UNI320Y: Canadian Questions: Issues and Debates

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UNI320Y Canadian Questions Issues and Debates

• Week 13 Conclusions
• Professor Emily Gilbert
• http//individual.utoronto.ca/emilygilbert/

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Conclusions

1. Exam Format
2. Conclusions

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I Exam Format

• UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
• Faculty of Arts and Science
• APRIL/MAY 2006 EXAMINATIONS
• UNI 320Y Canadian Questions Issues and Debates
• Duration 3 hours
• No Aids Allowed
• This examination is in three parts. Part I is
  worth 30 marks. Part II is worth 30 marks. Part
  III is worth 40 marks. Each part has specific
  instructions please read carefully and answer
  only the number of questions required for each
  part. Additional responses will not be graded.

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• Part I 30 marks total.
• Write a short essay response to either A OR B.
  Your essay should draw upon relevant examples
  from the course lectures, discussion, and
  assigned readings.
• Part II 30 marks total.
• Write a short essay response to either A OR B.
  Your essay should draw upon relevant examples
  from the course lectures, discussion, and
  assigned readings.
• Part III. 40 marks total.
• This essay offers you a chance to think broadly
  about Canadian citizenship past and present, and
  to offer your prognosis for citizenship in the
  future.

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II Conclusions

• Citizenship comprises
• Membership in a political community
• Participation in deliberative decision-making
• Rights and responsibilities
• Forms of citizenship
• Legal/civil
• Political
• Social
• Mobility?

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• Citizenship
• As a way to mediate between individual and
  community
• As an articulation of principles of liberalism
  (freedom, individualism..)
• As a core principle of democracy
• As an affirmation of nation-state and world
  geopolitical structure
• As facilitating capitalism

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• Contemporary debates
• Rights vs. responsibilities active vs. passive
  citizenship
• Universality vs. difference public vs. private
• The national vs. the global

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• Do all citizens have equal access to achieving
  full citizenship?
• Are there barriers to full citizenship?
• Does differentiated citizenship help or impede
  citizen equality?
• Does multiculturalism encourage full citizenship?
• How is citizenship negotiated? How is difference
  recognized?
• Whose claims are recognized?
• By whom?
• What spaces are available for negotiating
  difference?

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• How is citizenship regulated?
• Education
• Law
• Work
• Immigration
• Health
• Where is citizenship regulated?
• Private spaces
• Public spaces
• Borders
• How are non-citizens treated?
• Landed residents
• Contract labour migrant workers, domestic
  workers
• Illegal immigrants
• Non-nationals

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• Who is the ideal citizen?
• Rational, universal (male) citizens?
• Dual citizens? Flexible citizens? Global
  citizens?
• Economic citizens?
• Multicultural citizens? Hybrid citizens?
• Safe citizens? Secure citizens?
• Compliant citizens?
• Normal citizens?

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• Who can be a citizen and how full citizenship is
  or can be realized are crucial social and
  political questions in contemporary Canada
• What decisions are taken on these issues will
  make a huge difference to what kind of society we
  live in