• Main Authors: Kathi Wilson, Evelyn J Peters
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Canada; First Nations
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.472.303; http://www.environment-and-planning.com/epd/fulltext/d23/d390.pdf

Increasingly, geographers have reexamined the ways migration is viewed in the disci-pline. This renewed interest comes in part from a rethinking of foci of earlier theories and models, but also from changes in contemporary migration patterns and migrant experiences. Earlier research defined migration as a process involving a permanent move in place of residence, reflecting forces of economic development and resulting in changed identities and affiliations (Johnson and Salt, 1992). Although important, this perspective did not sufficiently question the definition of geographic categories that created migrants, or the assumed relationships between migrant identities and places of origin and destination. In contrast, contemporary studies stress the impor-tance of examining assumptions about the meaning of place and identity in migration (Lawson, 2000). In particular, they question the idea that migrant origins and destina-tions are separately bounded places. For example, much of the work on international migration emphasises disruption of state boundaries as individuals maintain links with communities across borders and boundaries and formulate identities of belonging to more than one place (Massey and Jess, 1995). These ideas of boundary disruption and the `stretching out ' of identities across places seem useful for examining the urbanization of First Nations peoples(1) in Canada. ``You can make a place for it''À: remapping urban First Nations spaces of identity