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"Acting in a Tight Spot: Homi Bhabha’s Postcolonial Politics"
(Taylor and Francis, 2003) Kapoor, Ilan
Homi Bhabha's writing on postcolonial agency foregrounds discursive subjection, yet retrieves subaltern subterfuge. It reconstructs a critical politics despite and because of hegemonic and orientalist representational systems. And it demonstrates the (im)possibility of a stable subject, but still manages to assert creative and performative agency. The article endeavours to analyse these feats and paradoxes, relying both on Bhabha's work and on some of the criticisms and controversies surrounding it.
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"Afghans in Iran: Asylum Fatigue Overshadows Islamic Brotherhood"
(York University, Centre for Refugee Studies, 2002) Moghissi, Haideh; Ashrafi, Afsaneh
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"African Refugees"
(York University, Centre for Refugee Studies, 1992) Adelman, Howard
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"Age of Diaspora: Iranian Seniors in Toronto"
(Institute of Arab Studies, 2009) Moghissi, Haideh
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“Aid, Conflict, and Migration: the Canada-Sri Lanka Connection”
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2003) Hyndman, Jennifer
This paper aims to disentangle patterns of aid, trade, conflict and migration between Canada and Sri Lanka, illustrating the surprisingly significant traffic between the two countries and exploring the significance and quality of these connections. International aid to Sri Lanka is closely related to the opening of markets to multinational investment beginning in 1977. This economic liberalisation overlaps with periods of conflict in Sri Lanka and of macroeconomic growth. The prosperity it has generated, however, has not benefited all social classes and ethnic groups. Accordingly, conflict in Sri Lanka has been characterised by uprisings led by unemployed youth, peaceful and violent protests of discrimination against Sri Lankan Tamils and militarised government reprisals to both. A long period of macroeconomic growth ended in the final quarter of 2001, after the bombing of commercial airliners at Sri Lanka's international airport. Geopolitical and geoeconomic conditions in Sri Lanka changed dramatically. In this context, Canada's International Development Agency (CIDA) and other aid agencies aspire to 'correct for conflict' and promote a democratic and peaceful Sri Lanka through peace-building and other aid measures. Militarised conflict over at least the past 20 years has generated massive human displacement both within and beyond the country's borders, spawning international migrants in search of asylum. In 1999, Sri Lanka was the leading source country of refugee claimants to Canada. Canada hosts the single largest Sri Lankan diaspora of any country. By examining the nexus ofeconomic liberalisation and aid, I analyse its relation to conflict in Sri Lanka and migration to Canada.
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Alienation and Nationalism: Is it Possible to Increase First Nations Voter Turnout in Ontario?
(Canadian Journal of Native Studies, 2007) Dalton, Jennifer E.; Dalton, Jennifer E
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“The Americanization of American Geography”
(Springer Verlag, 1998) Hyndman, Jennifer; Kirby, Andrew
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The Anatomy and Physiology of Refugee Reproduction
(Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, 2009) Adelman, Howard
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“Another Brick in the Wall? Neo-refoulement & the Externalisation of Asylum in Europe & Australia"
(Wiley-Blackwell) Hyndman, Jennifer; Mountz, Alison
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Anthony Richmond, “Immigration Policy and Research in Canada: Pure or Applied?” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 26.1 (2000): 109-125.
(Taylor and Francis, 2000) Richmond, Anthony
A review of Canadian immigration research, published between 1980 and 1998, suggests that research had only a limited impact on policies and programmes. Economists seemed to have more influence than psychologists, sociologists or demographers. Alternative models of the way research may enter the policy decision-making process are described. A 'systems' model recognises the competing influence of special interest groups and the influence of public opinion. Emphasis is placed on the need for academic researchers to make their conclusions known expeditiously, in order to create a more enlightened public.
