IMMIGRATION: Why Canadians (Mostly) Love it, and Americans Aren’t So Sure

Monday, May 1, 2023 4:00-5:30 PM

In-Person at Academic West, Room 204 and online on Zoom

Brought to you by: Center for CanadianAmerican Studies, Border Policy Research Institute, Department of Sociology, Department of Economics, WWU Alumni Association

Americans are deeply divided about migration policy and have limited appetite for increasing immigration. Canada’s government has, in contrast, increased its immigration targets, and the ruling Liberal Party’s leader, Justin Trudeau, won his first national election partly due to a campaign promise to resettle thousands of Syrian refugees. Why do Canadians seem to love immigration while Americans aren’t so sure?

With Irene Bloemraad

Irene Bloemraad is the Class of 1951 Professor of Sociology at the University of California and the founding director of Berkeley’s Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative (BIMI). She also serves as the Thomas Garden Barnes Chair of Canadian Studies at Berkeley and as co-director of the Boundaries, Membership and Belonging program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. She has authored or co-edited five books including The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship (2017), Rallying for Immigrant Rights (2011) and Becoming a Citizen (2006).

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