The Incipient denationalization of political membership and the disaggregation of the Canadian state’s monopoly on mobility
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2012-04-30
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Ranford-Robinson, Corey
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This thesis conceptualizes and documents transformations underlying the contemporary condition of Canadian political membership. Through an examination of recent changes in Canadian immigration policy underwritten by the neoliberal reconfiguration of the state, the imperatives of ‘skills discourse’ and the exigencies of economic globalization, this thesis interprets the effect of globalization on the state and state-based membership as a process referred to by Saskia Sassen as ‘incipient denationalization’.
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immigration, migration, sovereignty, neoliberalism, globalization, global citizenship, Saskia Sassen, privatization, devolution, federalism, Canada, skills discourse, citizenship studies, political theory