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Making and unmaking nations: war, leadership, and genocide in modern Africa

Migration and Integration, and graduate programmes in immigration and settlement services. This book is now part of that legacy as well. The book reflects the strengths and limitations of the Metropolis project more generally. First, it is applied research and, with one or two exceptions, the papers do not seek to make theoretical contributions. The research is empirical, rooted in the experience of immigrants themselves, and immigrants’ own voices ring out clearly in many of the papers. Second, while the research draws on both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, the predominant approach is qualitative. A number of papers draw on quantitative data, but only a handful employ regression analysis to dig more deeply into the relationships at work in the area under investigation. This undoubtedly increases the accessibility of the book to non-specialist readers. But it also represents a gap in the extent to which the book reflects the full range of immigration research in Canada. Relatedly, despite the representation of 20 academic disciplines, work by economists is virtually absent from these pages. This may reflect the marked preference among economists for publishing in journals rather than edited books. But this disciplinary divide also permeates the immigration sector more generally. Economists have made important contributions to immigration policy debates, and their research has been influential in government circles. For example, their work has been important in the debate about why recent cohorts of immigrants to Canada have experienced greater difficulty in the labour market despite having stronger educational credentials than their predecessors. But their work has tended to proceed in a separate academic silo. This disciplinary divide is hardly unique to this volume, or even to the immigration sector. But it is unfortunate. Economists and other social scientists have much to learn from each other. Despite the gaps, this book provides a wealth of information about the lived experience of immigrants in Canada and the consequences of policies designed, too often, in closed rooms in distant capitals. Scholars and practitioners alike will find much useful reading here.