928 , and 2015, https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479894666.001.0001 ), recent global shifts in imm…
Decentering methodological nationalism to survey precarious legal status trajectories
We examine how the politics of knowledge production limit research on the relationship between immigration status and social inequality. We centre the practices of methodological nationalism in Canada, a traditional country of permanent immigration in which temporary migration has become a core feature of the immigration system. In this case, state classification and counting of populations, and the careful curation of data on nominally permanent…
Commentary on the study of transnationalism: Pitfalls and promise of an emergent research field
Janine Dahinden has written a thoughtful and provocative commentary on our 1999 article on immigrant transnationalism. We agree with many of her points and even with some of the critiques levelled
Francis Peddie, Young, well-educated and adaptable: Chilean exiles in Ontario and Quebec, 1973-2010
Young, Well-Educated and Adaptable is a social history of Chilean exile in Canada that seeks to capture an unrecorded yet vital part of how exile is experienced. The main question the study seeks t
Assembling noncitizenship through the work of conditionality
We develop a framework for understanding noncitizenship that combines attention to systemic processes with interest in contingency and indeterminacy in the production and substantive practices associated with noncitizen legal status categories and trajectories. We argue that noncitizenship is a dynamic, multi-scalar assemblage that brings together disparate elements in patterned and changing ways. Individuals and institutions generate the formal …
The Conditionality of Legal Status and Rights: Conceptualizing Precarious Non-citizenship in Canada
Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizenship: Precarious Legal Status in Canada
This timely volume contributes to conceptualizing multiple forms of precarious status non-citizenship as connected through policy and the practices of migrants and the institutional actors they encounter
Caught in the Work–Citizenship Matrix: The Lasting Effects of Precarious Legal Status on Work for Toronto Immigrants
This article explores the relationship between precarious employment and precarious migrant legal status. Original research on immigrant workers' employment experiences in Toronto examines the effects of several measures including human capital, network, labor market variables, and a change in legal status variable on job precarity as measured by an eight-indicator Index of Precarious Work (IPW). Precarious legal status has a long-lasting, negati…
Agenda Setting and Immigrant Politics: The Case of Latin Americans in Toronto
The authors identify and analyze patterns of community organizing among Latin Americans in Toronto for the period from the 1970s to the 2000s as part of a broader analysis of Latin American immigrant politics. They draw on the concept of social fields to map Latin American community politics and to capture a wide range of relevant organizations, events, and strategic moments that feed into the constitution of more visible and formal organizations…
Political cultures and transnational social fields: Chileans, Colombians and Canadian activists in Toronto
We offer an institutional analysis of Chilean and Colombian transnational politics in Toronto to account for cross-group variation in transnational political practices and the formation of different types of transnational social fields of political action. The article is based on interviews conducted with Chilean and Colombian community activists and Canadian refugee rights and social justice activists. We use the concept of political culture to …
Immigrant political socialization as bridging and boundary work: Mapping the multi-layered incorporation of Latin American immigrants in Toronto
We present a longitudinal map of three overlapping organizational trajectories developed by Latin American immigrants in the city of Toronto. We propose the concept of bridging and boundary work to specify how new (1) intersectional political identities and organizational agendas are constituted by Latin American feminist women and artists in \nthe interstice of (2) country-of-origin and (3) mainstream pan-ethnic organizations. Boundary work occu…
Transnationalizing Families: Canadian Immigration Policy and the Spatial Fragmentation of Care‐giving among Latin American Newcomers 1
Complex factors associated with migration and immigration policies contribute to the dispersion of families across space. We draw on interviews with 40 Latin American women in Toronto who experienced separation from children as a result of migration and argue that Canadian immigration policy and elements of the women’s context of departure lead to the systemic production of transnational family arrangements. Once in Canada, the women dealt with u…
The Transnational Geographies of Immigrant Politics: Insights from a Comparative Study of Migrant Grassroots Organizing
