Megan Gaucher
Biographic Data
| ID | 915375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megan Gaucher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megan |
| FAMILY NAME | Gaucher |
| SIGNATURE | GAUCHER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Flying Grannies’ and Human-Capital Citizenship: Care in Humanitarian and Compassionate Cases
Given Canada's child care deficit, economic migration remains contingent on the unpaid care work of grandparent migrants, particularly grandmothers or ‘flying grannies’, who arrive through temporary pathways such as the super visa and often juggle multiple transnational caring obligations. However, routine pauses to the parent and grandparent sponsorship program render humanitarian and compassionate applications one of the few options available f…
We all know the benefits of having our parents and grandparents here with us: Super visas, temporary grand/parent migration, and Canadian nation building
Transnational grand/parent migration is an essential source of care for many migrant families that often comes into conflict with legal, political, and economic dynamics shaping a state's rules for reunification. This article critically analyses neoliberal multicultural discourses of grand/parent immigration in Canadian parliamentary debates and committee proceedings around the ‘Super Visa’ programme from 2011 to 2021. Grand/parents are portrayed…
Unpacking 'birth tourism: Incidental citizenship and the diverse migration and reproduction trajectories of nonresident mothers in Canada
Birth tourism in Canada is defined as the practice of giving birth on Canadian soil while on a nonresident visa for the express purpose of enabling the child to obtain Canadian citizenship. Proponents of restricting territorial birthright citizenship in Canada portray birth tourism as an illegitimate form of citizenship acquisition, and as a threat to the institution of Canadian citizenship. Yet, very little is known empirically about the motivat…
Keeping Your Friends Close and Your Enemies Closer: Affective Constructions of "Good" and "Bad" Immigrants in Canadian Conservative Discourse
A key component of the Conservative Party of Canada's (CPC) electoral strategy in 2011, 2015 and 2019 was to court the country's "ethnic vote". Under the leadership of Stephen Harper and Andrew Scheer, the CPC launched an aggressive outreach strategy aimed at attracting conservative ethnic populations while at the same time, continuing to appeal to the party's "old stock" base – referred to as the "populist paradox". This approach was particularl…
Enforcing Exclusion: Precarious Migrants and the Law in Canada Sarah Grayce Marsden, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018, pp 237
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A Family Matter: Citizenship, Conjugal Relationships, and Canadian Immigration Policy
How do we define family? In an attempt to police incoming migrants, the Harper government adopted a strict definition of family to limit access to citizenship for certain immigrants. Even when immigrants had no intention of sponsoring family members, their familial networks affected their entry to Canada, resulting in differentiated treatment of families living within and beyond Canadian borders. Megan Gaucher analyzes the government’s assessment…
The Future of Canadian Political Science: Boundary Transgressions, Gender and Anti-Oppression Frameworks
In light of theCanadian Journal of Political Science(CJPS) self-reflexive “50thAnniversary” issue on the state of Canadian political science (CPS), this article maps the discipline's engagement with intersectional anti-oppression scholarship. Analyzing abstracts inCJPSand theCanadian Political Science Review,we argue while these journals—and mainstream CPS more generally—tackle questions of diversity, there remains a gap between conversations rec…
Implicating municipalities in addressing household food insecurity in Canada: A pan-Canadian analysis of news print media coverage
Monogamous Canadian Citizenship, Constructing Foreignness and the Limits of Harm Discourse
TheZero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act(2015) targets immigrants suspected of engaging in polygamy. While polygamy is already illegal in Canada and non-immigrant polygamous arrangements exist within Canadian borders, the framing of polygamy as a foreign practice portrays this familial arrangement as a threat to Canadian national values. Effects on women and children have traditionally provided a convincing argument for state regulat…
A Job That Should Be Respected: Contested visions of motherhood and English Canada's second wave women's movements, 1970-1990
This article focuses on the forgotten voices of marginalized feminist mothers—those active in welfare rights groups. These activists were primarily poor single mothers who understood motherhood differently from more mainstream feminists. Whilst they echoed mainstream feminist demands for childcare, they also supported women's right to stay at home with their children, emphasizing the role of the state. This presented a serious class-based critiqu…
Attack of the Marriage Fraudsters: An Examination of the Harper Government’s Antimarriage Fraud Campaign
