Decolonizing Immigration

^{Guswenta Two Row Wampum Belt (cropped image), source: flickr (external link, opens in new window)} 

In Canada, immigration and settlement are inherently related to Indigenous genocide, displacement, and land appropriation. Yet, in policy development and public debate, both topics are rarely connected with each other. This ongoing project seeks to address this gap.

In the Media

• Indigenous Input Vital to a Just Immigration Policy (external link)  (The Toronto Star, 2020)
• Ryerson history begins with Indigenous history (external link, opens in new window)  by Breanna Xavier-Carter, the Ryersonian.

Acadmic Publications

• Perzyna, M.* and Bauder, H. (2022) Threats from Within and from Without: Wet'suwet'en Protesters, Irregular Asylum Seekers and On-Going Setttler Colonialism in Canada (external link) . Settler Colonial Studies. Early view. 
• Bauder, H. and Mueller, B. (2021)  (PDF file) Immigration Policy in Times of Indigenous Reconciliation. RCIS/CERC Working Paper 2021/12, 11 pp. 
• Bauder, H. and Mueller, R. (2021) Westphalian Vs. Indigenous Sovereignty: Challening Colonial Territorial Governance (external link) . Geopolitics. Early view.
• Bauder, H. (2019) Connecting immigration to Canada’s Indigenous past and present. Spotlight on Migration 2019/2.
  
• Reesor, R. and Bauder, H. (2019) "Building Relationships between Newcomers and Indigenous Peoples." In Bauder, H., ed. The Promise of Migation (opens in new window) , p. 27-34.
  
• Bauder, H. (2011) Closing the Immigration-Aboriginal Parallax Gap (external link) . Geoforum 42: 517–519.

Student Major Research Papers

• Kaur, G. (2021) Re-assessing Early Sikh Migration Histories on Turtle Island: An Anti-C0lonial and Critical Solidarity Perspective.  
• Grewal Gill, H. (2019) Decolonizing ‘Integration’: A Post-Colonial Analysis of Immigration ‘Integration’ in Canada and Germany.
• Reesor, R. (2019) Canada’s Welcomers of Canada: Building Relationships between Newcomer Settlement Organizations and Indigenous Organizations and Peoples.
• Dmytriw, A. (2016) Decolonizing Immigration: Addressing Missing Indigenous Persepctives in Canadian Immigration Policies.
• Root, J. (2014) Bridging the Parallax Gap: Settler Colonialism and the Relationship between Indigenous Peoples and Racialized Migrants in Canada.  

Resources

• Indigenous City Field Trip (opens in new window)