Yolande Pottie-Sherman
Biographic Data
| ID | 215916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yolande Pottie-Sherman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yolande |
| FAMILY NAME | Pottie-Sherman |
| SIGNATURE | POTTIE-SHERMAN Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3874-3921 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 173 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Revisiting small and mid‐sized cities in Canada: Old questions, new challenges
MATTER MORE THAN EVERSmall and mid-sized cities (SMCs) are increasingly where people in Canada "live, work, and play" (Statistics Canada, 2022, 2023).In 2021, for example, eight of the top ten fastest growing Canadian census metropolitan areas were mid-sized cities-including Kelowna, Halifax, Guelph, and Moncton (Statistics Canada, 2021).There is a growing recognition that SMCs serve as repositories of innovation in urban theory and policy, offer…
Navigating the housing crisis: A comparison of international students and other newcomers in a mid‐sized Canadian city
This article investigates the housing experiences of international students in comparison to other newcomers in the mid‐sized Canadian city of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, with a focus on how they navigate housing crises. Drawing on recent literature on housing justice, a quantitative survey of 188 participants, and 30 qualitative interviews, the findings reveal that international students and other newcomers are at different stages of …
Revoir les petites et moyennes villes du Canada: Questions d'hier, défis d'aujourd'hui
Higher education, international student mobility, and regional innovation in non‐core regions: International student start‐ups on “the rock”
This paper makes a case for post‐graduate international students as an increasingly important category of immigrant entrepreneur in Canada. We draw our findings from an analysis of new provincial immigrant entrepreneur programs and interviews with international student entrepreneurs in a mid‐sized city in Atlantic Canada. We argue that three forces have become increasingly relevant in shaping immigrant entrepreneurs' opportunity structures: (1) t…
The experiences of immigrant entrepreneurs in a medium‐sized Canadian city: The case of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
There is growing interest in the dynamics of immigrant entrepreneurship in non‐traditional immigrant gateway cities in Canada. Encouraging immigrant businesses is a particularly pressing imperative for Atlantic Canada's small and medium‐sized cities, which struggle with aging labour markets, youth out‐migration, and difficulty attracting and retaining newcomers. Recent research on immigrant entrepreneurship highlights the geography of entrepreneu…
Live, Work, and Stay? Geographies of Immigrant Receptivity in Atlantic Canada's Aspiring Gateways
Global research on new immigrant destinations prioritizes the study of places experiencing rapid demographic change. Immigration is increasingly promoted, however, as a policy tool to encourage stability in peripheral regions, cities, and communities. This paper introduces the concept of the aspiring gateway to describe locations that attract few immigrants but proactively aspire to become welcoming communities. We make this case through an exami…
The Contentious Politics of Resettlement Programs: Evidence from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Labelling resettlement programs as voluntary suggests that they cause little contention and are devoid of coercion. But is this representation accurate? Drawing on unpublished government documents and media reports, we provide a detailed case study of the Community Relocation Policy (CRP) of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) from 2009 to the present. We show that CRP has been fraught with contention due to the nature of the voting process and the sl…
Rust and reinvention: Im/migration and urban change in the American Rust Belt
Immigration represents a promising counternarrative for Rust Belt cities in the 21st century. Increasingly, both immigrants and refugees are part of the comeback stories of Northeastern and Midwestern cities from Buffalo to Dayton and Pittsburgh. This review explores recent research in urban geography and allied disciplines focusing on the international migration patterns, processes, and politics reshaping the urban geography of the American Rust…
Gaming on the edge: Mobile labour and global talent in Atlantic Canada's video game industry
Diminishing returns and advances in telecommunications have prompted large video game firms to seek new locations, outsource production, and develop niche studios, including on Canada's East Coast. In this paper, we examine emerging occupational cultures and trace the origins and evolution of video game production in Canada's Atlantic provinces—a critical yet peripheral space economy in the gaming sector. Our findings are drawn from 30 interviews…
