Assignment 111

The document discusses several issues related to globalization and population trends including rising populism, immigration, diversity and inclusion. It identifies key knowledge gaps and strengths that could guide research and policymaking to help countries address challenges in a globalized world. Specifically for Canada, the report examines our role in global issues and how to leverage strengths to promote peace and security.

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The 21st century is a landscape in which many traditional borders have dissolved. The
evolution in information and communications has led to greater integration of ideas and
experiences across economic, social, educational and political lines.
The world’s roughly 7.6 billion inhabitants are seeing constant change in how they live,
work and play. Rapid societal shifts are at play: countries are transitioning to a post
carbon economy, and rethinking sociocultural lines, and global migration is continuing to
increase diversity in cities and some rural and remote communities.
In 2017, SSHRC invited social sciences and humanities researchers from across
Canada to address these questions through an open call for proposals, with a focus on
identifying key strengths and gaps in current knowledge related to globalization and
population issues. This report draws on the findings of the resulting 30 knowledge
synthesis reports, and insights from researchers, graduate students and cross-sectoral
leaders who, in 2017 and 2018, participated in SSHRC’s dialogues related to these
future challenge areas.

The report identifies several critical, emerging issues, and key knowledge gaps and
strengths that may guide research agendas, practices and policies. With such broad
topic areas, the insights presented do not seek to cover all critical societal issues
related to living in a globalized world. They also do not represent the views or policies
of SSHRC or the Government of Canada. Nevertheless, they demonstrate how
humanities and social science scholars, in collaboration with other sectors, are
providing, and can continue to provide, critical insights on and solutions to some of
Canada and the world’s most pressing challenges today, and tomorrow.

 To improve newcomer integration in Canada, decision-makers need to pay

greater attention to the lived experiences of immigrants and refugees, including
of diverse identities—before, during and after their arrival.
 In today’s economy, it is essential to ensure equity and inclusion in education,
and create sustainable employment opportunities.
 Digital media platforms and technologies pose growing threats to security and
democracy; understanding emotions, trust and ethical considerations is central
to finding solutions.
 Dominant narratives and assumptions can impact policy-making and innovation,
but using participatory and community-level approaches can help in addressing
these biases.
 Increasing understanding of Indigenous knowledge and cultures can improve
multilevel and multisectoral decision-making in a postcarbon world.
 Given that Canada’s populations are not homogeneous, policy-making and
innovation would benefit from greater disaggregation of data, and from
longitudinal studies that take more account of dimensions like ethnicity, culture,
generation and sexual orientation.
 To develop solutions and inform decision-making related to complex global
issues, such as the rise of populism, policy-makers need access to
collaborative, interdisciplinary, intersectional viewpoints.
 Canada’s geopolitical context provides some security from various rising
political, climate and security phenomena, but it is not immune to these threats.

SSHRC invites researchers and stakeholders from all sectors to examine these, as well
as other, social science and humanities insights, and to continue exploring what
Canada and its diverse populations need in order to thrive in a globalized society.

In recent years, major shifts happening alongside globalization have had profound
socio-cultural and ideological impacts in democracies across the globe. Rising levels of
migration are creating more diverse communities. Global levels of poverty have
decreased. And, many report that quality of life is at an all-time high. But, within this
picture are also increasing inequity, and the serious implications and continual
uncertainty around large-scale geopolitical issues, including safety, security and well-
being.

Identifying existing levels of knowledge and expertise, as well as gaps in research,

talent and policy, supports dialogue on how Canada can contribute to critical issues,
both domestically and abroad.

Although traditionally sheltered by our geography and close economic relationship with
the United States, Canada is not immune to the impacts of these global, interdependent
issues. Scholars and policy-makers alike are examining Canada’s role in global
relations, and how and where to leverage our strengths to safeguard domestic and
international peace and security. A selection of the funded knowledge synthesis projects
looked at the forces behind some of these geo- and socio-political trends. They provide
insights on what lies behind them, and ways to better understand and address them.

Syntheses include, for example, insights into the importance of grasping the diverse
economic, social, political, cultural and institutional factors that influence the rise of
populist movements. Such research enables decision-makers to better understand how,
where and why movements like these occur, and to assess the risk of insurgencies at
home.

Whether to support the integration of school-aged refugee students in Canada, or to

increase expert advice on Canada’s involvement with NATO, education is raised
throughout the syntheses as a critical tool in addressing global conflict and migration
challenges.
The transaction of monetary and social elements has affected the ascent of populism.
Conversations on ongoing populist marvels in majority rule social orders will in general
spotlight on either impacts: financial or social. Normally refered to drivers of populism—
including reaction against globalization, financial frailty, social tensions and fears, and
inundations of transients—are related, be that as it may. They can likewise be
considered nearby numerous different issues, including robotization; expanded interest
for profoundly gifted work; rising imbalance; and expanding doubt of governments,
media and scholarly elites. The utilization of online media has additionally assumed a
predominant job in offers to populists.

Auxiliary force shifts in the West have empowered the ascent of populism. Exploration
underscores that the decentralization of intensity away from national governments in
western nations—to the courts, industry and worldwide associations—is permitting
populist development to thrive. Globalization's belongings, in the interim, are
progressively changing recognitions about power and, under the appearance of
populism, residents are requesting power be come back to "the individuals." Some proof
recommends states that keep up more grounded foundations past government might be
more impervious to such developments grabbing hold.

While populism in liberal popular governments has to a great extent been related with
traditional gatherings, populist manner of speaking is rising over the political range. An
internet based life examination shows that traditional populists will in general study the
media or social first class, though left-wing populists will in general assault the monetary
world class; both spotlight their discourse on the idea of "othering" and both do as such
for the sake of "the individuals." Independent of the belief system, populists will in
general explicitly target "feeling formers" in media and the scholarly community, and
give elective perspectives. Traditional populism, notwithstanding, raises worries, as it
might develop into supremacist, homophobic, chauvinist or potentially other oppressive
talk that can possibly sabotage human rights in present day vote based systems.
"What makes populism threatening to majority rules system is the 'othering' of
resistance developments that are intended to contend in the commonwealth under a
popular government. This sabotages the customary political procedure, and the political
discussion that shapes the bedrock of popularity based government."Footnote11

Is Canada shielded from populist developments? Exploration on late populist triumphs

in the United Kingdom and United States highlight disappointed populaces holding
romanticized perspectives on having been a piece of a monetary superpower, a status
accomplished primarily through the assembling division. Some contend that populaces
in Canada and Australia, having never achieved such height, are less powerless to
populism. Inside Canada, there is likewise more boundless understanding that migration
is expected to help our economy. In any case, we are not vaccinated against populism
and can't overlook the danger of such developments.

Understanding the danger of fear mongering in pluralistic nations like Canada includes
understanding crossing points with strict or political radicalism in diaspora networks.
Beliefs inside Canada's multicultural and Quebec's intercultural models advance applied
contrasts of character, yet shared thoughts of correspondence and plural networks. An
information blend concentrated on the Middle East and the danger of fear mongering in
Canadian social orders underlined the significance of seeing how worldwide
components and occasions are playing out locally. Examination and strategy can profit
by arranging diaspora networks inside household cultural models as far as their various
socio-social, ideological and pluri-ethnic measurements.

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