Why International Students Became a Foreign Policy Issue
How a domestic debate over study permits turned into a question about Canada’s relationships abroad.
Theme
Migration
Canada’s immigration and mobility policy as a foreign-policy instrument — including its international-student pipeline, temporary-worker programs, and diaspora relationships.
Key topics
- Immigration targets and the political backlash
- International students as a policy issue
- Temporary foreign workers and labour mobility
- Refugee policy and asylum systems
- Diaspora communities and remittances
- Visa politics with Global South states
- Canada–U.S. border and the Safe Third Country Agreement
Briefs
Explainers
Migration Evergreen
How Canada’s Immigration System Works
A plain-language guide to the streams, targets, and institutions behind Canada’s immigration system — and the policy debate now reshaping it.