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I have read works by Monica Boyd, Catherine Dauvergne, Christina Gabriel, Lesleyanne Hawthorne, Eleonore Kofman, Audrey Macklin and Parvati Raghuram in the gender and immigration policy fields. Focusing not only on the economic but also the emotional and human side of immigration policies, particularly their effect on female immigrants, these scholars have inspired me in my research on the gender dimensions of contemporary immigration selection.
Like much work on immigration, the research for this book involved a significant amount of travel. There are many people to thank, in several different countries. During my first stay in Canada in 2008, I was provided an office in the Gender Studies Department at Carleton University and was a visiting scholar in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. The senior archivists at the National Archives Canada and the National Womens Archives at the University of Ottawa were extremely helpful in assisting me in accessing relevant closed files. During my second stay in Canada in 2013, I was provided with a lovely office in the School of Political Science at the University of Ottawa and the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Christina Gabriel, Randall Hansen and Larry LeDuc assisted in arranging these positions. Thanks to Prue Dhomme of the Standing Committee of Citizenship and Immigration who provided full access to briefs presented before the Committee in its 2009 Inquiry into Temporary Foreign Workers. Judy Bernstein and Carol English provided housing in Ottawa in 2008.
In Canberra, particular thanks to David Smith and his colleagues of the Statistics Unit within the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) who compiled and provided me with gender-disaggregated admissions data and other unpublished statistics. The librarians at the DIAC library were also extremely helpful in locating old statistical reports during my first stay in Canberra in 2009. Over this period, I was gratefully a visiting fellow at the National Europe Centre at the Australian National University in 2008 and in the Research School of Political Science in 2013. Alice and Michael Kingsland provided friendly and affordable accommodation in Canberra in 2009.
I have been fortunate to receive funding for this project from the following sources: The Commonwealth Fellowship, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the International Council of Canadian Studies, the University of London Central Research Fund, the Zeit-Ebelin Bucerius Scholarship in Migration Studies, the National Europe Centre at the Australian National University, the Institute of Public Administration and the University of Canberras Public Administration Trust Fund Grant, and the Faculty Support Research Scheme and Special Study Period Support from the University of Sydneys Faculty of Arts and Social Science. A particular thanks goes to the Zeit-Ebelin Bucerius Scholarship. In addition to the financial support this fund provided, it has allowed me to gain insights from both established migration scholars, as well as emerging researchers in the field, including Hamutal Bernstein, Anne Hartung and Abigail Williamson.
At the LSE where I completed my doctorate, thanks to Michael Bruter, Justin Gest, Simon Hix, Jane Lewis, Sarah McLaughlin, Edward Page, Julia Pomares, Mike Seiferling, Matt Skellern, Eiko Thielemann, Nick Vivyan, Markus Wagner and the LSE Interlibrary Loans team. Australian colleagues have offered useful insights on methodology and argument in particular: Susan Banki, Betsi Beem, Deborah Brennan, Terry Carney, Louise Chappell, Charlotte Epstein, Graeme Gill, Dimitria Groutis, Megan MacKenzie, Allan McConnell, John Mikler, Pippa Norris, Stuart Rosewarne, Simon Tormey, Di Van DenBroek, Ariadne Vromen, Chris Warhurst, Colin White and Chris Wright. Skilled migration experts Lucie Cerna and Lesleyanne Hawthorne provided useful expert feedback on several chapters. Excellent research assistance was provided by Emma Franklin, Daniel Ghezelbash, Max Grmping, Aaron Roper and Catrina Yu. The chapters of this book benefited from feedback in presentations and seminars in the Departments of Sociology and Work and Organizational Studies at the University of Sydney and from comments from colleagues at the European Conference on Politics and Gender in Belfast in 2009 and in Budapest in 2011, the American Political Science Association General Meeting in Chicago in 2013, the Australian National University Research School of Politics and International Relations Seminar Series in Canberra in 2013, the International Organization for Migration meeting on skilled immigration and gender in Geneva in 2014 and the Institute for International Migration workshop on skilled immigration at Oxford University, also in 2014.
Thanks to Tony Mason of Manchester University Press for helpful advice and guidance through the review process.
To the 128 anonymous elite interviewees in both Australia and Canada who participated in the production of this book by giving their time and knowledge, thank you. Without your help, many of the events analysed in this book would not be covered and my understanding of immigration policy in Australia and Canada would be greatly diminished.
republishes some parts of Anna Boucher (2013) Bureaucratic Control and Policy Change: A Comparative Venue Shopping Approach to Skilled Immigration Policies in Australia and Canada, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis 15 (4): 34967.
To my husband Kre Martens and to my parents, Robert and Tessa Boucher, for all the love and support you have given me over the years, I am very grateful.
