Canada Welfare System
① Canada Welfare System: Combining European and American Approaches
② Immigration Status as a Key Determinant in Accessing Social Welfare in Canada
• Time: Feb. 19th, 2024 (Monday) 20:00-21:00
• Location: Online (Please find the Zoom meeting ID on the poster below)
• Speaker: Professor Jill Hanley (McGill University School of Social Work, Canada)
• Host: Associate Professor Julia Shu-Huah Wang, NTUSW
※ This lecture will be conducted in English.
• About the Speaker
Dr. Jill Hanley, Professor at McGill School of Social Work and Scientific Director at SHERPA, focuses on bridging policy-practice gaps for migrant social rights. Her work delves into health, housing, and labor rights for precarious status migrants. Dr. Hanley's goal is to document challenges faced by migrants, empowering community groups and influencing policy change based on this information.
• About the Lecture
The Lecture will begin by reviewing the structure of the Canadian social welfare regime – a system that straddles European and American approaches. Canada’s federal structure, which includes important recognition of English, French and Indigenous rights, puts most of the responsibility for social welfare at the provincial level. I will discuss the pros and cons of provincial jurisdictions, the tensions between universal versus contributory, means-tested and residual welfare provision, and give some examples of how the Canadian welfare state has both expanded and retracted in recent years. I will then turn to my own research, which focuses on the impact of immigration status as a key determinant in access to social rights in Canada (e.g., access to healthcare, housing and labour rights). Given the centrality of migration in Canada’s society, economy and politics, the mobilization of immigration status to exclude a huge number of people from social rights is highly problematic.
※ No prior registration is required, and you are welcome to join online directly.