Greater global interconnectedness produces a transformation in the ways in which groups constitute and interpret the boundaries of community formation and political practice. This article considers the ways in which a group engages (or not) with the possibilities for transnational identity formation and border-crossing politics granted by the changing structures of the global order. A comparative analysis identifies similarities and differences i…
The Spatially Ruptured Practices of Migrant Families: A Comparison of Immigrants from El Salvador and the People's Republic of China
This study draws insights from scholarship on immigrant families and transnational migration to examine the multi-local transnational family practices of Salvadoran refugee-migrants in the US and middle-class emigrants from the People's Republic of China (PRC) to Australia. We compare the contexts of exit and reception and state-migrant relations that characterize the two migration flows; explore the elite and popular narratives in which family m…
The transnational dimensions of identity formation: Adult children of immigrants in Miami
This article draws on the insights of research on transnational migration to reconsider the process of identity formation among children of immigrants and the patterns of acculturation associated with different trajectories of segmented assimilation. Extending the research on segmented assimilation and identity formation among children of immigrants in early adulthood, the article uses the third wave of the Miami CILS sample to examine the relati…
Globalization and the New City: Migrants, Minorities, and Urban Transformations in Comparative Perspective
List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Preface Globalisation and the New City M.Cross & R.Moore Migrants and the Urban Labour Market in Europe and North America M.Cross & R.Waldinger Cutting the Ghetto: Political Censorship and Conceptual Retrenchment in the American Debate on Urban Destitution L.Wacquant Terms of Entry: Social Institutions and Immigrant Earnings in America, Canadian and Australian Cities J.G.Reitz Immigrants' S…
Salvadoran economic transnationalism: Embedded Strategies for Household Maintenance, Immigrant Incorporation, and Entrepreneurial Expansion
This article presents a case study of the transnational economic practices linking two Salvadoran settlements in the United States and El Salvador. It considers the relationship between economic transnationalism, immigrant settlement and economic development in the country of origin. Four processes are examined including: (1) the creation of border-spanning social networks by migrants and their home country counterparts; (2) the construction of t…
Social Capital: Promise and Pitfalls of its Role in Development
The purpose of this commentary is threefold. First, to review the origins and definitions of the concept of social capital as it has developed in the recent literature. Second, to examine the limitations of this concept when interpreted as a causal force able to transform communities and nations. Third, to present several relevant examples from the recent empirical literature on Latin American urbanisation and migration. These examples point to t…
From Hermano Lejano to Hermano Mayor: The dialectics of Salvadoran transnationalism
A dialectical framework is proposed for analysing the economic and political practices associated with immigrant transnationalism. The causes and consequences of the transnational relations sustained by Salvadoran migrants in Los Angeles and Washington, DC, with El Salvador is used to test this proposition. It is argued that the conditions of Salvadorans' exit from their country of origin and of their reception in the US explains their tendency t…
The study of transnationalism: Pitfalls and Promise of an Emergent Research Field
This introductory article defines the concept of transnationalism, provides a typology of this heterogeneous set of activities, and reviews some of the pitfalls in establishing and validating the topic as a novel research field. A set of guidelines to orient research in this field is presented and justified. Instances of immigrant political and economic transnationalism have existed in the past. We review some of the most prominent examples, but …
The Urban Caribbean: Transition to the New Global Economy
The study of transnationalism: Pitfalls and Promise of an Emergent Research Field
This introductory article defines the concept of transnationalism, provides a typology of this heterogeneous set of activities, and reviews some of the pitfalls in establishing and validating the topic as a novel research field. A set of guidelines to orient research in this field is presented and justified. Instances of immigrant political and economic transnationalism have existed in the past. We review some of the most prominent examples, but …
From Hermano Lejano to Hermano Mayor: The dialectics of Salvadoran transnationalism
A dialectical framework is proposed for analysing the economic and political practices associated with immigrant transnationalism. The causes and consequences of the transnational relations sustained by Salvadoran migrants in Los Angeles and Washington, DC, with El Salvador is used to test this proposition. It is argued that the conditions of Salvadorans' exit from their country of origin and of their reception in the US explains their tendency t…
Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizenship: Precarious Legal Status in Canada
