FACULTY OF CULTURE AND SOCIETY | Seminar
Migration seminar: Immigration and Identity in Colonial Settler Societies
Thursday 19 September, 14:15 - 16:00
Niagara 9th floor, Nordenskiöldsgatan 1, or zoom
Welcome to the MIM Migration Seminar!
Immigration and Identity in Colonial Settler Societies: Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada and Australia
Profile
Paul Spoonley, Distinguished Professor, Massey University, New Zealand
Abstract
Colonial settler societies such as Aotearoa New Zealand have relied on immigration (from Europe during colonisation) to build nation-states, and this is typically alongside the dispossession and marginalisation of indigenous communities and the selective recruitment and acceptance of particular source country immigrants.
In the second half of the twentieth century, all three societies sought to recognise immigrant and ethnic minority communities in new ways (or indigenous communities in New Zealand’s case) as part of a project of social and cultural recognition and inclusion. All three have developed points systems which approve certain immigrants on the basis of what they can contribute – economically – to the society. And all three qualify as superdiverse in terms of the ethnic make-up of the population nationally with cities such as Auckland, Toronto and Sydney being among the most superdiverse globally.
Attendance
This is a hybrid seminar, you are welcome to connect via Zoom or join us at MIM seminar room, floor 9, Niagara, Nordenskiöldsgatan 1. To attend on campus, please gather by the reception area at 14.10.
If you have any questions, send an email mim@mau.se
