ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the broad theme of migration control by considering some recent shifts in Canadian immigration policy. It explores how a discourse of 'home' and nation prefigure the inclusions and exclusions engendered by immigration policy and practices. The chapter provides an overview of the range of recent reforms to Canada's labour migration regime. It outlines how the analytics of home and nation inform the dynamics and politics of immigration control. The Federal Government of Canada has pledged to increase 2009 immigration levels to allow between 240,000 and 265,000 permanent residents. The chapter considers some of the recent shifts within Canadian immigration policy. It highlights how a desire for those constructed as 'high skilled' has informed some of the inclusions and exclusions of Canadian immigration policy by focusing on the mechanisms that govern the entry of workers to Canada specifically the economic class on the permanent side and the foreign worker designation on the temporary side.
