Uniting voices: An examination of racially minoritized French speakers of Vancouver by Marie-Eve Bouchard
Since the early 2000s, Canadian federal policies have encouraged Francophone immigration from around the world in order to support the vitality of the French language in Francophone minority communities outside the province of Quebec.
Rejecting Coethnicity: the Politics of Migrant Exclusion by Minoritized Citizens by Yang-Yang Zhou
How does the presence of large migrant communities affect processes of national identity formation for nearby host citizens? If these host citizens share ethnic and cultural ties with the migrants, are they more accepting and inclusive of migrants, or do they seek to differentiate themselves by excluding or “”othering”” the migrants?
Access to Justice for Migrant Workers: Evaluating Legislative Effectiveness in Canada by Bethany Hastie
This report analyzes, compares and contrasts the growing number of provincial legislative schemes aimed at addressing known recruitment and employment abuses of temporary foreign workers through registration and licensing schemes, with a view to identifying best practices and recommendations for further improvement that will enable the effective operationalization of these statutes and the realization of their core goals to protect temporary foreign workers in Canada.
Migration and Material Culture: Mobility Between China and Italy via America, 1980s-2010s by Gaoheng Zhang
The book offers an innovative critical framework to examine cultural dynamics pertaining to migrations between China and Italy, as well as their intersections in or through American culture. The book deploys the Chinese concept of 衣食住行 (clothing, food, residence, mobility) in structuring discussions about Italian and Chinese material cultures and their representations in primary sources culled from diverse media and archives. Ultimately, the book aims to refine theorizing concerning the relationships between migration and material culture.
The New Media Aesthetics of Migration
By analyzing the function of mobile devices and social media in the lives of migrants and connecting it to the role of smartphone technologies and new media in representations (especially self-representations) of migrant experience, this project seeks to understand the significance of mobilizing the digital tools and technologies of migration in its narrativization. Principal Investigator: Elizabeth […]