Retaining international students in northeast Ohio: Opportunities and challenges in the ‘age of Trump’
Austerity urbanism and the promise of immigrant- and refugee-centered urban revitalization in the US Rust Belt
Recent urban studies research emphasizes the unevenness of local responses to immigration in the United States and the emergence of economic development-focused inclusionary initiatives as a response to neoliberal downscaling in the Rust Belt. Scholars also highlight the impact of austerity urbanism – the deepening of neoliberal urbanism – in Rust Belt cities following the 2007–2008 financial crisis, noting its potential to produce progressive ac…
Does Size Really Matter? On the Relationship between Immigrant Group Size and Anti-Immigrant Prejudice
Group threat theory understands prejudice as a manifestation of the threat, either actual or assumed, that minority groups pose to majority groups. This theory is often operationalized by analyzing the impact of group size on anti-immigrant prejudice. We test this hypothesis with a new dataset documenting 487 effects of group size on prejudice provided in 55 studies. More than half of these results show no relationship and the remainder shows bot…
The Komagata Through a Media Lens: Racial, Economic, and Political Threat in Newspaper Coverage of the 1914 Komagata Maru Affair
As part of its 'white Canada' policy, Canadian officials denied entry to 376 Indian immigrants who arrived aboard the Komagata Maru in 1914. Although the Komagata Maru affair was among the first Canadian immigration controversies to generate international media coverage, little is known about the nature of this coverage. In this paper, we examine the extent to which media coverage of the event reflected a range of racial (Orientalism; Canada's wh…
Visual media and the construction of the benign Canadian border on National Geographic'sBorder Security
Visual media have long been instrumental in the production of international borders as sites of spectacle. Such projects involve careful delineations of who may enter and under what conditions. In Canada, this representation often centres on a dialectical relationship between a welcoming and generous, multicultural nation and a threatening foreign immigrant Other. We adopt a visual content analysis approach to examine Border Security: Canada's Fr…
Authenticity with a bang: Exploring suburban culture and migration through the new phenomenon of the Richmond Night Market
This paper considers the suburban night through the recent cultural phenomenon of the Summer Night Market in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. Night markets have existed in China since the 8th century, and have followed Chinese migration, first to Southeast Asia, and more recently, to Canada. Richmond, because of significant Asian settlement in the 1990s, is known as the ‘new Chinatown’ ethnoburb of Metro Vancouver. Its night market is a weeken…
Good code bad code: Exploring the immigration-nation dialectic through media coverage of the Herouxville 'Code of Life' document
The media is widely held as a force that both shapes and reflects how citizens think about immigrants and immigration. This article explores two recent developments in the literature on media coverage of immigrants and immigration: the application of Hegelian dialectical theory to the study of discourses about immigration; and a debate concerning the shift from outright racism to subtler forms of ‘new racism’ and its implications for media covera…
Talent for Citizenship and the American Dream: The USA as Outlier in the Global Race for Talent
Does Size Really Matter? On the Relationship between Immigrant Group Size and Anti-Immigrant Prejudice
Group threat theory understands prejudice as a manifestation of the threat, either actual or assumed, that minority groups pose to majority groups. This theory is often operationalized by analyzing the impact of group size on anti-immigrant prejudice. We test this hypothesis with a new dataset documenting 487 effects of group size on prejudice provided in 55 studies. More than half of these results show no relationship and the remainder shows bot…
Austerity urbanism and the promise of immigrant- and refugee-centered urban revitalization in the US Rust Belt
Recent urban studies research emphasizes the unevenness of local responses to immigration in the United States and the emergence of economic development-focused inclusionary initiatives as a response to neoliberal downscaling in the Rust Belt. Scholars also highlight the impact of austerity urbanism – the deepening of neoliberal urbanism – in Rust Belt cities following the 2007–2008 financial crisis, noting its potential to produce progressive ac…
