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Cover of the book Skills to Build the Nation by Soma Chatterjee

Skills to Build the Nation: Immigrant Labour Market and Canadian Nationalism

Soma Chatterjee

Drawing attention to the simultaneous recruitment of skilled immigrants (as crucial for national prosperity), their devaluation (for lack of commensurate skills), and subsequent policy and programmatic affirmation of local Canadian experience as marker of integration/employability – triple dynamics that unfolded between the liberalization in 1962 and the last major immigration policy overhaul in 2016 – this book highlights the skilled labour market as a generative site for post-liberalization Canadian nation building. In the process, the author moves from the entrenched practices of studying the immigrant and how they measure up to the nation to studying the nation immigrants enter and how the labour market becomes an index for it.

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Cover of the book Skills to Build the Nation by Soma Chatterjee

Soma Chatterjee
2026

Drawing attention to the simultaneous recruitment of skilled immigrants (as crucial for national prosperity), their devaluation (for lack of commensurate ...

Teresa Macías
2022

Macías T. (2022) Critical Social Work Praxis. Fernwood Publishing.

Teresa Macías
2022

Macías T. & Razack S. H. (2022) Unravelling Research: The Ethics and Politics of Research in the Social Sciences. Fernwood ...

Dog's Best Friend?

Atsuko Matsuoka
2019

Sorenson, J. & Matsuoka, A. (Eds). (2019) Dog’s Best Friend?: Rethinking Human-Canid Relations. Montreal and Kingston: McGill & Queen University ...

Mobilizing Global Knowledge Book Cover

Susan McGrath
2019

McGrath, S., & Young, J. E. E. (Eds). (2019). Mobilizing Global Knowledge: Refugee Research in an Age of Displacement. Calgary: ...

A Violent History of Benevolence Book Cover

Chris Chapman
2019

Chapman, C. & A.J. Withers. (2019) A Violent History of Benevolence: Interlocking Oppression in the Moral Economies of Social Working. ...

Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights Book Cover

Nick Mulé
2018

Nicol, N., Jjuuko A., Lusimbo, R. Mulé, N.J., Ursell, S., Wahab, A. & Waugh, P.  (Eds.) (2018). Envisioning Global LGBT ...

Sharing Breath Book Cover

Yuk-Lin Renita Wong
2018

Batacharya, Sheila, and Yuk-Lin Renita Wong, eds. 2018. Sharing breath: Embodied learning and decolonization. Edmonton, Canada: Athabasca University Press.

Critical Animal Studies Book Cover

Atsuko Matsuoka
2018

Matsuoka, A. and Sorenson, J. (Eds). (2018) Critical Animal Studies: Toward Trans-species Social Justice, London: Rowman & Littlefield International.

Imagining Child Welfare

Daniel Kikulwe
2018

Montgomery, M., Badry, Kikulwe, D., Bennett, M., & Fuch, D.(Eds.). (2018) “Imagining child welfare in the spirit of reconciliation: Voices ...

Transnational Social Policy Book Cover

Luann Good Gingrich
2017

Good Gingrich, L. & Köngeter, S. (Eds.). (2017). Transnational social policy – Social welfare in a world on the move. ...

The Shifting Terrain Book Cover

Nick Mulé
2017

Mulé, N.J. & DeSantis, G.C. (Eds.) (2017). The Shifting Terrain: Public Policy Advocacy in Canada. Montreal, QC-Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen's University Press.

Working with immigrants and Refugees Book Cover

Uzo Anucha
2017

Yan, M. C. & Anucha, U. (Eds.) (2017). Working with Immigrants and Refugees: Issues, Theories, and Approaches for Social Work ...

Transforming Child Welfare Book Cover

Daniel Kikulwe
2016

Montgomery, M., Fuch, D., Badry, D. & Kikulwe, D.  (Eds.) (2016) “Child welfare transformations interdisciplinary practices, field education and research” ...

Out of Place Book Cover

Luann Good Gingrich
2016

Good Gingrich, L.(2016) Out of place: Social exclusion and Mennonite migrants in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Queering Social Work Education Book Cover

Nick Mulé
2016

Hillock, S. & Mulé, N.J. (Eds.) (2016). Queering Social Work Education. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.