Workshop: Public Views of Immigration and Diversity: Causes and Consequences for Policy
In cooperation with the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Ottawa Office
Location: Centre for Migration Studies (CMS), University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
The workshop is by invitation only. However, the afternoon session from 2:30 – 4:30pm is open to the public and will be held in the Place of Many Trees (formerly Liu Multipurpose Room) at The Liu Institute for Global Issues: 6476 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, BC V6T1Z2.
Date: 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm PDT, May 18, 2022
In accordance with UBC’s Covid-19 policy, all attendees will be required to wear masks while in UBC public indoor spaces until June 30, 2022.
Abstract
For elected officials, the making of immigration policy can be a politically risky undertaking. Questions about immigration – how many should be allowed to come, who should be allowed to come, and on what terms – cut to the core of what political communities are about. In democratic societies, political elites mobilize public sentiment to gain office, and they depend on public support to stay there and, ultimately, make policy.
This workshop will bring together leading scholars of public opinion with policy practitioners to share and discuss cutting-edge work analyzing what people in modern, immigrant-receiving countries think about immigrants and immigration, why they think it, and how knowing the answers to these questions shapes the policy-making process. Research presentations will focus on immigration attitudes in Canada, Europe, and the United states. In addition to discussing latest research, workshop participants will reflect on how their work sheds light on broader relationships between researchers, media, the punditocracy, and the political class.
Organizers
Antje Ellermann, University of British Columbia
Matthew Wright, University of British Columbia
Participants
Keith Banting, Queen’s University
Anastasia Chyz-LeSage, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
Michael Donnelly, University of Toronto
Marc Helbling, Universität Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung
Dan Hiebert, University of British Columbia
Andrea Lawlor, Western University
Greg Lyle, Innovative Research
Angela Ocampo, University of Michigan
Mireille Paquet, Concordia University
Margaret Peters, UCLA
Conrad Ziller, Universität Duisburg-Essen
Registration Form
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In accordance with UBC’s Covid-19 policy, all attendees must wear masks while in UBC public indoor spaces until June 30, 2022.
Select segments of the “Public Views of Immigration and Diversity” will be recorded. By attending the workshop, you understand that your image, likeness, name, voice and/or words may be captured in photographs or recordings taken during the event and you grant CMS unrestricted permission to use, publish, display, reproduce, copy and distribute such image, likeness, name, voice and/or words, worldwide, for any purpose authorized by CMS, including but not limited to website use, training, publications, presentations, promotional marketing and advertising use, etc., in all forms of media now known or later developed.
