Mireille Paquet
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 230610 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mireille Paquet |
| PRENOMES | Mireille |
| SOBRENOME | Paquet |
| ASSINATURA | PAQUET M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1938-2734 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 207 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Performing for multiple audiences
Immigration bureaucracies play a central role in immigration governance, yet how they seek to demonstrate accountability beyond formal political oversight remains underexplored. Operating at the intersection of politically sensitive policy domains, non-citizen service provision, and competing demands from multiple societal audiences, immigration departments face distinctive accountability challenges. Comparing Canada, Australia, and the United Ki…
How Do Immigration Policies Affect Voter Support for Low-Skilled Immigrants? Evidence from a Survey Experiment
Countries depend on both high- and low-skilled immigration to meet economic needs. But most voters prefer high-skilled immigrants, despite the fact that multiple economic sectors structurally depend on low-skilled immigrants. In this paper, we examine voter preferences toward low-skilled immigrants as one barrier to effective immigration policy, even in political regimes where immigration is the consequence of highly coordinated or “planned” poli…
La nouvelle politique de l’immigration au Québec
Les questions migratoires occupent désormais une place centrale dans les débats politiques au Québec, marquant une rupture avec leur statut historiquement marginal. Cette politisation s’inscrit dans une tendance globale et se manifeste par une saillance accrue des thèmes liés à l’immigration ainsi qu’une polarisation idéologique marquée. Depuis l’érosion du consensus interpartisan établi en 1991 avec l’Accord Canada-Québec, les partis politiques …
Introduction. La politique et les politiques de l’immigration au Québec
A Complex Intergovernmental Problem
After years of collaboration in the immigration sector, Canada faces unprecedented intergovernmental tension due to a surge in irregular arrivals and asylum seekers. Most attribute this conflict to the scale of the arrivals. We argue it is the nature of asylum seekers as a “complex intergovernmental problem” that explains the recent turn in relations. Complex intergovernmental problems (CIPs) are a unique form of policy problem that result from a…
Beyond the Queue
Introduction. Frontières
Subnational Comparative Policy Analysis
Rejeter la France » en immigrant au Québec
Depuis le début des années 2000, l'immigration de ressortissants français au Québec, souvent présentée comme privilégiée, est en forte croissance. Toutefois, l'analyse des variations des trajectoires migratoires de Français diplômés et racisés ayant immigré au Québec laisse apparaître le poids des assignations à la fois raciales et nationales vécues par ces migrants dans leurs pays d'origine et d'accueil. Si plusieurs espèrent s'extirper des proc…
The immigrant versus the state
Administrative tribunal judges determine rights and entitlements regarding bureaucratic decisions. In immigration appeal cases, they review negative decisions of permanent residency acquisition and family reunification. Based on an analysis of all immigration appeal decisions in Canada’s Quebec province over a period of twenty-three years, we find that tribunal judges confirm the bureaucratic decision in the vast majority of cases, noting the mig…
Canadian sanctuary policies in context
Since 2013, seven Canadian cities have developed sanctuary policies: Vancouver, Edmonton, London, Hamilton, Toronto, Ajax and Montreal. Comparing policy design characteristics, this article points to converging features of these interventions in Canada: a focus on information provision and access as well as a representation of the city as an inclusive and progressive space. The distinctive characteristics of these interventions, as compared to th…
Numbers and Images
Perceptions of numbers (numerical estimations of migrant flows) and mental images (beliefs about characteristics and motives of immigrants) have been shown to be important predictors of cross-national immigration attitudes. However, this finding has seldom been verified in Canada. As a result, we know little about how Canadians estimate the amount and type of migrants coming into the country, what drives the generation of these numbers and images…
Deservingness in context
What drives the evaluations of extending protections and services to refugees and asylum seekers? In dialogue with research on attitudes towards refugees, in particular, work pointing to the importance of deservingness cues for refugee evaluation, this article explores the conditions under which Canadians are willing to provide the right to stay and access to migrant-specific services to refugees and asylum seekers in Canada. Taking into consider…
Researching, Monitoring, and Managing
Based on interviews with bureaucrats involved in policy work at the Canadian immigration department, this article describes how their work may have influenced the content of policies between 2006 and 2015. In dialogue with historical accounts of bureaucratic immigration policy making in Canada and with concepts from the study of policy work, the findings highlight the importance of maintenance tasks (research, monitoring, and stakeholder manageme…
Beyond the Usual Suspects and Towards Politicisation
Explaining Intergovernmental Conflict in the Covid-19 Crisis