Claiming a rise in marriage fraud, the Harper government launched its antimarriage fraud campaign in 2011, aiming to both prevent and stigmatize the formation of relationships in order to immigrate to Canada. In this article, I examine the implications this crackdown has for family class immigration and question the government’s empirical justification for initiating this campaign. I contend that while the language of the campaign appears to be n…
Guilty Until Proven Prosecuted: The Canadian State's Assessment of Sexual Minority Refugee Claimants and the Invisibility of the non-Western Sexual Non-Citizen
Through the granting of refugee status to victims of sexual persecution, the Canadian government simultaneously acknowledges and scorns the human rights practices of other states, while also assuring refugees that Canada is a modern, safer alternative. Canada is safe, however, only for those non-citizens—current and future—who adhere to Canada's sexual customs, regulations, and norms. This paper explores the Canadian state's use of Western unders…
The Future of Canadian Political Science: Boundary Transgressions, Gender and Anti-Oppression Frameworks
In light of theCanadian Journal of Political Science(CJPS) self-reflexive “50thAnniversary” issue on the state of Canadian political science (CPS), this article maps the discipline's engagement with intersectional anti-oppression scholarship. Analyzing abstracts inCJPSand theCanadian Political Science Review,we argue while these journals—and mainstream CPS more generally—tackle questions of diversity, there remains a gap between conversations rec…
Monogamous Canadian Citizenship, Constructing Foreignness and the Limits of Harm Discourse
TheZero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act(2015) targets immigrants suspected of engaging in polygamy. While polygamy is already illegal in Canada and non-immigrant polygamous arrangements exist within Canadian borders, the framing of polygamy as a foreign practice portrays this familial arrangement as a threat to Canadian national values. Effects on women and children have traditionally provided a convincing argument for state regulat…
Guilty Until Proven Prosecuted: The Canadian State's Assessment of Sexual Minority Refugee Claimants and the Invisibility of the non-Western Sexual Non-Citizen
Through the granting of refugee status to victims of sexual persecution, the Canadian government simultaneously acknowledges and scorns the human rights practices of other states, while also assuring refugees that Canada is a modern, safer alternative. Canada is safe, however, only for those non-citizens—current and future—who adhere to Canada's sexual customs, regulations, and norms. This paper explores the Canadian state's use of Western unders…
A Job That Should Be Respected: Contested visions of motherhood and English Canada's second wave women's movements, 1970-1990
This article focuses on the forgotten voices of marginalized feminist mothers—those active in welfare rights groups. These activists were primarily poor single mothers who understood motherhood differently from more mainstream feminists. Whilst they echoed mainstream feminist demands for childcare, they also supported women's right to stay at home with their children, emphasizing the role of the state. This presented a serious class-based critiqu…
Flying Grannies’ and Human-Capital Citizenship: Care in Humanitarian and Compassionate Cases
Given Canada's child care deficit, economic migration remains contingent on the unpaid care work of grandparent migrants, particularly grandmothers or ‘flying grannies’, who arrive through temporary pathways such as the super visa and often juggle multiple transnational caring obligations. However, routine pauses to the parent and grandparent sponsorship program render humanitarian and compassionate applications one of the few options available f…
We all know the benefits of having our parents and grandparents here with us: Super visas, temporary grand/parent migration, and Canadian nation building
Transnational grand/parent migration is an essential source of care for many migrant families that often comes into conflict with legal, political, and economic dynamics shaping a state's rules for reunification. This article critically analyses neoliberal multicultural discourses of grand/parent immigration in Canadian parliamentary debates and committee proceedings around the ‘Super Visa’ programme from 2011 to 2021. Grand/parents are portrayed…
Attack of the Marriage Fraudsters: An Examination of the Harper Government’s Antimarriage Fraud Campaign
Claiming a rise in marriage fraud, the Harper government launched its antimarriage fraud campaign in 2011, aiming to both prevent and stigmatize the formation of relationships in order to immigrate to Canada. In this article, I examine the implications this crackdown has for family class immigration and question the government’s empirical justification for initiating this campaign. I contend that while the language of the campaign appears to be n…
Guilty Until Proven Prosecuted: The Canadian State's Assessment of Sexual Minority Refugee Claimants and the Invisibility of the non-Western Sexual Non-Citizen
