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The Civil Society Dynamic of Including and Empowering Refugees in Canada’s Urban Centres

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  • Oliver Schmidtke

    (Department of Political Science, University of Victoria, Canada)

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This article addresses the critical role that civil society at the urban level plays in integrating and empowering immigrants and minorities in Canadian society. From a place-based approach, it investigates how key agencies in the local community have been instrumental in including immigrants in general and refugees in particular into the fabric of Canadian society. Empirically the analysis focuses on Neighbourhood Houses in Greater Vancouver and the Privately-Sponsored Refugee program in Canada. With the interpretative lens on the urban context, the article shows how immigrants and refugees have gained agency and voice in the public arena through place-based communities. The insight into these two empirical cases provides the basis for conceptualizing the socio-political dynamics of immigrant settlement and integration in terms of the effects generated by urban governance structures.

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  • Oliver Schmidtke, 2018. "The Civil Society Dynamic of Including and Empowering Refugees in Canada’s Urban Centres," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 6(1), pages 147-156.
    • Handle: RePEc:cog:socinc:v:6:y:2018:i:1:p:147-156
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    1. Taulant Guma & Michael Woods & Sophie Yarker & Jon Anderson, 2019. "“It’s That Kind of Place Here”: Solidarity, Place-Making and Civil Society Response to the 2015 Refugee Crisis in Wales, UK," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 7(2), pages 96-105.
    2. Ali Reza Majlesi & Gunilla Jansson & Silvia Kunitz, 2023. "Migrants’ Inclusion in Civil Societies: The Case of Language Cafés in Sweden," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 11(4), pages 132-144.
    3. Ulrike Hamann & Gökçe Yurdakul, 2018. "The Transformative Forces of Migration: Refugees and the Re-Configuration of Migration Societies," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 6(1), pages 110-114.
    4. Jonas Ideström & Stig Linde, 2019. "Welfare State Supporter and Civil Society Activist: Church of Sweden in the “Refugee Crisis” 2015," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 7(2), pages 4-13.

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