Jennifer Elrick
Biographic Data
| ID | 3734352 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Elrick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Elrick |
| SIGNATURE | ELRICK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 128 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism: A rejoinder
In this rejoinder, I respond to generative assessments of my book, Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism, by four scholars whose own work inspired its development. I offer thoughts on four main points raised about the book’s analysis of immigration policymaking in postwar Canada: (1) the role of race and class in immigrant selection; (2) the effect of bureaucratic boundary-work on multiculturalism and “Whiteness” as elements of national identity; …
Bureaucratic implementation practices and the making of Canada's merit-based immigration policy
This article extends theories of how, in the mid-twentieth century, ‘merit-based’ immigration policies, which select immigrants based on individual human capital and social ties, replaced explicitly racist immigration policies that selected on national and racial group origins. It does so in reference to the historical Canadian case, where existing scholarship emphasises the role of macro and meso-level economic, cultural, and political factors i…
Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism: Immigration Bureaucrats and Policymaking in Postwar Canada
How Covid-19 may alleviate the multiple marginalization of racialized migrant workers
The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened the visibility of "low skilled" migrant workers in the agricultural and care work sectors, who have been rebranded as "essential" by receiving states in the Global North. Many such workers are from the Global South and experience marginalization due to their overlapping social positions: race, gender, ascribed skill level, and legal status. We assess how COVID-19 can prompt a revaluation of the legal statuses …
Managing the National Status Group: Immigration Policy in Germany
This article challenges the established convention in immigration policy scholarship of treating economic utility and identity maintenance as logically distinct concerns. Drawing on work by Weber, Wallerstein and Bourdieu, we argue that concerns about economic utility and identity maintenance interact in the immigration policies of Western liberal democratic states, leading to policies designed to build and maintain middle‐class national status g…
Sorting or Shaping? The Gendered Economic Outcomes of Immigration Policy in Canada
Using a growth model analysis of Canada's Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC), we establish a significant relationship between application status — i.e., the distinction in immigration policy between primary and secondary migrants — and individual wages. This relationship is associated with an earnings disadvantage for secondary migrants, who are disproportionately female. The disadvantage persists over time, even when individual h…
Screening, Skills and Cultural Fit: Theorizing Immigrant Skill Utilization from an Organizational Perspective
From statistical category to social category: Organized politics and official categorizations of 'persons with a migration background' in Germany
This article addresses the question of how and in what terms states constitute ethnicity and citizenship around statistical categories when these categories lack explicitly ethnic principles of classification. It does so based on a qualitative content analysis of the way that the German statistical category of 'persons with a migration background' is deployed in parliamentary debates on education. We argue that state actors in organized politics,…
Deliberation and Ethnicity
Scholars typically suggest that deliberation, defined as communication guided by reason‐giving and inclusion, works best behind a veil of ignorance or when personal differences are bracketed. In this article we explore deliberation within ethnically diverse groups. We operationalize ethnicity in three ways: as an aspect of individual identity, as an identity that is made salient through priming, and as an enactment relative to interactions in par…
Immigrant Skill Utilization: Trends and Policy Issues
Talking Like a Generation: The 'Documentary' Meaning of Ethnicity for Aging Minority Britons
This article contributes to the 'cognitive turn' in the study of ethnicity and national identity, which focuses on how individuals construct ethnic identity categories pertinent to social cohesion. Using Mannheim as a methodological and analytical guide, we show how examining ethnicity as a relational enactment devoid of a priori categorisations allows situational identities that intersect with classical sociological concepts other than ethnicity…
From statistical category to social category: Organized politics and official categorizations of 'persons with a migration background' in Germany
This article addresses the question of how and in what terms states constitute ethnicity and citizenship around statistical categories when these categories lack explicitly ethnic principles of classification. It does so based on a qualitative content analysis of the way that the German statistical category of 'persons with a migration background' is deployed in parliamentary debates on education. We argue that state actors in organized politics,…
Managing the National Status Group: Immigration Policy in Germany
This article challenges the established convention in immigration policy scholarship of treating economic utility and identity maintenance as logically distinct concerns. Drawing on work by Weber, Wallerstein and Bourdieu, we argue that concerns about economic utility and identity maintenance interact in the immigration policies of Western liberal democratic states, leading to policies designed to build and maintain middle‐class national status g…
Immigrant Skill Utilization: Trends and Policy Issues
Sorting or Shaping? The Gendered Economic Outcomes of Immigration Policy in Canada
Using a growth model analysis of Canada's Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC), we establish a significant relationship between application status — i.e., the distinction in immigration policy between primary and secondary migrants — and individual wages. This relationship is associated with an earnings disadvantage for secondary migrants, who are disproportionately female. The disadvantage persists over time, even when individual h…
