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- Title
Non-Citizen Voting Rights and Urban Citizenship in Toronto.
- Authors
Siemiatycki, Myer
- Abstract
This paper examines the current regime of municipal voting rights in Toronto as a problematic expression of urban citizenship. Many residents of Toronto and other Canadian cities are denied the municipal franchise because they are not Canadian citizens. The paper explores recent scholarship and campaigns in Toronto striving to re-define the relationship between migration, citizenship, cities and voting rights. In the process, Toronto has become the first Canadian city to formally endorse non-citizen municipal voting rights. Yet, Toronto lacks the authority to establish its own criteria for the municipal franchise, suggesting that greater municipal autonomy may be a precondition for more inclusive urban citizenship.
- Subjects
TORONTO (Ont.); CANADA; NONCITIZEN voting rights; LOCAL elections; NONCITIZENS; LEGAL status of noncitizens; TWENTY-first century; ONTARIO politics &; government; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Journal of International Migration & Integration, 2015, Vol 16, Issue 1, p81
- ISSN
1488-3473
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12134-014-0333-9