John Carlaw
John Carlaw is Senior Research Associate under the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration program at Toronto Metropolitan University and teaches in the Department of Political Science at Glendon College, York University.
His research examines continuity and change in the politics of citizenship, immigration and multiculturalism. He seeks to identify and comparatively analyze evolving and competing political-economic projects and narratives that play an important part in framing and shaping Canada’s (im)migration present and future. He has recently been awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2023-2025) to pursue this research through a project entitled “Contemporary Paradoxes and Struggles of Migration and Belonging in Canada.” He is also completing a book manuscript entitled Neoconservative Multiculturalism: The Conservative Party of Canada and the Politics of Citizenship, Migration and Multiculturalism in Settler Colonial Canada.
Recent Publications
Carlaw, J. & Winter, E. (2022). Conservatism and the Re-Communitarianization of Citizenship in Canada (external link) . Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 1-21.
Carlaw, J. (2022). Blunt talk or faux outrage? The politics of expanding migrant worker programs under Canada’s former Conservative government (2006–2015). (external link) Studies in Political Economy, 102(3), 331-353.
Carlaw, J. (2021). (PDF file) Unity in Diversity? Neoconservative Multiculturalism and the Conservative Party of Canada.