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Item Open Access The Power of Participation(Columbia University, Teachers College, 2004) Kapoor, IlanI reflect on the preceding five contributions in this issue by focusing on the power dimensions of participation. I emphasize how power underlies and frames not only the activities and management of participatory development, but also our own personal/institutional involvement as development researchers and workers. I end with some thoughts on where these inescapable power dynamics leave our engagement with participatory development.Item Open Access Membership in the Global City: The Successes and Failures of Municipal Multiculturalism in Toronto(York Lanes Press, 2010) Sharpe-Harrigan, MelissaIt asks, is the City of Toronto's approach to diversity-related policies able to provide a space for alternative, more organic, practices of multiculturalism? To what extent does the City of Toronto offer its residents an understanding of membership that is alternative to federal definitions of citizenship? TorontoItem Open Access Cambodian Refugees in Ontario: An Evaluation of Resettlement and Adaptation(York Lanes Press, 1995) McLellan, JanetCambodian Refugees in Ontario: An Evaluation of Resettlement and AdaptationItem Open Access Fading Hopes: Struggles for Survival among Cambodians Repatriated from Thai Refugee Camps(York Lanes Press, 1996) McLellan, JanetFading Hopes: Struggles for Survival among Cambodians Repatriates from Thai Refugee CampsItem Open Access Refugee decisions by IRB Member David McBean (2008-2010)(2012-02-17)This item provides access to the following 174 Immigration and Refugee Board case files: TA9-16871/TA9-16872/TA9-16873/TA9-20732;TA9-12340;TA8-20470/TA8-20518/TA8-20519;TA8-11999;TA8-07290;TA8-05173;TA6-01686/TA6-01687/TA6-01688/TA6-01689;TA6-02167;TA6-02971/TA6-02972/TA6-02973/TA6-02974;TA6-04219/TA6-04220/TA6-04221;TA6-05307;TA6-05380;TA6-06372;TA6-07093/TA6-07094/TA6-07095/TA6-07096/TA6-07097;TA6-07832;TA6-08970;TA6-13049;TA6-13906;TA6-14464;TA6-14480;TA6-14692;TA6-15441;TA6-16535;TA6-16901/TA7-01146/TA7-01147/TA7-06791;TA7-00260;TA7-00431/TA7-07909;TA7-00757/TA7-00758;TA7-01919;TA7-03034/TA7-03035;TA7-03282;TA7-03477/TA7-03478/TA7-03479;TA7-03594;TA7-03868/TA7-03869;TA7-04359;TA7-06343;TA7-07556/TA7-07582/TA7-07476/TA7-07477;TA7-07697/TA7-07735/TA7-08763;TA7-07893;TA7-07999;TA7-08474;TA7-08508;TA7-08664;TA7-09246;TA7-09410;TA7-09520/TA7-09587;TA7-09534/TA7-09596/TA7-09597;TA7-09899/TA7-09982/TA7-09983/TA8-05827/TA8-05828/TA8-05829;TA7-10194;TA7-10388;TA7-10400;TA7-10505;TA7-10816/TA8-06284/TA8-06307/TA8-06308;TA7-10894;TA7-10912/TA7-12205/TA7-12253/TA7-12254;TA7-11051/TA7-11058/TA7-11059/TA7-11060/TA7-11061;TA7-11162;TA7-11170/TA7-11212;TA7-11238/TA7-06686/TA7-06747;TA7-11253;TA7-11379;TA7-11417/TA7-11418/TA7-11419;TA7-11451;TA7-11601;TA7-11622/TA7-11623/TA7-11651/TA7-11652/TA7-11653/TA7-11654/;TA7-11751/TA7-11809;TA7-12057;TA7-12962;TA7-13173/TA7-13201/TA7-13202/TA7-13203/TA7-13204;TA7-13446/TA7-13702;TA7-13573;TA7-13590;TA7-14705;TA7-15160/TA7-15188/TA7-15189;TA7-15564;TA8-00117;TA8-00948;TA8-01139;TA8-01429;TA8-01468;TA8-01477;TA8-01487;TA8-01494;TA8-01701;TA8-02233;TA8-02301;TA8-02367;TA8-02586/TAB-02604;TA8-02738;TA8-03254;TA8-03420/TA8-03534;TA9-03220;TA8-03872;TA8-04347/TA8-04348/TA8-04349;TA8-04751;TA8-05186;TA8-05434;TA8-05677;TA8-06094;TA8-06216/TA8-06217/TA8-06218;TA8-06422;TA8-06674/TA8-06675;TA8-06740;TA8-07289;TA8-07397/TAB-07408;TA8-07399;TA8-07724;TA8-08905;TA8-09073;TA8-09146/TA8-13838;TA8-09360/TA8-09361;TA8-10888/TA8-10948/TA8-10949/TA8-10950;TA8-11103;TA8-11137/TA8-11168/TAB-11169/TAB-11170/TA8-11171;TA8-11251;TA8-12432;TA8-12483;TA8-12673;TA8-12941/TA8-12980/TA8-12981;TA8-13318;TA8-14262;TA8-14576/TA8-14577/TA8-14578;TA8-14912;TA8-15425/TA8-15454/TA8-17644/TA8-17645;TA8-16311;TA8-16520;TA8-16991;TA8-17614;TA8-18021;TA8-18183;TA8-18951;TA8-19089/TA8-23444/TA8-23445/TA8-23446/TA8-23447;TA8-19249/TA8-19301/TA8-21528/TA8-21529/TA8-21530;TA8-19574;TA8-21219;TA8-21408;TA8-21681;TA8-22076;TA8-22253/TA8-22294;TA8-23926;TA8-24160;TA8-24386;TA8-24405;TA8-24747/TA8-25029/TA8-25067/TA8-25068;TA8-24831;TA9-00342;TA9-01154;TA9-01499;TA9-02024;TA9-02324;TA9-02383;TA9-02515;TA9-03540;TA9-03995;TA9-04685/TA9-04686/TA9-04687;TA9-05001;TA9-05027;TA9-05364;TA9-05594/TA9-05595/TA9-05596;TA9-05694;TA9-06053;TA9-07669;TA9-08816;TA9-14677/TA9-14718/TA9-14719;TB0-02055;TA7-10850;TA7-11831;TA7-12639;TA7-12642;TA7-15245;TA8-03007/TA8-03059/TA8-03080;TA8-06108;TA8-23122/TA8-23124/TA8-23125/TA8-23179;TA9-03220;TA9-05387/TA9-05389/TA9-05390Item