Mireille Paquet, PhD

Associate Professor, Political Science
Concordia University Research Chair on the Politics of Immigration

Research areas: Immigration, Public Policy, Public Policy and Canadian politics.

Contact information

Email:

mireille.paquet@concordia.ca

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Biography

Education

PhD (Université de Montreal)
I am a political scientist and I conduct research on immigration policy and politics in Canada, North America and Australia. I am interested in how political institutions and bureaucracies affect the content of immigration policy and the role of these institutions in immigration politics. My current projects focus on the new politics of immigration in Canada, the role of immigration departments in contemporary immigration debates and parties' positioning immigration-related issues.

I am the Concordia University Research Chair on the Politics of Immigration. I lead the Équipe de recherche sur l'immigration au Québec et ailleurs (ÉRIQA) and collaborate on the Initiative de recherche sur l'immigration (IRI)

I am interested in supervising graduate students and honors thesis in the following areas: immigration policies and politics, theories of immigration and integration, media and politics as well as policy development and implementation.

Je parle français et suis heureuse de superviser des étudiantes et étudiants souhaitant travailler dans cette langue.

Research interests

Immigration politics, immigration policies, public policy and public administration, federalism, Canadian and Quebec politics.

Other faculty and professional positions

Équipe de recherche sur l'immigration dans le Québec Actuel (ÉRIQA)
Centre de recherche sur interdisciplinaire sur la diversité et la démocratie (CRIDAQ)
Building Migrant Resilience in Cities (BMRC)/ Immigration et résilience en milieu urbain (IRMU)
Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion
Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires en études montréalaises (CRIEM)
Institut Convergences Migration

Province Building and the Federalization of Immigration in Canada (2019)

Citizenship as a Regime Canadian and International Perspectives (2018). Edited by Mireille Paquet, Nora Nagels and Aude-Claire Fourot

La fédéralisation de l'immigration au Canada (2016)

Selected publications

Books

Paquet, Mireille. 2019. Province Building and the Federalization of Immigration in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Paquet, Mireille, Nora Nagels, and Aude-Claire Fourot, eds. 2018. Citizenship as a Regime: Canadian and International Perspectives. Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Paquet, Mireille. 2016. La fédéralisation de l’immigration au Canada. Montréal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal.

Special Issue

2020. “A New Politics? Symposium on Dauvergne’s The New Politics and the End of Settler Societies”, International Migration 58(6): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14682435/2020/58/6

Avec Camille Hamidi. 2019. «Redessiner les contours de l’État : la mise en oeuvre des politiques migratoires», Lien Social et Politique 83 (2019):

https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/lsp/2019-n83-lsp04994/

Articles

Andrea Lawlor and Mireille Paquet. 2021. " Deservingness in context: perspectives toward refugees and asylum seekers in Canada." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2021.1994376

Mireille Paquet. 2021. "Researching, Monitoring, and Managing: Immigration Policy Work in Canada." American Review of Canadian Studies, 51:1, 62-77.

Erin Tolley and Mireille Paquet. 2021. "Gender, municipal party politics, and Montreal’s first woman mayor." Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 30: 1, 40-52, http://cjur.uwinnipeg.ca/index.php/cjur/article/view/323

André Lecours, Daniel Béland, Alan Fenna, Tracy Beck Fenwick, Mireille Paquet, Philip Rocco, Alex Waddan. 2021. "Explaining Intergovernmental Conflict in the COVID-19 Crisis: The United States, Canada, and Australia." Publius: The Journal of Federalism,

https://doi.org/10.1093/publius/pjab010

Paquet, Mireille. 2020. “Immigration, Bureaucracies and Policy Formulation: The Case of Quebec.” International Migration 58 (1): 166-181.

Paquet, Mireille and Catherine Xhardez. 2020,. "Immigrant integration policies when regions decide ‘who comes in’: the case of Canadian provinces." Regional Studies (2020): 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2020.1808881

Xhardez, Catherine and Mireille Paquet. 2020. "Beyond the Usual Suspects and Towards Politicisation: Immigration in Quebec’s Party Manifestos, 1991–2018." Journal of international migration and integration (2020): 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-020-00764-3

Paquet, Mireille and Robert Schertzer. 2020. "COVID-19 as a Complex Intergovernmental Problem. " Canadian Journal of Political Science 53 (2): 343-347. doi:10.1017/S0008423920000281

Paquet, Mireille. 2020. « La « sélection efficace » des immigrants : paradigme de la mobilité et légitimité de l’État québécois.» Diversité urbaine 20 (1). https://doi.org/10.7202/1068222ar
Daniel, André Lecours, Mireille Paquet and Trevor Tombe. 2020. "A Critical Juncture in Fiscal Federalism? Canada’s Response to COVID-19. " Canadian Journal of Political Science 53(2) : 239-243. doi:10.1017/S0008423920000323

Hamidi, Camille et Mireille Paquet. 2019. « Redessiner les contours de l’État : la mise en oeuvre des politiques migratoires.» Lien social et politiques, https://bit.ly/2P3j7do

Paquet, Mireille. 2019. "Subnational Migration States and the New Politics of Immigration." International Migration, 10.1111/imig.12649
Paquet, Mireille and Lindsay Larios. 2018. "Venue Shopping and Legitimacy: Making sense of Harper’s Immigration Record. " Canadian Journal of Political Science, 51 (4), 817-836. doi:10.1017/S0008423918000331

Paquet, Mireille. 2017. «Aux États-Unis, des villes sanctuaires.» Plein droit 115 (décembre): 11-14.

Paquet, Mireille. 2017. "Wicked problem definition and gradual institutional change: federalism and immigration in Canada and Australia. " Policy and Society 36(3): 446-463, 10.1080/14494035.2017.1361638

Paquet, Mireille and Jörg Broscheck. 2017. "This Is Not a Turn: Canadian Political Science and Social Mechanisms." Canadian Journal of Political Science 50 (1): 295-310. doi:10.1017/S0008423917000038

Paquet, Mireille. 2015. "Bureaucrats as Immigration Policy-makers: The Case of Subnational Immigration Activism in Canada, 1990–2010. " Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 41(11): 1815-1835, 10.1080/1369183X.2015.1023185

Paquet, Mireille. 2014. " La construction provinciale comme mécanisme : le cas de l’immigration au Manitoba. " Politique et sociétés 33 (3): 101-103. http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1027942ar

Paquet, Mireille. 2014. "The Federalization of Immigration and Integration in Canada." Canadian Journal of Political Science 47(3), 519-548. doi:10.1017/S0008423914000766

Paquet, Mireille. 2014. "Bringing the Bureaucrats Back In." Newsletter of the American Political Science Association Organized Section on Migration and Citizenship (2)1: 53-57.

Paquet, Mireille. 2012. "Beyond Appearances: Citizenship Tests in Canada and the UK." Journal of International Migration and Integration 13 (2) : 243-260. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-011-0233-1

For a complete list of publications, visit : https://mireillepaquet.net/

Teaching activities

POLI 328 Public Policy and Politics of Equality

POLI 341 Provincial and Territorial Politics

POLI 352 Principles of Public Policies

POLI 489G Immigration, Integration and the State

POLI 636 Theories of Public Policy and Public Administration

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Recent media appearances

I am available to comment and share my expertise – in English et français – on political events in Canada and on immigration-related matters.

You can view my media profile on ExpertWomen.ca and follow me on Twitter at @mireille_paquet.