Congratulations to Professor Megan Gaucher whose book, A Family Matter: Citizenship, Conjugal Relationships, and Canadian Immigration Policy (2018, UBC Press), received an Honourable Mention distinction form The American Political Science Association’s Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award for 2020.
A Family Matter analyzes the inconsistent treatment of conjugality in Canadian immigration law and policy, contending that pathways for family reunification are premised on heteropatriarchal understandings of care and interdependency, ultimately privileging family form over function.
The Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award honours significant contemporary contribution to the scholarship on Canadian politics, or Canada in a comparative perspective, or a comparative analysis of Canada with other countries, particularly the United States. The American Political Science Association (APSA) is a leading professional organization for the study of political science.