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‘Birth Tourism,’ Citizenship, and the Politics of Deservingness in Canada: Analyzing Parliamentary and Newspaper Media Discourses from 1990 to 2021
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This thesis examines a phenomenon that has been controversially labeled as ‘birth tourism’ in the Canadian context. Allegedly, pregnant women from other countries are coming to Canada solely for the purpose of giving birth to their children. This is ostensibly so that the child gains Canadian...
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‘Doesn’t anyone want to pick a fight with me?’: masculinity in political humour about the 2008 Canadian federal election
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This study explores the relationship between masculinity and political leadership as it was constructed in political humour about the 2008 Canadian federal election. I used content and discourse analysis methods to examine gendered depictions of the two frontrunners in that election – Stéphane...
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2017-06-03
In 2014 Jennifer Cramblett, a white lesbian, filed a Complaint forWrongful Birth alleging that the Midwest Sperm Bank mistakenly provided sperm from an African–American donor. In this article, we trace the complex and over-lapping lines of legal and social inheritance that have conditioned not...
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Fall 2019
This dissertation aims to disentangle how the idea of, what I am calling, achievement as accountability has come into being and works within existing deficit narratives around who is seen to be capable in mathematics education. In particular, I interrogate U.S. federal education legislation and...
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An Intersectional Feminist Analysis Towards Student Body Image Dis/satisfaction in Alberta Schools
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Scholars have argued that anti-obesity health discourses currently pervade Canadian schools and detrimentally impact students’ mental and physical health (Robertson & Scheidler-Benns, 2016). Although schools across the country ubiquitously deploy these discourses, it is important to understand...
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2019-08-05
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine how Canadian female politicians experience harassment on Twitter, and the management strategies they have developed to deal with harassment. Design - Applying a feminist lens, I used a qualitative/quantitative online survey to ask Canadian female...
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Black *and Foreign* in the Ivory: Exploring the sociopolitical integration of Black international students in Alberta, Canada
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Over the last three decades, the number of students pursuing higher education outside of their country of citizenship (international students) has increased five-fold (The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2022). In that same period Canada has become a popular attraction of...
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2021-04-29
Recent controversies in Canadian librarianship—the Toronto Public Library room rental to a "gender-critical feminist" group and the institution of “airport-style” security at the Winnipeg Public Library—have exposed divisions within the profession. This article attempts to untangle the...
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Spring 2016
Have Canadian citizenship discourses and practices fundamentally changed after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001? This is the question driving this study. While dominant accounts suggest that 9/11 was wholly transformative, there is no clear consensus both in and outside the academy...
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Spring 2021
Political memes were omnipresent on social media during the 2019 Canadian federal election. Nonetheless, how do political memes affect Canadian voters? This question remains unanswered today. This thesis seeks to fill in the existing research gap by following the footsteps and methodology used by...