This timely volume contributes to conceptualizing multiple forms of precarious status non-citizenship as connected through policy and the practices of migrants and the institutional actors they encounter
Social Capital: Promise and Pitfalls of its Role in Development
The purpose of this commentary is threefold. First, to review the origins and definitions of the concept of social capital as it has developed in the recent literature. Second, to examine the limitations of this concept when interpreted as a causal force able to transform communities and nations. Third, to present several relevant examples from the recent empirical literature on Latin American urbanisation and migration. These examples point to t…
Caught in the Work–Citizenship Matrix: The Lasting Effects of Precarious Legal Status on Work for Toronto Immigrants
This article explores the relationship between precarious employment and precarious migrant legal status. Original research on immigrant workers' employment experiences in Toronto examines the effects of several measures including human capital, network, labor market variables, and a change in legal status variable on job precarity as measured by an eight-indicator Index of Precarious Work (IPW). Precarious legal status has a long-lasting, negati…
The transnational dimensions of identity formation: Adult children of immigrants in Miami
This article draws on the insights of research on transnational migration to reconsider the process of identity formation among children of immigrants and the patterns of acculturation associated with different trajectories of segmented assimilation. Extending the research on segmented assimilation and identity formation among children of immigrants in early adulthood, the article uses the third wave of the Miami CILS sample to examine the relati…
Salvadoran economic transnationalism: Embedded Strategies for Household Maintenance, Immigrant Incorporation, and Entrepreneurial Expansion
This article presents a case study of the transnational economic practices linking two Salvadoran settlements in the United States and El Salvador. It considers the relationship between economic transnationalism, immigrant settlement and economic development in the country of origin. Four processes are examined including: (1) the creation of border-spanning social networks by migrants and their home country counterparts; (2) the construction of t…
Transnationalizing Families: Canadian Immigration Policy and the Spatial Fragmentation of Care‐giving among Latin American Newcomers 1
Complex factors associated with migration and immigration policies contribute to the dispersion of families across space. We draw on interviews with 40 Latin American women in Toronto who experienced separation from children as a result of migration and argue that Canadian immigration policy and elements of the women’s context of departure lead to the systemic production of transnational family arrangements. Once in Canada, the women dealt with u…
The Spatially Ruptured Practices of Migrant Families: A Comparison of Immigrants from El Salvador and the People's Republic of China
This study draws insights from scholarship on immigrant families and transnational migration to examine the multi-local transnational family practices of Salvadoran refugee-migrants in the US and middle-class emigrants from the People's Republic of China (PRC) to Australia. We compare the contexts of exit and reception and state-migrant relations that characterize the two migration flows; explore the elite and popular narratives in which family m…
Assembling noncitizenship through the work of conditionality
We develop a framework for understanding noncitizenship that combines attention to systemic processes with interest in contingency and indeterminacy in the production and substantive practices associated with noncitizen legal status categories and trajectories. We argue that noncitizenship is a dynamic, multi-scalar assemblage that brings together disparate elements in patterned and changing ways. Individuals and institutions generate the formal …
From illegalised migrant toward permanent resident: Assembling precarious legal status trajectories and differential inclusion in Canada
Precarious legal status trajectories (PLSTs) are marked by periods without state authorisation and/or forms of temporary authorisation. They are temporally prolonged and directionally unpredictable, and may be spatially, juridically and substantively discontinuous. Their complexity poses challenges for researchers interested in the relationship between changes in legal status and differential inclusion. We examine the trajectories of illegalised …
Immigrant political socialization as bridging and boundary work: Mapping the multi-layered incorporation of Latin American immigrants in Toronto
We present a longitudinal map of three overlapping organizational trajectories developed by Latin American immigrants in the city of Toronto. We propose the concept of bridging and boundary work to specify how new (1) intersectional political identities and organizational agendas are constituted by Latin American feminist women and artists in \nthe interstice of (2) country-of-origin and (3) mainstream pan-ethnic organizations. Boundary work occu…
