Family reunification? : a critical analysis of Citizenship and Immigration Canada's 2013 reforms to the Family Class

Summary: The family reunification project is part of the campaign titled "My Canada Includes All Families", which involves a coalition of community-based organizations that include the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants (OCASI), the Ryerson Centre for Immigration and Settlement (RCIS), Metro Toronto Chinese & Southeast Asian Legal Clinic (MTCSALC), and the South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario. The purpose of the project is to oppose the 2013 proposal by Citizenship and Immigration Canada to continue reforms to the Family Class. The project argues that such changes undermine the value of family in Canada by redefining family reunification as being important only insofar as it maximizes economic outcomes. The project also asserts that in so doing, these changes disproportionately impact racialized communities by furthering the current socio-economic divide between racialized and non-racialized communities.