Mireille Paquet
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science Concordia University
- Montreal QC
I work on immigration in Canada, Canadian and Quebec politics, public administration, equality and feminism. Francophone et bilingue!
Media
Social
Biography
I am a political scientist with an expertise in Canadian politics, public policy and immigration. I also conduct research on provincial politics (Quebec but mostly all Canadian provinces) and am an active observer of federal and municipal politics. I am recognized for my capacity to explain and analyze Quebec politics for non-Quebec audience.
Je suis une politologue détenant une expertise en immigration, en politiques publiques et politique canadienne. J'effectue aussi des recherches sur les provinces (le Québec et les autres provinces) et je suis activement la politique fédérale et municipale.
Bio officielle:
Mireille Paquet studies public policies for immigrant selection and immigrant integration in Canada and in other traditional immigrant-receiving societies. She directs the Centre for Immigration Policy Evaluation (CIPE). Her current work – funded by the SSHRC and by the FQRSC – focuses on the governance of immigration and integration policies in federal regimes (Canada, United States and Australia), with a specific attention to the activism and activities of subnational units. Dr. Paquet is also conducting research on public administration and immigration, and is especially interested in the role of public servant in the formulation of immigrant selection policies. In the past, she has also conducted research on citizenship policy, citizenship tests and civic integration, immigration integration in Canada and on policies to attract and integrate newcomers in francophone minority communities.
Je suis francophone et trop bilingue !
Areas of Expertise
Accomplishments
Concordia University Research Award (Person and Society)
2016-09-01
Concordia’s University Research Award winners are selected for their exceptional achievements and their contributions to advancing knowledge, building a productive training environment for students and increasing the university’s visibility as a research institution
http://www.concordia.ca/cunews/main/stories/2016/08/02/9-outstanding-researchers-university-research-award-petro-canada-young-innovator-award-recipients.html
Expert Commentators of the Year
2016-09-08
President’s Media Outreach Awards and Concordia University Communications Services
Prix Pierre Le François
Meilleure thèse en science politique, département de science politique, Université de Montréal
Education
Université de Montréal
PhD
Political Science
2013
Affiliations
- Center for Immigration Policy Evaluation (CIPE)
- Centre pour l'évaluation des politiques d'immigration (CEPI)
- Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la diversité (CRIDAQ)
Links
Languages
- English
- Français
Media Appearances
Couillard distances his team from Normandeau
CTV News tv
2016-03-18
Interview regarding the Quebec Premier's reaction to accusations of corruption toward Nathalie Normandeau.
Waves of feminism collide between Clinton and Sanders supporters
The Current (CBC Radio) radio
2016-02-09
In the wake of Gloria Steinem's comments about young feminist during Hillary Clinton's bid for the presidential nomination, I discussed the multiple streams of feminism present in contemporary politics.
Justin Trudeau looks to maintain momentum, limit risk during French debate
CBC News tv
2015-09-24
Discussion of Trudeau's strategies in preparation for the French-language debate.
5 themes to watch for at the leaders' French-language debate
CTV National News tv
2015-03-24
Discussion about what to expect during the 2015 leaders' French-Language debate.
Quebec Election Campaign
CTV National News tv
2014-09-24
Discussion of the 2014 Quebec election.
Ibbitson, John. Canada's electoral geography: Where parties are likely to gain seats; The country is comprised of five political regions: Atlantic Canada, Quebec, Ontario, the Prairies and B.C.
The Globe and Mail print
2015-09-02
Interviewed as part of John Ibbitson's analysis of the geography of the 2015 election.
Les travailleurs nés au pays avantagés en matière d'emploi (Jean-Philippe Boudreau)
La Presse print
2014-08-07
Discussion de l'impact des changements aux politiques fédérales de sélection des immigrants sur l'intégration économique de ces derniers.
Plus difficile de devenir Canadien (Annabelle Blais)
La Presse print
2014-07-21
Interview sur les changements apportés par le gouvernement fédéral aux procédures de naturalisation.
Les demandes de citoyenneté approuvées en baisse de 50 % (Annabelle Blais)
La Presse print
2014-07-21
Discussion de l'effet des changements aux politiques de naturalisation et de citoyenneté du gouvernement fédéral.
Québec Solidaire boasts highest number of female candidates Coalition Avenir Québec falls behind other main political parties with 23% female candidates
CBC News online
2014-03-19
Discussion of female candidate in the 2014 Quebec election.
Thousands gather in Montreal to protest charter of Quebec values
CTV News tv
2013-09-13
Interviewed to discuss societal responses to the proposals to establish a charter of Quebec values.
Articles
The Federalization of Immigration and Integration in Canada
Canadian Journal of Political Science2014-09-01
Between 1990 and 2010, a gradual process of institutional change has affected Canada's immigration and integration governance regime. The central characteristic of this process is the emergence of a new legitimate institutional group of actors: Canadian provinces. This change corresponds to a federalization of Canada's immigration and integration governance regime. It is a break from the previous pattern of federal dominance and provincial avoidance. It is not the result of diminished federal intervention in immigration and cannot be explained by exogenous shocks. Current explanations of this evolution focus on federal decisions and have trouble explaining provincial mobilization. Using a mechanistic approach to the analysis of social processes and insights on gradual institutional changes, this article demonstrates that provinces have been the central agents bringing about the federalization of Canada's immigration and integration governance regime between 1990 and 2010. Via a mechanism of province building centred on immigration, provinces have triggered and maintained in movement a decentralizing mechanism. The interactions of these two mechanisms, over time, gave rise to the federalization of immigration and integration in Canada.
La construction provinciale comme mécanisme: le cas de l’immigration au Manitoba
Politique et Sociétés2014-03-03
Dans le cadre d’une analyse de la croissance des activités en immigration et en intégration de tous les gouvernements provinciaux depuis le début des années 1990, cet article propose une revitalisation de la notion de « construction provinciale ». En prenant comme point de départ les critiques de Robert A. Young, Philippe Faucher et André Blais (1984), il y est suggéré de repositionner la construction provinciale en tant que mécanisme social. Par le biais de cette approche mécanistique et suivant l’observation du mécanisme dans dix cas, il est avancé que le mécanisme de construction provinciale opère par le biais de trois composantes à l’échelle d’une province – l’activation, la consensualisation et l’institutionnalisation – et produit des effets variables, en fonction du contexte dans lequel il est enclenché. Le potentiel heuristique de cette approche est illustré en retraçant comment un mécanisme de construction provinciale centré sur l’immigration s’est mis en mouvement au Manitoba à partir des années 1990.
Bureaucrats as Immigration Policy-makers: The Case of Subnational Immigration Activism in Canada, 1990–2010
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies2015-09-19
Since the 1990s, subnational governments in Canada have become increasingly active towards immigrant selection and immigration integration. In dialogue with scholarship on immigration policy-making and public administration, this article demonstrates that bureaucrats, acting as policy entrepreneurs, have been instrumental in initiating subnational immigration activism in Canada between 1990 and 2010. By studying immigration policy-making ‘from the ground up’, three types of entrepreneurs are identified based on empirical research in the 10 Canadian provinces: classical entrepreneur, policy puzzler and diagonal innovator. New research questions are generated by the demonstration that subnational immigration politics in Canada is a form of client of mode politics, but where clients are absent and where independent within state actors are the moving forces.
Beyond appearances: citizenship tests in Canada and the UK
Journal of International Migration and Integration2012-05-02
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