The Transnational Geographies of Immigrant Politics: Insights from a Comparative Study of Migrant Grassroots Organizing
Greater global interconnectedness produces a transformation in the ways in which groups constitute and interpret the boundaries of community formation and political practice. This article considers the ways in which a group engages (or not) with the possibilities for transnational identity formation and border-crossing politics granted by the changing structures of the global order. A comparative analysis identifies similarities and differences i…
Political cultures and transnational social fields: Chileans, Colombians and Canadian activists in Toronto
We offer an institutional analysis of Chilean and Colombian transnational politics in Toronto to account for cross-group variation in transnational political practices and the formation of different types of transnational social fields of political action. The article is based on interviews conducted with Chilean and Colombian community activists and Canadian refugee rights and social justice activists. We use the concept of political culture to …
Commentary on the study of transnationalism: Pitfalls and promise of an emergent research field
Janine Dahinden has written a thoughtful and provocative commentary on our 1999 article on immigrant transnationalism. We agree with many of her points and even with some of the critiques levelled
Mechanisms of migrant exclusion: Temporary labour, precarious noncitizenship, and technologies of detention
‘Mechanisms of Migrant Exclusion’ focuses on the exclusionary measures that migrant workers confront. Although migration studies have long attended to various social and structural systems of exclusion, for instance, xenophobia and nativism (De Genova, 2005, https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822387091 ; Golash‐Boza, 2011, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203123928 , and 2015, https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479894666.001.0001 ), recent global shifts in imm…
Assembling the Local Politics of Noncitizenship: Contesting Access to Healthcare in Toronto-Sanctuary City
The article presents a case study of precarious noncitizen healthcare politics based on participant observation and interviews conducted between 2009 and 2012, as well as on documentary evidence collected during this period and up to 2016. It examines how state regulations, social networks, cultural narratives, and discretion come together to assemble the terms of access to healthcare for migrant noncitizens. Analysis shows how local contestation…
Decentering methodological nationalism to survey precarious legal status trajectories
We examine how the politics of knowledge production limit research on the relationship between immigration status and social inequality. We centre the practices of methodological nationalism in Canada, a traditional country of permanent immigration in which temporary migration has become a core feature of the immigration system. In this case, state classification and counting of populations, and the careful curation of data on nominally permanent…
Agenda Setting and Immigrant Politics: The Case of Latin Americans in Toronto
The authors identify and analyze patterns of community organizing among Latin Americans in Toronto for the period from the 1970s to the 2000s as part of a broader analysis of Latin American immigrant politics. They draw on the concept of social fields to map Latin American community politics and to capture a wide range of relevant organizations, events, and strategic moments that feed into the constitution of more visible and formal organizations…
Contesting Settler Colonial Accounts: Temporality, Migration and Place-Making in Scarborough, Ontario
The paper considers how the logic of settler colonialism, the active and ongoing dispossession of Indigenous peoples, shapes scholarship on migration, race and citizenship in Canada. It draws on the insights of settler colonial theory and critiques of methodological nationalism to do so. The concept of differential inclusion and assemblages methodology are proposed as a way to understand the relationship between Indigeneity and migration in a set…
Globalization and the New City: Migrants, Minorities, and Urban Transformations in Comparative Perspective
List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Preface Globalisation and the New City M.Cross & R.Moore Migrants and the Urban Labour Market in Europe and North America M.Cross & R.Waldinger Cutting the Ghetto: Political Censorship and Conceptual Retrenchment in the American Debate on Urban Destitution L.Wacquant Terms of Entry: Social Institutions and Immigrant Earnings in America, Canadian and Australian Cities J.G.Reitz Immigrants' S…
The Urban Caribbean: Transition to the New Global Economy
The Urban Caribbean studies urbanization in five countries - Costa Rica, Haiti, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica - during the 1980s and 1990s, when the region's economy shifted from one heavily dependent on imports to one directed more to producing exports. This shift caused producers and entrepreneurs to rely more on microenterprises, thus challenging the informal economy networks of the central cities. Sociologist Alejandro Portes…
The Mega-City in Latin America