Authenticity with a bang: Exploring suburban culture and migration through the new phenomenon of the Richmond Night Market
This paper considers the suburban night through the recent cultural phenomenon of the Summer Night Market in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. Night markets have existed in China since the 8th century, and have followed Chinese migration, first to Southeast Asia, and more recently, to Canada. Richmond, because of significant Asian settlement in the 1990s, is known as the ‘new Chinatown’ ethnoburb of Metro Vancouver. Its night market is a weeken…
Live, Work, and Stay? Geographies of Immigrant Receptivity in Atlantic Canada's Aspiring Gateways
Global research on new immigrant destinations prioritizes the study of places experiencing rapid demographic change. Immigration is increasingly promoted, however, as a policy tool to encourage stability in peripheral regions, cities, and communities. This paper introduces the concept of the aspiring gateway to describe locations that attract few immigrants but proactively aspire to become welcoming communities. We make this case through an exami…
Visual media and the construction of the benign Canadian border on National Geographic'sBorder Security
Visual media have long been instrumental in the production of international borders as sites of spectacle. Such projects involve careful delineations of who may enter and under what conditions. In Canada, this representation often centres on a dialectical relationship between a welcoming and generous, multicultural nation and a threatening foreign immigrant Other. We adopt a visual content analysis approach to examine Border Security: Canada's Fr…
Gaming on the edge: Mobile labour and global talent in Atlantic Canada's video game industry
Diminishing returns and advances in telecommunications have prompted large video game firms to seek new locations, outsource production, and develop niche studios, including on Canada's East Coast. In this paper, we examine emerging occupational cultures and trace the origins and evolution of video game production in Canada's Atlantic provinces—a critical yet peripheral space economy in the gaming sector. Our findings are drawn from 30 interviews…
Rust and reinvention: Im/migration and urban change in the American Rust Belt
Immigration represents a promising counternarrative for Rust Belt cities in the 21st century. Increasingly, both immigrants and refugees are part of the comeback stories of Northeastern and Midwestern cities from Buffalo to Dayton and Pittsburgh. This review explores recent research in urban geography and allied disciplines focusing on the international migration patterns, processes, and politics reshaping the urban geography of the American Rust…
Good code bad code: Exploring the immigration-nation dialectic through media coverage of the Herouxville 'Code of Life' document
The media is widely held as a force that both shapes and reflects how citizens think about immigrants and immigration. This article explores two recent developments in the literature on media coverage of immigrants and immigration: the application of Hegelian dialectical theory to the study of discourses about immigration; and a debate concerning the shift from outright racism to subtler forms of ‘new racism’ and its implications for media covera…
Retaining international students in northeast Ohio: Opportunities and challenges in the ‘age of Trump’
Navigating the housing crisis: A comparison of international students and other newcomers in a mid‐sized Canadian city
This article investigates the housing experiences of international students in comparison to other newcomers in the mid‐sized Canadian city of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, with a focus on how they navigate housing crises. Drawing on recent literature on housing justice, a quantitative survey of 188 participants, and 30 qualitative interviews, the findings reveal that international students and other newcomers are at different stages of …
The experiences of immigrant entrepreneurs in a medium‐sized Canadian city: The case of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
There is growing interest in the dynamics of immigrant entrepreneurship in non‐traditional immigrant gateway cities in Canada. Encouraging immigrant businesses is a particularly pressing imperative for Atlantic Canada's small and medium‐sized cities, which struggle with aging labour markets, youth out‐migration, and difficulty attracting and retaining newcomers. Recent research on immigrant entrepreneurship highlights the geography of entrepreneu…
Revisiting small and mid‐sized cities in Canada: Old questions, new challenges
