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1 online resource (xii, 337 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
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McGill-Queen's refugee and forced migration studies ; 3
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McGill-Queen's refugee and forced migration studies ; 3.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"As a leading country in global refugee resettlement, Canada operates a unique program that allows private groups and individuals to sponsor refugees. This innovative approach has received growing international attention, but there remains a need for a more expansive understanding of the sponsorship framework and its potential implications within Canada and across the world. Strangers to Neighbours explains the origins and development of refugee sponsorship, paying particular attention to the unintended consequences and ethical dilemmas it produces for refugee policy. The contributors to this collection draw upon law, social science, and philosophy to bring a more robust and objective perspective of Canada's historical experience with sponsorship into wider conversations about the refugee crisis and resettlement. Together, they present recent cases that exemplify how the model has been applied and how it functions, while also analyzing the challenges that emerge in host-sponsor relations. This volume further examines how sponsorship has been implemented differently in countries such as the United States and Australia. The first dedicated study of refugee sponsorship policy, Strangers to Neighbours assembles leading scholars from a range of disciplines to consider whether Canada's system is indeed a sustainable model for the world."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figure and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Private Refugee Sponsorship: An Evolving Frameworkfor Refugee Resettlement -- PART One Context -- 1 Reluctant Partnership: A Political History of Private Sponsorship in Canada (1947-1980) -- 2 "Naming" Refugees in the Canadian Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program: Diverse Intentions and Consequences -- 3 How Should We Think about Private Sponsorship of Refugees? -- 4 A Port in the Storm: Resettlement and Private Sponsorship in the Broader Contextof the Refugee Regime -- PART Two Cases |
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5 Religious Heritage, Institutionalized Ethos, and Synergies: The Mennonite Central Committee and Canada's Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program -- 6 Operation Ezra: A New Way Forward -- 7 The Blended Visa Office-Referred Program: Perspectives and Experiences from Rural Nova Scotia -- 8 Refugee Sponsorship in the Age of Social Media: Canada and the Syrian Refugee Program -- PART Three Challenges -- 9 Kindred Spirits? Links between Refugee Sponsorship and Family Sponsorship -- 10 Transactions of Worth in Refugee-Host Relations |
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11 Mobilization of the Legal Community to Support PSR Applications through the Refugee Sponsorship Support Program -- 12 Judicial Review in Canada's Refugee Resettlement Program -- PART Four Comparison -- 13 "Doing Something to Fight Injustice": Voluntarism and Refugee Resettlement as Political Engagement in the United States -- 14 Private Humanitarian Sponsorship: Searching for the Community in Australia's Community Refugee Sponsorship Program -- 15 A Model for the World? Policy Transfer Theory and the Challenges to "Exporting" Private Sponsorship to Europe |
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Conclusion: Sponsorship's Success and Sustainability? -- Contributors -- Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program (Canada)
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Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program (Canada) |
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Refugees -- Government policy -- Canada.
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Refugees -- Government policy. |
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Canada. |
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Refugees -- Canada.
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Refugees. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Labman, Shauna, 1977- editor.
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Cameron, Geoffrey, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Strangers to neighbours. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020 0228001366 9780228001362 (OCoLC)1126211668 |
| ISBN |
9780228002765 (electronic book) |
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0228002761 (electronic book) |
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9780228002758 (electronic book) |
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0228002753 (electronic book) |
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9780228001362 (hardcover) |
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0228001366 (hardcover) |
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9780228001379 (paperback) |
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0228001374 (paperback) |
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