1. UNI320Y: Canadian Questions: Issues and Debates Week 13: Conclusions Professor Emily Gilbert http://individual.utoronto.ca/emilygilbert/

2. Conclusions I.Exam Format II.Conclusions

3. I: Exam Format UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO Faculty of Arts and Science APRIL/MAY 2006 EXAMINATIONS UNI 320Y Canadian Questions: Issues and Debates Duration – 3 hours No Aids Allowed This examination is in three parts. Part I is worth 30 marks. Part II is worth 30 marks. Part III is worth 40 marks. Each part has specific instructions: please read carefully and answer only the number of questions required for each part. Additional responses will not be graded.

4. Part I: 30 marks total. Write a short essay response to either A OR B. Your essay should draw upon relevant examples from the course lectures, discussion, and assigned readings. Part II: 30 marks total. Write a short essay response to either A OR B. Your essay should draw upon relevant examples from the course lectures, discussion, and assigned readings. Part III. 40 marks total. This essay offers you a chance to think broadly about Canadian citizenship past and present, and to offer your prognosis for citizenship in the future.

5. II: Conclusions  Citizenship comprises 1.Membership in a political community 2.Participation in deliberative decision- making 3.Rights and responsibilities  Forms of citizenship Legal/civil Political Social Mobility?

6.  Citizenship As a way to mediate between individual and community As an articulation of principles of liberalism (freedom, individualism..) As a core principle of democracy As an affirmation of nation-state and world geopolitical structure As facilitating capitalism

7.  Contemporary debates Rights vs. responsibilities; active vs. passive citizenship Universality vs. difference; public vs. private The national vs. the global

8.  Do all citizens have equal access to achieving full citizenship? Are there barriers to full citizenship? Does differentiated citizenship help or impede citizen equality? Does multiculturalism encourage full citizenship?  How is citizenship negotiated? How is difference recognized? Whose claims are recognized? By whom? What spaces are available for negotiating difference?

9.  How is citizenship regulated? Education Law Work Immigration Health  Where is citizenship regulated? Private spaces Public spaces Borders  How are non-citizens treated? Landed residents Contract labour: migrant workers, domestic workers… Illegal immigrants Non-nationals

10.  Who is the ideal citizen? Rational, universal (male) citizens? Dual citizens? Flexible citizens? Global citizens? Economic citizens? Multicultural citizens? Hybrid citizens? Safe citizens? Secure citizens? Compliant citizens? ‘Normal’ citizens?

11. Who can be a citizen and how full citizenship is or can be realized are crucial social and political questions in contemporary Canada What decisions are taken on these issues will make a huge difference to what kind of society we live in