MATTER MORE THAN EVERSmall and mid-sized cities (SMCs) are increasingly where people in Canada "live, work, and play" (Statistics Canada, 2022, 2023).In 2021, for example, eight of the top ten fastest growing Canadian census metropolitan areas were mid-sized cities-including Kelowna, Halifax, Guelph, and Moncton (Statistics Canada, 2021).There is a growing recognition that SMCs serve as repositories of innovation in urban theory and policy, offer…
Higher education, international student mobility, and regional innovation in non‐core regions: International student start‐ups on “the rock”
This paper makes a case for post‐graduate international students as an increasingly important category of immigrant entrepreneur in Canada. We draw our findings from an analysis of new provincial immigrant entrepreneur programs and interviews with international student entrepreneurs in a mid‐sized city in Atlantic Canada. We argue that three forces have become increasingly relevant in shaping immigrant entrepreneurs' opportunity structures: (1) t…
The Komagata Through a Media Lens: Racial, Economic, and Political Threat in Newspaper Coverage of the 1914 Komagata Maru Affair
As part of its 'white Canada' policy, Canadian officials denied entry to 376 Indian immigrants who arrived aboard the Komagata Maru in 1914. Although the Komagata Maru affair was among the first Canadian immigration controversies to generate international media coverage, little is known about the nature of this coverage. In this paper, we examine the extent to which media coverage of the event reflected a range of racial (Orientalism; Canada's wh…
Talent for Citizenship and the American Dream: The USA as Outlier in the Global Race for Talent
Good code bad code: Exploring the immigration-nation dialectic through media coverage of the Herouxville 'Code of Life' document
The media is widely held as a force that both shapes and reflects how citizens think about immigrants and immigration. This article explores two recent developments in the literature on media coverage of immigrants and immigration: the application of Hegelian dialectical theory to the study of discourses about immigration; and a debate concerning the shift from outright racism to subtler forms of ‘new racism’ and its implications for media covera…
Authenticity with a bang: Exploring suburban culture and migration through the new phenomenon of the Richmond Night Market
This paper considers the suburban night through the recent cultural phenomenon of the Summer Night Market in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. Night markets have existed in China since the 8th century, and have followed Chinese migration, first to Southeast Asia, and more recently, to Canada. Richmond, because of significant Asian settlement in the 1990s, is known as the ‘new Chinatown’ ethnoburb of Metro Vancouver. Its night market is a weeken…
Visual media and the construction of the benign Canadian border on National Geographic'sBorder Security
Visual media have long been instrumental in the production of international borders as sites of spectacle. Such projects involve careful delineations of who may enter and under what conditions. In Canada, this representation often centres on a dialectical relationship between a welcoming and generous, multicultural nation and a threatening foreign immigrant Other. We adopt a visual content analysis approach to examine Border Security: Canada's Fr…
Austerity urbanism and the promise of immigrant- and refugee-centered urban revitalization in the US Rust Belt
Recent urban studies research emphasizes the unevenness of local responses to immigration in the United States and the emergence of economic development-focused inclusionary initiatives as a response to neoliberal downscaling in the Rust Belt. Scholars also highlight the impact of austerity urbanism – the deepening of neoliberal urbanism – in Rust Belt cities following the 2007–2008 financial crisis, noting its potential to produce progressive ac…
Does Size Really Matter? On the Relationship between Immigrant Group Size and Anti-Immigrant Prejudice
Group threat theory understands prejudice as a manifestation of the threat, either actual or assumed, that minority groups pose to majority groups. This theory is often operationalized by analyzing the impact of group size on anti-immigrant prejudice. We test this hypothesis with a new dataset documenting 487 effects of group size on prejudice provided in 55 studies. More than half of these results show no relationship and the remainder shows bot…
The Komagata Through a Media Lens: Racial, Economic, and Political Threat in Newspaper Coverage of the 1914 Komagata Maru Affair
As part of its 'white Canada' policy, Canadian officials denied entry to 376 Indian immigrants who arrived aboard the Komagata Maru in 1914. Although the Komagata Maru affair was among the first Canadian immigration controversies to generate international media coverage, little is known about the nature of this coverage. In this paper, we examine the extent to which media coverage of the event reflected a range of racial (Orientalism; Canada's wh…
