ABSTRACT
This chapter describes and evaluates the state of the literature on local immigration policy making and governance in Canada. Its central contribution is to document and develop typologies to depict variation in municipal approaches to immigration policy and governance from a variety of comparative standpoints, an important consequence of which has been to highlight the importance of municipalities and local contexts to this policy field. Since less attention has been paid to explaining variation in local immigration policies in a theoretically systematic way, the chapter advocates for comparative approaches that engage with the general literature on urban governance and that include both subnational and cross-national comparisons.
