Critical Disability Theory
Essays in Philosophy, Politics, Policy, and Law
This book argues that we need a new understanding of participatory citizenship that encompasses the disabled, new policies to respond to their needs, and a new vision of their entitlements.
A History of Migration from Germany to Canada, 1850-1939
Considers why Germans left their home country, why they chose to settle in Canada, who assisted their passage, and how they crossed the ocean to their new home, as well as how the Canadian government perceived and solicited them as immigrants.
Discourses of Denial
Mediations of Race, Gender, and Violence
With examples from the lives of immigrant girls and women of colour, this book uncovers how racism, sexism, and violence interweave deep within the foundations of our society.
Queer Youth in the Province of the "Severely Normal"
Explores how youth identities have been constructed through dominant and often competing discourses about youth, sexuality, and gender, and how queer youth in Alberta negotiated the contradictions of these discourses.
Sanctuary, Sovereignty, Sacrifice
Canadian Sanctuary Incidents, Power, and Law
Facing immediate deportation, a lone Guatemalan migrant entered sanctuary in a Montreal church in December 1983. Thus began the practice of sanctuary in Canada.
Justice for Young Offenders
Their Needs, Our Responses
This ground-breaking analysis of complex issues of youth justice challenges the assumptions behind Canada’s approach to youth justice and mental health disorders.
Reclaiming Adat
Contemporary Malaysian Film and Literature
Weaves a wealth of cultural theory into a rare analysis of Malay cinema and the work of new Malaysian anglophone writers.
Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities
Comparative law and legal anthropology have traditionally restricted themselves to their own fields of inquiry. Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities turns this tendency on its head and investigates what happens when ...
Treaty Promises, Indian Reality
Life on a Reserve
In a respectful and personal account of his life and the Cowessess people, Harold LeRat, shares the history and many successes of Indian peoples, despite the numerous challenges they faced.
Securing Borders
Detention and Deportation in Canada
A close look at the laws, policies, and practices of detention and deportation in Canada since the Second World War.
Biotechnology Unglued
Science, Society, and Social Cohesion
The two faces of biotechnology are revealed throughout to show the promises and perils associated with a range of innovations.
If I Had a Hammer
Retraining That Really Works
This book is about poor women, many of them single mothers, Aboriginal, or both, who have defied the odds to become apprenticing carpenters.
Pro-Family Politics and Fringe Parties in Canada
Pro-Family Politics and Fringe Parties in Canada explores the organizational and ideological nature of political parties that are initially formed to do the work of social movements.
Advancing Aboriginal Claims
Visions/Strategies/Directions
Policy, philosophy, strategy, and legal arguments are combined to build innovative strategies to advance Aboriginal claims.
Second Growth
Community Economic Development in Rural British Columbia
A look at historical and contemporary restructuring, linking development of rural communities with resource development and Aboriginal marginalization.
Humanitarianism, Identity, and Nation
Migration Laws in Canada and Australia
Catherine Dauvergne examines the relationship between migration laws and national identities and highlights the role of humanitarianism in this linkage.
Social Policy and the Ethic of Care
Over the last twenty years, the feminist ethic of care has had a significant impact on the study of ethics and political philosophy. Hankivsky develops the concept of a publicly viable ethic of care, and applies it to several Canadian social policy issues.
“Real” Indians and Others
Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood
A pioneering look at how mixed-blood urban Native people understand their identities and struggle to survive in a world that often fails to recognize them.
Negotiated Memory
Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse
This demonstrates how the Doukhobors employed both “classic” and alternative forms of autobiography to communicate their views about communal living, vegetarianism, activism, and spiritual life, as well as to pass on traditions to successive generations.
The Oriental Question
Consolidating a White Man's Province, 1914-41
Patricia E. Roy continues her study into why British Columbians were historically so opposed to Asian immigration.
Tough on Kids
Rethinking Approaches to Youth Justice
In this compelling, thought-provoking and sometimes heartbreaking book, the authors use the stories of their young clients to illustrate the very real costs of the current system, analyzing theories behind youth justice, and how these are reflected in Canadian legislation both past and present.
The Co-Workplace
Teleworking in the Neighbourhood
Borrowing from the experience of cooperative artists' studios, business incubators, and the corner copy shop, this book explains why office infrastructure can be important for productivity as well as the quality of work life.
Training the Excluded for Work
Access and Equity for Women, Immigrants, First Nations, Youth, and People with Low Income
In an attempt to redress social inequities in the workplace, the authors examine various kinds of training programs and recommend specific policy initiatives to improve access to these programs.
Who are Canada's Aboriginal Peoples?
Recognition, Definition, and Jurisdiction
Timely, innovative, and progressive, this collection provides an essential frame of reference to measure the development of Aboriginal legal policy respecting recognition, definition and jurisdiction in Canada.
Taxing Choices
The Intersection of Class, Gender, Parenthood, and the Law
This fascinating analysis of the controversial Symes case of the 1990s examines how class and gender interests clashed over the tax treatment of childcare.
Sex and Borders
Gender, National Identity and Prostitution Policy in Thailand
A compelling exploration of the complex relationship between Thai national identity and prostitution and gender.
Preserving What Is Valued
Museums, Conservation, and First Nations
What are the “right ways” to preserve heritage? Are the aims and purposes of museums necessarily at odds with those of First Nations? This thoughtful book explores the concept of museum conservation in light of cultural repatriation issues, and helps readers understand the complex relationship between museums and Aboriginal peoples.
Gender in the Legal Profession
Fitting or Breaking the Mould
A thoughtful analysis of the causes and implications of the gendered structure of the legal profession in Canada and elsewhere.
Demography in Canada in the Twentieth Century
Focusing on the period from 1913 to 1995, this book offers a social and institutional account of the evolution of demography in Canada.
Wired to the World, Chained to the Home
Telework in Daily Life
Will working from home solve many of society's ills, or create new ghettos? This book analyzes the experiences to look at workload, mobility, work status and gender to understand the implications of telecommuting on employment policies, community planning and daily life patterns.
An Overview of Aboriginal and Treaty Rights and Compensation for Their Breach
Mainville provides clear and practical principles for addressing the breach of Aboriginal and treaty rights and determining appropriate compensation.
Families, Labour and Love
Family Diversity in a Changing World
A sociological analysis of family life in three “settler” societies: Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
Early Childhood Care and Education in Canada
Past, Present, and Future
Larry Prochner and Nina Howe reflect the variation within the field by bringing together a multidisciplinary group of experts to address key issues in the field.
The Chinese in Vancouver, 1945-80
The Pursuit of Identity and Power
Wing Chung Ng captures the fascinating story of the city's Chinese in their search for identity.
Injury and the New World of Work
Examines a broad range of research solutions and policy options for dealing with the critical state of workers' compensation.
Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage
A Global Challenge
An international appraisal of how current legal regimes worldwide fail to protect Indigenous knowledge and what needs to change
The Dynamics of Native Politics
The Alberta Metis Experience
A socio-cultural examination of the political organizations that advocate for Aboriginal rights in government policy and the rationale behind them.
The Domestic Assault of Women
Psychological and Criminal Justice Perspectives
Argues that only by understanding the psychology of both the aggressors and the victims of wife assault can we generate informed social and criminal justice policy.