Immigration

Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens. Commuters, tourists, and other short-term stays in a destination country do not fall under the definition of immigration or migration; seasonal labour immigration is sometimes included, however. As for economic effects, research suggests that migration is beneficial both to the receiving and sending countries. Research, with few exceptions, finds that immigration on average has positive economic effects on the native population, but is mixed as to …

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Publications

MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents …

project of recruiting and managing the mass immigration of many central and eastern Europeans to the


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

Friendless or Forsaken? is the story of child emigration agencies operating in North West England from 1860 to 1935. The book traces the imperial relationships, transnational economy, religious networks and …

Emigration and immigration—History—19th century. | lcsh: Canada—Emigration and immigration—History—20th century. | lcsh: Great Britain—Emigration and immigration—His- tory—20th century. Classification: lcc hv887 distinct standards of race. The trend provoked immigration officers, first in Canada and then in Australia North West. The region’s high levels of Irish immigration and poverty, combined with well-established shipping


DDN: Dundurn Press · 2 July 2024 English

The story of the audacious showman who built the greatest carnival dynasty in North America.Enter the realm of the carnie king, Patty Conklin, the flamboyant founder of what would become …

1888, they were part of the second wave of immigration to the United States, largely from England, were required to deposit $2,000 with Canadian immigration authorities as a guarantee that all of their Carnival complained to Billboard that Canadian immigration authorities were unfair- ly holding their bond


CARDUS: Centre for Cultural Renewal · 24 June 2024 English

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38 Davies et al. note how rising levels of immigration have contributed to an increase in the number provincial Ministry of Education and the federal Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada to prioritize


CHB: Coach House Books · 18 June 2024 English

hold. What follows is a compelling and incisive examination of precarious employment, capitalism, immigration, and the mass production of living things, all interwoven with the protagonist’s thoughts on literature


DDN: Dundurn Press · 18 June 2024 English

Meet the brilliant mavericks who invented the future of medicine and saved the lives of millions.The Essence of Invention tells the story of medical invention, from the development of anesthesia …

inventor’s talent: place, cul- ture, alignment, immigration rules, and ownership of intellectual property a job, but someone at UPenn called the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and reported that


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English

While scholarship on refugee migration tends to center on the Global North, most refugees actually reside in the Global South. This book shifts the focus, revealing how governments in the …

and have their profiles submitted to national immigration author- ities, who make the final decision whether


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English

The revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 led to over 200,000 Huguenots fleeing France. Bryan Banks directs our attention to four authors who advocated for the Huguenots’ right …

narratives in favour of imperial spread and immigration analyses. Yet the cultural construction of refugees


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English

Complemented by over 150 rarely seen illustrations, Needle Work moves from coast to coast and across more than one hundred years to provide a key chapter in the history of …

into the twentieth. As this book will show, immigration, emigration, travel, and events such as war


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 June 2024 English

Since the first edition of this popular text was published in 1984, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms has transformed the role of the courts in Canadian politics. Addressing current …

electoral distribution, family law, LGBTQ rights, immigration and refugee determina- tion, judicial ethics


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