Transnational Migration and the Reformulation of Analytical Categories: Unpacking Latin American Refugee Dynamics in Toronto

Goldring, Luin; Landolt, Patricia

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“…To date, there is little research on how churches help to settle and integrate new immigrants in Canada, yet the research that is available suggests that they play a significant role (Ley 2008; Handy and Greenspan 2009; Tse 2011; Janzen et al 2012; Goldring and Landolt 2014). Research in the U.S. has found that congregations are vital to immigrant settlement and integration (Warner and Wittner 1998; Ebaugh and Chafetz 2000) because they provide not only spiritual and social support, but networking opportunities that can lead to employment, social capital and skill development, and sometimes a place where their home culture can be maintained (Biney 2013).…”

Section: Past Immigration Research Regarding Churchesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Christian Churches and Immigrant Support in Canada: An Organizational Ecology Perspective

Reimer

Chapman

Janzen

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Review of Religious Research

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Canada receives roughly 250,000 immigrants each year, and the government spends considerable resources on assisting them to settle and integrate into Canadian society through the agencies they support. Most of these new immigrants settle in Canada's largest cities, where churches meet specific needs that extend beyond the capacities of government agencies. In smaller centers, churches cover a wide range of services because few government supports are available. Little is known about the work of churches in Canada in spite of their importance to immigrant settlement and integration. In this study, we examine the services offered to immigrants by Canadian Christian churches. We show how the service provision of Christian churches is constrained by other organizations and groups in their environment, in ways consonant with the organizational ecology framework. Specifically, churches service the needs of immigrants by adapting to specific niche needs and by filling in gaps left by other service providers.

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Section: Past Immigration Research Regarding Churchesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Christian Churches and Immigrant Support in Canada: An Organizational Ecology Perspective

Reimer

Chapman

Janzen

et al. 2016

Review of Religious Research

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“…The question of an expanded purview for Latino/a/X Studies that can encompass the full extent of Latin America begs other questions, moreover. For decades, Latin Americans have been steadily advancing and consolidating their presence in Canada, not only as migrants but also as refugees (Goldring and Landolt, 2014). Under the draconian immigration regime of the Trump administration, there can be little doubt that Latino/a/Xs will increasingly also seek refuge in Canada as they find themselves compelled to flee from the US deportation regime's mundane but ever more capricious and insidious reign of terror.…”

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Latino Studies, Latino/a/X futures: Provocations toward a prospectus

Genova

2019

Cultural Dynamics

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Is there a future for Latino/a/X Studies? This question-alternately anxious or ambitious-seems to have been haunting the field for many years. If it can be affirmed with reasonable confidence that the answer to this question is yes, the relative assuredness of the future of Latino Studies as an institutionalized area of academic inquiry may nonetheless be a sign of our domestication. After all, Latino/a/X Studies is a field that has emerged as the site of a potentially subversive and inherently insurgent form of knowledge. This field was always intrinsically an intrusion into the hegemonic and disciplinary organization of knowledge within the university. The more that our collective yet diverse critical project has been assigned its "proper" place, albeit still a diminutive one, within the university, the more that its critical purchase is necessarily at risk of being rendered safe for the dominant epistemic and political projects that govern higher education and its reproduction. Therefore, it seems judicious and productive to posit the question of the future of Latino/a/X Studies as a problem. Scholarship in our field has always been most compelling and relevant when it can illuminate something about the historically specific relationalities that situate Latino/a/Xs at the veritable center of larger processes of social and political formation and transformation, rather than retreating into culturalist insularity and parochialism. Arguably, this has never been so evident as in our present moment of danger during the Trump presidency.

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“…Much of the support sent from Canada to Mexico was in the form of monetary remittances, although their objectives and function varied across class locations and types of economic integration. I found that this type of support also departed from the support that other Latin Americans in Canada have sent to their countries of origin, more attuned to assisting political or non-governmental organizations, or to help with development initiatives in Canada and abroad (Chute 2004;Ginieniewicz 2007;Goldring 2006;Goldring and Landolt 2014;Landolt 2007aLandolt , 2007bLandolt , 2008Landolt and Goldring 2010;Goldring 2006, 2014;San Martín 1998). This economic support also departs from the more regular monetary remittances sent from Canada, particularly by women, to help with daily household expenses, support children, educate younger relatives, or generate small investments (Bernhard et al 2005;Díaz Barrero 2007;Encalada Grez 2017;.…”