Bureaucratic implementation practices and the making of Canada's merit-based immigration policy
This article extends theories of how, in the mid-twentieth century, ‘merit-based’ immigration policies, which select immigrants based on individual human capital and social ties, replaced explicitly racist immigration policies that selected on national and racial group origins. It does so in reference to the historical Canadian case, where existing scholarship emphasises the role of macro and meso-level economic, cultural, and political factors i…
Deliberation and Ethnicity
Scholars typically suggest that deliberation, defined as communication guided by reason‐giving and inclusion, works best behind a veil of ignorance or when personal differences are bracketed. In this article we explore deliberation within ethnically diverse groups. We operationalize ethnicity in three ways: as an aspect of individual identity, as an identity that is made salient through priming, and as an enactment relative to interactions in par…
Talking Like a Generation: The 'Documentary' Meaning of Ethnicity for Aging Minority Britons
This article contributes to the 'cognitive turn' in the study of ethnicity and national identity, which focuses on how individuals construct ethnic identity categories pertinent to social cohesion. Using Mannheim as a methodological and analytical guide, we show how examining ethnicity as a relational enactment devoid of a priori categorisations allows situational identities that intersect with classical sociological concepts other than ethnicity…
Screening, Skills and Cultural Fit: Theorizing Immigrant Skill Utilization from an Organizational Perspective
Deliberation and Ethnicity
Scholars typically suggest that deliberation, defined as communication guided by reason‐giving and inclusion, works best behind a veil of ignorance or when personal differences are bracketed. In this article we explore deliberation within ethnically diverse groups. We operationalize ethnicity in three ways: as an aspect of individual identity, as an identity that is made salient through priming, and as an enactment relative to interactions in par…
Immigrant Skill Utilization: Trends and Policy Issues
Talking Like a Generation: The 'Documentary' Meaning of Ethnicity for Aging Minority Britons
This article contributes to the 'cognitive turn' in the study of ethnicity and national identity, which focuses on how individuals construct ethnic identity categories pertinent to social cohesion. Using Mannheim as a methodological and analytical guide, we show how examining ethnicity as a relational enactment devoid of a priori categorisations allows situational identities that intersect with classical sociological concepts other than ethnicity…
From statistical category to social category: Organized politics and official categorizations of 'persons with a migration background' in Germany
This article addresses the question of how and in what terms states constitute ethnicity and citizenship around statistical categories when these categories lack explicitly ethnic principles of classification. It does so based on a qualitative content analysis of the way that the German statistical category of 'persons with a migration background' is deployed in parliamentary debates on education. We argue that state actors in organized politics,…
Sorting or Shaping? The Gendered Economic Outcomes of Immigration Policy in Canada
Using a growth model analysis of Canada's Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC), we establish a significant relationship between application status — i.e., the distinction in immigration policy between primary and secondary migrants — and individual wages. This relationship is associated with an earnings disadvantage for secondary migrants, who are disproportionately female. The disadvantage persists over time, even when individual h…
Screening, Skills and Cultural Fit: Theorizing Immigrant Skill Utilization from an Organizational Perspective
Managing the National Status Group: Immigration Policy in Germany
This article challenges the established convention in immigration policy scholarship of treating economic utility and identity maintenance as logically distinct concerns. Drawing on work by Weber, Wallerstein and Bourdieu, we argue that concerns about economic utility and identity maintenance interact in the immigration policies of Western liberal democratic states, leading to policies designed to build and maintain middle‐class national status g…
Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism: Immigration Bureaucrats and Policymaking in Postwar Canada
How Covid-19 may alleviate the multiple marginalization of racialized migrant workers
The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened the visibility of "low skilled" migrant workers in the agricultural and care work sectors, who have been rebranded as "essential" by receiving states in the Global North. Many such workers are from the Global South and experience marginalization due to their overlapping social positions: race, gender, ascribed skill level, and legal status. We assess how COVID-19 can prompt a revaluation of the legal statuses …
Bureaucratic implementation practices and the making of Canada's merit-based immigration policy
This article extends theories of how, in the mid-twentieth century, ‘merit-based’ immigration policies, which select immigrants based on individual human capital and social ties, replaced explicitly racist immigration policies that selected on national and racial group origins. It does so in reference to the historical Canadian case, where existing scholarship emphasises the role of macro and meso-level economic, cultural, and political factors i…
Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism: A rejoinder
In this rejoinder, I respond to generative assessments of my book, Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism, by four scholars whose own work inspired its development. I offer thoughts on four main points raised about the book’s analysis of immigration policymaking in postwar Canada: (1) the role of race and class in immigrant selection; (2) the effect of bureaucratic boundary-work on multiculturalism and “Whiteness” as elements of national identity; …
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (7 works) · Immigration (6 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works)