Open Access Toward Equitable Health and Health Services for Cambodian Refugee Women: An Ethnographic Analysis(2012-01-23) Dewitt, Beth; Adelson, NaomiThis goal of this research project was to learn about Cambodian-Canadian women’s health experiences. We argue that health narratives specifically, and resettlement experiences more broadly, provide insight into this ethno-cultural group’s health literacy and health seeking behaviour, as well as the barriers they experience accessing health services. Such narratives also expose the complexities of resettlement. These complexities are personal and collective, social and political, and impact upon women’s health and the health of their families. Findings from this research support the women’s health/community development initiative of the Canadian Cambodian Association of Ontario, as well as build upon Canadian research which explores the impact of resettlement and integration on refugee health and refugee integration within local communities.Item Open Access Final Report: Toward Equitable Health and Health Services for Cambodian Refugee Women(2007) Adelson, Naomi; Dewitt, BethItem Open Access Final Report: Toward Equitable Health and Health Services for Cambodian Refugee Women(2007) Adelson, Naomi; Dewitt, BethItem Open Access Refugee decisions 2003-2006, Categorized by the IRB as Involving Bisexuality (by COO)This item provides access to the following Immigration and Refugee Board case files: TA2-01604; TA2-07989; MA4-00092; TA5-07054; TA1-15793; TA1-28558;TA1-28559; MA3-08683; MA3-09933; CA3-00051; TA3-13541; TA4-07133; TA2-10659; TA3-14773; TA3-11547; MA5-04358; TA2-10890;TA2-10891; TA2-22740; TA2-26377; TA3-03081; TA2-27406; TA3-03447; TA3-10510;TA3-10511;TA3-10512; TA2-26361; TA2-09607; TA2-14149;TA2-14150;TA214151;TA2-14152;TA2-00256; TA2-24078;TA3-15388; TA1-25035;TA1-25036;TA1-25037;TA1-25038;TA2-08366; TA2-06479;TA2-18248;TA2-18249; MA3-09461; TA3-15691; TA3-20966; MA4-03273; TA4-04856; MA3-05272; TA4-07134; TA5-01012; MA6-01843; TA4-16542; TA5-14415; TA2-15500; TA4-13632; TA4-12141; TA6-01450; TA4-08607; TA3-24241; MA3-07262; TA1-25948; TA2-04171; TA2-08810;TA2-08842;TA2-08843;TA2-08844; TA1-25926; TA1-18093;TA1-18328; TA1-19845;TA1-19846; TA1-12359; MA3-10319; MA4-00132; TA3-22897; TA2-16419; TA3-04471; TA3-15820; TA5-10217; TA5-11822; TA5-15711; TA5-15406; TA5-10480; CA3-00431; TA3-01625; TA1-28696; TA5-03024; TA3-08558; TA5-09633; MA2-03920; TA2-13833; TA2-12141; VA3-02165; MA3-02509; TA3-02486; MA3-02529; TA2-09620; VA3-02544; TA2-06587; VA3-02164;VA3-03319 MA3-08208; VA3-02318; VA3-02106;VA3-03294; MA3-08210; MA3-08209; MA3-03652; TA4-06537; MA4-01679;MA4-01680; TA3-22393; VA3-03948; TA4-02932; CA4-00680;CA4-00733;CA4-000734; TA4-12429; VA3-02241;VA3-03361;VA3-03362; TA4-12430; CA4-00826; VA3-04443;VA4-01881;VA4-01882;VA401883; VA3-03887; TA5-09415; VA3-03959;VA4-02258;VA4-02259;VA4-00260; TA5-14771; MA5-07057; TA4-18080; TA5-16547; CA4-00628; MA5-01095;MA5-01186;MA5-001187;MA501188; TA3-22388;TA3-22389;TA3-22390;TA3-22391;TA3-22392; TA4-03989; TA5-06016; MA4-03138; CA5-00557; TA5-01008; MA5-00721; TA4-19433; TA5-07252; CA5-00025; TA4-18848; MA5-06308; TA5-00154; TA3-07988; TA3-23862; TA3-05250; TA3-11540; MA2-05140; MA3-05876;MA3-05592; MA3-08577; MA4-00261; MA3-06787; MA5-02659; TA2-27572; TA2-26150; TA4-12704; TA3-11046; TA2-25504; TA3-18779; TA2-14097; TA2-09333; TA2-10685; TA3-10653; TA5-11508; TA2-21136; TA4-07000; TA4-05464; MA5-04320; TA4-19021; TA5-01198; TA5-16184;TA6-09975; TA5-05690; TA5-00782; TA5-02808; TA3-01282; TA5-03780; TA1-09214;TA1-09215; TA2-14365;TA2-14366;TA2-14367; TA3-09134;TA3-09241; TA3-09565; TA3-07587; TA2-20675; TA1-15272; TA1-09917; TA2-21777; TA3-11680; TA3-24496;TA3-24497;TA3-24498;TA3-24499;TA3-24500; TA2-23970; TA2-17112; TA5-00150; TA2-11990; TA2-23655; TA2-22317; TA2-09407; TA2-25196; TA2-26273; TA3-11514; TA2-23546; TA3-11234; TA1-15700; TA3-17025; TA2-20362; TA3-16797; TA3-15751;TA3-15839; TA2-17499; TA3-19863; TA4-11060; VA4-01769; TA5-01723; TA5-02123; TA3-16555; TA5-03026; TA4-13472; TA5-07398; TA3-04239; TA4-02767;TA4-02768; TA5-15741; TA4-04997; TA5-02897; TA5-11431; TA6-01977; TA5-06115;Item Open Access "Islam, national identity, and public secondary education: Perspectives from the Somali Diaspora in Toronto, Canada"(Taylor