Title Send them here : religion, politics, and refugee resettlement in North America / Geoffrey Cameron

Published Montreal, Quebec ; Kingston, Ontario ; London, England ; Chicago, Illinois : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021] ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages) Series McGill-Queen's refugee and forced migration studies ; 4 McGill-Queen's refugee and forced migration studies ; 4. Contents A Moral Alternative to Power Politics: Why Religious Groups Mobilized for Refugee Resettlement -- Overcoming Restriction: Religious Groups and the Post-War Refugee Policy Process -- A Continuous Chain of Efforts: Issue Networks and Policy Communities -- Shifting Alliances: Refugees, Human Rights, and Policy Reform -- Coming Full Circle: Indochina, Legislative Reform, and the Post-War Legacy Summary "This book traces the evolution of refugee resettlement policy in the United States and Canada from the end of the Second World War to 1980. During this period, both countries transformed previous policies of refugee deterrence into the two largest resettlement programs in the world. Explanations for this transformation have typically focused on Cold War foreign policy, but there was another domestic force that propelled the rise of resettlement: religious groups. After the war, Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant groups mobilized to promote refugee resettlement--first for their co-religionists, and then on a non-sectarian basis. The book explores a counter-intuitive part of this history: where Canada developed a system of private sponsorship, in which organized groups chose refugees to resettle and paid a portion of their costs, refugee policy in the United States developed as a corporatist arrangement, in which a handful of religious groups were subsidized to implement the state's quotas; this is surprising because the United States is a more classical liberal state that does not typically favour such coordinated and managed approaches to policy implementation. The reason lies in part in the different decision-making venues in each country. In the US, immigration policy was created by Congress and the White House, and the cooperation of religious groups was instrumental to the process of passing the first legislation to admit European refugees. In Canada, immigration policy making was concentrated in the Immigration Department and private sponsorship was created as a reluctant partnership between bureaucrats and religious groups, who were granted sponsorship privileges in exchange for assuming some financial responsibility for settlement. Once these different policies, processes, and networks were established, they established pathways that have remained largely unchanged. Ultimately the manuscript offers an explanation for the development of refugee policy that challenges prevalent narratives and offers a fresh analysis of the influential roles played by religious groups in policy-making."-- Provided by publisher Analysis Emigration & Immigration Immigration Migration, immigration & emigration Political science Public Policy Refugees & political asylum SOCIAL SCIENCE Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Refugees -- Government policy -- Canada -- History -- 20th century Refugees -- Government policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Immigration. Emigration and immigration -- Government policy Refugees -- Government policy SUBJECT Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century Subject Canada United States Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780228005995 022800599X 0228006007 9780228006008 9780228005513 0228005515

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