2011 John McMenemy Prize

Winner: Antoine Bilodeau, Stephen White and Neil Nevitte

The Development of Dual Loyalties: Immigrants’ Integration to Canadian Regional Dynamics, Canadian Journal of Political Science 43:3

Excerpt from jury report: This article examines an extremely important and topical issue in Canadian politics; the interplay between regionalism, dual loyalties and immigration. The authors find that new immigrants tend to develop more federally oriented loyalties than the local population of the province, although in Quebec this relationship is shaped by the immigrants’ linguistic choice. This is yet another excellent article that commands impressive empirical support for a thought-provoking major question that is so central to the study and understanding of Canadian political life. A major strength of this article, compared with other recent publications on similar topics, is that it does not shy away from the complex dimensions making data analysis more difficult. A second major strength is that their work breaks new ground in showing the original situation of Québec with regards to the dual loyalties of immigrants.