Award-winning author Sylvain Neuvel explores an immigration dystopia in The Test Britain, the not-too-distant future. Idir is sitting the British Citizenship Test. He wants his family to belong. Twenty-five questions to determine their...
Citizenship
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Author:Stern, Pamela, Hall, PeterSummary:In 2001 the northern Ontario town of Cobalt won a competition to be named the province’s “Most Historic Town.” This honour came as Cobalters were also applying for and winning federal and provincial development grants to remake this...
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Author:Cardinal, Linda, Brown, NicholasSummary:Australia, Canada, and Ireland are all engaged in questions of multiculturalism and in the politics of recognition and reconciliation, the opportunities and pressures of geographic regionalism, shifts in political agendas associated...
- Author:Wyatt, ValerieSummary:
Want to build your very own country from scratch? It's easy in 3 easy steps. Step 1: Stake Out Your Identity, with a flag, money and a national anthem. Step 2: Run the Country, with a government, constitution, laws and an economy....
- Author:Mason, JodySummary:
Literature, literacy, and citizenship took on new and contested meanings in early twentieth-century Canada, particularly in frontier work camps. In this critical history of the reading camp movement, Jody Mason undertakes the first...
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Author:Abu-Laban, YasmeenSummary:Gendering the Nation-State explores the gendered dimensions of a fundamental organizational unit in social and political science -- the nation-state. Yasmeen Abu-Laban has drawn together work by both high-profile and emerging scholars...
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Author:Iacovetta, FrancaSummary:An in-depth study of European immigrants to Canada during the Cold War, Gatekeepers explores the interactions among these immigrants and the "gatekeepers"--mostly middle-class individuals and institutions whose definitions of...
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Author:Block, PeterSummary:Most of our communities are fragmented and at odds within themselves. Businesses, social services, education, and health care each live within their own worlds. The same is true of individual citizens, who long for connection but end up...
- Author:Clarkson, AdrienneSummary:
Never has the world experienced greater movement of peoples from one country to another, from one continent to another. These seismic shifts in population have brought about huge challenges for all societies. In this year's Massey...
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Author:Valdmanis, Warren, O'Leary, MichaelSummary:Corporations are broken, reflecting no purpose deeper than profit. But the tools we are relying on to fix them--corporate social responsibility, divestment, impact investing, and government control--risk making our problems worse. O...
- Author:Faruqi, SaadiaSummary:
A timely, accessible, and beautifully written story exploring themes of food, friendship, family and what it means to belong, featuring sixth-graders Sara, a Pakistani American, and Elizabeth, a white, Jewish girl taking a South Asian...
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Author:Gaucher, MeganSummary:What is family? Citing national security and societal welfare, the Harper government adopted a strict definition of family to limit access to citizenship for certain immigrants. Megan Gaucher analyzes the government’s assessment of...
