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Dually Divided?

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Published date01 March 2008
Date01 March 2008
DOI10.1177/002070200806300105
AuthorJack Jedwab
Subject MatterArticle
Jack Jedwab is executive director of the Association for Canadian Studies.
1 Andrew Cohen, “Canadian in passport only,”
Ottawa Citizen
, 24 July 2007.
INTRODUCTION
Canada’s dual citizens have become the object of increasing attention from
policymakers and researchers in immigration and international affairs. A
number of unrelated events have triggered the recent interest in such mat-
ters. The evacuation of Canadian citizens from war-torn Lebanon in the
summer of 2006 has perhaps been the most important catalyst in the cur-
rent fuss over dual citizenship. Author Andrew Cohen contends that pur-
portedly long-time Lebanese residents used Canada as a temporary haven,
invoking their Canadian citizenship and calling upon the government of
Canada to fulfill its obligations to rescue them.1Other matters that drew
public attention to the issue of dual citizenship were the revelations that
both the governor general of Canada, Michaëlle Jean, and the leader of the
federal Liberal party, Stéphane Dion, held French citizenship. In their cases
concerns were raised over potential loyalty conflicts from certain segments
of the population and calls were issued for Jean and Dion to renounce their
French citizenship (Jean did so). Indeed, the cumulative effect of these
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Jack Jedwab
Dually divided?
The risks of linking debates over citizenship to
attachment to Canada

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