Big Thinking Congress 2014: Catherine Dauvergne

THE END OF SETTLER SOCIETIES AND THE NEW POLITICS OF IMMIGRATION There is no longer any basis, other than history, for saying that settler societies are different in regard to migration than other Western liberal democracies. Instead, a global convergence in migration policies has emerged, and with it a new, mean-spirited, politics of immigration. This change is vitally important at a time when the global pace of migration is higher than ever, and migration aspirations even higher. It is now evident that the idea of a settler society, previously an important landmark in understanding migration, is a thing of the past. What are the consequences of this change for how we imagine immigration? And for how we regulate it? In her Big Thinking lecture, Trudeau Fellow Catherine Dauvergne examines key dimensions of this dramatic shift in the response to the movement of people -- dimensions such as the crisis of asylum, the fear of fundamental Islam, and the demise of multiculturalism. She also stake