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Debating Citizenship in Canada: The Collide of Two Nation-Building Projects
From: From Subjects to Citizens
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In Canada, debates on citizenship take on the important issue of symbolism. These debates are framed by a context in which the legitimacy of the society to which citizenship refers is contested, where tensions around power relations are not limited to the demands by rights activists, but also include demands made by the state, and which are also affected by the impact of economic and social forces.
Contributors
Micheline Labelle
Micheline Labelle is a Professor of Sociology at the Université du Quebec a Montreal. She is also the director of the Centre de recherche sur I'immigration, I'ethnicité et la citoyenneté and was holder and founder of the Chaire Concordia - UQAM en etudes ethniques (1993-1996). She has published widely on immigration, citizenship, the nation, and ethnocultural diversity. She is the author of Idéologic de couleur et classes socials en Haiti (1987). She co-edited Histoires d'immigrées. Itinéraires d'ouvrières colombiennes, haïtiennes, grecques, portugaises de Montréal (1987) as well as Ethnicité et enjeux sociaux. Le Québec vu par les leaders de groups ethnoculturels (1995). She serves on the editorial boards of Canadian Ethnic Studies and the Cahiers de recherche sociologique. She is aFrancois Rocher
member of the Conseil des relations interculturelles du Quebec (2002- 2003). In 1990, she was awarded the Thérèse Casgrain Scholarship by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.; François Rocher is a Professor of Political Science at Carleton University in Ottawa where he is also director of the School of Canadian Studies. His research interests are Canadian federalism, citizenship, and