The Covid-19 pandemic produced more significant immediate intergovernmental conflict in the U.S. than in Australia and Canada. This article considers three variables for this cross-national divergence: presidentialism versus parliamentarism; vertical party integration; and strength of intergovernmental arrangements. We find that the U.S. presidential system, contrary to parliamentarism in Canada and Australia, provided an opportunity for a populi…
La « sélection efficace » des immigrants
En 2016, le Québec a procédé à la première refonte générale de sa loi sur l’immigration depuis 1968. Cet article présente une analyse exploratoire de l’étude du projet de loi 77, devenu par la suite la nouvelle Loi sur l’immigration de la province. En dialogue avec les travaux d’Hélène Pellerin, cet article s’intéresse à l’influence du paradigme migratoire de la mobilité sur les discours des élus à propos du projet de loi, ainsi qu’à ses conséque…
Immigrant integration policies when regions decide ‘who comes in’
Using the Canadian case, this paper explores immigrant integration policies when Rokkan and non-Rokkan regions have immigrant selection capacities. By systematically documenting integration policies of all Canadian regions and by describing elites’ justifications for such policies between 2010 and 2018, we demonstrate that every region – including Quebec, which has a distinct language and culture – primarily focuses on economic immigrant integrat…
A New Politics? Symposium on Dauvergne’s The New Politics and the End of Settler Societies
This Special Issue presents articles that empirically and theoretically explores the central arguments of Catherine Dauvergne's 2016 book The New Politics and the End of Settler Societies . This multidisciplinary issue comprises five research articles and a closing commentary from Catherine Dauvergne, exploring migration‐related events that have taken place since 2015. As a whole, these articles demonstrate the relevance of The New Politics and t…
A Critical Juncture in Fiscal Federalism? Canada's Response to Covid-19
The COVID-19 crisis could trigger a critical juncture for several institutional arrangements in Canada, potentially leading to notable changes in fiscal federalism. This research note combines insights from historical institutionalism with recent economic and fiscal projections to explore avenues for reform in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Given the magnitude of the crisis, provincial governments may be unable to absorb the fiscal costs on the…
Covid-19 as a Complex Intergovernmental Problem
Federations increasingly face complex policy challenges, from managing climate change to mass migration. COVID-19 is a prime example of this emerging type of problem. This research note introduces the concept of complex intergovernmental problems (CIPs) to better understand these types of challenges
Province Building and the Federalization of Immigration in Canada
"Most accounts of the provincial role in Canadian immigration focus on the experience of Quebec. In Province Building and the Federalization of Immigration in Canada, Mireille Paquet shows that, between 1990 and 2010, all ten provinces became closely involved in immigrant selection and integration. This considerable change to the Canadian model of immigration governance corresponds to a broader process of federalization of immigration, by which b…
Subnational Migration States and the New Politics of Immigration
Using Catherine Dauvergne's The New Politics of Immigration and the End of Settler Society (2016) as a starting point, this article explores subnational policy dynamics in Canada, Australia and the United States. It considers whether the trends associated with legalization, two‐step programmes, rapid policy changes and economic discourses are present in Canadian provinces as well as in U.S. and Australian states. It shows that the forces describe…
Immigration, Bureaucracies and Policy Formulation
Based on an ethnography of one illuminating case – the formulation of new immigration policy statement entitled “Together, we are Quebec” between 2014 and 2016 – this article argues that policy formulation is an important site of power and influence over immigration‐related policies for bureaucrats. In dialogue with concepts and theories from public administration, it demonstrates that a broad mandate of reform and modernization, coupled with pol…
Citizenship as a Regime
Covid-19 as a Complex Intergovernmental Problem
Federations increasingly face complex policy challenges, from managing climate change to mass migration. COVID-19 is a prime example of this emerging type of problem. This research note introduces the concept of complex intergovernmental problems (CIPs) to better understand these types of challenges
The Federalization of Immigration and Integration in Canada
Between 1990 and 2010, a gradual process of institutional change has affected Canada's immigration and integration governance regime. The central characteristic of this process is the emergence of a new legitimate institutional group of actors: Canadian provinces. This change corresponds to a federalization of Canada's immigration and integration governance regime. It is a break from the previous pattern of federal dominance and provincial avoida…
Explaining Intergovernmental Conflict in the Covid-19 Crisis
The Covid-19 pandemic produced more significant immediate intergovernmental conflict in the U.S. than in Australia and Canada. This article considers three variables for this cross-national divergence: presidentialism versus parliamentarism; vertical party integration; and strength of intergovernmental arrangements. We find that the U.S. presidential system, contrary to parliamentarism in Canada and Australia, provided an opportunity for a populi…
