Nick Lee-Scott

[Nick Lee-Scott @nick_jl_scott]

Happy to see my MRP posted online! #cdnimm #cdnhist

Visa Gods and Algorithmic Thinking:
The Evolution of Canadian Visa Officers’ Work in an Age of Mass Processing https://t.co/YMbto1C274

[Nick Lee-Scott @nick_jl_scott]

@TheWillTruth Congratulations!!

[Nick Lee-Scott @nick_jl_scott]

@OntarioTaxSales Thanks for posting - never seen the process before! Will be tuning in

[Nick Lee-Scott @nick_jl_scott]

Wondering whether people actually like / look forward to the gig economy becoming the norm? Seems like a blatantly obvious ploy to keep people poor, precariously employed, and too overworked to call it out.

[Neal Taparia @nealtaparia]

Your 9-to-5 job is dying.

By 2034, it'll be extinct.

That's Reid Hoffman's latest prediction – the founder of LinkedIn who predicted the rise of social media in 1997.

Here's what he said next:

[Nick Lee-Scott @nick_jl_scott]

@TheWillTruth Only when immigrants are defined based on their productive value. But when it comes to family reunification or global protection... well!

[Nick Lee-Scott @nick_jl_scott]

@gabestable @TheWillTruth Was trying to find reference in previous leg but found this instead: "In 1925, the Canadian government formalized an agreement with the [CPR] and the [CNR] allowing the companies to control the recruitment and settlement of European agriculturalists..." https://t.co/FmsHUiilce

[Nick Lee-Scott @nick_jl_scott]

@gabestable @TheWillTruth I recall reading that before air travel was the norm, Cdn. imm legislation required ships to check for landing papers under threat of fine. Yes agree that it's an interesting consideration of how and to whom bordering practices get extended!

[Nick Lee-Scott @nick_jl_scott]

Makes for a difficult area of study (and of advocacy!) to study frontline decision-making as meaningful policy that is sometimes distinct from what is written, and why transparency, ethnography, and archival research all are so important to understanding how decision-making works

[Nick Lee-Scott @nick_jl_scott]

Article re. informal segregation at public pools at Banff Park in the early 20th century. Interesting examination of the informal methods of maintaining segregation by an institution.

[NiCHE @NiCHE_Canada]

#NationalDayofActionAgainstAntiAsianRacism

"Black and Chinese visitors were thus subjected to a less conspicuous – and more polite – kind of racism, one that manifested itself in temporal and spatial segregation."

https://t.co/vRwLeLQaKL

#cdnhist #envhist

[Nick Lee-Scott @nick_jl_scott]

Reminds me of Michael Lipsky's (2010) remark in "Street-Level Bureaucracy" that we can't solely study policies as written in text, but also consider decisions by frontline staff as policies themselves, especially where staff are granted with broad discretionary powers (pg. xiii)

[Nick Lee-Scott @nick_jl_scott]

Of course, being able to support yourself is important as raised in the paper. However, as noted by authors, when this becomes the main (or sole) focus of selection, we fail to consider other ways in which grand(parents) can contribute to immigrants' (and Canadians' wellbeing.

[Nick Lee-Scott @nick_jl_scott]

Interesting qualitative study re. the experience of Chinese elderly Grand(Parents) seeking to migrate to, work in, and care for family, in Canada. https://t.co/9MMgTs9W6G

[Nick Lee-Scott @nick_jl_scott]

Many thoughts, but agree (IMO) with the author's opinions that migration is increasingly seen through a neoliberal paradigm. I.e. applicants need to be able to economically support themselves.

[Nick Lee-Scott @nick_jl_scott]

@TheWillTruth A bleak prospective, to invite parents / grandparents on the basis of their ability to work... My parents and grandparents are in / nearing retirement and I could not imagine asking them to go back to work in order to come to Canada!

[Nick Lee-Scott @nick_jl_scott]

@smeurrens This was a great listen! Similarly, I also interviewed retired visa officers working from the 1970s-2010s about their work in case it's of interest. There are many areas of crossover between the two products https://t.co/YMbto1C274

[Nick Lee-Scott @nick_jl_scott]

@smeurrens Would be interested to know their thoughts whether more transparency (i.e. sharing officer notes by default) would lead to less ATIPs? Also, how do officers adjust their notetaking, deliberation, and decision-making practices when the possibility of an ATIP is ever-present?

[Nick Lee-Scott @nick_jl_scott]

@TheWillTruth Nope doesn't seem so

[Nick Lee-Scott @nick_jl_scott]

@TheWillTruth I believe your link might be broken?

[Nick Lee-Scott @nick_jl_scott]

Research re. economic outcomes for GARs based on city size. Among those that stayed in the cities to which they were destined, those in small/medium cities had better outcomes https://t.co/67iNKkG6jf