The Urban Caribbean: Transition to the New Global Economy
The Urban Caribbean: Transition to the New Global Economy
This collaborative work examines the features of urbanization in some small nation-states in the Caribbean Basin and also presents five specific case studies of urbanization in Costa Rica Haiti Guatemala the Dominican Republic and Jamaica. The study shows how the different histories of these five countries particularly as they affect social and political rights have affected the social and spatial distribution of the urban populations. The shared…
The Urban Caribbean: Transitions in the New Global Economy
From Hermano Lejano to Hermano Mayor: The dialectics of Salvadoran transnationalism
A dialectical framework is proposed for analysing the economic and political practices associated with immigrant transnationalism. The causes and consequences of the transnational relations sustained by Salvadoran migrants in Los Angeles and Washington, DC, with El Salvador is used to test this proposition. It is argued that the conditions of Salvadorans' exit from their country of origin and of their reception in the US explains their tendency t…
The study of transnationalism: Pitfalls and Promise of an Emergent Research Field
This introductory article defines the concept of transnationalism, provides a typology of this heterogeneous set of activities, and reviews some of the pitfalls in establishing and validating the topic as a novel research field. A set of guidelines to orient research in this field is presented and justified. Instances of immigrant political and economic transnationalism have existed in the past. We review some of the most prominent examples, but …
Social Capital: Promise and Pitfalls of its Role in Development
The purpose of this commentary is threefold. First, to review the origins and definitions of the concept of social capital as it has developed in the recent literature. Second, to examine the limitations of this concept when interpreted as a causal force able to transform communities and nations. Third, to present several relevant examples from the recent empirical literature on Latin American urbanisation and migration. These examples point to t…
Salvadoran economic transnationalism: Embedded Strategies for Household Maintenance, Immigrant Incorporation, and Entrepreneurial Expansion
This article presents a case study of the transnational economic practices linking two Salvadoran settlements in the United States and El Salvador. It considers the relationship between economic transnationalism, immigrant settlement and economic development in the country of origin. Four processes are examined including: (1) the creation of border-spanning social networks by migrants and their home country counterparts; (2) the construction of t…
Globalization and the New City: Migrants, Minorities, and Urban Transformations in Comparative Perspective
List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Preface Globalisation and the New City M.Cross & R.Moore Migrants and the Urban Labour Market in Europe and North America M.Cross & R.Waldinger Cutting the Ghetto: Political Censorship and Conceptual Retrenchment in the American Debate on Urban Destitution L.Wacquant Terms of Entry: Social Institutions and Immigrant Earnings in America, Canadian and Australian Cities J.G.Reitz Immigrants' S…
The Spatially Ruptured Practices of Migrant Families: A Comparison of Immigrants from El Salvador and the People's Republic of China
This study draws insights from scholarship on immigrant families and transnational migration to examine the multi-local transnational family practices of Salvadoran refugee-migrants in the US and middle-class emigrants from the People's Republic of China (PRC) to Australia. We compare the contexts of exit and reception and state-migrant relations that characterize the two migration flows; explore the elite and popular narratives in which family m…
The transnational dimensions of identity formation: Adult children of immigrants in Miami
This article draws on the insights of research on transnational migration to reconsider the process of identity formation among children of immigrants and the patterns of acculturation associated with different trajectories of segmented assimilation. Extending the research on segmented assimilation and identity formation among children of immigrants in early adulthood, the article uses the third wave of the Miami CILS sample to examine the relati…
Transnationalizing Families: Canadian Immigration Policy and the Spatial Fragmentation of Care‐giving among Latin American Newcomers 1
Complex factors associated with migration and immigration policies contribute to the dispersion of families across space. We draw on interviews with 40 Latin American women in Toronto who experienced separation from children as a result of migration and argue that Canadian immigration policy and elements of the women’s context of departure lead to the systemic production of transnational family arrangements. Once in Canada, the women dealt with u…
The Transnational Geographies of Immigrant Politics: Insights from a Comparative Study of Migrant Grassroots Organizing
