TY - JOUR
T1 - Brokering identity and learning citizenship
T2 - Immigration settlement organizations and new Chinese immigrants in Canada
AU - ZHU, Yidan
PY - 2015/9/21
Y1 - 2015/9/21
N2 - This paper examines citizenship learning and identity construction of new Chinese immigrants in a Canadian immigration settlement organization (ISO). I address the gap between the concept of “settlement” and “citizenship” generated by government-funded ISOs and new immigrants’ actual practices in these programs. I adopt Dorothy Smith’s approach of examining the social organization of people’s everyday lives (Smith 2005) in order to unpack the ruling relations behind the immigrant settlement services and to take the standpoint of Chinese new immigrants. Under this framework, I analyze a Canadian federal government’s funding criteria for ISOs and a settlement program’s annual report to unpack the ruling relations behind the texts. I further conduct in-depth interviews with two Chinese new immigrants in a Canadian ISO to understand the ruling relations behind citizenship learning and brokering activities in Canadian ISOs from the immigrants’ standpoint.
AB - This paper examines citizenship learning and identity construction of new Chinese immigrants in a Canadian immigration settlement organization (ISO). I address the gap between the concept of “settlement” and “citizenship” generated by government-funded ISOs and new immigrants’ actual practices in these programs. I adopt Dorothy Smith’s approach of examining the social organization of people’s everyday lives (Smith 2005) in order to unpack the ruling relations behind the immigrant settlement services and to take the standpoint of Chinese new immigrants. Under this framework, I analyze a Canadian federal government’s funding criteria for ISOs and a settlement program’s annual report to unpack the ruling relations behind the texts. I further conduct in-depth interviews with two Chinese new immigrants in a Canadian ISO to understand the ruling relations behind citizenship learning and brokering activities in Canadian ISOs from the immigrants’ standpoint.
KW - Citizenship learning
KW - Identity
KW - Ruling relations
KW - Standpoint
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84941881573&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2390/jsse-v14-i3-1403
DO - 10.2390/jsse-v14-i3-1403
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
AN - SCOPUS:84941881573
VL - 14
SP - 9
EP - 19
JO - Journal of Social Science Education
JF - Journal of Social Science Education
SN - 1618-5293
IS - 3
ER -