Co-founder and co-director of the Centre for Immigration Policy Evaluation (CIPE)
I am a political scientist and I conduct research on immigration policy and politics in Canada, North America and Australia. I am interested in how political institutions and bureaucracies affect the content of immigration policy. My current projects focus on the new politics of immigration in Canada, the role of immigration departments in contemporary Quebec and Canada and new state responses to emerging immigration challenges.
With Concordia colleagues, I co-founded and co-direct the Centre for Immigration Policy Evaluation (CIPE). In 2017-2018, I am the William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow of the Canada Program at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. In 2016-2017, I was the recipient of the Concordia University Research Awards ("Person and Society").
To learn more about my work, please visit my website: https://mireillepaquet.net
Public policy and public administration, immigration and integration (policies and processes), federalism as well as Canadian and Québec Politics.
- Paquet, M. and Joy, M. 2022. “Canadian Sanctuary Policies in Context.” Canadian Public Administration 1–18.
- Paquet, M., Benoit, N., Atak, I., Joy. M., Hudson, G., and Shields, J. 2022. “Sanctuary Cities and COVID-19: The Case of Canada.” In Triandafyllidou, A. Ed. Migration and Pandemics: Spaces of Solidarity and Spaces of Exception. Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. 85-102.
- Paquet, M., Shields, J., Joy, M., Atak, I., Hudson, G. 2021. “Sanctuary Cities in Canada: Practices, Needs and Policies,” BMRC Research Digest: Spring 2021.
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Mireille Paquet, Nora Nagels and Aude Claire Fourot, eds. CErin Tolley and Mireille Paquet (2021) Gender, municipal party politics, and Montreal’s first woman mayor. Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 30: 1, 40-52
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Mireille Paquet, Nora Nagels and Aude Claire Fourot, eds. CAndré Lecours, Daniel Béland, Alan Fenna, Tracy Beck Fenwick, Mireille Paquet, Philip Rocco, Alex Waddan (2021) Explaining Intergovernmental Conflict in the COVID-19 Crisis: The United States, Canada, and Australia. Publius: The Journal of Federalism, pjab010
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Mireille Paquet, Nora Nagels and Aude Claire Fourot, eds. Citizenship as a Regime: Canadian and International Perspectives. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
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Mireille Paquet. 2016. La fédéralisation de l'immigration au Canada. Montréal: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal.
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Mireille Paquet and Lindsay Larios 2018. “Venue Shopping and Legitimacy: Making sense of Harper’s Immigration Record”. Canadian Journal of Political Science
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Mireille Paquet. 2017. ” Aux États-Unis, des villes sanctuaires.” Plein droit 115 (décembre): 11-14.
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Mireille Paquet. 2017. " Wicked Problem Definition and Gradual Institutional Change: Federalism and Immigration in Canada and Australia." Policy and Society (online first). Open access here.
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Mireille Paquet and Jörg Broscheck. 2017. " This Is Not a Turn: Canadian Political Science and Social Mechanisms." Canadian Journal of Political Science 50 (1): 295-310.
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Mireille Paquet. 2015. " Bureaucrats as Immigration Policy-makers: The Case of Subnational Immigration Activism in Canada, 1990–2010." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2015.1023185
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Mireille Paquet. 2014. “ La construction provinciale comme mécanisme : le cas de l’immigration au Manitoba.” Politique et sociétés 33 (03): 101-103. http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1027942ar
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Mireille Paquet. 2014. "The Federalization of Immigration and Integration in Canada." Canadian Journal of Political Science: 47 519-548. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0008423914000766
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Mireille Paquet. 2014. " Bringing the Bureaucrats Back In." Newsletter of the American Political Science Association Organized Section on Migration and Citizenship (2)1: 53-57.
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Mireille Paquet. 2012. "Beyond Appearances: Citizenship Tests in Canada and the UK ". Journal of International Migration and Integration 13 (2) : 243-260.
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Irene Bloemraad et Mireille Paquet. 2012. "Immigrant Integration in Canada". Dans Rick Valelly, dir., Oxford Bibliographies Online: Political Science. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Mireille Paquet and Sule Tomkinson. 2018. « Petites promesses, réalisations structurantes : les politiques migratoires et le gouvernement Couillard».Dans François Pétry et Lisa Birch, dir., Bilan des réalisations du gouvernement Couillard. 150 promesses et 1 mandat. Québec. Presses de l’Université Laval.
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Jane Jenson and Mireille Paquet. 2019. “Canada’s changing citizenship regime through the lens of immigration and integration”, in
Conferences
- Paquet, M. and Joy, M. “Localist Access Policies: Canadian Municipalities and Sanctuary”, Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference, Vancouver, June 5, 2019.