Through the granting of refugee status to victims of sexual persecution, the Canadian government simultaneously acknowledges and scorns the human rights practices of other states, while also assuring refugees that Canada is a modern, safer alternative. Canada is safe, however, only for those non-citizens—current and future—who adhere to Canada's sexual customs, regulations, and norms. This paper explores the Canadian state's use of Western unders…
Implicating municipalities in addressing household food insecurity in Canada: A pan-Canadian analysis of news print media coverage
Monogamous Canadian Citizenship, Constructing Foreignness and the Limits of Harm Discourse
TheZero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act(2015) targets immigrants suspected of engaging in polygamy. While polygamy is already illegal in Canada and non-immigrant polygamous arrangements exist within Canadian borders, the framing of polygamy as a foreign practice portrays this familial arrangement as a threat to Canadian national values. Effects on women and children have traditionally provided a convincing argument for state regulat…
A Job That Should Be Respected: Contested visions of motherhood and English Canada's second wave women's movements, 1970-1990
This article focuses on the forgotten voices of marginalized feminist mothers—those active in welfare rights groups. These activists were primarily poor single mothers who understood motherhood differently from more mainstream feminists. Whilst they echoed mainstream feminist demands for childcare, they also supported women's right to stay at home with their children, emphasizing the role of the state. This presented a serious class-based critiqu…
A Family Matter: Citizenship, Conjugal Relationships, and Canadian Immigration Policy
How do we define family? In an attempt to police incoming migrants, the Harper government adopted a strict definition of family to limit access to citizenship for certain immigrants. Even when immigrants had no intention of sponsoring family members, their familial networks affected their entry to Canada, resulting in differentiated treatment of families living within and beyond Canadian borders. Megan Gaucher analyzes the government’s assessment…
The Future of Canadian Political Science: Boundary Transgressions, Gender and Anti-Oppression Frameworks
In light of theCanadian Journal of Political Science(CJPS) self-reflexive “50thAnniversary” issue on the state of Canadian political science (CPS), this article maps the discipline's engagement with intersectional anti-oppression scholarship. Analyzing abstracts inCJPSand theCanadian Political Science Review,we argue while these journals—and mainstream CPS more generally—tackle questions of diversity, there remains a gap between conversations rec…
Enforcing Exclusion: Precarious Migrants and the Law in Canada Sarah Grayce Marsden, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018, pp 237
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Keeping Your Friends Close and Your Enemies Closer: Affective Constructions of "Good" and "Bad" Immigrants in Canadian Conservative Discourse
A key component of the Conservative Party of Canada's (CPC) electoral strategy in 2011, 2015 and 2019 was to court the country's "ethnic vote". Under the leadership of Stephen Harper and Andrew Scheer, the CPC launched an aggressive outreach strategy aimed at attracting conservative ethnic populations while at the same time, continuing to appeal to the party's "old stock" base – referred to as the "populist paradox". This approach was particularl…
Flying Grannies’ and Human-Capital Citizenship: Care in Humanitarian and Compassionate Cases
Given Canada's child care deficit, economic migration remains contingent on the unpaid care work of grandparent migrants, particularly grandmothers or ‘flying grannies’, who arrive through temporary pathways such as the super visa and often juggle multiple transnational caring obligations. However, routine pauses to the parent and grandparent sponsorship program render humanitarian and compassionate applications one of the few options available f…
We all know the benefits of having our parents and grandparents here with us: Super visas, temporary grand/parent migration, and Canadian nation building
Transnational grand/parent migration is an essential source of care for many migrant families that often comes into conflict with legal, political, and economic dynamics shaping a state's rules for reunification. This article critically analyses neoliberal multicultural discourses of grand/parent immigration in Canadian parliamentary debates and committee proceedings around the ‘Super Visa’ programme from 2011 to 2021. Grand/parents are portrayed…
Unpacking 'birth tourism: Incidental citizenship and the diverse migration and reproduction trajectories of nonresident mothers in Canada
Birth tourism in Canada is defined as the practice of giving birth on Canadian soil while on a nonresident visa for the express purpose of enabling the child to obtain Canadian citizenship. Proponents of restricting territorial birthright citizenship in Canada portray birth tourism as an illegitimate form of citizenship acquisition, and as a threat to the institution of Canadian citizenship. Yet, very little is known empirically about the motivat…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Immigration (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Citizenship (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Criminology (3 works)