Rose Baaba Folson

OISE

Rose Baaba Folson’s research, teaching and publication are focused in four areas — sociology of education; global economic restructuring, international migration & immigration policies; moralities, sexualities and nationalities; and critical sex education, such as the hiv/aids Prevention Strategy. She is currently a faculty member at OISE in Toronto.

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  • Calculated Kindness

    Global Restructuring, Immigration and Settlement in Canada

    Edited by Rose Baaba Folson     January 2004

    It has often been the perception that Northern states admit immigrants out of generosity, offering security and shelter to people forced from their own countries because of political and economic circumstances. This collection–based on case studies with immigrants–quickly dispels this myth. Immigrants are admitted to serve economic or demographic interests. They also serve to pay back the receiving countries’ own historical and political indebtedness. It is the North that both produces and regulates the migration flows, and it is the North that reaps the benefits. Northern migrants to the South, generally, improve their careers and livelihood, whereas migrants from the East and West regress.

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