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dc.contributor.authorRuthralingam, Noelyn Mithila
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-22 17:34:48 (GMT)
dc.date.available2014-01-22 17:34:48 (GMT)
dc.date.issued2014-01-22
dc.date.submitted2014
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/8165
dc.description.abstractThe ways that categories of immigration are drawn and standards of successful citizenship are measured in Canadian society influence the ways that people script themselves to appear as worthy immigrant applicants and potential Canadian citizens. For immigrant hopefuls, scripting oneself using the language of immigration and positioning oneself as a deserving and desirable immigrant is crucial for gaining mobility and passage into Canadian society. In my thesis, I explore the literature surrounding processes and concepts like borders, mobility, good citizenship, the “white standard”, and racialization that serve as foundations and outcomes of scripting “good” immigrants and “successful” citizenship. I embed the experiences of my informants within an analysis of this literature as well as the processes of immigration outlined by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC). I find that scripting immigrant categories and citizenship can result in immigrants enacting only a limited Canadianness. Immigrant categories involve restrictive policies that can result in exploitation. I also offer that immigrants may live a double-consciousness through their transnationalism and constituting of “back home”. The larger hope for this project is to provide an understanding of the processes of scripting that work to make exclusive the right to be Canadian so that the vulnerability and suffering caused by the existence of hierarchies of citizenship can be tackled as a public issue and make for a more inclusive and equitable Canada.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity of Waterlooen
dc.subjectCanadaen
dc.subjectSouthern Ontarioen
dc.subjectscriptingen
dc.subjectimmigrationen
dc.subjectimmigrant categoriesen
dc.subjectideal citizenshipen
dc.subjecthierarchies of citizenshipen
dc.subjectbordersen
dc.subjectmobilityen
dc.subjectracializationen
dc.subjectrestrictive policiesen
dc.subjectexploitationen
dc.subject“back home”en
dc.titleScripting the Right to be Canadian: Immigrant Experiences, Policies, and Practices in Southern Ontarioen
dc.typeMaster Thesisen
dc.pendingfalse
dc.subject.programPublic Issues Anthropologyen
uws-etd.degree.departmentAnthropologyen
uws-etd.degreeMaster of Artsen
uws.typeOfResourceTexten
uws.peerReviewStatusUnrevieweden
uws.scholarLevelGraduateen


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