Immigrant integration policies when regions decide ‘who comes in’
Using the Canadian case, this paper explores immigrant integration policies when Rokkan and non-Rokkan regions have immigrant selection capacities. By systematically documenting integration policies of all Canadian regions and by describing elites’ justifications for such policies between 2010 and 2018, we demonstrate that every region – including Quebec, which has a distinct language and culture – primarily focuses on economic immigrant integrat…
A Critical Juncture in Fiscal Federalism? Canada's Response to Covid-19
The COVID-19 crisis could trigger a critical juncture for several institutional arrangements in Canada, potentially leading to notable changes in fiscal federalism. This research note combines insights from historical institutionalism with recent economic and fiscal projections to explore avenues for reform in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Given the magnitude of the crisis, provincial governments may be unable to absorb the fiscal costs on the…
Bureaucrats as Immigration Policy-makers
Since the 1990s, subnational governments in Canada have become increasingly active towards immigrant selection and immigration integration. In dialogue with scholarship on immigration policy-making and public administration, this article demonstrates that bureaucrats, acting as policy entrepreneurs, have been instrumental in initiating subnational immigration activism in Canada between 1990 and 2010. By studying immigration policy-making ‘from th…
Venue Shopping and Legitimacy
Canadian immigration policies went through numerous changes under the Conservative party leadership of Stephen Harper from 2006 to 2015. This article provides an empirical account of immigration policy change during this era and suggests that of state-centred venue shopping can effectively account for the Harper's immigration record. In particular, it documents the ways in which immigration policies have expanded into international and regional v…
Deservingness in context
What drives the evaluations of extending protections and services to refugees and asylum seekers? In dialogue with research on attitudes towards refugees, in particular, work pointing to the importance of deservingness cues for refugee evaluation, this article explores the conditions under which Canadians are willing to provide the right to stay and access to migrant-specific services to refugees and asylum seekers in Canada. Taking into consider…
Subnational Migration States and the New Politics of Immigration
Using Catherine Dauvergne's The New Politics of Immigration and the End of Settler Society (2016) as a starting point, this article explores subnational policy dynamics in Canada, Australia and the United States. It considers whether the trends associated with legalization, two‐step programmes, rapid policy changes and economic discourses are present in Canadian provinces as well as in U.S. and Australian states. It shows that the forces describe…
Numbers and Images
Perceptions of numbers (numerical estimations of migrant flows) and mental images (beliefs about characteristics and motives of immigrants) have been shown to be important predictors of cross-national immigration attitudes. However, this finding has seldom been verified in Canada. As a result, we know little about how Canadians estimate the amount and type of migrants coming into the country, what drives the generation of these numbers and images…
Wicked problem definition and gradual institutional change
This article examines the impacts of problem definition, defined as a social mechanism, in bringing about gradual institutional change. Focusing on a similar process of gradual institutional change in Canada and Australia, it shows that problem definition is one pathway by which actors’ interests and behaviors are redefined inside an institutional regime. By tracing the process of federalization of Canada and Australia’s immigration regime since …
Immigration, Bureaucracies and Policy Formulation
Based on an ethnography of one illuminating case – the formulation of new immigration policy statement entitled “Together, we are Quebec” between 2014 and 2016 – this article argues that policy formulation is an important site of power and influence over immigration‐related policies for bureaucrats. In dialogue with concepts and theories from public administration, it demonstrates that a broad mandate of reform and modernization, coupled with pol…
La « sélection efficace » des immigrants
En 2016, le Québec a procédé à la première refonte générale de sa loi sur l’immigration depuis 1968. Cet article présente une analyse exploratoire de l’étude du projet de loi 77, devenu par la suite la nouvelle Loi sur l’immigration de la province. En dialogue avec les travaux d’Hélène Pellerin, cet article s’intéresse à l’influence du paradigme migratoire de la mobilité sur les discours des élus à propos du projet de loi, ainsi qu’à ses conséque…
The immigrant versus the state
Administrative tribunal judges determine rights and entitlements regarding bureaucratic decisions. In immigration appeal cases, they review negative decisions of permanent residency acquisition and family reunification. Based on an analysis of all immigration appeal decisions in Canada’s Quebec province over a period of twenty-three years, we find that tribunal judges confirm the bureaucratic decision in the vast majority of cases, noting the mig…
This Is Not a Turn
