Drawing on theories of governmentality, Lippert traces the emergence of sanctuary practice to a shift in responsibility for refugees and immigrants from the state to churches and communities. Here sanctuary ...

Both historical and contemporary features of Canadian social welfare are explored in this wide-ranging and in-depth collection. Social Fabric or Patchwork Quilt explores the evolution of the Canadian ...

Roy Rempel, senior policy advisor, Breakout Educational Network, is the author of Counterweights: The Failure of Canada’s German and European Policy, 1955-1995 and Chatter Box: An Insider’s Account ...

What, if anything, makes Canada’s political identity unique? Pollsters can measure values, but they cannot explain how these values arose over time, why they changed, or how people have attempted to ...

This progressive new reader features work from some of Canada’s most prolific and talented writers on the subject of global markets including David Broad, Naomi Klein, Alan Sears, and David Livingstone. ...

G. Bruce Doern is professor, public administration and public policy, Carleton University, and politics, University of Exeter.

Three forces are at work in reconstituting the citizen in this society: courts, politics, and markets. Many see these forces as intersecting and colliding in ways that are fundamentally reshaping the ...

Anna Pratt takes a close look at the laws, policies, and practices of detention and deportation in Canada since the Second World War. She demonstrates that although the desire to fortify the border against ...