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This paper examines the implications of changes to the family class category under Canada's Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and in particular the introduction of Conditional Permanent Residence (CPR) for sponsored spouses. It raises questions about the extent to which gender mainstreaming as an approach within immigration policy making can actually challenge recent developments, which are animated by familiar neo-liberal rationales but also gesture to a discourse that constructs family class immigrants as "suspicious" and "criminal." Résumé Cet article examine les répercussions des modifications apportées à la catégorie du regroupement familial en vertu de la Loi sur l'immigration et la protection des réfugiés du Canada et en particulier l'introduction de la résidence permanente conditionnelle (RPC) pour les conjoints parrainés. Cela soulève la question de savoir dans quelle mesure l'intégration de la dimension de genre comme approche au sein de la politique d'immigration peut en fait remettre en cause les récents développements, qui sont animés par des logiques néo-libérales familières, mais invoquent aussi un discours qui définit les immigrants appartenant à la catégorie du regroupement familial comme « suspects » et « criminels ».

ABSTRACTHigh‐skilled labour migration figures prominently in global policy narratives. Increasingly, countries in the global north have introduced policies to attract and facilitate the entry of skilled migrants. More recently, the high‐skilled migrant is cast as an 'agent of development' within policy discourse and practice. This paper challenges this rhetoric by interrogating the ways in which the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is implicated in skilled worker mobility. Specifically, it focuses on the empirical case of the nascent continental nursing labour market to highlight the linkages between trade, migration, and development. Two specific interrelated aspects are investigated. First, the ways in which the NAFTA appeared to promote a set of linkages between nursing labour markets of Canada, US, and Mexico through its mobility provisions. Second and relatedly, the paper explores how the new continental nursing market, engendered by the NAFTA, has created a space for third party actors, most notably nursing recruiters, to facilitate cross‐border mobility of nurses. The paper emphasises the importance of considering the diverse contexts that are implicated in the production, mobility, and governance of specific skills. This consideration troubles dominate policy narratives of skilled migration as being either a boon or detriment to development goals. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Training the Excluded for Work: Access and Equity for Women,
Immigrants, First Nations, Youth, and People with Low Income,
Marjorie Griffin Cohen, ed., Vancouver: University of British Columbia
Press, 2003, pp. 276.Training the Excluded for Work is an important contribution
to debates about the importance and viability of job training policies and
programmes that are directed to those who are "excluded" in
the Canadian labour market. It is also timely insofar as job training, in
contrast to post-secondary education policy, remains somewhat
underexamined in Canada. This is particularly ironic, as job training has
emerged as a key issue for policy makers, industry, workers and activists.
Training is frequently touted as a panacea that will address a host of
economic ills including unemployment, low productivity levels and lagging
investment. On the one hand, many employer and industry groups view
training measures as part of a larger strategy to address the imperatives
of a global economy. Here, neoliberal rationales tend to prevail—job
training becomes an investment in individual human capital. But on the
other hand, job training can also be an important means by which
marginalized groups, including youth, women, indigenous groups and
racialized minorities, address the terms of their exclusion from (or
limited inclusion in) the labour market. In doing so, other rationales
come to the fore, most notably the need to address social inequities in
the labour market. This edited book addresses this latter aspect of the
training policy debate.

"This book offers a critical examination of the way in which the nature and governance of international labour migration is changing within a globalizing environment." "It examines how labour mobility and the governance of labour migration are changing by exploring the links between political economy and differentiated forms of labour migration. Additionally, it considers the effects of new social models of inclusion and exclusion on labour migration. Therefore, the book troubles the conventional dichotomies and categorizations - permanent vs. temporary; skilled vs. unskilled; legal vs. illegal - that have informed migration studies and regulatory frameworks. Theoretically, this volume contributes to an ongoing project of reframing the study of migration within politics and international relations." "Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, drawing on examples from the European Union, North America and Asia, Governing International Labour Migration will be of interest to students and scholars of migration studies, international political economy (IPE), international relations, and economics."--Jacket

Canada's national narratives gesture to cosmopolitan ideals by celebrating the country as open and inclusive through the working of its immigration policy. Indeed, it has been suggested that Canada may be oriented toward a form of 'rooted cosmopolitanism'. This vision stands at odds with the experiences of skilled migrants who often encounter hurdles in the labour market. In this paper, we probe the 'cosmopolitan paradox' and its implications. Through a qualitative case study of 36 skilled newcomers, we document their experiences as they attempt to enter the labour market encountering barriers that reassert national frames and 'Canadian standards'. We argue that if Canada is to live up to the promise of a cosmopolitan ideal, the stratifications and exclusions that mark the lives of newcomers need to be addressed. It is not enough to attract increasing numbers of immigrants if they cannot become full members of the Canadian national community.