and Francis, 2007) Collet, BrucePublic schools have historically been key sites where children learn of and adopt a common national identity. In states where multiculturalism plays a central role in the articulation of a national identity, schools actively recognize and support the diverse cultures of their students in fulfilling this function. Canada is a state where, via federal policy, multiculturalism has been identified as a fundamental element of the national ethos. Formal education has been a key area in which the government has implemented this policy. However, public education in Canada is also committed to secularism, and this has been a cause for resistance by diverse immigrant groups. This paper examines resistance among traditional Muslim groups to Toronto school policies and practices that reflect an avowedly secular orientation. It focuses on the experiences of one Muslim group in particular, Somali immigrants, and their encounters with school policies and practices that both supported and challenged their identities. In doing so, the paper exposes the schools as sites of countervailing policies and practices within which students must nonetheless forge new and meaningful identities.Item Open Access 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 EItem Open Access "Protracted Refugee Situations: Domestic and International Security Implications"(Routledge for the International Institute for Strategic Studies (Taylor and Francis), 2005) Loescher, Gil; Milner, JamesItem Open Access "Sociological Dimensions of Inclusion and Exclusion"(1997) Richmond, AnthonyItem Open Access "Refugee Rights in Canada and the 1951 Geneva Convention"(2011-10-20) Crepeau, Francois; Barutciski, MichaelItem Open Access "Report on the Working Group on Refugee Resettlement"(2011-10-19) Tiepoh, MosesItem Open Access "United Nations Intervention in Refugee Crises after the Cold War"(Palgrave, 1998) Mills, KurtRefugees have been ubiquitous in recent cases of international intervention. But, to what extent do refugees serve as the rationale to intervene? Do refugee flows legitimate intervention? To answer such questions, principal cases of recent UN interventions are examined including Northern Iraq (to protect the Kurds), Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Rwanda. Substantial evidence is found in UN resolutions and related documents to infer a trend towards greater consideration of refugees when deciding about intervention. Yet, such consideration is less 'humanitarian' than security-focused. That refugees pose threats to others, not solely or principally their own suffering, continues to dominate multilateral decisions to intervene.Item Open Access “Immigrant Political Socialization as Bridging and Boundary Work: Mapping the Multi-Layered Incorporation of Latin American Immigrants in Toronto”(Taylor and Francis, 2008) Landolt, Patricia; Goldring, LuinWe present a longitudinal map of three overlapping organizational trajectories developed by Latin American immigrants in the city of Toronto. We propose the concept of bridging and boundary work to specify how new (l) intersectional political identities and organizational agendas are constituted by Latin American feminist women and artists in the interstice of (2) country-of-origin and (3) mainstream pan-ethnic organizations. Boundary work occurs as activists with intersectional priorities carve out a distinct political agenda; the 'out-group' relations based on a shared sectoral focus constitute bridging work. Tracing changes in the local and transnational political opportunity structures, we consider how negotiations over resources, representation and agendas between these three Latin American organizational forms generate multidirectional political learning and socialization and the coexistence of different Latin American political cultures. We define political socialization as in-group .and out-group encounters between political cultures understood as civic toolkits or ways of doing politics.Item Open Access “Terror, Territory, and Deterritorialization: Landscapes of Terror and the Unmaking of State Power in the Mozambican ‘Civil’ War”(Taylor and Francis, 2009) Lunstrum, ElizabethDuring the Mozambican "civil" war, residents across large areas of the countryside were terrorized out of their villages by the South African-backed Mozambican rebel organization Renamo. Drawing on the deterritorialization