Section: Economic Transnationalismmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…Indeed, as Goldring et al (2003) found, processes of integration in the country of reception are sometimes positively correlated to transnational activities and vice-versa. For example, Chilean and Canadian transnational political activism in Toronto in the 1970s favourably shaped Canada's context of reception for later waves of Latin American immigrants, such as Central Americans and Colombians (Goldring and Landolt 2014). Thus, rather than simply assimilating into a Canadian identity, Latin Americans' actions exerted a decisive influence in terms of asserting their own identities, the establishment of their political presence in Canada and abroad, and the shaping of their integration processes.…”

Section: Transnationalism and Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, Latin Americans' political transnationalism in Toronto in the 1970s and 1980s was strongly mediated by the politico-economic contexts and the grassroots organization and experiences they had in their countries of origin. These experiences shaped the form of their political organization in Canada when looking to improve their type and quality of integration (Goldring and Landolt 2014;Goldring 2009, 2010;Landolt et al 2011;Veronis 2006aVeronis , 2010Veronis , 2015Veronis and McAloney 2010).…”

Section: Transnationalism and Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Mexican Youth in Canada: A Political Economy Analysis of Motivations for Immigration, Labour Market Integration, and Transnational Practices

Hernandez-Ramirez¹

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This dissertation investigates and illuminates the factors that led 35 Mexican immigrant and refugee youth in Ottawa and Montreal to develop transnational practices. Among these factors are their class location before migration, motivations for immigration, and type of economic integration once in Canada. I identified three different types of economic integration among my participants, which were central in differently shaping their production of sociocultural, economic, and political transnational practices or lack thereof.I contextualized these various processes in the historical and politico-economic context of Mexico and its relationship with Canada, a relationship mediated, in turn, by the one sustained between these two countries and the United States. In addition, I locate the particularities of Mexican immigration in the broader context of Latin American immigration to Canada, particularly since the 1970s.Making use of Bourdieusian theory, segmented markets theory, and a transnationalism approach, my dissertation responds to the limited scholarship on Latin Americans and transnationalism in Canada. This incipient Canadian literature contrasts to the rich scholarship produced in the United States since the late 1980s around the Mexico-United States migration circuit.My analysis thus offers a complex account of how transnationalism from below is shaped by immigrants and refugees' pre-and post-migration class location (including migration status, age, and gender). It is also shaped from above under a Canadian immigration model that privileges economic immigration over family and humanitarian immigration, along with the expansion of Canadian, Mexican, and global capital.The comparison of economic integration among immigrants and refugees living in a small, Anglo-Canadian (capital) city vis-à-vis those living in a sizable French-Canadian city (Ottawa and Montreal respectively) also offered an interesting insight. For instance, I illuminate the effects that the expansion and accumulation of (trans)national and global capital have in shaping national and sub-national models of immigration and integration in Canada.Finally, my research also contributes to the understanding of the little explored arena of reasons for immigration, types of economic integration, and transnational practices of high-skilled and educated immigrants. The traditional emphasis of Canadian and American literature on lowskilled workers has not assisted us in having a better understanding of the economic integration experiences of (Mexican) skilled immigrants, and the extent to which they generate transnational practices and ties in the North American region.iii Acknowledgements I acknowledge and thank the Omàmiwininìwag for my being able to write this article in the traditional and unceded territory of the Algonquin nation. I thank Dr. Daiva Stasiulis for her continuous support as my supervisor during the PhD process, as well as Dr. Laura Macdonald and Dr. Xiaobei Chen for their insightful comments and critiques as members of the comprehens...

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Transnational Migration and the Reformulation of Analytical Categories: Unpacking Latin American Refugee Dynamics in Toronto

Cited by 7 publications

References 47 publications

Christian Churches and Immigrant Support in Canada: An Organizational Ecology Perspective

Christian Churches and Immigrant Support in Canada: An Organizational Ecology Perspective

Latino Studies, Latino/a/X futures: Provocations toward a prospectus

Mexican Youth in Canada: A Political Economy Analysis of Motivations for Immigration, Labour Market Integration, and Transnational Practices

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