Mechanism-based explanations are gaining in popularity in the social sciences. Canadian political science has somewhat embraced these debates. Recent work has explicitly identified with mechanismic explanation and, at the same time, there is a point to be made about the compatibility of CPS's cannons with a mechanism-based understanding of causation. In this paper, we survey past and recent work aligned with this ontological approach. We demonstr…
A Complex Intergovernmental Problem
After years of collaboration in the immigration sector, Canada faces unprecedented intergovernmental tension due to a surge in irregular arrivals and asylum seekers. Most attribute this conflict to the scale of the arrivals. We argue it is the nature of asylum seekers as a “complex intergovernmental problem” that explains the recent turn in relations. Complex intergovernmental problems (CIPs) are a unique form of policy problem that result from a…
Subnational Comparative Policy Analysis
Rejeter la France » en immigrant au Québec
Depuis le début des années 2000, l'immigration de ressortissants français au Québec, souvent présentée comme privilégiée, est en forte croissance. Toutefois, l'analyse des variations des trajectoires migratoires de Français diplômés et racisés ayant immigré au Québec laisse apparaître le poids des assignations à la fois raciales et nationales vécues par ces migrants dans leurs pays d'origine et d'accueil. Si plusieurs espèrent s'extirper des proc…
Beyond Appearances
Beyond Appearances
The Federalization of Immigration and Integration in Canada
Between 1990 and 2010, a gradual process of institutional change has affected Canada's immigration and integration governance regime. The central characteristic of this process is the emergence of a new legitimate institutional group of actors: Canadian provinces. This change corresponds to a federalization of Canada's immigration and integration governance regime. It is a break from the previous pattern of federal dominance and provincial avoida…
Bureaucrats as Immigration Policy-makers
Since the 1990s, subnational governments in Canada have become increasingly active towards immigrant selection and immigration integration. In dialogue with scholarship on immigration policy-making and public administration, this article demonstrates that bureaucrats, acting as policy entrepreneurs, have been instrumental in initiating subnational immigration activism in Canada between 1990 and 2010. By studying immigration policy-making ‘from th…
Wicked problem definition and gradual institutional change
This article examines the impacts of problem definition, defined as a social mechanism, in bringing about gradual institutional change. Focusing on a similar process of gradual institutional change in Canada and Australia, it shows that problem definition is one pathway by which actors’ interests and behaviors are redefined inside an institutional regime. By tracing the process of federalization of Canada and Australia’s immigration regime since …
This Is Not a Turn
Mechanism-based explanations are gaining in popularity in the social sciences. Canadian political science has somewhat embraced these debates. Recent work has explicitly identified with mechanismic explanation and, at the same time, there is a point to be made about the compatibility of CPS's cannons with a mechanism-based understanding of causation. In this paper, we survey past and recent work aligned with this ontological approach. We demonstr…
Citizenship as a Regime
Citizenship as a Regime
Living in “Interesting Times”
Running on Empty
Running on Empty: Canada and the Indochinese Refugees, 1975–1980, by Michael J. Molloy, Peter Duschinsky, Kurt F. Jensen, and Robert Shalka. An article from journal Refuge (Intersectional Feminist Interventions in the "Refugee Crisis"), on Érudit
Venue Shopping and Legitimacy
Canadian immigration policies went through numerous changes under the Conservative party leadership of Stephen Harper from 2006 to 2015. This article provides an empirical account of immigration policy change during this era and suggests that of state-centred venue shopping can effectively account for the Harper's immigration record. In particular, it documents the ways in which immigration policies have expanded into international and regional v…
Province Building and the Federalization of Immigration in Canada
"Most accounts of the provincial role in Canadian immigration focus on the experience of Quebec. In Province Building and the Federalization of Immigration in Canada, Mireille Paquet shows that, between 1990 and 2010, all ten provinces became closely involved in immigrant selection and integration. This considerable change to the Canadian model of immigration governance corresponds to a broader process of federalization of immigration, by which b…
Subnational Migration States and the New Politics of Immigration
Using Catherine Dauvergne's The New Politics of Immigration and the End of Settler Society (2016) as a starting point, this article explores subnational policy dynamics in Canada, Australia and the United States. It considers whether the trends associated with legalization, two‐step programmes, rapid policy changes and economic discourses are present in Canadian provinces as well as in U.S. and Australian states. It shows that the forces describe…
Immigration, Bureaucracies and Policy Formulation
Based on an ethnography of one illuminating case – the formulation of new immigration policy statement entitled “Together, we are Quebec” between 2014 and 2016 – this article argues that policy formulation is an important site of power and influence over immigration‐related policies for bureaucrats. In dialogue with concepts and theories from public administration, it demonstrates that a broad mandate of reform and modernization, coupled with pol…