debates and investigations into the relation between territory and terror -- literatures that have rarely engaged with one another -- and bringing them together with interviews with survivors of the conflict, I show how Renamo unmade state power through a terror-induced deterritorialization. As the newly independent Mozambican state had attempted to build a new nation-state through communal villages as a particular ordering of space, Renamo used tactics of profound terror to destroy the lived spaces of these villages to empty them of residents but also of citizen and state. Speaking to a gap in the deterritorialization debates, this case illustrates that terror is a powerful force in realizing deterritorialization. Yet these debates, in particular their insights concerning the necessary relation between de- and reterritorialization, help clarify that terror is more accurately linked to territorialization processes rather than territory simply as space. This is a valuable addition to the literature on territory and terror and key to understanding Renamo's achievements. The de/reterritorialization coupling furthermore sheds light on the equally spatial and temporal aspects of terror and, more concretely, helps clarify why Renamo's terror stands out as particularly disturbing. Namely, Renamo effected a suspended state of deterritorialization; although it did rebuild spaces and spatial relations, this reterritorialization was ultimately aimed at social, political, and spatial annihilation and hence at ensuring the villages remain indefinitely empty.Item Open Access “Family and Collective Remittances to Mexico: A Multi-Dimensional Typology of Remittances”(Wiley-Blackwell, 2004) Goldring, LuinThe development potential of remittances has resurfaced as a topic of analysis, based in part on dramatic increases in migration and amounts of money 'sent home', and partly in the growing interest and involvement by states and nonstate actors in gaining leverage over remittances. The trend is indicative of an emerging remittance-based component of development and poverty reduction planning. This article uses the case of Mexico to make two broad arguments, one related to the importance of extra-economic dimensions of remittances, particularly the social and political meanings of remittances, and the other based on a disaggregation of remittances into family, collective or community- based, and investment remittances. Key dimensions of this typology include the constellation of remitters, receivers, and mediating institutions; the norms and logic(s) that regulate remittances; the uses of remittances (income versus savings); the social and political meanings of remittances; and the implications of such meanings for various interventions. The author concludes that policy and programme interventions need to recognize the specificity of each remittance type. Existing initiatives to bank the un-banked and reduce transfer costs, for example, are effective for family remittances, but attempts to expand the share of remittances allocated to savings, or to turn community donations into profitable ventures, or small investments into large businesses, are much more complex and require a range of other interventions.Item Open Access “The Gender and Geography of Citizenship in Mexico-U.S. Transnational Spaces”(Taylor and Francis, 2001) Goldring, LuinThis paper proposes an approach for analyzing the gender and geography of citizenship practices in transnational social spaces in order to contribute to theorizing on state-transmigrant relations and citizenship. Drawing on feminist scholarship on citizenship I conceptualize citizenship as including formal rights and substantive citizenship practices that are exercised in relation to different levels of political authority, and in different geographic sites within transnational spaces. The approach is used to examine dynamics between Mexican state policies and programs and transmigrant organizations in Los Angeles. Using data from research on migration between Zacatecas and California, I argue that men find a privileged arena of action in transmigrant organizations and Mexican state-mediated transnational social spaces, which become spaces for practicing forms of citizenship that enhance their social and gender status. Women are excluded from active citizenship in this arena, but often practice substantive social citizenship in the United States.