{"id":21878,"date":"2018-10-26T16:11:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T20:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?p=21878"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:09","slug":"author-meets-readers-megan-gauchers-new-book-a-family-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/2018\/author-meets-readers-megan-gauchers-new-book-a-family-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Meets Readers: Megan Gaucher&#8217;s New Book A Family Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Author Meets Readers: Megan Gaucher&#8217;s New Book A Family Matter\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<div class=\"u-block u-block--white\">\n<div class=\"l-post u-width-small\">\n<table class=\"table l-post__table\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"table__left u-font-weight-m\">When:<\/td>\n<td class=\"table__right\">Thursday, November 15th, 2018<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"table__left u-font-weight-m\">Time:<\/td>\n<td class=\"table__right\">5:30 pm \u2014 7:00 pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"table__left u-font-weight-m\">Location:<\/td>\n<td class=\"table__right\">Irene&#8217;s Pub (885 Bank Street)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"table__left u-font-weight-m\">Audience:<\/td>\n<td class=\"table__right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpa\/cu_event_audience\/alumni\">Alumni<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpa\/cu_event_audience\/carleton-community\">Carleton Community<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpa\/cu_event_audience\/current-students\">Current Students<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpa\/cu_event_audience\/faculty\">Faculty<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"table__left u-font-weight-m\">Cost:<\/td>\n<td class=\"table__right\">Free<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"table__left u-font-weight-m\">Contact:<\/td>\n<td class=\"table__right\">Cassie Smith,&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:cassie.smith@carleton.ca\">cassie.smith@carleton.ca<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"tel:613-520-2600 ext. 2995\">613-520-2600 ext. 2995<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"u-block u-block--white\">\n<div class=\"l-post u-width-small\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please register <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpa\/cu_event\/a-family-matter-amr-2\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Author Meets Readers&nbsp;<\/em>invites Carleton students and the community to join an informal discussion on new books published by members of the Carleton University Faculty of Public Affairs.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-31265 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-Family-Matter-Book-Cover-1-400x600.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-Family-Matter-Book-Cover-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-Family-Matter-Book-Cover-1-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-Family-Matter-Book-Cover-1-200x300.jpg 200w\" alt=\"A Family Matter Book Cover\" width=\"263\" height=\"395\"><\/figure><p><strong>About the Book<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>A Family Matter: Citizenship, Conjugal Relationships, and Canadian Immigration Policy&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em>offers an interdisciplinary examination of the role family formation plays in both the granting and refusal of Canadian citizenship. In analyzing three different areas of Canada\u2019s immigration law and policy, the book argues that governments have adopted a strict definition of family not only to protect our borders from external threat, but also to reinforce gendered, racialized and sexualized assumptions about the ideal \u201cCanadian family\u201d. In doing so, migrant families are limited in their ability to develop chosen familial networks, a privilege enjoyed by most Canadian-born citizens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31555 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/megan_1-400x543.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/megan_1-400x543.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/megan_1-300x407.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/megan_1-768x1042.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/megan_1-700x950.jpg 700w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/megan_1-200x271.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/megan_1.jpg 1000w\" alt=\"Megan Gaucher photo\" width=\"400\" height=\"543\"><\/figure><p>Megan Gaucher is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University.&nbsp;Her research interests focus on the intersections between citizenship, family, gender, sexuality, and race in Canadian immigration and refugee law and policy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This event is part of the Ottawa International Writer\u2019s Festival.<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writersfestival.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17574 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/oiwf-240x52.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/oiwf-240x52.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/oiwf-240x52-200x43.jpg 200w\" alt=\"oiwf-240x52\" width=\"240\" height=\"52\"><\/a><\/figure><p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When: Thursday, November 15th, 2018 Time: 5:30 pm \u2014 7:00 pm Location: Irene&#8217;s Pub (885 Bank Street) Audience: Alumni,&nbsp;Carleton Community,&nbsp;Current Students,&nbsp;Faculty Cost: Free Contact: Cassie Smith,&nbsp;cassie.smith@carleton.ca,&nbsp;613-520-2600 ext. 2995 &nbsp; Please register here. &nbsp; Author Meets Readers&nbsp;invites Carleton students and the community to join an informal discussion on new books published by members of the Carleton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21882,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21878\/revisions\/21882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}