ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on two aspects of the settlement movement. The first focus is on the Canadian settlement movement, which has received hardly any attention as yet, especially in an international context. The second focus is on a particular aspect of translating the idea of settlements. The members of the Presbyterian Church were one of the first groups in Canada to engage intensively with the settlement movement. On the basis of a brief theoretical positioning regarding border-crossing knowledge production in social work, the chapter focused on the significance of the immigrant problem when it came to implementing the settlement approach in Canada before summing up some of the key structural features of that translation process. Transnational Studies are based on the assumption that there is a need to investigate the continuous border-crossing connections and practices which are shaped, although not determined, by national contexts.