Greater global interconnectedness produces a transformation in the ways in which groups constitute and interpret the boundaries of community formation and political practice. This article considers the ways in which a group engages (or not) with the possibilities for transnational identity formation and border-crossing politics granted by the changing structures of the global order. A comparative analysis identifies similarities and differences i…
Immigrant political socialization as bridging and boundary work: Mapping the multi-layered incorporation of Latin American immigrants in Toronto
We present a longitudinal map of three overlapping organizational trajectories developed by Latin American immigrants in the city of Toronto. We propose the concept of bridging and boundary work to specify how new (1) intersectional political identities and organizational agendas are constituted by Latin American feminist women and artists in \nthe interstice of (2) country-of-origin and (3) mainstream pan-ethnic organizations. Boundary work occu…
Political cultures and transnational social fields: Chileans, Colombians and Canadian activists in Toronto
We offer an institutional analysis of Chilean and Colombian transnational politics in Toronto to account for cross-group variation in transnational political practices and the formation of different types of transnational social fields of political action. The article is based on interviews conducted with Chilean and Colombian community activists and Canadian refugee rights and social justice activists. We use the concept of political culture to …
Caught in the Work–Citizenship Matrix: The Lasting Effects of Precarious Legal Status on Work for Toronto Immigrants
This article explores the relationship between precarious employment and precarious migrant legal status. Original research on immigrant workers' employment experiences in Toronto examines the effects of several measures including human capital, network, labor market variables, and a change in legal status variable on job precarity as measured by an eight-indicator Index of Precarious Work (IPW). Precarious legal status has a long-lasting, negati…
Agenda Setting and Immigrant Politics: The Case of Latin Americans in Toronto
The authors identify and analyze patterns of community organizing among Latin Americans in Toronto for the period from the 1970s to the 2000s as part of a broader analysis of Latin American immigrant politics. They draw on the concept of social fields to map Latin American community politics and to capture a wide range of relevant organizations, events, and strategic moments that feed into the constitution of more visible and formal organizations…
The Conditionality of Legal Status and Rights: Conceptualizing Precarious Non-citizenship in Canada
Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizenship: Precarious Legal Status in Canada
This timely volume contributes to conceptualizing multiple forms of precarious status non-citizenship as connected through policy and the practices of migrants and the institutional actors they encounter
Francis Peddie, Young, well-educated and adaptable: Chilean exiles in Ontario and Quebec, 1973-2010
Young, Well-Educated and Adaptable is a social history of Chilean exile in Canada that seeks to capture an unrecorded yet vital part of how exile is experienced. The main question the study seeks t
Assembling noncitizenship through the work of conditionality
We develop a framework for understanding noncitizenship that combines attention to systemic processes with interest in contingency and indeterminacy in the production and substantive practices associated with noncitizen legal status categories and trajectories. We argue that noncitizenship is a dynamic, multi-scalar assemblage that brings together disparate elements in patterned and changing ways. Individuals and institutions generate the formal …
Commentary on the study of transnationalism: Pitfalls and promise of an emergent research field
Janine Dahinden has written a thoughtful and provocative commentary on our 1999 article on immigrant transnationalism. We agree with many of her points and even with some of the critiques levelled
Contesting Settler Colonial Accounts: Temporality, Migration and Place-Making in Scarborough, Ontario
The paper considers how the logic of settler colonialism, the active and ongoing dispossession of Indigenous peoples, shapes scholarship on migration, race and citizenship in Canada. It draws on the insights of settler colonial theory and critiques of methodological nationalism to do so. The concept of differential inclusion and assemblages methodology are proposed as a way to understand the relationship between Indigeneity and migration in a set…
Mechanisms of migrant exclusion: Temporary labour, precarious noncitizenship, and technologies of detention
‘Mechanisms of Migrant Exclusion’ focuses on the exclusionary measures that migrant workers confront. Although migration studies have long attended to various social and structural systems of exclusion, for instance, xenophobia and nativism (De Genova, 2005, https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822387091 ; Golash‐Boza, 2011, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203123928 , and 2015, https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479894666.001.0001 ), recent global shifts in imm…
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