CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Sellers, Iain |
|---|---|
| Title | A Threat to the Nation? Ideational Policy Stabilization and Quebec's Approach to Immigration |
| Summary | This thesis aims to investigate how immigration discourse and policy has been contested by elites in the minority-majority region of Quebec since 1991. As a result of failures by the Canadian government to enact constitutional reform in the 1990s, Quebec was allotted significant power to decide who can immigrate into the region through the Quebec-Canada Accord. This thesis explores elites’ ideational conceptualizations of immigration in the wake of this agreement through a longitudinal content analysis of the discourse and policy from committee meetings in the Quebec legislature. The analysis of this data reveals that elites’ have a stable cross-party ideational disposition to frame immigration as a positive benefit to Quebec society except for facets of immigration which fall under federal jurisdiction. Consequently, these results contend that, even though there may be a stabilization of ideational conceptions of immigration broadly in Quebec, this ideational conceptualization may have its limits. |
| Supervisor | Bochsler, Daniel |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/sellers_iain.pdf |
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