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"Attorney-General of Canada v. Ward"
(Osgoode Law Research Unit, York University, 1990) Petrasek, David; Egan, Suzanne
The decision of the Federal Court of Appeal in the Ward case raises numerous issues of fundamental importance in the determination of claims to refugee status. It is widely perceived that the majority decision represents a narrow and restrictive interpretation of key provisions in the Convention refugee definition as incorporated in Canadian law. The following discussion is intended to provide a commentary on Ward, and, to provide a framework within which the issues raised in the case can be understood.
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"Australia and the Birth of Israel: Midwife or Abortionist"
(Wiley-Blackwell, 1992) Adelman, Howard
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"Away from Home: Iranian Women, Displacement, Cultural Resistance, and Change"
(University of Calgary, Department of Sociology, 1999) Moghissi, Haideh
This article discusses the gender character of displacement. Using the example of the Iranian female diaspora, it argues that women's experience of displacement is relatively more positive than that of men, and women, generally, are more prepared and make more efforts to build a home away from home. However, the pressures for cultural resistance against the dominant culture and the institutional racism in the host country may counterbalance the impact of women's positive experiences. Under the banner of 'cultural resistance', patriarchal values and sexist norms are revitalized within the family as well as in the community, and the voices of dissent are muted and dismissed as outside influences.
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"The Backlog: Barbara's Achilles Heel?"
(York University, Centre for Refugee Studies, 1991) Adelman, Howard
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"Begin and Diaspora Dissent"
(Canadian Academic Foundation for Peace in the Middle East, 1980) Adelman, Howard
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Beyond Conscientious Objection: Canadian Refugee Jurisprudence on Military Service Evasion
(Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, 2005) Jones, Martin
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"Beyond Either/Or: A Feminist Analysis of September 11th"
(University of British Columbia, 2003) Hyndman, Jennifer
â€˜Feminist geopoliticsâ€™ offers a critical framework for analyzing the events and aftermath of September 11th. This grid of intelligibility seeks to provide a more accountable, embodied understanding of intersections of power and space at multiple scales. It challenges the logic of either/or reasoning, and related responses to September 11th. The escalation of violence, such that terror begets more terror, is not the only possible response to the murder and destruction in New York City and Washington, yet the dominant geopolitical discourse leads us to believe it is. Critical and feminist geopolitics are crucial if we are to go beyond the binaries and establish a third space of 'neither/nor'. Finally, to generate a more accountable and embodied political vision, feminist geopolitics is employed in relation to body counts at two distinct geographical and geopolitical sites.
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"Beyond Gender: Towards A Feminist Analysis of Humanitarianism and Development in Sri Lanka"
(Feminist Press, 2003) de Alwis, Malathi; Hyndman, Jennifer
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"Bisexuals Need Not Apply: A Comparative Appraisal of Refugee Law and Policy in Canada, the United States, and Australia"
(Taylor and Francis, 2009) Rehaag, Sean
This paper offers an analysis of refugee claims on grounds of bisexuality. After discussing the grounds on which sexual minorities may qualify for refugee status under international refugee law, the paper empirically assesses the success rates of bisexual refugee claimants in three major host states: Canada, the United States, and Australia. It concludes that bisexuals are significantly less successful than other sexual minority groups in obtaining refugee status in those countries. Through an examination of selected published decisions involving bisexual refugee claimants, the author identifies two main areas for concern that may partly account for the difficulties that bisexual refugee claimants encounter: the invisibility of bisexuality as a sexual identity, and negative views held by some refugee claims adjudicators towards bisexuality as well as the reluctance of some adjudicators to grant refugee status to sexual minorities who differ from gay and lesbian identities as traditionally understood.
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Bleeding Hearts and Bloody Minds: Reason in Action in Altruistic Benevolence
(Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, 2001) Adelman, Howard
This paper provides an analysis of Hegel=s section of the Phenomenology of Spirit on AThe Law of the Heart and the Frenzy of Self-Conceit. The section provides an account of the dynamics of humanitarian benevolent activity to explain how charitable organizations become so conflictual.