Description

Foster argues that immigration should be a means for building and strengthening Canadian society and promoting social justice. However, at crucial junctures the underlying principles of "social order" and "social justice" conflict in such a way as to render the immigration system virtually inept.

Canadian immigration today has become a bureaucratic system that has little to do with nation-building principles and a lot to do with red tape. He calls this halting procession of humanity Turnstile Immigration — where select persons gain entry to the promised land only slowly and one by one.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction

1. Notes from the Front

• The New Delhi Shuffle
• Little Tribes and Big Tribes
• The Buffalo Blunder
• Role Conflict and the Equilibrium of Society

2. Turnstile Bureaucrats

• The Frontline Immigration Officer
• The Unofficial Job Description
• The Frontline Versus the Hardline in Immigration
• Frontline Immigration and the Blase Attitude
• Frontline Immigration and Conventional Wisdom
• Frontline Immigration and Insider Knowledge
• Lawyers and Consultants on The Frontline
• The Exercise of Discretionary Power by the Bureaucratic Elite
• The Frontline Immigration Officer's Good-Guy-Bad-Guy Equation
• Immigration as a Machine of Retribution and a Cash Cow

3. A Skilled Society Versus A Learning Society

• Selective Immigration in Historical Context
  
• Biology Versus Life-Chances in Canadian Immigration
• Universal Access and the Recognition of a Common Humanity: The Case of Convention Refugees
• Comprehensive Long-Term Immigration Planning and the Revitalization Motif

4. The Cult of the Expert

• The Structure of Immigration Bureaucracy
• The Philosophy of Management
• Anglophone and Francophone Agenda in Immigration

5. The Macro-Myth of Immigration and Economic Prosperity

• Immigration Research Literature
• The Parallel between Capital Migration and People Migration

6. Ignus Faatus: Economic and Non-Economic Immigration

• The Great Awakening of 1986
• Bureaucratic Strategies for Containing Public Sentiment

7. The Immigration System as an Enabling Technology

• The Blueprint for a Renewed Economy
• Designer Immigration and Technological Flux

8. Democratizing the Administration of Immigration

• Reinventing the Bureaucrat
• Reinventing Government and Capitalism
• Enhanced Interaction and Informed Public Consensus
• Public Participation and Public Accountability
• Endnotes
• References
• Index