Retaining international students in northeast Ohio: Opportunities and challenges in the ‘age of Trump’
Gaming on the edge: Mobile labour and global talent in Atlantic Canada's video game industry
Diminishing returns and advances in telecommunications have prompted large video game firms to seek new locations, outsource production, and develop niche studios, including on Canada's East Coast. In this paper, we examine emerging occupational cultures and trace the origins and evolution of video game production in Canada's Atlantic provinces—a critical yet peripheral space economy in the gaming sector. Our findings are drawn from 30 interviews…
The Contentious Politics of Resettlement Programs: Evidence from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Labelling resettlement programs as voluntary suggests that they cause little contention and are devoid of coercion. But is this representation accurate? Drawing on unpublished government documents and media reports, we provide a detailed case study of the Community Relocation Policy (CRP) of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) from 2009 to the present. We show that CRP has been fraught with contention due to the nature of the voting process and the sl…
Rust and reinvention: Im/migration and urban change in the American Rust Belt
Immigration represents a promising counternarrative for Rust Belt cities in the 21st century. Increasingly, both immigrants and refugees are part of the comeback stories of Northeastern and Midwestern cities from Buffalo to Dayton and Pittsburgh. This review explores recent research in urban geography and allied disciplines focusing on the international migration patterns, processes, and politics reshaping the urban geography of the American Rust…
The experiences of immigrant entrepreneurs in a medium‐sized Canadian city: The case of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
There is growing interest in the dynamics of immigrant entrepreneurship in non‐traditional immigrant gateway cities in Canada. Encouraging immigrant businesses is a particularly pressing imperative for Atlantic Canada's small and medium‐sized cities, which struggle with aging labour markets, youth out‐migration, and difficulty attracting and retaining newcomers. Recent research on immigrant entrepreneurship highlights the geography of entrepreneu…
Live, Work, and Stay? Geographies of Immigrant Receptivity in Atlantic Canada's Aspiring Gateways
Global research on new immigrant destinations prioritizes the study of places experiencing rapid demographic change. Immigration is increasingly promoted, however, as a policy tool to encourage stability in peripheral regions, cities, and communities. This paper introduces the concept of the aspiring gateway to describe locations that attract few immigrants but proactively aspire to become welcoming communities. We make this case through an exami…
Higher education, international student mobility, and regional innovation in non‐core regions: International student start‐ups on “the rock”
This paper makes a case for post‐graduate international students as an increasingly important category of immigrant entrepreneur in Canada. We draw our findings from an analysis of new provincial immigrant entrepreneur programs and interviews with international student entrepreneurs in a mid‐sized city in Atlantic Canada. We argue that three forces have become increasingly relevant in shaping immigrant entrepreneurs' opportunity structures: (1) t…
Revisiting small and mid‐sized cities in Canada: Old questions, new challenges
MATTER MORE THAN EVERSmall and mid-sized cities (SMCs) are increasingly where people in Canada "live, work, and play" (Statistics Canada, 2022, 2023).In 2021, for example, eight of the top ten fastest growing Canadian census metropolitan areas were mid-sized cities-including Kelowna, Halifax, Guelph, and Moncton (Statistics Canada, 2021).There is a growing recognition that SMCs serve as repositories of innovation in urban theory and policy, offer…
Navigating the housing crisis: A comparison of international students and other newcomers in a mid‐sized Canadian city
This article investigates the housing experiences of international students in comparison to other newcomers in the mid‐sized Canadian city of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, with a focus on how they navigate housing crises. Drawing on recent literature on housing justice, a quantitative survey of 188 participants, and 30 qualitative interviews, the findings reveal that international students and other newcomers are at different stages of …
Revoir les petites et moyennes villes du Canada: Questions d'hier, défis d'aujourd'hui
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