La « sélection efficace » des immigrants
En 2016, le Québec a procédé à la première refonte générale de sa loi sur l’immigration depuis 1968. Cet article présente une analyse exploratoire de l’étude du projet de loi 77, devenu par la suite la nouvelle Loi sur l’immigration de la province. En dialogue avec les travaux d’Hélène Pellerin, cet article s’intéresse à l’influence du paradigme migratoire de la mobilité sur les discours des élus à propos du projet de loi, ainsi qu’à ses conséque…
Immigrant integration policies when regions decide ‘who comes in’
Using the Canadian case, this paper explores immigrant integration policies when Rokkan and non-Rokkan regions have immigrant selection capacities. By systematically documenting integration policies of all Canadian regions and by describing elites’ justifications for such policies between 2010 and 2018, we demonstrate that every region – including Quebec, which has a distinct language and culture – primarily focuses on economic immigrant integrat…
A New Politics? Symposium on Dauvergne’s The New Politics and the End of Settler Societies
This Special Issue presents articles that empirically and theoretically explores the central arguments of Catherine Dauvergne's 2016 book The New Politics and the End of Settler Societies . This multidisciplinary issue comprises five research articles and a closing commentary from Catherine Dauvergne, exploring migration‐related events that have taken place since 2015. As a whole, these articles demonstrate the relevance of The New Politics and t…
A Critical Juncture in Fiscal Federalism? Canada's Response to Covid-19
The COVID-19 crisis could trigger a critical juncture for several institutional arrangements in Canada, potentially leading to notable changes in fiscal federalism. This research note combines insights from historical institutionalism with recent economic and fiscal projections to explore avenues for reform in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Given the magnitude of the crisis, provincial governments may be unable to absorb the fiscal costs on the…
Covid-19 as a Complex Intergovernmental Problem
Federations increasingly face complex policy challenges, from managing climate change to mass migration. COVID-19 is a prime example of this emerging type of problem. This research note introduces the concept of complex intergovernmental problems (CIPs) to better understand these types of challenges
Researching, Monitoring, and Managing
Based on interviews with bureaucrats involved in policy work at the Canadian immigration department, this article describes how their work may have influenced the content of policies between 2006 and 2015. In dialogue with historical accounts of bureaucratic immigration policy making in Canada and with concepts from the study of policy work, the findings highlight the importance of maintenance tasks (research, monitoring, and stakeholder manageme…
Beyond the Usual Suspects and Towards Politicisation
Explaining Intergovernmental Conflict in the Covid-19 Crisis
The Covid-19 pandemic produced more significant immediate intergovernmental conflict in the U.S. than in Australia and Canada. This article considers three variables for this cross-national divergence: presidentialism versus parliamentarism; vertical party integration; and strength of intergovernmental arrangements. We find that the U.S. presidential system, contrary to parliamentarism in Canada and Australia, provided an opportunity for a populi…
Canadian sanctuary policies in context
Since 2013, seven Canadian cities have developed sanctuary policies: Vancouver, Edmonton, London, Hamilton, Toronto, Ajax and Montreal. Comparing policy design characteristics, this article points to converging features of these interventions in Canada: a focus on information provision and access as well as a representation of the city as an inclusive and progressive space. The distinctive characteristics of these interventions, as compared to th…
Numbers and Images
Perceptions of numbers (numerical estimations of migrant flows) and mental images (beliefs about characteristics and motives of immigrants) have been shown to be important predictors of cross-national immigration attitudes. However, this finding has seldom been verified in Canada. As a result, we know little about how Canadians estimate the amount and type of migrants coming into the country, what drives the generation of these numbers and images…
Deservingness in context
What drives the evaluations of extending protections and services to refugees and asylum seekers? In dialogue with research on attitudes towards refugees, in particular, work pointing to the importance of deservingness cues for refugee evaluation, this article explores the conditions under which Canadians are willing to provide the right to stay and access to migrant-specific services to refugees and asylum seekers in Canada. Taking into consider…
The immigrant versus the state
Administrative tribunal judges determine rights and entitlements regarding bureaucratic decisions. In immigration appeal cases, they review negative decisions of permanent residency acquisition and family reunification. Based on an analysis of all immigration appeal decisions in Canada’s Quebec province over a period of twenty-three years, we find that tribunal judges confirm the bureaucratic decision in the vast majority of cases, noting the mig…
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